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 HW/SW Silicon Architect This role focuses on the hardware and software co-design of silicon accelerators for Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure. The Principal HW/SW Silicon Architect will lead efforts in software prototyping, programming guides, and architecture specifications, aiming to optimize TCO for Azure's compute fleet. The role involves influencing hardware architecture for future timeframes and requires deep expertise in systems software, OS internals, and hardware/software co-design, with a preference for experience with AI tools. | — | 5 |
| Consulting Manager This role is for a Technology Consulting Manager (TCM) – Security at Microsoft, focusing on leading teams to deliver complex security engagements. The role emphasizes embedding AI-first and automation-led delivery approaches, driving adoption of reusable assets, and collaborating with various teams to ensure secure-by-design solutions. It involves people leadership, operational excellence, and contributing to the maturity of security consulting practices, with a focus on AI security initiatives. | — |
| 5 |
| Software Quality Engineering - Power BI Custom Visuals Team Software Quality Engineer II role focused on testing Power BI Custom Visuals and related analytics experiences within Microsoft Fabric. The role involves manual validation, automation development, and partnering with engineering and product teams to ensure product quality. It specifically mentions utilizing AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance test design, automation, and defect investigation. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on modernizing a global messaging platform for Microsoft 365, integrating AI across the software development lifecycle and ensuring responsible AI practices. The role involves leading architecture, design, and implementation of cloud-native capabilities, partnering with various teams, and driving live-site engineering for a large-scale distributed service. | — | 5 |
| Cloud & AI Digital Solutions Area Specialist This role is for a Cloud & AI Digital Solutions Area Specialist at Microsoft, focusing on driving AI transformation for mid-market customers. The specialist will act as a sales leader, guiding customers through cloud and AI adoption, modernizing their infrastructure and data estates, and accelerating innovation with AI agents and platforms. Responsibilities include leading customer engagements, managing sales pipelines, orchestrating cross-functional teams, accelerating decision-making with business cases and ROI analysis, and influencing stakeholders with technical expertise in cloud, data, and AI. The role requires a track record of exceeding revenue targets and experience with mid-market customers, with a strong understanding of Microsoft's Cloud & AI offerings. | — | 5 |
| Digital Solutions Engineer This role is for a Digital Solutions Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on leveraging AI and the Microsoft Cloud to drive digital transformation for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and their partners. The role involves building strategy by acting as the voice of the customer, capturing competitive insights, and shaping product development. It also focuses on scaling customer engagements by building credibility, remediating blockers, and showcasing suitable Microsoft solutions. Additionally, the role involves scaling through partners and conducting solution design and proof activities, including demonstrations and Proof of Concepts (POCs). While AI is mentioned extensively as a tool and a component of Microsoft's offerings, the core responsibilities of the engineer are in sales strategy, customer engagement, partner collaboration, and solution demonstration, rather than building or directly shipping AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Quantum focused on building a robust quantum software stack, including SDKs, UX, APIs, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The role involves applying software engineering and LLM best practices to create next-generation experiences for quantum algorithm developers and researchers, contributing to external-facing products for quantum computing. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Visual Designer Senior Visual Designer at Microsoft AI to craft brand and product experiences for Copilot, focusing on visual design, brand identity, and leveraging AI tools. The role involves developing visual concepts, leading creative projects, and ensuring cohesion between product and brand design. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist - Pricing Data Scientist role focused on yield optimization for Azure infrastructure, developing machine learning models for pricing and resource allocation, and using causal inference to measure business impact. The role involves analyzing large datasets, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and staying current with AI and cloud economics trends. | Ship | 5 |
| Sales Specialist - AI Business Process Sales Specialist for AI Business Applications, focusing on helping customers digitally transform their businesses using Microsoft's AI and analytics capabilities. The role involves understanding customer needs, envisioning solutions, orchestrating sales processes with virtual teams, and demonstrating business value to drive revenue and customer success. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - Forward Deployed Engineering Principal Technical Program Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering at Microsoft, embedding with strategic customers to lead complex technical programs and co-engineer AI-powered, cloud-based solutions. The role emphasizes using AI-assisted engineering practices daily to accelerate the software development lifecycle and deliver measurable business outcomes. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - Forward Deployed Engineering Principal Technical Program Manager for Microsoft's Forward Deployed Engineering team, embedding with strategic customers to lead complex technical programs and co-engineer AI-powered, cloud-based solutions. The role emphasizes using AI-assisted engineering practices daily to accelerate the software development lifecycle and deliver measurable business outcomes, operating with high autonomy and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft's CoreAI Growth and Data Science team, focusing on data and analytics architecture, large-scale data pipelines, and leveraging AI to optimize workflows. The role involves cross-team collaboration, mentoring, and ensuring data governance and trust for AI workloads within the developer ecosystem. | Serve | 5 |
| AI Business Process Specialist, State and Local Governmanent This role is for an AI Business Process Digital Solution Area Specialist at Microsoft, focusing on State and Local Government. It's a quota-carrying sales role that involves owning the engagement cycle, identifying opportunities, crafting value propositions, and driving AI-powered business-process transformations using Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot solutions. The specialist will partner with Account Executives and Solution Engineers to design win strategies, deliver demos and pilots, and ensure customer success plans accelerate adoption. The role requires translating complex scenarios into business outcomes and meeting revenue targets, acting as a trusted advisor connecting Microsoft innovation to customer impact. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft AI, focusing on Copilot and Agents. This role will shape the narrative, influence the product roadmap, and create demo assets to enable customers and sellers, driving adoption and revenue. Responsibilities include developing demo strategies, managing assets, delivering compelling product stories, and contributing to the next-generation demo platform. The role requires strong strategic thinking, storytelling, and cross-functional collaboration to accelerate deals and represent customer needs. | — | 5 |
| Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft AI, focusing on Copilot and Agents. The role involves shaping product narratives, influencing roadmaps, creating demo assets for customers and sales teams, and driving adoption. Key responsibilities include strategy development, BOM/asset management, narrative and storytelling, demo platform strategy, collaboration with various departments, and customer advocacy. | — | 5 |
| Data Science Strategy Lead This role is focused on defining and executing the Data Science strategy within Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain organization. It involves setting long-term vision, creating roadmaps, evaluating initiatives, and articulating the business value of data science and AI capabilities. The role requires strong communication and influence skills to drive cross-organizational execution and integrate insights into business outcomes. While AI is mentioned as a capability, the core function is strategic planning and product management of data science initiatives, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager - CoreAI This role is for a Principal Product Manager focused on building a unified AI platform by managing ISV partnerships, driving their integration and adoption on Azure & Foundry. The role involves operational excellence, executive alignment, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure partner success and accelerate AI workload adoption. | Ship | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Data Platform Solution Engineer focused on Microsoft's Cloud & AI Data Platform (Fabric, Azure Databases, Databricks) to help enterprises unlock its potential. This role involves technical sales, driving adoption through PoCs and workshops, designing secure and scalable architectures, and resolving technical blockers. The engineer will maintain deep knowledge of the data analytics and database portfolio, including AI-enhanced features like Copilot. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Data Platform Customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect focused on data platforms and analytics, guiding organizations in building secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include architectural design, proof-of-concept initiatives, and production deployments for mission-critical workloads, utilizing technologies like Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, and Purview to unlock data and AI value. | — | 5 |
| Customer & Partner Engagement Manager, SME&C This role is for a Customer & Partner Engagement Manager within Microsoft's Small, Medium, Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) division. The primary focus is on orchestrating executive engagements with key customers and partners to drive business outcomes, leveraging an AI-first approach to improve processes and productivity. The role involves strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and operational excellence in a fast-paced executive environment. While the role utilizes AI tools and promotes an AI-first mindset, it does not involve direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Senior Principal Product Manager Senior Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Advertising's Smart Bidding products, focusing on AI-driven solutions to maximize advertiser ROI. Requires deep AI/ML expertise, technical background, and experience in product vision, stakeholder management, and go-to-market planning for digital advertising. | Ship | 5 |
| Principle Azure Data Solution Engineer This role is for an Azure Data Solution Engineer focused on designing and delivering modern, governed data platforms using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and Azure SQL. The engineer will partner with customers to modernize their analytics and data estates, enabling them to adopt AI-ready Azure data solutions. The role involves guiding organizations through data platform modernization, designing and optimizing AI-ready analytics solutions, and translating technical capabilities into business outcomes. It emphasizes collaboration, technical sales, and deep expertise in Azure Data services to support AI workloads. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineering Architect This role focuses on architecting and developing core network management and operations for a large enterprise network, leveraging AI for operations, intelligent automation, and agent-driven workflows to enable autonomous operations and a 'Frontier Firm' model. The role involves defining requirements, leading design, mentoring on AI-assisted development, and taking ownership of services with a focus on AI-driven observability and self-healing systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Creative Design) This role is for a Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Creative Design) at the Senior level. The primary focus is on the end-to-end design of innovative user experiences for robotic operations, fleet management, and mission management. The role involves defining how operators, field engineers, and mission planners monitor, command, and coordinate heterogeneous fleets of robots, agents, and humans. The designer will craft intuitive dashboards, task-assignment workflows, real-time telemetry views, and alerting systems to enable human teammates, augmented with AI agents, to maintain situational awareness and optimize robot fleet utilization. The role operates at the intersection of robotics, globally connected operations, and enterprise UX, shaping the operational interface of Microsoft's robotics platform. While AI agents are mentioned as augmentations, the core responsibility is the design of the operational interface and workflows, not the AI models or agentic systems themselves. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and operating distributed services and microservices on Azure, integrating AI capabilities like NLP, semantic search, and intelligent agents. The role involves end-to-end feature ownership, platform contributions, and ensuring performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Experience with AI development tools, LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks is preferred. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineering Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Fabric Platform Shell team, focused on building a unified, AI-enabled SaaS data development environment. Responsibilities include full-stack and backend development for browser environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and writing high-quality code. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field and 2+ years of experience in web application development and coding. | — | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists This role focuses on leading sales discussions with high-value customers to identify and accelerate sales opportunities, leveraging AI-driven market intelligence and predictive analytics tools. The specialist will synthesize market evaluations, align sales plays with customer priorities, and guide the development of AI- and cloud-driven transformations. Responsibilities include managing sales pipelines using AI-powered forecasting tools, engaging customers on security priorities with AI-powered transformation, and maximizing business opportunities by understanding market dynamics and customer needs, ultimately selling Cloud & AI solutions. | — | 5 |
| Director, People Analytics This role is for a Director of People Analytics within Microsoft Commercial Business (MCB). The primary focus is on translating workforce data into actionable insights to inform strategic decisions, drive business outcomes, and shape workforce strategy. The role involves leading a team, partnering with senior HR and business leaders, and evolving the analytics delivery model towards AI-infused decision support. While AI is mentioned as a tool for decision support, the core function is not building AI models but rather using data and analytics (potentially AI-enhanced) to support business strategy. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack Engineer Full Stack Engineer role on the Bing GenAI team, focused on building end-to-end features for Microsoft Copilot and Bing. The role involves working across backend (C#, distributed systems, prompt engineering) and frontend (React) to deliver AI-powered search experiences to billions of users. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager to lead the next generation of identity SDKs, defining new product categories that give external developers control over authentication experiences and enable Microsoft's internal app teams to adopt consistent sign-in flows at scale. This is a 0->1 role involving strategy, execution, and leveraging AI to accelerate developer workflows. | Ship | 5 |
| Regional Experience Lead (US) This role focuses on driving the adoption and transformation of AI within a specific region for Microsoft Digital, acting as an IT Business Partner to local leadership. It involves engaging with strategic customers, demonstrating Microsoft's internal digital transformation story, and influencing the adoption of AI-first strategies. The role also involves managing IT health indicators and contributing insights to product direction. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on data integration products like Azure Data Factory and Power Query. The team builds data gravity on the Microsoft Cloud, making it easy for customers to bring in, clean, shape, and join data. They are enhancing the platform for large-scale data analytics, cloud-based dataflows, and data intelligence, including features integrated with AI copilots. The role involves developing and operating scalable backend services and data platforms, partnering with PMs, driving design discussions, writing code, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating across teams. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on data integration products like Azure Data Factory and Power Query. The team builds data infrastructure for millions of users on the Microsoft Fabric platform and is enhancing existing platforms to support AI copilots and large-scale data analytics. Responsibilities include developing and operating backend services, partnering with PMs, driving technical decisions, writing code, troubleshooting production issues, and mentoring peers. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II for Microsoft's Global Skilling Product Team, focusing on Azure Full Stack development for enterprise-grade learning and skilling platforms. The role involves designing and implementing solutions, enhancing user experience with AI-assisted features, and improving CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include developing software features, supporting site reliability, establishing coding practices, and utilizing AI/LLM models for test failure analysis and automation. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role focuses on designing and operating a global connectivity and routing tier for Microsoft 365, which is being extended to power AI and Copilot experiences. The engineer will build large-scale distributed systems for intelligent routing, ensuring low latency and high availability, and will partner with teams to deliver features that improve customer experience. Experience with AI/ML-driven decision systems or intelligent routing is preferred. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role at Microsoft focuses on building distributed systems and APIs for adaptive, context-aware experiences within Microsoft AI, specifically powering Copilot's intelligence through personalization pipelines. The role involves architecting scalable systems for ingesting, processing, and serving personalized signals, designing data models and APIs for user context reasoning, and building real-time and batch personalization engines. It requires collaboration with privacy and responsible AI teams, optimization for performance and cost, and shipping high-quality code in a fast-paced environment. | ShipAgent | 5 |
| Sr Solution Engineer Senior Solution Engineer for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, focusing on demonstrating how agentic AI, low-code, and RPA extend the ERP. The role involves customer envisioning, solution demos, POCs, and translating business problems into "art of the possible" stories for Japan-headquartered multinationals. Responsibilities include technical wins, account planning, competitive positioning, and executive briefings in Japanese and English. The role also leverages the broader Microsoft portfolio including Fabric and Copilot, and influences customer architecture choices. | Agent | 5 |
| Azure Solution Specialist Solution sales leader with deep business expertise and technical knowledge within enterprise sales, focusing on driving Azure consumption targets by guiding customers through digital and AI transformation. Responsibilities include building executive relationships, engaging with partners, creating business cases, leading multi-million dollar deals, and driving sales excellence to exceed quotas. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager for Windows AI, focusing on scaling adoption of AI and agentic platforms on Windows by partnering with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Responsibilities include developing marketing strategies, value propositions, and enablement programs for ISVs to bring their AI experiences to life on Windows, particularly on Copilot+ PCs. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director Product Marketing, Azure Cloud and AI Platform Senior Director of Product Marketing for Azure Cloud and AI Platform, focusing on defining and driving the market transition for agentic applications. This role involves creating category strategy, executive narratives, and an enterprise evaluation model for agentic platforms, spanning build, run, secure, govern, and optimize. It requires strong cross-functional leadership and enablement for sales and partners. | — | 5 |
| Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst responsible for producing and delivering threat intelligence content to customers, working closely with internal Microsoft stakeholders to develop finished intelligence reports with timely and relevant content. This role requires cross-team and cross-geo collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Product Marketing Lead Senior Technical Product Marketing Lead for Microsoft 365 Copilot, focusing on competitive intelligence, product strategy, messaging, and go-to-market execution for GenAI solutions in the modern workplace. This role requires deep technical analysis of AI solutions, translating insights into differentiated messaging, and leading marketing efforts to inform product strategy and achieve business goals. | — | 5 |
| Service Engineering This role is for a Service Engineer on the Azure Data team, focusing on the Cosmos service. The role involves end-to-end delivery of platform features, driving product strategy using AI, translating customer needs into requirements, managing capacity and supply chain, leading cross-team execution, and handling incident/change management. While the team actively uses AI tools and the role is expected to leverage AI, the core deliverable is the data platform itself, not AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering Backend Engineer role focused on building and optimizing infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering, based on Apache Spark. The role involves adopting AI-first development practices and ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance of distributed systems. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role at Microsoft Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building internal tools and engineering systems to improve the quality and reliability of Power BI Desktop and Service. The role involves end-to-end tool development, including architecture, backend services, dashboards, telemetry integration, and AI-powered workflows to enhance developer productivity, test efficiency, release quality, and engineering insights. It requires modernizing engineering processes, integrating GenAI into developer workflows, and delivering secure, scalable, and compliant internal platforms. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Engineer The Principal Engineer will tech lead and develop features related to scale and resiliency for the Microsoft Fabric platform, focusing on compute infrastructure and AI solutions. This role involves creating high-level designs, analyzing incidents, and solving performance issues within a high-scale, cloud-based environment. | Serve | 5 |
| Performance Copywriter Performance Copywriter for Microsoft's in-house Creative team, focusing on writing short, sharp copy for performance channels that drives action and builds preference. This role involves creative leadership, performance testing, iteration, and collaboration, with a requirement to use AI-powered tools responsibly for ideation and variation. | — | 5 |
| Microsoft Consumer Marketing - Creative Director (Art Director) Creative Director (Art Director) for Microsoft Consumer Marketing, responsible for shaping visual storytelling and digital experiences across Microsoft's consumer portfolio, including Copilot, Surface, Windows, and Microsoft 365. This role involves leading creative direction, partnering across various teams, and mentoring junior creatives. The candidate will incorporate AI tools into the creative process. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role at Microsoft Advertising focusing on Causal Inference, Measurement, Experimental design, Machine Learning, Econometrics, and Statistics to drive data-driven decisions. The role involves building measurement frameworks, causal analyses, and prototyping algorithms to optimize sales and marketing impact. It requires developing predictive and prescriptive models and influencing stakeholders. | — | 5 |