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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
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| 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 and data products for intelligent systems, and designs backend services exposing datasets as data products. Also involved in reporting and analytics layer using Power BI. The role supports data ingestion, governance, exposure, and consumption for decision-making and AI-driven insights. | Data | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect This role is for a Manager of Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) in the Customer Success organization, leading a team of senior technical experts who help enterprise customers design and deploy secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. The manager will foster a culture of growth and technical excellence, oversee delivery excellence across infrastructure, applications, and data engagements, and drive customer outcomes through architectural leadership and innovation. The role involves partnering with engineering and field teams, representing the voice of the customer, and contributing to product evolution. |
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| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Microsoft Shopping team, focusing on developing and optimizing distributed services and performance-optimized systems for AI/LLM-powered shopping experiences across Bing, MSN, and Edge. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving design, writing and optimizing code, and staying updated on new trends to improve product availability, reliability, and performance. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Channel Operations Manager This role focuses on leading end-to-end channel operations for Microsoft Devices, optimizing planning, execution, and partner performance. It involves orchestrating demand, supply, and sales alignment, enhancing channel efficiency, and driving transformation through advanced analytics, automation, and AI-enabled insights. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration and data-informed decision-making to achieve business impact and adapt to market dynamics. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager, Bing Places - Microsoft AI Search Principal Product Manager for Microsoft AI Search, focusing on defining the future of AI-powered search journeys and user experiences by leveraging LLMs, grounding, and retrieval to enable decisions and complete journeys. | — | 5 |
| Senior Finance Manager, GitHub This role is for a Senior Finance Manager at GitHub, focused on driving business rhythms (Close, Forecast, Planning) for GitHub Copilot. The role requires strong financial modeling, strategic thinking, and collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and Engineering teams to support the growth of an AI business. The position emphasizes business predictability, risk management, and compliance within a fast-paced technology environment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Compute Availability Platform team, focusing on ensuring high VM uptime through intelligent automation, predictive failure models, and AI-driven diagnostics. The role involves designing, developing, and integrating AI/ML solutions into hyperscale cloud infrastructure, with an emphasis on reliability, availability, and operational efficiency. Explores generative AI for diagnostics and root cause analysis, and integrates large-scale AI models into control plane services for smarter repair decisions. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Product Manager Product Manager for Microsoft Marketplace, a global commerce platform for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. Focuses on improving the end-to-end customer and partner experience for finding, trying, buying, and managing solutions. Operates at the intersection of platform strategy, product execution, and business outcomes, translating priorities into roadmaps and measurable impact. Will work across various buying motions and ensure the marketplace scales with growing catalog, partner ecosystem, and AI-driven scenarios. Requires collaboration across engineering, design, strategy, operations, finance, and product groups. | — | 5 |
| Technology Consultant This role focuses on implementing AI-powered business solutions, including Copilot and agentic systems, by translating customer business goals into technical capabilities. It involves pre-sales support, solution design, project planning, risk mitigation, and relationship management with customers and partners. The role requires deep product knowledge in Business Applications, Modern Work, and AI leveraging Copilot and Agentic solutions, with extensive implementation experience. | Agent | 5 |
| Sales Specialist - Security This role is for a Sales Specialist focused on Microsoft Security solutions, engaging with large enterprise customers to understand their needs, build business cases, and close sales. It involves managing senior relationships, leading virtual teams, and driving digital transformation through security solutions. While the role interacts with AI-based security offerings like Security Copilot, its core function is sales, not AI/ML development. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - M365 Copilot Software Engineer role focused on the development and release of web client/services for Microsoft Copilot, enhancing customer experiences. The role involves designing resilient, scalable systems powered by AI infrastructure and fostering a data-driven approach. It requires experience building applications and services with AI infrastructure, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and performance. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Modernizing Infrastructure This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on modernizing infrastructure for enterprise clients, with a specific emphasis on accelerating AI transformation and building AI tools for operational efficiencies. The architect will develop IP offerings, design Azure and hybrid solutions, coach field teams, and influence product roadmaps by representing customer needs. While the role involves AI transformation and building AI tools, the core craft is not AI/ML model development but rather the architecture and implementation of cloud solutions that leverage AI. | — | 5 |
| Director Global To Partner Marketing Director of To-Partner Marketing leading strategy, prioritization, and execution for AI-first solutions within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. The role focuses on translating business priorities into partner-relevant narratives, orchestrating data-driven, omnichannel partner journeys, and leveraging generative AI and modern martech for personalization and content velocity at scale. Responsibilities include team leadership, setting a data-driven vision for partner marketing, and embedding AI and automation across the marketing lifecycle to drive partner activation, pipeline, and revenue. | — | 5 |
| Principal Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team focused on securing non-human communication and authenticating billions of transactions per hour. The team builds and operates services that power Azure infrastructure, customer workloads, and AI agents, with a strong emphasis on security, resilience, and reliability. The manager will lead, grow, and coach engineers, set technical and product direction, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous growth, particularly in AI-first engineering practices. | Ship | 5 |
| Director, Sales Learning Program Manager This role is for a Director, Sales Learning Program Manager at Microsoft within the MCAPS Academy team. The primary focus is on leading skilling programs and project initiatives to enable sales teams to be consultative sellers and deliver business value. While the role mentions being 'AI forward' and accelerating AI/Copilot usage, its core function is program management and learning development for sales teams, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The role aims to improve sales effectiveness through learning programs, including those related to AI tools. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - TS/SCI This role is for a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect focused on Azure workloads, including AI, data, applications, and infrastructure, within Microsoft's Federal organization. The architect will act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, leading strategic technical engagements to accelerate digital transformation, modernize mission-critical systems, adopt AI responsibly, and build secure, scalable cloud platforms. The role involves orchestrating across technical teams, aligning architecture to business outcomes, and translating complex technical concepts for executive stakeholders. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Product Management Manager Principal Product Management Manager for Azure High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence (HPC & AI) compute platform team, focusing on AI and GPU Azure VM product families for training and inference. The role involves defining product goals, strategy, and roadmap, and working with cross-functional teams to deliver these products end-to-end. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Microsoft Devices Operations (MDO) platform, focusing on building and operating core business systems. The role involves owning the product roadmap for standards, self-service tooling, and AI-powered guardrails to enable internal teams and vendor partners. Key responsibilities include defining the developer paved road, managing the developer portal, setting API governance standards, and driving the AI/AIOps strategy for operational excellence, including AI in Operations for incident management and agentic resolution. | Agent | 5 |
| Partner Solution Sales, Customer AI & Applications Platform Sales leadership role focused on driving Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR) and pipeline for Microsoft's Customer AI & Applications Platform (CAIP) business through a partner ecosystem. The role involves leading, coaching, and managing a team of Partner Solution Sales specialists to deliver customer outcomes at scale in the corporate segment. | — | 5 |
| Director US Partner Solution Sales, AIBS This role is for a Director of Partner Solution Sales for AI Business Solutions (AIBS) at Microsoft, focusing on enterprise AI adoption through partners. The individual will lead a team of Partner Solution Sales specialists to drive cloud revenue and pipeline for AI-powered business solutions like M365 Copilot, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform. Responsibilities include sales leadership, team management, coaching, partner ecosystem engagement, revenue accountability, and cross-team orchestration. The role requires experience in sales leadership, people management, and a strong understanding of AI agents and business applications, with a focus on selling through a partner ecosystem to deliver customer outcomes at scale. | — | 5 |
| Digital Specialist Manager - Security This role is for a Digital Specialist Manager focused on Security within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) sales organization. The manager will lead a sales team, leveraging AI-powered strategies and cloud services to drive customer success and digital transformation. The role involves people management, sales execution, business value selling, and fostering collaboration with partners, with a strong emphasis on achieving sales targets and operational standards in the Security Solution Area. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager - CoreAI Senior Product Manager for Azure Logic Apps, focusing on enterprise integration in the era of AI agents and event-driven architectures. The role involves owning product strategy, defining roadmaps, driving customer outcomes, and shaping the integration category. Requires strong technical understanding of distributed systems and enterprise integration patterns, with experience in regulated industries and launching AI-powered capabilities being preferred. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and operating foundational infrastructure for AI agents within Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. The role involves designing and implementing high-scale backend services for secure connectivity, authentication, and lifecycle management of agents, ensuring reliability, compliance, and interoperability across Microsoft's ecosystem. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Agile HR Business Partner Senior Agile HR Business Partner to support Microsoft's C+AI organization, focusing on shaping the future of leadership, growth, and transformation within HR. The role involves strategic consulting, organizational diagnostics, talent development, and leveraging AI tools to enhance decision-making and streamline processes. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director, Solution Specialist Manager (Cloud & AI Platform) Senior Director, Solution Specialist Manager for Cloud & AI Platform at Microsoft, leading a team of leaders to drive strategy, manage forecasts, and scale execution for enterprise accounts. The role focuses on shaping AI and cloud-led transformations, building high-performing teams, and ensuring operational rigor and business performance. Responsibilities include customer engagement, people management, and sales operations, leveraging AI-powered tools for analytics and forecasting to drive business growth and market share. | — | 5 |
| Director, Solution Specialist Manager (Security) Lead a team of solution specialists focused on driving security business growth across strategic accounts, leveraging AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision and guide AI and cloud-driven transformation initiatives for customers. | — | 5 |
| Principal Data Scientist This role is for a Principal Data Scientist on the Microsoft AI (MAI) team, focusing on business analytics for MSN and Copilot Discover. The role involves analyzing user engagement, content, advertising, and monetization to drive business insights and strategy. A key responsibility is leveraging AI/ML to enhance these processes, build forecasting models, and support AI-powered consumer experiences. | Ship | 5 |
| Copilot & Agents Cloud Solution Architect This role is a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot and customer adoption of AI/Agentic technologies within the ANZ region. The primary focus is on enabling customers to achieve ROI and drive usage across the customer lifecycle, acting as a trusted advisor and technical leader. | — | 5 |
| Copilot & Agents Cloud Solution Architect This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot and customer success within the ANZ AI Business Solutions Area CSA Team. The primary goal is to help customers achieve ROI on their M365 Copilot investment and guide them on their agentic journey by operating across the customer lifecycle from deployment to usage and expansion. The role requires a strong learning mindset and focus on emerging technologies in a dynamic customer environment. | — | 5 |
| Senior System Software Engineer - WSD Senior Software Engineer on the Update Platform team responsible for delivering Windows software updates. The role involves designing and implementing features for update discovery, installation, and lifecycle, with a focus on integrating ML/AI models and preparing for Agentic AI and AI Orchestration. | Ship | 5 |
| SENIOR SERVICE ENG MGR Senior Service Engineering Manager to lead the MSD Tenant Integration & Management (TIM) Engineering team, focusing on enterprise services like Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. The role involves driving engineering excellence, operational excellence, reliability, and security, with an emphasis on an AI-first and agentic mindset to enhance service operations through intelligent automation. The manager will lead, coach, and grow a team of service engineers, drive technical execution, and ensure operational excellence across complex, business-critical services, partnering with global stakeholders. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager Technical Program Management Specialist role focused on leading cross-organizational efforts for Multitenant strategy, partnering with security and product engineering teams to drive alignment and deliver key initiatives. The role involves executing enterprise-scale programs across core Microsoft 365 services, translating business requirements into technical plans, and driving initiatives across multi-tenant environments. A key aspect is contributing to the adoption and scaling of Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI-powered agents, identifying opportunities for automation and service optimization. | — | 5 |
| Principal Customer Success Account Manager This role is for a Principal Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) at Microsoft, focused on driving strategic customer outcomes, accelerating cloud and AI adoption, and ensuring long-term customer health and value realization within enterprise accounts. The CSAM acts as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders, orchestrating Microsoft's capabilities to deliver measurable business impact, with a focus on Azure and AI consumption growth. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Azure Networking, focusing on AI Networking, hyper-scale network health, and infrastructure evolution. The role involves identifying customer needs, defining solutions, driving business impact, owning roadmaps, and collaborating with engineering and marketing teams to deliver industry-leading innovations in a fast-paced cloud environment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Product Manager for a Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform focused on enabling AI-powered and agentic workloads at hyperscale within Microsoft 365. The role involves defining strategy, driving roadmap execution, and partnering with engineering teams to support the next generation of AI and intelligent agent ecosystems. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Security Specialist This role is for a Principal Security Specialist within Microsoft's AI-powered global sales team. The primary focus is on leading security strategy for strategic customers, advising CISOs, and aligning Microsoft Security and partner solutions to customer priorities such as Defend with AI and Security for AI. The role involves technical leadership, sales execution, and acting as a field multiplier, with a strong emphasis on understanding AI and infrastructure security. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager Product Manager for AI-powered creation experiences within Power BI, focusing on embedding intelligent capabilities to help users build reports, visuals, and insights faster. The role involves defining product vision, partnering with engineering and data science, understanding customer needs, and using data to evaluate feature success. | — | 5 |
| Principal Designer - Microsoft AI Health This role is for a Principal Product Designer on the Microsoft AI Health team, focusing on creating end-to-end experiences for a health AI product. The goal is to empower users and promote positive health outcomes by shipping world-class AI applications. The role involves owning a product area, driving design from concept to launch, collaborating with engineering and AI model training teams, and defining goals and performance indicators. | — | 5 |
| Principal Strategy and Planning Leader This role is for a Principal Strategy and Planning Leader within Microsoft Security's Engineering organization. The primary focus is on driving cross-portfolio initiatives that translate MSEC strategy into execution at scale, partnering across engineering, product, research, and field teams. The role involves shaping priorities, aligning dependencies, and accelerating delivery of initiatives related to enterprise AI adoption and security in the AI age. It requires strategic and systems thinking, operational rigor, and executive influence to build the control plane for AI-driven organizations and enable leadership decision-making. While the role operates within an AI context and influences AI-first solutions, the core craft is strategy, planning, and execution leadership, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer The role focuses on building and scaling backend services and data pipelines that power device and security intelligence within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The core responsibility is to transform fragmented signals into a consistent, reliable data foundation that supports downstream systems, customers, and AI-driven capabilities. This involves designing, building, and scaling these systems, defining data models and pipelines, and contributing to architectural decisions for correctness, scalability, and durability. | Data | 5 |
| Solution Specialists-Digital Native This role focuses on leading sales discussions with high-value customers to identify and accelerate sales opportunities, leveraging AI-driven tools for market intelligence, predictive analytics, and sales forecasting. The specialist will align sales strategies with customer priorities, guide AI and cloud transformations, and manage sales pipelines to meet targets, emphasizing secure, AI-powered solutions. | — | 5 |
| Copilot Solution Engineer (Enterprise) This role is a technical sales position focused on proposing AI solutions, particularly Microsoft 365 Copilot and related agent technologies, to enterprise clients. The goal is to drive digital transformation, improve productivity, and enhance operational efficiency by leveraging Microsoft's hybrid work and AI solutions. The role involves solution design, strategic planning, customer engagement, and scaling through partners. | — | 5 |
| Account Technology Specialist - Gaming Industry This role is for an Account Technology Specialist focused on the gaming industry, acting as a technology partner to major Japanese gaming companies. The primary focus is to understand customer business challenges and strategies, and to drive transformation using AI and agent technologies, particularly Azure AI and Copilot. The role also involves developing and executing Microsoft's industry strategy for gaming, and orchestrating cross-functional teams to maximize customer value. It emphasizes strategic technology advising, business transformation through AI, industry strategy, and team orchestration. | — | 5 |
| Data Engineer Data Engineer role focused on formulating business problems, exploring and analyzing data, and designing/testing predictive and forecasting models. The role will identify opportunities for machine learning and predictive analysis, and communicate insights to influence data-driven decisions. This role is within Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) at Microsoft, supporting IT operations processes and standards for global datacenters. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Bing Multimedia team, focusing on building and evolving large-scale offline infrastructure for image and video search. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable platforms that process vast amounts of data, with a strong emphasis on engineering metrics like latency, cost, availability, and quality. The team leverages state-of-the-art ML models and AI-assisted engineering practices to deliver world-class visual search experiences. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Senior Product Marketing Manager for Agentic Apps at Microsoft Power Platform. This role focuses on defining and marketing the next era of applications where agents and apps are built together, targeting both citizen and pro developers. The position requires a deep understanding of AI-native creation tools, coding agents, and enterprise-grade application development, with a hands-on approach to building narratives, demos, and reference architectures for real-world deployment. The goal is to establish Microsoft as the leading platform for AI-powered applications. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Microsoft's Substrate Storage Fabric platform, which powers Microsoft 365 experiences and Copilot-era retrieval paths. The role focuses on driving product strategy and execution for platform excellence, including efficiency, trust, resilience, and modernization, leveraging AI and telemetry to identify needs and translate technical systems into business value. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director of Community The Senior Director of Community will build and lead a learning community for Microsoft's Global Skilling and AI Skills Navigator. This role involves defining community strategy, developing programs, driving collaboration across Microsoft, and aligning community efforts with business and skilling priorities. The role also requires tracking community health and engagement metrics, and leveraging AI tools for planning and analysis. | — | 5 |
| Director, Executive & Product Communications - Copilot (Microsoft AI) This role is for a Director of Executive & Product Communications for Microsoft Copilot, focusing on shaping the narrative and perception of the AI companion and its executive leadership within the tech, developer, and startup ecosystems. It involves developing communication strategies, drafting content, and engaging with communities to build visibility and credibility. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Azure Data's Cosmos platform, focusing on building and maintaining operational database systems. The role involves driving end-to-end product delivery, program management, capacity planning, and collaborating with engineering and stakeholders. The team actively uses AI tools and aims to build an AI-enabled data platform for mission-critical workloads. | — | 5 |
