Microsoft has 521 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, representing 37% of the total, followed by application and serving infrastructure. Engineering is the most frequent function, with a significant number of openings, and the United States is the primary hiring country. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, model serving, and LLM observability, suggesting a focus on operationalizing AI models. Over the last 30 days, Microsoft has added 280 new AI roles, a 157% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 343 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (19), Senior Software Engineer (19), Software Engineer II (8), Principal Applied Scientist (7), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (36%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Microsoft is hiring AI talent in: United States (308 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (8 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 227 new AI-related roles.
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| Digital Solutions Engineer This role is for a Digital Solutions Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on leveraging AI and the Microsoft Cloud to drive digital transformation for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and their partners. The role involves building strategy by acting as the voice of the customer, capturing competitive insights, and shaping product development. It also focuses on scaling customer engagements by building credibility, remediating blockers, and showcasing suitable Microsoft solutions. Additionally, the role involves scaling through partners and conducting solution design and proof activities, including demonstrations and Proof of Concepts (POCs). While AI is mentioned extensively as a tool and a component of Microsoft's offerings, the core responsibilities of the engineer are in sales strategy, customer engagement, partner collaboration, and solution demonstration, rather than building or directly shipping AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer 2, Azure DataBases Software Engineer role focused on building next-generation data platforms in Azure, specifically Azure Database for PostgreSQL and HorizonDB, which have built-in AI capabilities. The team works on client experience, telemetry, and LLMs to improve product insights and customer-facing surfaces. The role involves designing and delivering user experiences and platform capabilities, owning complete features, and working with other disciplines. |
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| Senior Security Research Engineer - Microsoft Defender Experts Team This role is for a Senior Security Research Engineer on the Microsoft Defender Experts Team. The primary focus is on detecting, investigating, and responding to advanced attacks and data breaches using Microsoft 365 Defender and rich telemetry. The role involves analyzing attacker behaviors, generating custom alerts, building new tools and automations for hunting, and driving innovations in detecting advanced attacker tradecraft. While AI/ML might be used as a tool, the core craft is cybersecurity detection and response, not building AI models. | — | 2 |
| Sr Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Office 365 core platform security initiatives, focusing on defining vision, driving adoption, and improving platform security, scale, availability, and performance. Will work with Entra ID and other teams to guide partners and customers on platform usage. | — | 0 |
| Sr Product Manager Senior Product Manager for M365 Substrate Core Auth team, focusing on improving security across the M365 app ecosystem by identifying gaps, partnering with service owners, and driving automation/technical solutions. | — | 0 |
| Security Researcher (Multiple Positions) This role focuses on security investigations, analyzing security alerts and telemetry to validate detections and understand attacker intent. It involves correlating large datasets using KQL, investigating identity-centric threats, and delivering customer-facing investigation summaries. The role requires experience in security operations, cybersecurity investigations, incident response, or threat hunting. | — | 0 |
| Partner Enablement Manager This role focuses on enabling Microsoft Partners throughout their lifecycle, ensuring they are ready and informed about changes to Microsoft's offerings. The Partner Enablement Manager will represent partner needs, manage readiness plans, drive adoption, and identify opportunities for process improvement within the partner ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Process Program Manager Process Program Manager responsible for planning, execution, and optimization of strategic programs within Microsoft Enterprise Direct Solutions. Focuses on transactional services, process efficiency, quality, and compliance across the customer lifecycle, utilizing process improvement methodologies and AI for optimization. | — | 0 |
| Customer Operations Manager This role is for a Customer Operations Manager at Microsoft, focusing on providing direct, frontline transactional support for enterprise agreement customers. The responsibilities include managing contracting, order management, and billing processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and a high-quality customer experience. The role also involves optimizing operations, improving processes, and managing stakeholder relationships with field sellers, partners, and customers. While the company is in the AI space, this specific role is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Customer Operations Manager Customer Operations Manager responsible for customer-facing licensing solutions, providing direct transactional support for Microsoft Field sellers and customers. Focuses on contracting, order management, billing, and customer service to ensure adherence to account plans and high-quality deliverables. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer 2, Azure Data Platform Software Engineer II for Azure Data Platform, specifically focusing on Azure PostgreSQL. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining a globally distributed, fully managed PostgreSQL service. Responsibilities include improving reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the cloud service, contributing to production support, and collaborating with global teams. The role requires experience with distributed systems and cloud services, and preferred qualifications include using AI tools responsibly and contributing to product features. | — | 0 |
| Process Program Manager This role focuses on defining, designing, and implementing scalable processes and operating models within Microsoft's Field & Scale Operations. It involves working across various departments like Operations, Sales, Finance, Legal, and Engineering to improve efficiency, quality, and compliance in the quote-to-cash lifecycle. The role also involves identifying risks, ensuring adherence to compliance standards, and supporting the adoption of AI-enabled solutions for process streamlining. | — | 0 |
| Training & Readiness Manager Microsoft is seeking a Training & Readiness Manager to build and sustain readiness for an operational Services organization. This role will shape and deliver learning, enablement, and readiness strategies to accelerate time-to-productivity and support operating model adoption. Responsibilities include training program management, learning design and delivery, quality and risk management, and continuous improvement, with a focus on leveraging AI-assisted learning content creation workflows. | — | 0 |
| Services Customer Operations Manager This role focuses on managing customer operations for Microsoft Services, ensuring efficient and compliant execution of deals throughout the lead-to-cash lifecycle. It involves partnering with sellers, orchestrating cross-functional teams, managing contract readiness, and identifying risks. The role also emphasizes continuous improvement and leveraging AI-assisted or agentic workflows to enhance operational efficiency and deal velocity. | — | 0 |
| Group Manager - Services Customer Operations Manager | — | — |