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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer Seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for Microsoft Teams Calling, Meeting & Devices group to deliver next-generation innovations using foundation models, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering. The role involves developing and deploying conversational and language understanding models at scale, creating ML pipelines, and collaborating with research and AI groups to build AI innovations in products and services. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| AI Software Engineer AI Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered testing capabilities for Visual Studio and .NET CLI. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent agents for test case suggestion, code analysis, and test maintenance, as well as developing benchmarking frameworks to evaluate AI models for coding tasks. The technology stack includes C# and Azure, leveraging LLMs. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Copilot Cloud Solution Architect focused on enabling enterprise customers to realize business value through Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agentic AI solutions. The role involves supporting customers from experimentation to scaled adoption by designing and delivering solutions using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Software Engineer AI Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered testing capabilities for Visual Studio and .NET CLI. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent agents for test case suggestion, code analysis, and test maintenance, as well as developing benchmarking frameworks to evaluate AI models for coding tasks. The technology stack includes C# and Azure, leveraging LLMs. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Github Copilot API Senior Software Engineer on the Copilot API team at GitHub, focusing on building and maintaining scalable, reliable backend services and APIs that power GitHub Copilot features and integrations. The role involves designing, developing, and operating distributed systems with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and operational excellence. | Serve | 5 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager - Microsoft Entra Principal Group Engineering Manager for Microsoft Entra, focusing on hyperscale platform challenges, availability of mission-critical services, and engineering systems for software serving over 1 billion people. The role involves leading managers and senior engineers to improve safe operation of hyperscale fleets using AI-driven operations for incident triage and resolution, correlating change logs with incident impact, architecting control planes with AI/telemetry for safe changes, and building runtimes for auto-triage and auto-mitigation of incidents. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Business and Security Insights (BSI) team at Microsoft, focusing on Microsoft Entra ID's data. The team develops customer-facing projects like Entra Recommendations and Entra License Usage, as well as a central data processing platform and an internal Copilot version for data interaction. The role involves backend service design and implementation with a focus on AI, specifically mentioning LLMs and Copilot. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on modernizing a global messaging platform for Microsoft 365, integrating AI across the software development lifecycle and ensuring responsible AI practices. The role involves leading architecture, design, and implementation of cloud-native capabilities, partnering with various teams, and driving live-site engineering for a large-scale distributed service. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - GitHub Copilot Principal Software Engineer for the GitHub Copilot API team, focusing on backend large-scale service design, execution, and operations. The role involves shaping and building a robust, scalable, and reliable platform for GitHub Copilot, leading the design and evolution of highly available backend services and APIs for global scale. Key responsibilities include hands-on implementation, architecture reviews, mentorship, and ensuring system health, reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. The role requires deep experience in distributed systems and operating them in production, with a focus on platform capabilities, architectural patterns, and security/compliance. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building AI-integrated tools and backend services for proactive alert lifecycle management within Microsoft Security. The role involves applying LLMs to simplify incident workflows and reduce cognitive load during live site events, aiming to improve detection and notification times for service incidents. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineering - DevDiv Core AI Software Engineer in Microsoft's DevDiv division focused on integrating AI into developer tools to enhance productivity. The role involves designing and developing software components, leveraging AI technologies like GitHub Copilot and LLM-based code tools, dogfooding internal AI tools, and researching/experimenting with AI techniques to improve engineering workflows. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineering Internship Opportunity Software Engineering Intern role focused on building AI-first tools and runtimes for developer productivity within Microsoft's Core AI team. The role involves designing and implementing solutions that make AI development faster, safer, and more intuitive, impacting millions of developers globally. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on implementing advanced Identity and Access Management standards by leveraging emerging AI-forward technologies. The role involves improving AI tools and practices within the SDLC, incorporating Responsible AI, and experimenting with AI tools to enhance capabilities. It also emphasizes building scalable, secure solutions and adhering to modern software engineering practices, including the use of GenAI. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on implementing advanced Identity and Access Management standards by leveraging AI-forward technologies. The role involves improving AI tools and practices across the SDLC, incorporating Responsible AI, and using GenAI for coding and design. | Ship | 5 |
| Commercial Executive Commercial Executive role focused on designing and executing customer commercial strategies and negotiations, ensuring deals are compliant and profitable. The role involves identifying business opportunities related to AI, optimizing deal customization, and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve revenue targets. It requires expertise in commercial licensing, contracting, risk assessment, and adherence to policies and legal standards. | — | 0 |
| People Operations Sr. HR Advisor - Offboarding EMEA This role is for a Senior HR Service Advisor focused on offboarding processes in EMEA for Microsoft. It involves managing complex cases, ensuring compliance with local regulations, coordinating with stakeholders, and driving process improvements. While the role mentions leveraging AI and digital tools, its core function is HR operations and employee lifecycle management, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| HR Service Lead Advisor - Time & Leave This role is for a HR Service Lead Advisor focused on Time & Leave processes in the EMEA region. The primary responsibilities include executing HR transactions, managing complex employee cases, providing consultation, and ensuring compliance with local legislation and Microsoft policies. The role also involves identifying opportunities for automation and AI support to improve operational efficiency and scalability, collaborating with stakeholders, and maintaining process documentation. While the role mentions leveraging AI solutions and identifying areas for AI support, the core function is HR service delivery and process management, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering GitHub Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering role at GitHub, focusing on enhancing collaboration experiences by designing, prototyping, implementing, and shipping high-quality technical solutions. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership, owning system health, writing architecture briefs, designing APIs, and utilizing CI/CD tools. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with experience in Data Engineering and coding in various languages, or equivalent experience. Preferred qualifications include a Master's Degree, experience with relational and non-relational datastores (like Cosmos DB), and Azure resources. | — | 0 |
| HR Generalist This role is for an HR Generalist at Microsoft, focusing on partnering with leadership and employees to deliver HR services in the Czechia and Slovakia region. Responsibilities include HR community leadership, governance, employee experience, project execution, statutory compliance, external impact, and crisis management. Requires experience in Czechia & Slovakia HR policies, labor law, and union negotiations, with fluency in Czech and English. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer -.NET Libraries Software Engineer role focused on designing and building high-performance .NET libraries for various platforms. The role involves contributing to core .NET libraries, improving performance, scalability, and developer experience. It also emphasizes leveraging AI-assisted development workflows to enhance productivity and code quality, and collaborating with the global developer community. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - GitHub Actions Senior Software Engineer role at GitHub focused on the core infrastructure and services for GitHub Actions, a CI/CD platform processing billions of jobs monthly. The role involves designing, developing, and shipping high-performance systems, ensuring reliability at massive scale, and contributing to technical roadmap and operational excellence. Requires substantial experience in software engineering and proficiency in languages like Go, Ruby, or Rust, with a focus on distributed systems, container orchestration, and security. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - GitHub Actions Software Engineer II at GitHub Actions, focusing on designing and building systems for CI/CD workflows, distributed systems, container orchestration, security, and cloud infrastructure to support millions of developers worldwide. Responsibilities include full software development lifecycle, code reviews, system health, API design, cross-functional collaboration, testing strategies, operational excellence, and technical planning. | — | 0 |
| Principal SWE Manager - Platform Seeking a Principal Software Engineer Manager to lead a team responsible for the runtime policy scenarios across multiple products within Microsoft 365's Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud. This role involves managing engineers, fostering career development, and ensuring the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems that handle billions of requests daily. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - GitHub Actions Principal Software Engineer for GitHub Actions, focusing on architecting and delivering high-performance CI/CD systems for millions of developers. The role involves technical leadership, system design, security, and operational excellence for a massive-scale automation platform. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - ASP.NET Senior Software Engineer to own and shape a modern ASP.NET platform that underpins millions of applications worldwide, spanning high traffic consumer products and mission critical enterprise systems. The role involves tackling challenges at scale, diving deep into .NET fundamentals, and collaborating with top engineers to evolve the platform with modern capabilities, including AI-driven features. Responsibilities include designing, building, and evolving core platform components, taking ownership of architectural decisions, and integrating intelligent capabilities into the platform. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Data Engineering GitHub Principal Software Engineer focused on data engineering at GitHub, responsible for designing, developing, and shipping scalable data pipelines, integrations, and data models. The role involves technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality technical solutions and enhance the collaboration experience for millions of developers. | — | 0 |
| Cloud & AI Specialist This role is for a Cloud & AI Specialist at Microsoft in Prague, focusing on enterprise sales. The primary responsibility is to drive the adoption and purchase of Microsoft Azure & AI technologies by customers. The role involves identifying new leads and opportunities, building business cases, and acting as a trusted advisor to customers' business and technology decision-makers. It requires strong sales and technical expertise in cloud computing and AI platforms, with a focus on consultative sales and orchestrating resources to achieve digital transformation for clients. | — | 0 |
| Regional Immigration Lead This role is for a Regional Immigration Lead at Microsoft, responsible for managing the end-to-end global immigration program across assigned regions (Europe). The role involves program strategy, day-to-day operations, compliance, risk management, and partnering with external providers to ensure effective service delivery and visibility. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing and implementing scalable backend services and automation workflows for a high-scale distributed data ingestion platform processing trillions of logs per day. The role emphasizes engineering excellence, end-to-end feature development, and collaboration across teams, with a focus on ingestion latency, security, and cost optimization within the Microsoft Security organization. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - ASP.NET Platform Software Engineer role focused on developing and maintaining a large-scale ASP.NET platform used for millions of applications, including consumer and enterprise systems. The role involves deep dives into .NET fundamentals, system design, and integrating AI-driven features to enhance automation and decision-making. It emphasizes code quality, architectural ownership, and collaboration within a team of experienced engineers. | — | 0 |
| MSBuild Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on MSBuild, a core component of the .NET ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining MSBuild features, improving performance and reliability, and exploring AI techniques to enhance build diagnostics, performance tuning, and developer workflows. The role involves cross-platform development (Windows, Linux, macOS) and collaboration with the open-source community. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive- Public Sector Account Executive for Microsoft's Public Sector team in Czechia, focusing on empowering customers with AI and Cloud solutions, driving digital transformation, and achieving revenue growth. The role involves engaging with executive levels, orchestrating virtual teams, and closing opportunities to deliver transformative business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Compiler Software Engineer Experienced low-level engineer to lead the adoption and development of the Rust programming language for critical infrastructure at Microsoft, focusing on compiler back-ends, analysis tools, and systems programming. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - .NET Engineering Software Engineer to join the team that powers how .NET ships to the world. You’ll help build and scale the infrastructure behind .NET releases—driving automation, reliability, and visibility across the release lifecycle. This role sits at the core of the .NET ecosystem, where engineering meets infrastructure. You’ll work on high-scale systems that manage release pipelines, dependency flows, and the automated synchronization of one of the largest monorepositories in the world: the .NET VMR. Experiment with emerging AI techniques and leverage AI-powered tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to accelerate engineering workflows and contribute to the development of AI-assisted features. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on enhancing the health, performance, and scalability of backend services for Azure DevOps, a suite of modern development services. The role involves designing, developing, testing, and supporting features, collaborating on technical solutions, and supporting highly available services used by millions. Responsibilities include troubleshooting complex issues, participating in on-call rotations, and engaging in code reviews. Requires experience with C#, C++, Java or other OOP languages, strong analytical and communication skills, and a professional engineering mindset. Preferred qualifications include experience with cloud platforms and understanding of testing principles. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to develop new SDKs, focusing on high performance, scalability, and community engagement. The role involves translating requirements into functionalities, supporting SDK consumers, and proving value by re-implementing services. | — | 0 |
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