Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff, High Performance Computing Engineer - MAI SuperIntelligence Team This role focuses on building and scaling the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure required for training frontier AI models and powering AI products like Copilot. The engineer will design, operate, and maintain large-scale HPC environments, including schedulers and core domains like GPU compute, storage, and networking. Responsibilities include developing automation tools, supporting researchers and engineers, and troubleshooting cluster issues to ensure efficient job scheduling and performance. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff -Member of Technical Staff - Pretraining Text Data Seeking engineers and researchers to join the Pretraining Text Data team to build the next generation of foundation large language models. The role focuses on designing and curating high-quality datasets, developing novel data collection strategies, improving dataset quality and integrity, understanding data-driven model behaviors, training models on data impact, and aligning datasets with ethical and societal values. This is a cross-disciplinary, high-impact role at the intersection of data and innovation. |
| Data |
| 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Software Co-Design AI HPC Systems - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on the co-design and productionization of next-generation AI systems at datacenter scale, optimizing performance, efficiency, and cost across hardware and software. It involves analyzing workloads, driving architectural decisions, optimizing distributed systems for training and inference, and influencing AI hardware design. The role also includes performance modeling, prototyping, and mentoring. | ServePretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Pretraining - MAI Superintelligence Team Microsoft AI is seeking individuals to train the world's most capable AI frontier models, focusing on scale, performance, and product deployment. The role involves developing algorithms, model architectures, and data mixtures for large-scale training, driving implementations, conducting experiments, and collaborating with infrastructure, data, post-training, and multimodality teams. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Multimodal - MAI Superintelligence Team Research role focused on developing and training world-class multimodal AI frontier models, pushing boundaries of scale and performance. Involves algorithm development, model architecture design, experimentation, data innovation, and improving training/deployment efficiency. Collaborates with infrastructure, data engineering, pre-training, post-training, and product feedback teams. Requires strong publication track record and expertise in multimodal research. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Post-Training - MAI Superintelligence Team Post-Training - Develops and ships post-training methods for large language models (LLMs) used in Microsoft Copilot, focusing on data collection, evaluation, finetuning algorithms, and prototyping new capabilities. Collaborates with pretraining and product platform teams to deploy models and improve them based on user feedback. | Post-train | 9 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on building and deploying AI systems at scale for enterprise clients, involving the full ML lifecycle from data analysis and experimentation to production-ready pipelines and scalable infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on MLOps practices. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Audio) This role focuses on building and optimizing training data pipelines and evaluation frameworks for audio models, with a secondary focus on model tuning and deployment. The engineer will be responsible for data sourcing, cleaning, labeling, QA, versioning, and lineage, as well as developing evaluation frameworks and driving continuous quality improvements. They will also optimize training and inference performance for latency, throughput, cost, and reliability. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Systems Engineer - Microsoft Superintelligence The role focuses on integrating custom AI silicon with AI inference frameworks like SGLang, optimizing LLM inference performance, and developing custom operators. It involves working with hardware accelerators and potentially non-CUDA ecosystems, aiming to improve AI workload efficiency. | Serve | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Networking - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on designing, scaling, and optimizing high-performance networks for AI training and inference clusters. The engineer will work on the end-to-end networking architecture, from link-layer to fabric-wide systems, connecting thousands of GPUs. Responsibilities include benchmarking, profiling, debugging, and tuning AI workloads, engineering ultra-low-latency networks, and designing congestion-free transport mechanisms. The goal is to build networking systems that directly accelerate Microsoft's frontier AI models and support the development of advanced AI systems. | Serve | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing cloud-based solutions for customers by leveraging modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. The role involves collaborating with customers and internal teams to build innovative solutions, with a specific emphasis on deploying, integrating, and operating AI/ML/LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, RAG, and model evaluation. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Program Manager Principal Program Manager for Strategic Innovation within Microsoft Security Office of the CTO, focusing on identifying, shaping, and driving portfolio-level security incubations for Security for AI and GenAI-driven defense. The role involves translating emerging AI-driven risks into executable strategies and roadmaps, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and engaging with Fortune 500 CISOs. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health - MAI Superintelligence Team This role is focused on ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of Microsoft's large-scale AI training infrastructures, which involve tens of thousands of GPUs and advanced networking. The responsibilities include designing transport, fabric architecture, telemetry, observability, and automated troubleshooting for these clusters. The role also involves AI training and inference cluster bring-up, performance benchmarking, and root-cause analysis, with a goal of developing predictive health models and autonomous remediation systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Data Research Engineer - MAI Superintelligence Team Seeking Data Research Engineers to join the Multimodal team, focusing on building next-generation foundation models. The role involves exploring, designing, and building high-quality multimodal datasets (vision, language, audio) for training and evaluation, collaborating with scientists and engineers, and developing scalable data pipelines. Responsibilities include data analysis, quality assessment, building tools for auditing, and ensuring datasets meet responsible AI practices. | Data | 7 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - FDE Principal Technical Program Manager to lead complex technical programs with strategic customers, co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions. This role involves embedding with customers, owning the full customer journey, and applying AI-assisted engineering workflows daily to accelerate development and deliver measurable business outcomes. The TPM will operate with high autonomy, making technical and program decisions, and collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers using the Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE) methodology. The role involves customer technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and providing product roadmap feedback. It's a senior individual contributor position on the technical leadership career path, requiring deep technical skills and customer engagement. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Account Technology Strategist Strategic Account Technology Strategist responsible for the technology relationship between Microsoft and UBS, a flagship FSI customer. The role focuses on building and growing technology executive networks, bringing industry-relevant solutions, and helping the client adopt and embrace AI technologies to accelerate their AI vision and become a trusted technology advisor. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Apps & AI This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on helping enterprise customers deploy AI-powered applications on Azure. The role involves technical engagements across design, build, and operations, removing blockers, and accelerating adoption of Azure AI services. It emphasizes execution excellence, customer value realization, and growth of Azure consumption in a regulated, partner-driven market. The architect will collaborate with customers, sales, and partners to ensure production readiness and build trusted relationships. | — | 5 |
| Services Account Executive This role is for a Services Account Executive at Microsoft, focused on selling services and solutions that align with customer business goals, including guiding their AI transformation journey. The role involves consultative selling, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable outcomes and accelerate customer innovation and growth using Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions. It requires leading consulting virtual account teams, identifying and selling industry cloud solutions, owning the full sales cycle, and collaborating across customer and partner networks. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Executive This role is for a Strategic Account Executive at Microsoft, focusing on driving AI and Agentic strategy for a major pharmaceutical and manufacturing client. The primary focus is on sales, business development, and client relationship management within the enterprise AI sector, rather than direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Project Manager Project Manager for Microsoft Data Centers, responsible for managing IT equipment deployment and decommissioning, ensuring service delivery, adhering to safety policies, and collaborating with various teams. The role involves troubleshooting incidents, managing client and supplier relationships, and contributing to the overall efficiency and quality of data center operations. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of equipment within Microsoft's data centers. The technician will work under guidance, learn standard procedures, and contribute to issue resolution, ticket completion, and team collaboration, ensuring adherence to security and data management policies. The role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure powering various online services. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing incoming and outgoing deliveries, performing cycle audits, coordinating with vendors for warranty claims and returns, and ensuring accurate documentation and inventory control within a data center environment. The role involves adherence to security and data management policies, including the destruction of data-bearing devices. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing the flow of goods within data centers. Key duties include performing cycle audits, coordinating deliveries, processing returns, managing inventory, and ensuring accurate documentation. The role supports Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, which powers services like Azure and Office 365. It requires experience in inventory management or related fields and adherence to security and data management policies. | — | 0 |
| Client Delivery Partner This role is for a Client Delivery Partner at Microsoft, focusing on leading large-scale digital transformation programs for Microsoft's largest customers. The role involves building executive relationships, shaping customer strategy, orchestrating Microsoft's ecosystem, and driving measurable business outcomes. It requires deep industry expertise, strong leadership, and program management skills to ensure successful delivery of Microsoft technologies and solutions. The role is customer-facing and focused on strategic account management and program execution within a matrixed environment. | — | 0 |
| Client Delivery Partner Client Delivery Partner responsible for successful planning and execution of transformational programs for Microsoft's largest customers, leveraging deep industry experience to lead teams and achieve measurable business outcomes. Focuses on building executive relationships, driving digital transformation, orchestrating the Microsoft ecosystem, and enabling sustainable account growth. | — | 0 |
| Business Support ATR-D This role provides strategic calendar management, meeting logistics, cross-functional collaboration, event coordination, and project ownership for a Corporate Vice President (CVP) within Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team. It involves managing resources, supporting recruitment, and coordinating travel arrangements. | — | 0 |
| Workplace experience Partner This role focuses on managing daily office operations, vendor relationships, health and safety, and space planning to ensure an exceptional onsite employee experience. It acts as a liaison between facilities, cross-functional teams, and AI teams to maintain a smooth, inclusive, and productive work environment. | — | 0 |
| Partner Development Manager This role is for a Partner Development Manager at Microsoft, focusing on driving the adoption of AI-powered platforms, cloud services, and devices through a partner ecosystem in the EMEA region. The role involves leading a team, managing strategic partnerships (like HP and HPE), and influencing product and sales strategies to accelerate the adoption of Windows devices, Server, Azure Local, and AI-powered experiences, including Copilot+ PCs. | — | 0 |
| Applied Sciences Internship Internship role at Microsoft in Zurich, focusing on Applied Sciences. The posting emphasizes Microsoft's commitment to equal opportunity employment and provides information on requesting accommodations. | — | 0 |