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 |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Data engineering team, specifically focusing on the Azure Database for MySQL managed service. The role involves technical leadership, architecting, designing, building, and maintaining core components of the control plane for this database service. The team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering data-first applications. While the company and its products are AI-enabled and aim to support AI workloads, the core responsibility of this role is in building and maintaining the underlying database infrastructure and control plane, not directly developing AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Senior Applied Data Scientist The role focuses on elevating the quality of User Identity graphs for Microsoft Advertising, impacting personalization, targeting, and measurement. It involves building predictive models, conducting data analysis, and ensuring data integrity to drive business impact and unlock new opportunities. The role is part of the Ads Data Management Platform team and requires expertise in data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics, with a focus on developing and deploying production systems. |
| Ship |
| 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Management- AI Accelerator Software Planning This role is for a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, focused on planning and executing software for an advanced AI infrastructure platform, specifically an accelerator platform. The role involves deep integration across hardware and software, including silicon, firmware, systems software, and AI infrastructure. The candidate will drive end-to-end execution, manage cross-functional programs, and ensure readiness for platform milestones and production deployment. Familiarity with AI training and inference workloads is preferred. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Customer Experience Engineer This role focuses on customer success and technical support for Microsoft Security products, including generative AI solutions like Microsoft Security CoPilot. The Senior Customer Experience Engineer acts as a trusted advisor and engineering advocate, managing technical escalations, leading incident response, and representing the voice of the customer to influence product direction. The role requires deep technical expertise in security, cloud technologies, and customer-facing problem-solving. | — | 5 |
| Solution Sales Specialist This role is a Solution Sales Specialist focused on accelerating customer AI and cloud digital transformations by aligning solution strategies with business priorities. It involves engaging with senior stakeholders to identify and qualify sales opportunities, leveraging AI-driven market intelligence, and collaborating with internal/partner organizations to develop scalable solution strategies. The role also emphasizes pipeline health, forecast accuracy, and driving regional sales objectives using data-driven insights and AI-powered analytics. | — | 5 |
| Product Marketing Manager, Sovereign Cloud & AI Product Marketing Manager for Azure Sovereign Cloud & AI, focusing on enabling customers in government and regulated industries to deploy advanced AI with control over data, infrastructure, operations, and compliance. This role involves shaping product marketing strategy, positioning, messaging, launches, campaigns, and field enablement for a strategic portfolio at the intersection of AI, cloud, and sovereignty. | — | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager (Software Engineering) - FDE Manager for a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers to deliver measurable business outcomes. The role involves leading a team, coaching engineers, and championing AI-forward hypervelocity engineering with responsible AI practices. | Ship | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager (Data Science) - FDE This role is for a Multidisciplinary Manager in the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft, leading a cross-discipline engineering team to co-engineer AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers. The focus is on delivering measurable business outcomes by applying AI across the full lifecycle, ensuring secure, production-ready solutions. The manager will coach engineers, serve as a player-coach on engagements, and champion AI-forward hypervelocity engineering with responsible AI practices. | — | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager (Technical Program Management) - FDE Manager for a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers. The role involves leading a team, coaching engineers (software, TPM, data science), and championing AI-forward engineering practices to deliver customer outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager- AI Infrastructure This role focuses on managing the delivery of AI infrastructure platforms, emphasizing performance, scalability, and cost efficiency for frontier AI workloads. The Principal Technical Program Manager will own end-to-end delivery from development through production readiness, driving execution across complex, cross-functional programs involving hardware and software stacks. Key responsibilities include integrated planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, and ensuring platform readiness for AI training and inference. | Serve | 5 |
| Supply Chain Analyst This role focuses on analyzing and optimizing supply chain operations using data-driven insights and operational reporting. The analyst will develop dashboards, analyze demand-supply gaps, support scenario modeling, and automate reports. While the role supports the adoption of advanced analytics like AI-assisted forecasting, its core function is in supply chain analysis and optimization, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft's agentic AI platform (Foundry Tools), focusing on positioning, go-to-market strategy, adoption, and field enablement for developer tools that enable building, deploying, and scaling agent-powered applications. | — | 5 |
| Principal Quantum Materials Nanofabrication Engineer This role focuses on developing and optimizing nanofabrication processes for quantum computing devices. While the core function is in materials science and engineering, it explicitly mentions using AI tools to enhance efficiency in process development, data analysis, and documentation, including the design or leverage of AI agents/copilots for various tasks. | — | 5 |
| Principal Quantum Materials Engineer This role focuses on leading the development of superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures for quantum computing. While the role operates in an AI-first R&D environment and uses AI tools for discovery and optimization, its core craft is in quantum materials engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Finance Manager Senior Finance Manager role focused on financial strategy and execution for pricing and sold margin within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) organization. The role involves partnering with Sales, Deal Desk, and Finance teams to optimize pricing, improve margin performance, and drive profitability through data-driven insights and deal economics. Responsibilities include ownership of sold margin performance, developing pricing strategies, financial planning, forecasting, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also emphasizes data, tools, and process optimization, with a mention of using AI tools and data procurement skills. | — | 5 |
| Senior Customer Experience Program Manager This role focuses on managing customer experience for Windows Mission Critical Services, driving product adoption and quality through deep customer connections, data insights, and AI. The Senior Customer Experience Program Manager will orchestrate service delivery, coordinate incident response, and champion feedback loops to shape future Windows improvements, leveraging AI and technical expertise to optimize functionality and reliability for commercial customers. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role at Microsoft Azure Data team, focusing on building and operating large-scale, distributed systems for AI-enabled operational databases. The role involves end-to-end ownership of features, system design, and contributing to AI-native systems and agentic AI architectures. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on building and operating large-scale, distributed cloud services for Azure Data, with an increasing focus on AI-native systems and agentic AI architectures. The role involves end-to-end ownership of features, system design, and integrating AI/ML models into production systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and maintaining authentication and authorization components for Microsoft Entra. The role involves building robust, extensible APIs for high-scale services, with an emphasis on security, resilience, memory, and performance. The team is exploring AI-assisted development practices to improve velocity and quality. | — | 5 |
| Senior Specialist Sales professional Senior Specialist Sales professional on the Cloud and Artificial Intelligence team, focused on leveraging advanced AI and cloud technologies to transform customer outcomes and drive business growth. Responsibilities include assessing sales opportunities using AI-enhanced methodologies, leading market analysis with AI-driven tools, guiding solution development for AI-driven transformations, and integrating AI sales agents and automation into sales strategies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Account Executive (FSI) Senior Account Executive for Financial Services Industry (FSI) at Microsoft Korea, driving AI transformation for top financial institutions by selling Microsoft's AI solution portfolio (Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure, AI, Security). Role involves engaging complex stakeholders, responding to regulatory changes, and collaborating with internal teams to deliver business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Modernizing Infrastructure This role focuses on modernizing infrastructure for Cloud + AI platforms, developing strategies, repeatable IP offerings, and automation solutions to increase operational efficiencies. It involves designing Azure and hybrid cloud solutions, skilling field teams, and influencing product roadmaps by representing customer needs. The goal is to accelerate AI transformation for customers and empower them to leverage their Cloud and AI investments. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Microsoft's Identity Security Premium team, focusing on Entra Identity Protection and Conditional Access within the broader Microsoft Security organization. The role involves anticipating customer needs, building enterprise-grade product experiences, influencing cross-functional partnerships, and ensuring roadmap alignment with OKRs/KPIs. While the role is within the enterprise AI domain and may leverage AI tools, it is not primarily focused on building AI models. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Groups vertical within Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory). The role involves working on internet-scale services and event processing pipelines, applying modern AI practices to critical identity ecosystem surfaces, and developing large-scale distributed software services with a focus on security, availability, performance, and scale. The position requires experience with cloud computing technologies and security, and the ability to work with AI agents. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager, AI Execution Architecture This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, specifically in the Experience Innovation Office (XIO). The role focuses on driving the end-to-end delivery of complex technical programs related to AI execution architecture. The TPM will partner closely with engineering, product, and leadership to ensure release readiness, manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and drive technical execution at scale. A key aspect of the role involves applying AI tools and techniques to accelerate program execution, automate workflows, and improve delivery outcomes, as well as building the processes and frameworks for AI-augmented delivery. The role requires operating deep in technical details without owning production engineering and shaping the path in an evolving discipline. | — | 5 |
| Senior Performance Architect Develop performance modeling methodologies by creating and owning System on Chip (SOC) / Intellectual Property (IP) cycle-accurate/approximate performance models and analysis tools in C++ and Python. Use workload information and working with Micro-architects and Register Transfer Level (RTL) team to identify performance bottlenecks. Collaborate across functionally to propose architectural/microarchitectural changes and provide the required quantitative justification. Leverage AI tools and infrastructure for comprehensive performance modeling, including coding, performance tuning, and analysis. Verify the correlation of the SOC performance models to the RTL implementation. Work closely with the product architecture System On Chip (SOC) architecture teams, IP architecture, to ensure our SOC and IPs enable performant, efficient, and industry-leading systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Foundry, an AI app and agent factory. This role focuses on strategic narratives, messaging, and positioning to drive adoption among enterprise customers and developers. Responsibilities include inbound strategy, outbound thought leadership, and content editorial, requiring collaboration with product management and marketing teams. The role emphasizes translating technical concepts into clear narratives and understanding AI technologies and enterprise compliance. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on developing and deploying AI and cloud-based solutions for enterprise customers, involving data acquisition, modeling, evaluation, and operationalization at scale. The role emphasizes customer collaboration and driving business impact through technology. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Solution Area Specialist - Security This role is a Senior Solution Area Specialist focused on Security within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) sales team. The primary responsibility is to drive sales of cloud services and platforms, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI to achieve customer leadership and enable digital transformation. The role involves engaging with customers, identifying opportunities, building pipeline, and collaborating with partners to sell end-to-end security solutions. While AI is mentioned as a tool and a driver for transformation, the core function of the role is sales execution and solution selling, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Service Engineer Senior Service Engineer role focused on administering and governing Microsoft 365 and AI administration surfaces, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, across multiple internal tenants. The role involves defining configurations, driving automation and policy as code for baselines and drift detection, and responding to AI plane risks at scale. It requires a strong security mindset and collaboration with software engineers. | Ship | 5 |
| Finance Manager - AI Capacity Demand This role focuses on financial planning and analysis for AI capacity demand within Microsoft's Commercial Product Infrastructure (CPI) team. It involves aggregating and normalizing demand signals, identifying trends in AI usage, producing demand reports for stakeholders, and partnering with finance, capacity planning, and engineering teams to align forecasts with supply plans. The role also supports scenario modeling and improving data quality for demand forecasting processes. | — | 5 |
| Senior Privacy Product Manager - Microsoft AI Search This role is for a Senior Privacy Product Manager within Microsoft AI (MAI) focusing on AI Search products. The individual will manage the strategy and execution of the privacy program, collaborating with engineering to ensure transparency, choice, and privacy management experiences. They will translate privacy regulations and standards into actionable engineering requirements, create and execute compliance plans, and identify/drive adoption of controls. The role requires experience applying privacy requirements to engineering solutions, particularly for AI/ML products and large-scale consumer services, and knowledge of major privacy regulations and the evolving AI regulatory landscape. | — | 5 |
| Software Solution Engineer This role is a technical sales position focused on helping enterprise developers adopt Microsoft's AI-powered developer stack, including GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI. The engineer will work with customers on prototyping, PoCs, and architecture workshops to accelerate AI integration into their development workflows and modernize their SDLC. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Marketplace, focusing on cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. The role involves owning and improving customer experiences across the marketplace lifecycle (Find, Try, Buy, Manage) and driving platform capabilities. It requires partnering with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver scalable solutions and influence product direction. The ideal candidate is customer-obsessed, data-driven, and embraces AI-native product development practices to enhance team productivity and accelerate delivery. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving developer-facing platforms, SDKs, and services for Power BI within Microsoft Fabric. The role involves owning end-to-end technical areas, improving CI/CD and deployment systems, and partnering with various teams. While the role leverages AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance development velocity and product quality, its core function is not the direct development or deployment of AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager This role focuses on leading end-to-end onboarding for new business units by assessing processes, coordinating launch activities, and ensuring smooth post-launch stabilization. It involves translating complex requirements into technical solutions, driving automation initiatives, and evaluating integration needs. The role also aims to develop Agentic AI solutions to solve business problems and bridge the gap between business needs and engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Solution Engineer This role is a technical sales position focused on helping enterprise developers understand and adopt Microsoft's AI-powered developer stack, including GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI. The engineer will work with customers on prototyping, PoCs, and architecture workshops to accelerate the integration of AI into their development workflows and modernize their SDLC. | — | 5 |
| Senior Analyst Relations Manager This role focuses on driving strategic engagement with industry analysts to shape their perception of Azure's leadership in Cloud & AI, particularly in mission-critical, regulated, and next-generation operational environments. The Senior Analyst Relations Manager will partner with engineering, product, marketing, and sales teams to improve positioning in rated research and amplify Azure's value, with a focus on areas like sovereign initiatives, enterprise workload migration, agentic cloud operations, and hybrid/edge computing. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - DPU Integrations Principal Software Engineer focused on designing, building, testing, and deploying automation tools and AI agents for DPU control and data plane software in Azure hardware infrastructure. The role involves technical leadership, debugging field issues, maintaining dashboards, and collaborating cross-functionally to improve product quality and reduce mitigation time for production issues. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineering Manager Engineering Manager role focused on building and operating the foundational messaging platform for Microsoft Teams, M365, and Copilot experiences. The role involves leading strategic initiatives in messaging infrastructure, distributed systems scalability, and AI-driven platform evolution to support large-scale AI workloads. | Agent | 5 |
| Finance Director - Data Analytics & AI Transformation Finance Director role focused on advancing Treasury's analytics maturity and scaling AI-enabled transformation across Treasury operations. The role leads a team to deliver data-driven insights, intelligent automation, and scalable analytics solutions that improve financial decision-making, productivity, and business outcomes. It partners across Finance, Engineering, and business stakeholders to build a modern, data-driven function under Treasury aligned to Microsoft’s transformation agenda. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Entra's identity platform, focusing on next-generation identity SDKs. This 0->1 role involves defining, shipping, and growing SDK products that give external developers control over authentication experiences and enable consistent sign-in flows at scale within Microsoft. The role emphasizes leveraging AI to accelerate developer discovery, integration, and troubleshooting. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - DPU Integrations Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, testing, and deploying automation tools and AI agents for DPU (Data Processing Unit) control and data plane software. The role involves technical leadership, debugging field issues, maintaining dashboards, and collaborating cross-functionally to improve product quality and reduce mitigation time for production issues. Experience with AI agents for live site automation and analysis is preferred. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Microsoft AI – Bing Places Data team, focusing on providing rich entity data for Copilot and Bing Search experiences. The role involves large-scale data analytics, ML/AI, LLM models, and service/data engineering to extract and create content from location entities globally. | Data | 5 |
| Security Engineer - CTJ - Poly Security Engineer role focused on emulating advanced persistent threats against Microsoft services, leveraging AI and agentic approaches for vulnerability discovery and threat emulation. The role involves discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities, analyzing data sources, and collaborating with other security teams to strengthen defenses. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining automated solutions to improve operational efficiency and drive go-to-market decisions within Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud Platform, specifically in Monetization and Business Planning. The role involves end-to-end project delivery, collaboration with business stakeholders, and leveraging cloud-native technologies. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Data, Personalization - Microsoft AI This Principal Software Engineer role at Microsoft AI focuses on building distributed data systems and APIs for personalization pipelines that power Copilot's intelligence. The role involves architecting scalable systems for ingesting, processing, and serving personalized signals, designing data models and APIs for user context, and building real-time and batch personalization engines. Collaboration with privacy, security, and responsible AI teams is crucial. The role requires strong backend engineering skills, familiarity with applied AI, and the ability to architect robust solutions. | ShipData | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - FDE Principal Technical Program Manager to lead complex technical programs with strategic customers, co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions. This role involves embedding with customers, owning the full customer journey, and applying AI-assisted engineering workflows daily to accelerate development and deliver measurable business outcomes. The TPM will operate with high autonomy, making technical and program decisions, and collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II - Exposure Management, Security Software Engineer II role in Microsoft's Security Division, focusing on Exposure Management. The role involves driving end-to-end delivery of security features, designing and building scalable cloud solutions, and applying an AI-first approach by leveraging modern tools while validating outputs. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field with 2+ years of experience in coding and cloud services, or equivalent experience. Experience with data processing pipelines is preferred. | — | 5 |
| Senior AI Workforce Specialist This role is a solution sales specialist focused on driving AI-powered business transformation for enterprise clients, particularly using Microsoft 365 Copilot and related AI solutions. The specialist will lead consultative sales engagements, collaborate with partners, and manage the end-to-end sales process from pipeline creation to closing, aiming to increase customer productivity and competitiveness. | — | 5 |