Currently tracking 224 active AI roles, down 17% 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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Strategic Account Executive (Government) This role is for a Strategic Account Executive focused on New York State government agencies, aiming to help them adopt AI and Cloud solutions to better serve their mission. The role involves building relationships with technology leaders, understanding customer needs, and leveraging Microsoft's portfolio and partner offerings to deliver solutions and drive outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering This role is for a Senior Software Engineer focused on building AI-infused enterprise applications, Agentic Solutions, and Copilots within Microsoft's Commercial Sales Experiences (CSX) team. The engineer will lead the full software development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment, emphasizing engineering best practices, scalability, and security. The role involves leveraging AI technologies and Azure PaaS services to enhance user experience and productivity, contributing to Microsoft's Cloud and AI strategy. | Ship |
| 5 |
| Senior Director, Government Affairs This role is for a Senior Director of Government Affairs at Microsoft, focusing on shaping U.S. federal AI policy. The individual will develop and advance the company's policy positions, collaborating with internal AI, research, and product teams to ensure technical grounding in responsible AI and innovation roadmaps. Key responsibilities include leading U.S. AI policy strategy, translating technical developments into actionable strategy, engaging with policymakers and industry stakeholders, and developing policy agendas for physical AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director of Strategy This role is for a Senior Director of Strategy within Microsoft's Experiences & Devices (E+D) Strategy team. The primary focus is on shaping the future of iconic Microsoft products like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Windows, and Surface by developing multi-year strategic roadmaps and driving cross-functional initiatives. A key aspect of the role is pioneering the use of AI and LLMs to transform both products and the strategy discipline itself, including automating market scans and synthesizing research. The role requires strong stakeholder management and leadership in a dynamic environment. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Azure HPC & AI compute platform, focusing on defining and delivering hardware, software, and services for extreme scale AI training and inference, traditional HPC, and other technical computing workloads. Requires expertise in AI, complex distributed systems, and customer/market analysis using AI tools. | Ship | 5 |
| Copilot & AI Workforce Specialist - Sydney/Melbourne Sales specialist role focused on driving adoption and revenue for Microsoft's AI Workforce solutions, primarily M365 Copilot, within Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C). The role involves consultative selling, value engineering, and partnering with account teams to achieve business outcomes and scale AI-powered productivity. | — | 5 |
| Cloud & AI Specialist - Auckland This role is a sales specialist focused on driving adoption of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, data services, and AI solutions. The specialist will guide organizations through digital transformation, modernize infrastructure, improve analytics, and build intelligent applications. Key responsibilities include opportunity qualification, pipeline growth, customer engagement, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to accelerate cloud and AI adoption. The role emphasizes understanding customer business needs and connecting them with technical capabilities to achieve measurable business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer Director-Digital Native This role is for a Solution Engineer Director focused on Digital Native Startups and Unicorns, leveraging the Microsoft Cloud and AI capabilities to empower their innovation and scaling. The role involves leading a team of Solution Engineers, acting as trusted advisors, and driving technical decisions for customers to achieve business value with Azure. It emphasizes people management, scaling customer engagements through technical expertise and partner collaboration, and building strategy around cloud and AI technologies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Security Research- Microsoft Security Senior Security Researcher focused on detecting and autonomously protecting against sophisticated enterprise identity-based attacks using Generative AI tooling. The role involves end-to-end research projects, data analysis, threat hypothesis, and crafting detection logic. | Agent | 5 |
| Account Executive - Communication, Transportation and Retail Account Executive role focused on driving digital and AI transformation for clients in the communication, transportation, and retail sectors. The role involves understanding client business needs, developing strategic roadmaps, and leveraging Microsoft solutions (including AI/Copilot) to achieve business outcomes. Requires strong sales experience, relationship building, and industry knowledge. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager This role is for a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Azure Core, focusing on defining and driving the product direction for capacity decision support systems that span AI and commercial cloud infrastructure. The goal is to plan, allocate, and optimize capacity at hyperscale, impacting Azure's business and customer trust. The role involves working across engineering, operations, and compliance teams, and championing the adoption of generative AI tools to improve planning and efficiency. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role focuses on building and enhancing the evaluation platform for M365's AI offerings, enabling builders to run faster and more comprehensive evaluations throughout the development lifecycle. The goal is to automate tasks and improve performance understanding of AI features. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on integrating AI tools across the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, coding, and testing. The role emphasizes writing high-quality, secure, and performant code, leading architectural discussions, and driving automation. While the role uses AI tools extensively and aims to improve processes with AI, it does not appear to be building core AI models or systems. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Executive Communications Manager This role is for a Senior Executive Communications Manager partnering with the EVP of Apps & Agents Engineering at Microsoft. The primary focus is on external communications (80%) including keynotes, customer events, and media relations, with a secondary focus on internal communications (20%) to align and inspire the organization. The role requires translating complex technical AI and product strategies into compelling narratives for various audiences, including developers, customers, partners, press, and employees. Responsibilities include narrative development, keynote and speech writing, event strategy, speaker coaching, and internal communications, all while maintaining technical curiosity and a growth mindset. | — | 5 |
| Sales Specialist-Cloud & AI Platforms This role is for a Sales Specialist focused on Cloud & AI Platforms, helping customers modernize infrastructure, optimize operations, and drive innovation with Azure's AI capabilities. The role involves engaging with customers, assessing sales opportunities, managing sales pipelines using AI-powered tools, and developing sales strategies aligned with AI transformation. While the role heavily utilizes and promotes AI capabilities, it does not involve direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Principal Lead TPM Principal Lead Technical Program Manager for Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization. This role focuses on managing a large-scale service to keep over 1.8 billion Windows devices secure and productive. The TPM will lead a team responsible for security, reliability, customer issues, data insights, and feature development. The role emphasizes an AI-First approach, incorporating AI-assisted methodologies and tools to enhance product strategy, customer understanding, decision-making, and engineering efficiency, while maintaining security, privacy, and compliance. The TPM will drive long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap, foster partnerships, and use data to drive decisions. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - ISE Principal Technical Program Manager for Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft, focusing on driving high-impact engineering projects with customers to transform their missions using AI and other cloud-based solutions. This role involves defining customer scenarios, orchestrating engineering approaches, and developing end-to-end user stories, acting in a Product Owner capacity within a cross-functional team. | Ship | 5 |
| Agentic AI-Business Consultant | Enterprise This role focuses on driving business transformation through AI, specifically leveraging Microsoft's platforms like Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents. The consultant will redefine how businesses operate in the AI era, focusing on strategy, business case development, and the creation and deployment of Agentic AI use cases within enterprise contexts. The role requires strong consulting and transformation experience, with an understanding of how AI can be applied to business processes. | Agent | 5 |
| Agentic AI-Business Consultant (Principal) | Enterprise This role focuses on driving business transformation through AI, specifically leveraging Microsoft's platforms like Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents. The consultant will redefine business processes and decision-making, working from strategy definition to execution, with a focus on creating new markets and enhancing corporate competitiveness. | Agent | 5 |
| Agentic AI-Business Consultant (Principal) | Enterprise This role focuses on driving business transformation through AI, specifically leveraging Microsoft's platforms like Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents. The consultant will redefine business processes and decision-making, working from strategy definition to execution, with a focus on creating new markets and enhancing corporate competitiveness. | Agent | 5 |
| Audience Strategy & Operations Manager This role manages audience skilling programs and operations for Microsoft's AI Skills Navigator, focusing on content execution, campaign prioritization, and program delivery to accelerate skill acquisition for workforce audiences. It involves establishing an Audience Insights Center of Excellence and aligning with product teams on roadmap and deliverables. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI Principal Software Engineer to design and evolve cloud-scale platform services, developer and research tooling, and governed data infrastructure for AI-powered product experiences. Focus on building internal tooling, automation, and platform capabilities for secure and discoverable data, driving operational excellence, and mentoring engineers. | Serve | 5 |
| Business Program Manager, Customer Lifecycle Operations This role is for a Business Program Manager focused on Customer Lifecycle Operations within Microsoft. The primary responsibility is to manage and optimize global outsourced digital sales and customer engagement programs. A key aspect of the role involves integrating AI, automation, and Copilot capabilities to enhance program delivery, efficiency, and outcomes, as well as championing the adoption of AI-enabled tools. The role also requires strong vendor management, commercial acumen, and data analysis skills to drive business results and continuous improvement in a complex, global, and matrixed environment. | — | 5 |
| Copilot Cloud Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and delivering cloud and AI application solutions for enterprise customers using Microsoft Azure. The Solution Architect will guide customers in integrating AI capabilities, enabling AI-powered scenarios, and accelerating business outcomes through scalable and secure cloud solutions. The role involves architecting solutions, driving AI innovation, and supporting AI use cases like personalization and automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Design Program Manager Senior Design Program Manager for Microsoft's Copilots, Agents, and Platform (CAP) Experience Studio, focusing on designing and delivering AI-powered user experiences for enterprise customers. The role involves leading design operations, cross-studio communications, AI enablement, and process development to empower designers and ensure impactful design delivery at speed and scale. | — | 5 |
| Director AI Procurement AMERS This role leads AI procurement execution for datacenters in the Americas, focusing on operational rigor, supplier engagement, and cross-functional partnership to support AI and Commercial Cloud growth. It involves managing procurement operations, driving supplier performance, and championing AI-enabled workflows within procurement. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Copilot Customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect specializing in AI solutions, focusing on driving customer AI transformation with Copilot Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, creating business value, leading architectural design, and leveraging agentic AI expertise for scaled adoption and change management. | Agent | 5 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialists, Manager This role manages a sales team focused on driving AI and cloud adoption for small, medium, and enterprise businesses. The manager will lead strategy, customer engagement, and pipeline reviews, utilizing AI-driven tools for market intelligence, predictive analytics, and forecasting. The role emphasizes people management and driving net-new revenue through AI-powered transformations. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager (Quantum) This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) at Microsoft Quantum, focused on advancing quantum hardware infrastructure from research to scalable systems. The TPM will lead cross-functional engineering efforts, shape device development, and drive execution across internal teams and external partners. The role involves strategic planning, cross-disciplinary coordination, supplier management, and leveraging AI/ML for development acceleration, quality, and yield optimization. It sits at the intersection of research, engineering, and manufacturing, aiming to scale topological qubits and quantum systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Opto - Electronics Device Engineer This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Research focused on translating early-stage AI infrastructure research into shippable products and services. The role involves shaping technical concepts into product roadmaps, driving execution with Azure engineering teams, and managing external suppliers. It requires bridging research and production, with a focus on hardware innovation for next-generation AI platforms. The role operates at the intersection of optics, electronics, photonics, packaging, networking, and AI system design, aiming to bring these innovations to cloud AI scale. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Research focused on translating early-stage AI research into shippable products and services. The role involves shaping technical concepts into product roadmaps, driving execution with Azure engineering teams, and managing external supplier relationships. It operates at the intersection of optics, electronics, photonics, packaging, networking, and AI system design, bridging research and production for next-generation AI infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Principal Security Specialist - SME&C This role is for a Principal Security Specialist focused on Microsoft's security portfolio (Entra, Defender, Purview, Sentinel, Agent365) and broader industry technologies. The role involves setting and driving security strategy for complex customers, acting as a CISO/CIO advisor, and aligning solutions to priorities like Agentic SOC and Secure AI. It requires strong sales and technical leadership, competitive execution, field multiplication through coaching, and partner ecosystem scaling. While the role leverages AI tools like Copilot and addresses 'Secure AI' as a customer priority, its core function is cybersecurity sales and strategy, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Creative Director - Communications - CoreAI This role is for a Creative Director within Microsoft's CoreAI team, focusing on strategic communications for AI-driven developer tools. The individual will lead a team of creative professionals to shape visual communications strategy and develop visual materials, leveraging AI tools and collaborating across various departments. The role is primarily product-focused, aiming to communicate the value and advancements of AI within the enterprise context. | — | 5 |
| Senior Customer Experience Program Manager This role is for a Senior Customer Experience Program Manager focused on Microsoft's Mission Critical Services for Windows. The primary responsibility is to drive product adoption, quality, and innovation for commercial customers by managing customer engagements, orchestrating service delivery, and advocating for customer feedback. While the role mentions leveraging AI and AI-informed insights, the core function is program management and customer success within an enterprise context, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to build modern developer tooling for Azure SQL and the broader SQL Server platform, focusing on Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot extensions for AI-assisted workflows and agentic development experiences for enterprise cloud deployment pipelines. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Data & Applied Scientist Senior Data & Applied Scientist role focused on product/program analytics and insights for Microsoft's Global Skilling initiatives, including the AI Skills Navigator. The role involves understanding learner behavior, defining success metrics, designing experiments, and partnering with engineering and product teams to improve learning experiences and accelerate proficiency. It leverages data science techniques to measure product performance and learning outcomes. | Ship | 5 |
| HR Business Analyst - Compensation This role focuses on leveraging AI tools to enhance data analysis and automation within compensation programs, particularly for sales compensation. It involves translating business questions into analytical problems, synthesizing data from various sources, and building scalable analytics solutions using modern data platforms. The goal is to drive data-informed decisions and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of compensation data management and insights generation. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Surface Devices team responsible for designing, scaling, and maintaining CI/CD infrastructure for Windows OEM factory images. The role involves integrating Azure AI capabilities for intelligent log analysis, anomaly detection, and automation within the DevOps ecosystem. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Solution Engineer - AI Workforce Senior Solution Engineer focused on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio & Agents, and related solutions. The role involves leading technical engagements, designing scalable architectures, and acting as a trusted advisor to accelerate adoption and win technical decisions. | Agent | 5 |
| Workforce AI Specialist (incl Microsoft 365 Copilot) for Manufacturing Industry This role focuses on driving the adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI Workforce solutions within the manufacturing industry. The specialist will engage with senior decision-makers to identify opportunities, shape digital transformation strategies, and accelerate business outcomes using AI-powered productivity solutions. The role involves solution selling for cloud, SaaS, or AI-based products and requires a strong understanding of AI Workforce and AI productivity solutions. | — | 5 |
| AI Workforce Solution Area Specialist - M365 Copilot, Automotive industry This role is a Solution Sales Specialist focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot and other AI Workforce solutions for the automotive industry in Japan. The primary responsibility is to engage with business and IT leaders to identify strategic challenges and recommend AI solutions that drive operational efficiency and business outcomes, ultimately leading to AI Workforce transformation at scale. | — | 5 |
| Senior Customer Experience Engineer This role is a Senior Customer Experience Engineer focused on delivering technical support and driving deep engineering engagement for Microsoft's strategic customers using M365 services, with a focus on Copilot success. The role involves handling complex escalations, acting as a customer advocate to influence product improvements, and ensuring customer environments are optimized. It also involves contributing to the evolution of new M365 offerings and participating in engineering on-call duties. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and operate core compute platform services for developers, enabling them to host and run various apps including AI Agent Apps at cloud scale. The role requires end-to-end technical leadership, hands-on component design and coding, and mentoring others on engineering and site reliability practices, with a focus on AI as a core building block. | Serve | 5 |
| Customer Experience Program Manager This role is for a Customer Experience Program Manager within Microsoft Advertising. The primary focus is on driving business planning and strategy to increase market share and establish Microsoft Advertising as an industry leader in AI. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive business and demand plans, leveraging insights to identify growth opportunities, and communicating recommendations to business leaders. While the company is in the AI space and aims to be an industry leader, this specific role is focused on program management, business strategy, and customer experience rather than direct AI/ML development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, Core AI Senior Talent Acquisition Manager for Microsoft's CoreAI division, responsible for leading a team of recruiters to hire talent in AI systems engineering, AI science, and agent-native development. The role involves partnering with leaders to define sourcing strategies, calibrate hiring standards, and attract candidates from top AI programs and companies. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft's Office of the CTO, focused on leading the Simultaneous Shipping (SimShip) process for a strategic AI partnership, likely involving OpenAI technology. The TPM will orchestrate global releases, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, compliance, and partner teams, while meeting Responsible AI and governance requirements. The role requires managing complex, fast-paced AI initiatives, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring global readiness across various dimensions. While the role is deeply involved in shipping AI products, the core craft is program management and operational execution rather than direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Director, Customer & Partner Marketing Director, Customer & Partner Marketing at Microsoft Advertising. This role focuses on translating Microsoft's marketing and AI capabilities into tangible outcomes for clients, understanding client challenges, and shaping content for marketing activations. It involves cross-functional leadership, external market orientation, and driving client impact, particularly in the context of AI reshaping customer experiences. | — | 5 |
| Senior Security Specialist This role is a Senior Security Specialist focused on driving sales and business growth for Microsoft's security solutions, including AI-based innovations, with existing strategic customers. The role involves understanding customer needs, articulating business value, developing sales strategies, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to close deals and drive consumption. While the company invests in AI for security, the role itself is sales-focused, not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Customer Experience Engineer II, M365 This role focuses on enhancing the customer support experience for M365 services, including Copilot, by working with strategic customers to ensure they realize value and succeed with the platform. The engineer will act as a Subject Matter Expert, troubleshoot technical issues, and provide feedback to product teams to drive improvements. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role in the Bing organization focused on predictive and forecast models, product analysis, and A/B experimentation to understand user engagement with search engines and AI experiences. The role involves translating insights into actionable metrics to guide product and strategic decisions, and developing tools for metric analysis. | Ship | 5 |