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 237 new AI-related roles.
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| Azure Solution Specialist Solution sales leader with deep business and technical expertise in Azure, focusing on driving digital transformation and AI adoption for enterprise customers. Responsible for achieving Azure consumption targets by guiding customers through their AI and digital transformation journey, recommending solutions, and removing deployment roadblocks. | — | 5 |
| Entry Level Cloud Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and building AI and Agentic solutions for customers using Microsoft's AI platforms like Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI. The Cloud Solution Architect will work on technical engagements, POCs, and MVPs to accelerate adoption and deliver repeatable AI solutions, acting as a bridge between customer needs and Microsoft's AI offerings. | Agent | 5 |
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| Technology Consultant: Graduate Opportunities - French, German or Spanish speaking This role focuses on helping customers leverage Microsoft's AI solutions, particularly Copilot and agentic systems, to transform business processes and achieve measurable outcomes. The consultant will work with clients to understand needs, frame AI opportunities, design solutions, and manage adoption, while applying Responsible AI principles and security best practices. The role involves collaborating with AI tools and applying human judgment to AI-generated insights. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer 2 - Fullstack Software Engineer II for Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization, focusing on modernizing update systems and processes using Azure-based solutions. The role involves end-to-end feature ownership, designing and implementing cloud-based tools, and improving engineering systems. While the role actively leverages AI tools like GitHub Copilot and internal assistants, its core function is not AI/ML model development but rather enhancing traditional software engineering practices and product delivery. | — | 5 |
| Partner Solution Sales This Partner Solution Sales role at Microsoft focuses on driving customer acquisition, AI and Copilot growth, and security expansion through partner-led business transformation. The candidate will build scalable growth motions, foster partner relationships, and champion AI and next-generation solutions, while ensuring responsible AI adoption and leveraging AI for business outcomes. The role requires strong business ownership, customer obsession, and partner leadership in a technology sales context. | — | 5 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer - System Characterization This role focuses on characterizing and validating cryogenic control hardware for quantum computing systems, bridging cryogenic electronics and quantum device measurements. While the role mentions using AI tools and building AI agents/copilots to assist with tasks, the core function is in quantum engineering and system characterization, not directly shipping AI models or core AI systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Ads Data Platform Team at Microsoft AI. The role involves designing and operating high-scale data platforms that process billions of events daily, fueling business analytics and machine learning models for Microsoft Ads. Responsibilities include system design, implementation, maintenance of live services, and performance optimization of distributed systems and big data technologies. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Business Intelligence Engineer - Agentic Development This role focuses on building and maintaining an internal analytics and reporting platform using Microsoft Fabric, with a strong emphasis on leveraging agentic experiences and AI to drive automation and efficiency. The engineer will create reports, dashboards, and web apps, implement semantic models, and translate business needs into data solutions, while also influencing platform evolution. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Solution Specialist- Cloud & AI This role is a Senior Solution Specialist for Azure with a focus on multi-industry customers. The primary responsibility is to drive strategic discussions with executive stakeholders to identify, qualify, and accelerate sales opportunities. The role involves leveraging AI-driven market intelligence and predictive analytics tools to assess trends, forecast market needs, and develop cutting-edge sales strategies. It also focuses on driving AI- and cloud-driven transformations for customers and ensuring alignment with regional and global initiatives. The role emphasizes sales pipeline management, forecasting accuracy using AI-powered tools, and positioning Microsoft as a leader in AI and cloud services. | — | 5 |
| Partner Solution Sales - (AI Business Solutions) This role is a Partner Solution Sales professional focused on driving AI Workforce (Copilot, M365) sales through partners in the Education and Nonprofit industries. The individual will develop sales plans, execute co-sell strategies, manage pipelines, and act as a trusted advisor to partners, aiming to accelerate AI adoption and customer acquisition. | — | 5 |
| Director of Go To Market, Health - Copilot | Microsoft AI Director of Go To Market for Health Copilot at Microsoft AI, focusing on downstream adoption, execution, orchestration, and growth in the healthcare domain. This role requires defining market strategy, architecting activation and distribution, leading launch excellence, developing field enablement, and championing responsible AI principles to ensure products reach and are trusted by patients, partners, and clinicians. | — | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists Manager - AI Workforce Lead a team of solution specialists focused on driving AI Workforce business growth across strategic accounts. This role requires strong sales leadership and domain expertise to coach sellers, engage customers, and manage the forecast and execution of the business. The role involves shaping strategy, representing the business to senior stakeholders, and ensuring the team delivers against revenue and customer impact goals. Responsibilities include strategic sales leadership, pipeline and forecast management, solution selling, partner orchestration, and people management, with an emphasis on leveraging AI-driven tools and methodologies for sales and customer transformation. | — | 5 |
| Account Technology Strategist - Education This role focuses on empowering customers in the education sector to adopt and leverage AI technologies to achieve their business objectives. The Account Technology Strategist will partner with senior decision-makers to design and drive technology initiatives, focusing on AI solutions for personalized learning, administrative tasks, and teaching tools. The role involves understanding customer needs, articulating AI and Security strategies, and driving Microsoft's business growth through technology adoption and partner co-sell motions. | — | 5 |
| Senior Customer Business Outcomes Specialist, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment This role focuses on driving customer business outcomes within the Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment industry by leveraging industry expertise and value-focused engagement. The specialist partners with sales leaders to uncover customer needs, quantify business value, and identify capability gaps, ultimately connecting customer value to Microsoft offerings to accelerate sales and consumption. The role emphasizes building executive relationships, influencing account planning, and leading cross-functional teams to provide integrated solutions. While the role operates in the 'age of AI' and aims to help customers become 'Frontier Organizations', its core function is sales enablement, customer engagement, and business development, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Quantum focused on building a quantum software stack, SDKs, APIs, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The role involves applying software engineering and LLM best practices to create experiences for quantum algorithm developers and researchers, contributing to external-facing products for quantum computing. | Ship | 5 |
| Experience Strategist Creative Director This role focuses on leveraging AI tools and generative systems to create compelling visual narratives and experiences for enterprise clients. The strategist will partner with business stakeholders to translate complex challenges into tangible visions, using AI as a co-creator to accelerate the ideation, prototyping, and production of storytelling assets like storyboards and videos. The goal is to influence executive decision-making and drive transformation by making abstract concepts concrete through AI-powered creative workflows. | — | 5 |
| Senior Customer Business Outcomes Specialist, Software Development Platform This role is for a Senior Customer Business Outcomes Specialist focused on the Software Development Platforms (SDP) industry. The primary goal is to drive customer business outcomes by understanding their needs, quantifying business value, and aligning Microsoft offerings to achieve transformative business value, particularly in the context of AI and becoming 'Frontier Organizations'. The role involves account management, customer engagement, and sales execution, with a strong emphasis on consultative selling and building executive relationships to accelerate sales and consumption. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Advertising's Smart Bidding products, focusing on AI-driven solutions to maximize advertiser ROI while managing targeting and controls. Requires deep AI/ML expertise and a strong technical background to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap in partnership with various teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Product Designer Senior Product Designer for Microsoft's Intelligent Communications and Conversations Cloud (IC3) team, focusing on designing administrative experiences for Microsoft Teams. The role involves shaping next-generation, AI-powered Copilot experiences for voice administration, bringing intelligent automation to IT administrator workflows. Requires strong human-centered design skills, collaboration with PMs, engineers, and researchers, and understanding of the full design process. | — | 5 |
| Senior Business Program Manager This role is for a Senior Business Program Manager within Microsoft Business Operations, focusing on transforming global investment operations. The core responsibility is to drive a continuous improvement and automation roadmap, modernizing processes by integrating AI/ML tools and analytics to create AI-augmented, human-in-the-loop workflows. The role involves designing and implementing a global operating model, establishing governance, and ensuring compliance, particularly for a pre-payment proof-of-execution validation process to mitigate improper-payment risk. While the role leverages AI/ML tools and aims to create AI-augmented workflows, the primary focus is on business operations, program management, and process transformation rather than direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Senior Security Engineer - Getting Customers Ready for AI Senior Security Engineer focused on building and operationalizing security-first systems for safe and scalable AI adoption. The role involves designing and building end-to-end security systems to detect, prioritize, and respond to risks in AI-enabled environments, bridging traditional security with AI-native threat models. Responsibilities include developing detection pipelines, correlation engines, automated response workflows, and security platforms for AI systems, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Data Engineer II - Getting Customers Ready for AI The Data Engineer II role focuses on building the data foundations for AI-native security systems. This involves designing and developing scalable data platforms, pipelines, and telemetry systems to transform raw security and operational data into high-quality datasets for analytics and AI-driven insights. The role supports downstream AI models, RAG pipelines, and model training/evaluation workflows, requiring collaboration with AI engineers and data scientists. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Solution Engineering - PwD Opportunities Solution Engineer role focused on connecting Microsoft AI solutions (Copilot, Azure AI, Fabric) to customer business outcomes, supporting technical wins, simplifying architectures, and building customer confidence through engagements and prototyping. The role is part of an 'Ability Hiring Event' for candidates with disabilities. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Full Stack Software Engineer to build capabilities for Microsoft Copilot, working across evaluation platform stages: data sampling, AI data collection/processing, data analysis/evaluation, and insight generation. Responsibilities include experimentation, pipeline design, data analysis, and dashboard creation, with collaboration across M365 teams to assess Copilot's performance. Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, and cloud infrastructure is preferred. | Eval GateData | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Copilot Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft 365 Copilot, responsible for driving outbound product marketing, including content creation, storytelling, technical product understanding, and product shaping. The role involves translating product capabilities and customer needs into compelling narratives and go-to-market strategies, partnering closely with product, engineering, and marketing teams to bring AI-powered solutions to market. | — | 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 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Entry Level Entry-level Cloud Solution Architect role focused on designing and building AI and Agentic solutions for customers using Microsoft's AI platform (Copilot, Azure AI, etc.). The role involves technical engagements, accelerating adoption, and delivering repeatable solutions. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager role in Microsoft's CoreAI Division, focusing on building and shipping new Azure services for developers, specifically in Storage ISV integrations. The role involves co-innovating with partners to deliver integrated, Azure-native solutions for enterprise customers, driving product strategy and execution. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric OneLake & ISVs team, focusing on building and maintaining the data lake platform for the age of AI. This role involves customer-focused feature development, onboarding partners, and supporting strategic relationships, leveraging modern AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot. | — | 5 |
| Account Technology Strategist - ITES Senior technology leader to advise enterprise customers on AI, cloud, security, and digital transformation, translating business priorities into technology strategies and roadmaps to drive innovation and business growth. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Search Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver platform-level search and AI Platform capabilities for Windows. The role involves building the next-generation search that powers File Explorer, Universal Search, Copilot, and future LLM integrations, as well as the Windows AI Platform for developers. Responsibilities include designing and implementing core search components, driving technical deep-dives, owning end-to-end feature delivery, building observability infrastructure, and championing AI-assisted engineering practices. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialists - Cybersecurity This role is for a Digital Security Specialist at Microsoft, focusing on leveraging AI to drive customer success in cybersecurity. The role involves executing solution sales strategies, selling cloud services, and enabling AI and digital transformation for customers and partners. It requires building digital transformation security strategies, leading consultative conversations, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell security solutions. The position emphasizes sales execution, business value selling, scaling through collaboration with partners, and technical expertise in security. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Copilot Solution Engineer focused on driving adoption of Microsoft's AI-powered Copilot and Agent solutions, partnering with customers to design and implement architectures, and accelerating their AI transformation journey. | Agent | 5 |
| Directeur - AI Workforce, Secteur Public Canada/ Manager - AI Workforce, Public Sector Canada Lead a national team of AI Workforce specialists to drive enterprise workforce transformation across Canada’s Public Sector, focusing on Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI Workforce solutions. Accountable for building pipeline, winning strategic opportunities, and scaling adoption to ensure customers realize measurable productivity gains, efficiency, and business value. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Director, Product Marketing - Endpoint Security & Management Senior Director, Product Marketing for Endpoint Security & Management portfolio, focusing on growth strategy, narrative shaping, and cross-functional execution at the intersection of device management, security, and AI. The role aims to unify Windows, Intune, Security, and Copilot/AI into a differentiated value proposition to accelerate adoption and market share. | — | 5 |
| Consulting Practice Leader - Financial Services This role leads a consulting practice focused on delivering AI First solutions for financial services customers. The leader is responsible for managing a business unit, developing high-performing teams, and driving customer engagement and business value through Microsoft's AI tooling. The role involves business strategy, financial results, delivery management, and customer relationship management. | — | 5 |
| Enterprise Account Executive Enterprise Account Executive role focused on driving AI transformation and business outcomes for enterprise customers by selling Microsoft's AI, Copilot, and Security solutions. This role involves building senior-level relationships, developing account strategies, identifying new opportunities, and collaborating with internal cross-functional teams to deliver value and drive revenue growth. | — | 5 |
| Organizational Change Management Architect and Sales Lead This role focuses on organizational change management and sales leadership to help clients adopt Microsoft's AI and cloud solutions, driving business transformation and measurable outcomes. It involves designing and selling consulting services, leading delivery engagements, and ensuring clients achieve business value and competitive advantage through AI. | — | 5 |
| Senior Security Analyst This role involves leading deep-dive investigations into complex, high-severity security incidents, including root cause analysis, threat actor attribution, and impact assessment. The analyst will proactively hunt for threats across cloud and identity telemetry, operationalize threat intelligence, and drive cross-team response efforts. A key aspect is translating findings into durable security improvements and leveraging AI/Copilot technologies to enhance investigation speed and effectiveness. The role also involves mentoring peers and contributing to documented investigation standards. | — | 5 |
| Training Program Manager, Global Skilling This role focuses on developing and executing global technical skilling and enablement strategies, particularly in AI and Microsoft Cloud technologies, to drive customer adoption and business impact. The Training Program Manager will collaborate with customers to understand their needs, build skilling plans, manage training pipelines, orchestrate resources, and provide thought leadership to empower the global workforce for the AI era. | — | 5 |
| Data Engineer II Data Engineer II role focused on building and maintaining ETL pipelines, data-sharing frameworks, and governance systems. Contributes to AI-ready pipelines for intelligent systems and designs/operates services exposing datasets as data products, with a focus on low-latency consumption for Microsoft engineering teams. Also involved in reporting and analytics. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Principal Hardware Architect The Principal Hardware Architect will define the architecture of a next-generation topological quantum system, working across the stack from quantum error correction to fabrication and growth. This role involves evaluating system-level trade-offs and driving key hardware decisions, translating system-level performance goals into subsystem requirements and engineering priorities, and partnering across research, fabrication, and engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| Principal Sourcing Engineer This role focuses on leading the sourcing strategy for critical memory and storage technologies that support hyperscale cloud and AI platforms. The engineer will influence platform architectures, manage long-range supply and capacity, and act as the commercial interface with suppliers. The role involves identifying and mitigating risks while scaling supplier ecosystems for rapid platform growth. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of distributed data infrastructure, APIs, and personalization pipelines that drive Copilot's intelligence. The role focuses on building systems that power adaptive, context-aware experiences across Microsoft AI, making Copilot responsive to user preferences and workflows while ensuring privacy, security, performance, and scale. | Ship | 5 |
| Technical Support Advisor This role is a Technical Support Advisor for Microsoft's Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization. The primary focus is on ensuring the technical readiness and process compliance of frontline support staff. While the role involves leveraging AI technology to help customers and prevent future problems, the core responsibilities are centered around support, troubleshooting, and readiness, rather than directly building or researching AI models. The role aims to drive delivery excellence and superior customer outcomes by providing in-depth technical expertise and mentoring support staff. | — | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists - Digital Natives This role focuses on sales and technical pre-sales for startups and digital natives, helping them leverage Microsoft's Azure, Data & AI cloud services. The goal is to win commercial and technical decisions for Microsoft technologies, acting as a trusted advisor and solution designer. While understanding the AI landscape is critical, the core function is sales and customer engagement, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer 2 Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining front-end experiences for Microsoft's Governance Hub platform. The role involves modern frontend engineering practices, platform modernization, micro-frontend integration, performance optimization, and integrating AI-assisted user experiences. The engineer will ensure security, compliance, and accessibility standards are met, and collaborate with other teams to unify governance experiences. | — | 5 |
| Partner CTO, Enterprise Partner Solutions - Japan Partner CTO for Enterprise Partner Solutions in Japan, focusing on driving AI-driven transformation through the partner ecosystem. The role involves leading technical experts, collaborating with strategic partners, and accelerating the adoption of Microsoft technologies to build AI-powered business and technical solutions. | — | 5 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Legal and Compliance Senior Finance Manager for Legal and Compliance at Microsoft, focusing on financial discovery projects, reporting, analysis, and ensuring compliance with regulatory entities. The role involves deep financial research, data analysis, and leveraging AI tools to enhance efficiency and reporting accuracy. | — | 5 |