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 224 active AI roles, down 17% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 313 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (18), Senior Software Engineer (17), Software Engineer II (6), Principal Applied Scientist (5), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (39%), application (22%), serving infrastructure (18%). 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 (271 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (10 roles), United Kingdom (8 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 245 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Research Intern - Office of the Chief Scientific Officer Research Intern position at Microsoft's Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, focusing on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible AI. The role involves collaborating with world-class researchers on complex challenges in diverse fields, including AI, biology, biomedicine, and the societal influences of AI. Interns will contribute to research and development strides, present findings, and potentially publish peer-reviewed work. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Hardware Research Intern role focused on AI Hardware, specifically on chip architectures for efficient AI serving and inference systems. The role involves research, analysis, documentation, and innovation in collaboration with researchers and engineers. | Serve |
| 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Frameworks (Network Systems and Tools) Research intern focused on next-generation AI systems, specifically exploring disaggregated inference, memory-architecture, and interconnect technologies for LLM serving, with a focus on request scheduling and KV caching optimizations. The role involves investigating and evaluating disaggregated KV cache architectures and building a P2P service KV cache sharing architecture. | Serve | 7 |
| Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure Technical Program Manager for AI Infrastructure at Microsoft AI, focusing on building and optimizing platforms for large-scale foundation model training, deployment, and serving. The role involves coordinating projects, collaborating with researchers and engineers, and driving progress in a 0->1 environment. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Infra - MAI Superintelligence Team The role focuses on building and maintaining data infrastructure for large-scale AI model training, specifically ingesting and processing enormous amounts of multimodal data (text, audio, images, video). This includes owning data pipelines, Spark, Ray, and Vector Databases, and partnering with pretraining and post-training teams to improve the data recipe for frontier models. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineering The Microsoft 365 Copilot Windows App team is building intelligent, multimodal AI experiences into Windows, enabling AI agents using MCP to redefine user interaction with devices and bring AI to billions. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent features leveraging voice, camera, and screen context, building and optimizing agentic workflows, and owning end-to-end AI capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Inclusive Futures Team Research Intern position at Microsoft Research's Inclusive Futures group, focusing on needs-focused research for underserved individuals. Requires a PhD student in a relevant STEM field with experience in HCI, AI, Accessibility, or related areas. The role involves conducting original research, collaborating with researchers, and potentially publishing findings. | Post-train | 7 |
| Research Intern - Technology for Religious Empowerment Research Intern position focusing on adapting and designing AI systems for religious communities, involving model evaluations, product design, and responsible AI practices. The role requires a PhD student in a STEM field with an interest in religion and experience with emerging technologies like Generative AI and Agentic Systems. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Research Intern - Medical Image Reconstruction Research Intern position focused on applying AI to enhance medical image reconstruction techniques for MRI and CT scanners, aiming to improve image acquisition speed and diagnostic quality. The role involves working at the intersection of MRI physics, signal processing, image reconstruction, and AI within the Microsoft Health Futures team. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Systems and Networking, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Systems and Networking at Microsoft Research, focusing on AI-driven methods for system innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing and implementing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. Requires a Doctorate and background in systems/networking with knowledge of ML systems, databases, and networking technologies, including Agent Systems and Vector Databases. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Cloud and AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Research, focusing on advancing AI infrastructure architecture and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, optimizing components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex real-world challenges at the intersection of AI, human interaction, and environmental context. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Research Intern - Hardware/Software Codesign Research intern focused on advancing the efficiency of AI systems through hardware/software codesign, exploring novel designs and optimizations across the AI stack, including models, frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and hardware. The role involves practical implementation skills for efficient, scalable computational kernels and aims to contribute to mid- and long-term product innovations. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Hardware Research Intern role focused on AI Hardware, specifically researching chip architectures for efficient AI serving and inference systems. Collaborates with researchers to increase performance and efficiency of cutting-edge inference systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Azure Research - Systems Research Intern role focused on next-generation cloud and AI systems, with a focus on improving efficiency, reliability, and usability of Microsoft's online services and datacenters. Projects include efficient GPU/LLM deployments, AIOps, and serverless computing. The role involves research, prototyping, evaluation, and potential publication. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Gray Systems Lab (GSL) Research intern role focusing on machine learning for systems, reinforcement learning, natural language-to-query, and agentic workflows within Azure Data's Gray Systems Lab. The internship involves research and development for databases, big-data, and cloud systems, with potential impact on production systems and publications. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Software-Hardware Co-design Research intern role focused on pioneering technologies for AI/ML workloads, specifically improving efficiency, security, and robustness of GPU memory systems, agentic AI systems, and software architecture for hardware accelerators. The role involves fast-paced execution, implementation, and evaluation on Azure platforms, with a focus on systems and AI. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Reliability of Cloud and AI Systems Research intern role focused on applying LLM and Agentic technology to improve the reliability of large-scale cloud and AI systems. The role involves analyzing production data, designing and building novel tools for monitoring and troubleshooting, and validating solutions on real Microsoft services. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Research Intern - RiSE group Research Intern role in the RiSE group focusing on ML Systems, AI workloads, agentic workflows, and ML models for software engineering tasks. Requires PhD program enrollment and expertise in related STEM fields, with preferred qualifications in ML systems, AI, and software engineering. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - CoreAI Software Engineer II - CoreAI role focused on developing connectors and enriching ingested content with AI/ML capabilities for Azure AI Search, aiming to make it the knowledge and memory layer for Agentic applications. This involves generating vector embeddings, transforming data, and advancing multi-modal search. | AgentData | 7 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture-Security This role focuses on securing AI and agentic workloads on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms. The Cloud Solution Architect will act as a trusted advisor, architecting and implementing security solutions for AI-powered systems, including governance, identity, access, and observability. The role requires hands-on experience with Microsoft security technologies and securing AI/agentic architectures, with a strong emphasis on customer-facing delivery and technical leadership. | Agent | 5 |
| Partner Solution Sales - AI Business Solutions This role is a Partner Solution Sales professional focused on AI Business Solutions within the SMB segment. The primary responsibility is to develop and execute a Partner Solution Area Sales Plan with assigned partners, driving sales through co-sell strategies to achieve quarterly AI Business Solutions revenue targets. The role involves leading partners' commercial performance, driving Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) revenue, acting as a trusted advisor, and developing business strategy between Microsoft and its partners. | — | 5 |
| Digital Solution Specialists Director This role is for a Director of Digital Solution Specialists in a sales team focused on AI-powered solutions for Small Medium Enterprises and Channels. The primary responsibility is to lead and manage a team of sales professionals to sell AI Workforce and AI Business Process solutions, driving digital transformation for customers and partners. The role involves sales execution, business value selling, and technical expertise in AI solutions. | — | 5 |
| Digital Solution Engineer - Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management This role is for a Digital Solution Engineer focused on Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, with a strong emphasis on AI capabilities like Copilot Studio and AI Agents. The primary function is pre-sales technical support, guiding customers through AI transformation, demonstrating solution value, and securing technical wins. While the role heavily involves AI tools and solutions, the core craft is not building AI models but rather selling and implementing AI-powered business applications. | — | 5 |
| Copilot Solution Engineer (Enterprise) This role is a technical sales position focused on proposing AI solutions, particularly Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent-based solutions, to enterprise clients. The focus is on understanding client needs, designing solutions, and driving adoption to achieve digital transformation and improve productivity. While the role deals with AI products, the core function is technical sales and solution architecture, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Infra This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on helping customers migrate, modernize, and secure their infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. The goal is to lay the foundation for scalable, production-ready AI solutions by delivering engagements focused on migration, modernization, operational excellence, and resilient architecture. The role involves building customer relationships, leading architectural design sessions, driving migration initiatives for various workloads including AI, and ensuring environments are optimized for AI use cases. While the role supports AI transformation, it is not directly building AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineering This role is a Solution Engineer focused on the Azure Platform for commercial customers. The primary responsibility is to help customers design, migrate, modernize, and optimize secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures, with a specific emphasis on supporting AI workloads and leveraging AI-powered infrastructure. The role involves technical sales, architecture design, and collaboration to drive Azure adoption and unlock business value through cloud and AI solutions. | — | 5 |
| Director, Education and Workforce Policy, U.S. This role focuses on advancing policy and translating it into practice to support students, teachers, families, and workers in the age of AI. The Director will act as an external representative for Microsoft, engaging with officials, building relationships, and championing strategies that reflect Microsoft's values while advancing policy and business goals. Key responsibilities include policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and internal collaboration to drive the adoption of Microsoft's products and services, particularly concerning AI literacy and responsible AI adoption. | — | 5 |
| Senior SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Manager This role focuses on defining and executing SEO and AI SEO strategies for Microsoft's commercial products, including GitHub and Microsoft Copilot. The Senior SEO Manager will analyze trends, conduct keyword research, monitor performance, and advocate for organic search and AI search as growth channels. The role involves working with various teams and utilizing SEO tools to improve visibility in traditional and emerging AI search experiences. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager Principal Technical Program Manager to lead a team of TPMs driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of Azure's fleet lifecycle and cloud expansion efforts, including Generative AI. This role partners across Engineering, Operations, and Compliance to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure platform capabilities, influencing the direction of Microsoft's cloud platform. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Director of Growth & Experimentation This role leads the growth and experimentation function for Microsoft.com, focusing on using data, experimentation, personalization, and AI-assisted experiences to improve customer journeys and drive business impact. It involves setting strategy, operating models, and roadmaps for web experimentation and growth across commercial web experiences. | — | 5 |
| Director of Internal Communications, Copilot This role is for a Director of Internal Communications for Microsoft Copilot, focusing on shaping the narrative, communications rhythm, and employee engagement strategy. The candidate will partner with senior leadership to translate business direction and product evolution into clear internal narratives, build the communications architecture, and develop messaging and content for technical and product-oriented teams. The role requires experience in high-growth technology environments and supporting senior executives in fast-paced, ambiguous settings. | — | 5 |
| Insights & Transformation Lead This role focuses on driving business insights and transformation initiatives, translating data into actionable recommendations for leadership. It involves executive reporting, leading cross-functional transformation projects, and identifying opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve processes. The role requires strong analytical, storytelling, and program management skills, with a focus on operational efficiency and strategic decision-making within an enterprise context. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director, Americas Security Sales Lead, Small Medium Business This role is a Senior Director leading the Americas SMB Security Sales for Microsoft. The primary focus is on driving business growth, strategy, and execution of Microsoft's Security business within the Small and Medium Business segment. This includes leading a sales organization, developing business plans, driving revenue attainment, and scaling security solutions through partners. A key aspect is championing Secure AI Productivity and customer digital transformation by integrating security, compliance, identity, and Copilot value propositions, positioning Microsoft as a trusted security platform for AI-powered productivity. | — | 5 |
| Director, Solution Specialist Manager (Security) Lead a team of solution specialists focused on driving security business growth across strategic accounts, blending security domain expertise with sales leadership. Coach sellers, engage customers, and own the forecast and execution of the business. Shape strategy, represent the business to senior stakeholders, and ensure the team delivers against revenue and customer impact goals. Guide the team to lead AI and cloud-driven transformation initiatives for customers, utilizing AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools. | — | 5 |
| Performance and Development Director This role is for a Performance and Development Director at Microsoft, focusing on designing and implementing global performance and development strategies. A key responsibility is leading the development and end-to-end implementation of agentic AI solutions within the P&D portfolio, optimizing prompts and embedding AI into core processes. The role requires experience in prompt engineering or agentic AI implementation. | Agent | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists This role focuses on leading sales strategies and customer engagements for AI and cloud solutions within enterprise accounts. The specialist will identify, qualify, and accelerate sales opportunities by leveraging AI-driven market intelligence, predictive analytics, and sales tools to understand customer needs, forecast market trends, and drive AI-powered transformations. The role involves close collaboration with internal teams and partners to ensure successful deal orchestration and customer value realization. | — | 5 |
| AI Workforce Digital Solution Specialist This role focuses on scaling the AI Workforce business within a territory, leading executive-level digital transformation conversations, and driving adoption of AI solutions like Copilot and Agents. It emphasizes consultative selling, partner orchestration, and building repeatable sales motions to achieve predictable growth and measurable business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Digital Solution Engineer-Azure This role is a technical sales and solution engineering position focused on Microsoft's Azure Cloud & AI platform for mid-market customers. The engineer will help customers design, migrate, and optimize secure, scalable cloud architectures, with a focus on supporting AI workloads and modernizing infrastructure. Responsibilities include technical sales, architecture design, workshops, and resolving technical blockers, leveraging expertise in cloud migration, hybrid networking, security, and compliance. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Viva This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Microsoft Viva Glint and M365 Copilot, focusing on driving customer AI transformation and adoption. The role involves strategic advisory, technical expertise, and customer lifecycle management to create business value and ROI through AI-enabled solutions. It requires leveraging Copilot prompt engineering and agent-building expertise to scale AI adoption. | Agent | 5 |
| Strategic Account Technology Strategist This role is a technology strategist within the enterprise business unit, focusing on the retail and trading industries. The primary responsibility is to understand customer business needs and digital strategies, architect technology roadmaps, and drive the adoption of Microsoft solutions including AI, Azure Cloud, Modern Workplace, and Security. The role involves acting as a virtual CTO for clients, building relationships with executives, and leading digital transformation initiatives, with a strong emphasis on accelerating AI transformation for customers. | — | 5 |
| Consultant This role focuses on designing, building, and optimizing end-to-end cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions, with a specific emphasis on leveraging AI services as infrastructure components for applications. The consultant will work with Azure AI Services, containerized AI workloads, and integrate OpenAI/Frontier models into cloud environments, ensuring secure and scalable infrastructure patterns. While not directly building AI models, the role is critical in providing the underlying infrastructure for AI applications. | Serve | 5 |
| Engineering Manager Engineering Manager to lead a team building systems that protect the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from code to runtime, partnering across various Microsoft product groups to create a new category in enterprise security. | Ship | 5 |
| Customer Success Architect - AI Business Process Solutions Customer Success Architect focused on AI Business Process Solutions, leveraging Microsoft technologies like Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Copilot to drive business transformation for enterprise customers. The role involves designing, delivering, and ensuring adoption of secure, scalable AI solutions, acting as a trusted advisor, and identifying opportunities for growth and operational excellence. | Agent | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II at Microsoft, focused on delivering features for Azure AI Foundry and Azure Machine Learning. The role involves translating customer needs into requirements, working with engineering, and improving developer experience for AI/ML platforms. | — | 5 |
| Digital Solution Engineer - AIWF This role is a Digital Solution Engineer focused on AI Business Solutions, specifically Microsoft 365 Copilot and related AI products. The primary responsibility is to lead technical engagements, drive AI transformation for customers, and win technical decisions by delivering demos, envisioning sessions, and scalable architectures. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor for secure, compliant, and value-driven AI implementations, collaborating with sales and partner teams to remove technical blockers and accelerate adoption. Success is measured by technical wins, customer adoption, and partner engagement. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering II The Azure Data engineering team is building the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications. The Cosmos Analytics Platform team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to drive the evolution, reliability, and performance of Microsoft's hyperscale big data platform—Cosmos. This team builds and operates foundational infrastructure that powers mission-critical data analytics workloads across Microsoft. The team works on core platform components, complex distributed systems problems, modernizing the compute platforms, live-site excellence, and developer experience improvements. The role will evolve core platform capabilities for performance sensitive and ML/AI heavy workloads, including large scale shuffle data management, ARM based compute, GPU accelerated execution paths and secure containerization. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager to own and deliver core Microsoft Foundry platform capabilities, focusing on defining product requirements, partnering with engineering, and driving predictable delivery across experimentation, training, deployment, and monitoring workflows. The role emphasizes execution, customer impact, and developer productivity within complex AI systems. | Serve | 5 |
| Digital Solution Engineer - D365 CE This role is for a Digital Solution Engineer focused on AI-powered business applications, specifically Dynamics 365 Sales & Service. The engineer will lead AI transformation engagements, own technical win strategies, design solutions, deliver demonstrations, and engage with C-suite executives and technical decision-makers. The role involves showcasing Microsoft's AI capabilities in D365 solutions, addressing technical blockers like AI compliance and security, and leveraging the partner ecosystem. The primary focus is on selling and implementing AI-driven business processes for the SME-C segment. | — | 5 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialist - Copilot & AI Workforce (Early in Profession) This role is for an early-career professional focused on selling and driving adoption of Microsoft Copilot and AI workforce solutions to organizations. It involves understanding customer needs, positioning AI solutions, and supporting customers throughout their AI transformation journey to achieve business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Data Science INTERN Internship role focused on applying machine learning, statistics, and data exploration techniques to solve problems and improve products, with a focus on generating business impact and customer insights. The role involves formulating approaches, interpreting results, and collaborating with stakeholders. | Data | 5 |
