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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Consumer Marketing - Creative Director (Copy) Creative Director (Copy) for Microsoft Consumer Marketing, focusing on shaping brand communications for consumer products including Copilot, Surface, Windows, and Microsoft 365. The role involves transforming complex technology into clear, resonant stories, developing integrated campaigns, product narratives, and digital-first brand systems. It's an individual contributor role requiring strong writing, editing, and creative strategy skills, with collaboration across marketing, product, and engineering teams. The candidate will also guide junior creatives and partners, and incorporate AI tools into creative workflows. | — | 5 |
| Senior Corporate Counsel, Infrastructure Legal Affairs Senior Corporate Counsel for Azure Hardware and Systems Infrastructure, focusing on legal advice for cloud and AI infrastructure capacity, technology development, manufacturing, supply chain, and IP. The role involves leading a team, managing complex negotiations, and implementing solutions, including feedback on AI tooling for efficiency. | — |
| 5 |
| Data & Applied Scientist II This role focuses on using AI tools to enhance experimentation and decision-making within product and business analysis. The scientist will design and analyze A/B experiments, translate results into clear decisions, and continuously evolve how experimentation is done, leveraging AI for acceleration and insight generation while maintaining rigor. The role is hands-on, decision-making oriented, and aims to shape real outcomes through a combination of experimentation, judgment, and AI-enabled workflows. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Global Secure Access (GSA) AI Agent Firewall team, focusing on building and evolving large-scale distributed software services at the intersection of networking, security, and AI technologies. The role involves an AI-first development approach to create secure cloud services for users and AI Agents, meeting compliance needs. | Agent | 5 |
| Strategic Account Executive Strategic Account Executive focused on driving AI, Copilot, and Security transformation for a key enterprise customer, leveraging Microsoft's solutions and a multi-functional team to achieve business outcomes and growth. | — | 5 |
| Architect, Data & AI This role is for an Architect at Microsoft's Global Center of Innovation and Delivery (GCID) focused on delivering end-to-end solutions with an AI-first mindset. The architect will lead technical execution, embed AI into delivery models, and ensure solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes. Responsibilities include leading complex projects, driving engineering excellence, fostering innovation, client engagement, and team mentorship, with a strong emphasis on quality, compliance, and modern AI-native execution. | Ship | 5 |
| Architect, Apps & AI This role is for an Architect within Microsoft's Industry Solutions - Global Center Innovation and Delivery Center (GCID). The Architect will lead the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, embedding AI-first principles into delivery models and ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes. The role involves driving engineering excellence, innovation, client engagement, and team mentorship, with a focus on AI-driven application development and leveraging tools like GitHub Copilot. | Ship | 5 |
| Solution Engineer--Innovation Hub Solution Engineer for Microsoft's Innovation Hub, focusing on guiding customers through AI transformation journeys by delivering technical engagements, designing solutions, and leading strategic initiatives. This role involves deep technical expertise in AI platforms and trends to drive customer impact and adoption. | — | 5 |
| Digital security specialist This role is for a Digital Security Specialist at Microsoft, focusing on leveraging AI-powered sales strategies to drive customer success and digital transformation within the Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) segment. The specialist will be responsible for selling cloud services and platforms, enabling AI and digital transformation for customers and partners, and contributing to Microsoft's security solutions in the fight against cybercrime. The role involves engaging in consultative customer conversations, building digital transformation security strategies, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to drive end-to-end security opportunities. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and building secure, scalable platform solutions for Identity and Access Management (IAM) within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization. The role emphasizes an AI-first approach, leveraging AI-assisted tooling, intent detection, knowledge grounding, orchestration, and policy-driven workflows to address security challenges and enable customer self-resolution. The engineer will work on production services and distributed systems, with a preference for those who have built large, extensible, and scalable systems, and experience with cloud platforms like Azure. | Agent | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI This role is a Cloud Solution Architect focused on AI and Azure workloads. The primary responsibility is to guide enterprise customers in their AI transformation journey, advising on architecture design, deployment, and scaling of AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role involves building trusted relationships with executives, driving technical excellence, and accelerating Azure consumption for AI initiatives. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer focused on Azure Platform for commercial customers, designing secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures to support AI workloads and business-critical applications. This role involves guiding organizations through migration, modernization, and optimization using Azure's IaaS and PaaS services, with a focus on AI-powered infrastructure and intelligent agents. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Infrastructure This role focuses on helping customers migrate, modernize, and secure their infrastructure and applications on Microsoft Azure, with a specific emphasis on enabling scalable, production-ready AI solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will design and implement solutions, resolve blockers, and accelerate Azure adoption, ensuring customer environments are optimized for AI use cases. The role involves working with various Azure services and frameworks like CAF and WAF, and driving migration and modernization initiatives for AI workloads. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer The role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Evaluation Platform Team at Microsoft, focusing on building and improving systems that measure and evaluate AI quality for M365 AI products. The goal is to create reliable, scalable, and user-friendly tools to support various stages of AI evaluation, from fine-tuning to launching new features and onboarding partners. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer II (IC3) on the Maps Rendering team at Microsoft AI, focusing on building high-performance rendering systems for maps and spatial visualization. The role involves working across UX, distributed systems, and data pipelines to transform geospatial data into interactive map experiences, with a specific emphasis on making spatial data accessible for AI-driven applications. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing solutions for customers leveraging modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies, with a specific emphasis on AI in robotics, ROS2, industrial robots, and simulation. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Full Stack Software Engineer for Microsoft Foundry Agents Platform team, focusing on building agent-building experiences and agentic workflows for developers and enterprises. The role involves integrating LLMs and developing full-stack solutions from UX to backend services. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior/Principal Software Engineer Senior/Principal Software Engineer to build AI-infused applications and Agentic Solutions for Commercial Sales Experiences at Microsoft, focusing on end-to-end software development lifecycle, architecture, and fostering innovation in a cloud and AI-driven environment. | Agent | 5 |
| Technical Solution Manager (AI-First Experience) This role is for a Technical Solution Manager focused on AI-First customer experience within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary responsibility is to define and lead the technical roadmap for integrating AI capabilities into frontline operations, transforming workflows and tools for customer success teams. The role involves solution architecture, orchestration, technical leadership, stakeholder management, and driving adoption of AI-driven workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the HR Employee Experience Engineering team at Microsoft, focusing on building and improving internal products and services. The team embeds AI, LLM assistants, and predictive analytics into products to enhance employee productivity and insights. The role involves understanding requirements, writing and reviewing code, applying AI tools across the SDLC, and adhering to security and best practices. | — | 5 |
| Consultant This role focuses on leveraging AI, specifically Agentic AI and custom AI Agents, to transform core enterprise business processes. The consultant will act as a business advisor, identifying opportunities for AI-driven improvements, articulating business value, and ensuring solutions achieve desired outcomes. Responsibilities include leading discovery workshops, mapping AI scenarios to industry processes, developing ROI models, collaborating with technical teams on solution design, and driving user adoption. The role emphasizes business acumen, process expertise, and practical fluency in Microsoft's Copilot and Power Platform technologies. | Agent | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialist, Azure (I&M Major Accelerate) This role focuses on selling Azure cloud services, particularly to large manufacturing clients. It involves identifying and qualifying sales opportunities, leveraging AI-powered market intelligence tools for trend analysis and forecasting, and supporting the development of AI and cloud-driven transformation solutions for customers. The position requires collaboration across internal teams and with partners to drive customer success and achieve sales targets, with a strong emphasis on security and AI integration. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on control plane automations for capacity buildout of M365 Copilot inference services. This role involves technical leadership in capacity planning, custom model deployment automation, and replacing manual workflows with automated systems to ensure low-latency, highly available AI experiences at massive GPU scale. | Serve | 5 |
| Communication Program Manager This role is for a Communication Program Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, focusing on shaping internal and external communications related to AI transformation. The role involves developing communication strategies, creating content, managing employee engagement programs, and supporting executive communications. While the role utilizes AI tools and supports AI transformation initiatives, its core function is communication and program management, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 5 |
| Senior or Principal Build Engineer- AI Frameworks The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft builds foundational software for advanced machine learning across Microsoft products. This role focuses on CICD, build efficiency, packaging, cloud security, and deployment for AI infrastructure, targeting build and release management engineers with experience in large-scale C++/Python projects and CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub. The role involves designing and maintaining packaging and build systems, defining mono-repo guidelines, and managing underlying infrastructure. Security screening is required. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in the Business & Industry Copilots group at Microsoft, focusing on the Dataverse Runtime team. The role involves leading the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud services and enterprise data platforms, with a specific emphasis on enabling agentic AI experiences and autonomous workflows for enterprise customers. Responsibilities include technical leadership, collaboration, driving features, automation, live-site operations, and mentoring. Preferred qualifications include experience with agentic AI technologies and workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect- Azure, Security and AI This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Azure, Security, and AI for government and sovereign cloud environments. The primary focus is on delivering high-quality, proactive customer engagements that drive measurable outcomes and accelerate AI transformation for customers. The role involves acting as a trusted technical advisor, providing architectural guidance, ensuring compliance with security and regulatory constraints, and overseeing end-to-end delivery performance. While AI is mentioned as a specialization area, the core function is solution architecture and delivery within a regulated cloud environment, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Creative Technologist This role focuses on leveraging emerging technologies, including AI, to build interactive product experiences, prototypes, and tools for design and storytelling. The Creative Technologist acts as a bridge between creative ideas and functional demonstrations, ensuring product narratives are compelling and accurate. | Ship | 5 |
| Data Platform Solution Presales Engineer This role is a presales engineer focused on Microsoft's data platform solutions, including databases and analytics, for mid-market customers. The role involves driving technical sales, leading hands-on engagements like Proof of Concepts and hackathons, and collaborating with engineering teams to accelerate the adoption of cloud data platforms. While the role operates in the 'era of AI' and leverages AI-powered tools and customer success strategies, its core function is in data platform solutions rather than direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Security This role is a Security Cloud Solution Architect focused on helping customers securely adopt AI workloads and data on the Microsoft cloud. The architect will act as a trusted advisor, designing security architectures covering identity, data protection, cloud posture, and secure app development, with a focus on AI-specific risks like data leakage and prompt injection. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining a Fabric-based SaaS platform, including HDInsight components. Responsibilities involve writing code, debugging distributed systems, working with big data technologies like Spark, and utilizing AI tools in the daily workflow. The role emphasizes growth in distributed systems, cloud platform engineering, and large-scale data infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the HR Employee Experience Engineering team at Microsoft, focusing on building and improving internal workforce products and services. The role involves embedding AI, LLMs, and predictive analytics into products to enhance employee productivity and insights. Responsibilities include understanding user requirements, reviewing code, designing and implementing features, and applying AI tools and best practices throughout the SDLC, with a strong emphasis on security. | — | 5 |
| Solution Architecture Manager Lead a team of Solution Architects to drive customer digital and AI transformation journeys, focusing on solution strategy, consultative engagement, and successful architecture and delivery outcomes across strategic enterprise engagements. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft's AI FinOps team, focusing on building a next-generation monetization platform for AI services like Copilot and agents. The role involves designing and implementing high-scale, low-latency services for consumption-based billing and licensing, requiring collaboration across multiple teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Native Senior Software Engineer to create innovative machine learning-powered features across Windows and other Microsoft products, focusing on native code development for OS, platform layers, app experiences, and service integrations. The role involves rapid prototyping, human-centered development, and shipping features used by billions. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager - W+D Financial Operations AI and Tooling Senior Technical Program Manager to own and evolve the RIM platform (budgeting, forecasting, procurement) to support AI workflows and enable end-users to bring RIM and Procurement data into their own AI workflows, including Copilot and Microsoft Fabric integration. Requires SFI compliance and managing outsourced development. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and operating platforms that power Microsoft's business operations. The role involves designing, building, and operating software to launch and manage products, working with partner engineers and product managers. A key aspect is the disciplined use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, agentic coding workflows, GenAI-based code review and test generation) and applying Responsible AI practices. The engineer will also integrate AI capabilities like LLMs and agents into production systems, improve developer velocity through automation and AI-powered workflows, and use telemetry for troubleshooting and performance improvement. Mentoring and raising the team's engineering bar are also expected. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager, Data Science & Market Research Product Manager for Windows Platform & Developer team, focusing on data science and market research to inform strategy, investments, and competitive positioning. The role involves defining research strategy, building analytical frameworks, delivering market intelligence, and translating data into actionable insights for senior leadership. It emphasizes understanding developers, tracking platform health, and making investment decisions for Windows, which is evolving to support AI and agentic platforms. | — | 5 |
| Group Finance Manager, Core AI Group Finance Manager for Microsoft's AI Foundry Platform, focusing on margin strategy and efficiency by optimizing model architecture, inference, and compute utilization. This role partners with engineering and product teams to reduce AI workload costs, influence roadmap, and drive financial outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Quantum Software Engineer II This role focuses on building developer tools for quantum computing, including languages, compilers, simulators, and debuggers. A key aspect is integrating AI capabilities into these quantum development workflows and leveraging AI tools for innovation and efficiency. The role involves software development in Rust, Python, and TypeScript, with a focus on open-source collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Microsoft AI – Bing Places Data team, focused on accelerating the adoption of Location, Places and POI data for Copilot and Bing Search experiences. The role involves using large-scale data analytics, ML/AI, LLM models, and service/data engineering to extract and create rich content from location entities globally. The engineer will collaborate on requirements, design, architecture, coding, testing, and engineering excellence, ensuring secure, reliable, and sustainable software. | Data | 5 |
| Senior AI Product Designer This role is for a Senior AI Product Designer who will shape enterprise AI agents from the ground up. The designer will work directly with customers to understand their challenges and design AI-powered solutions, focusing on creating consumer-grade quality in enterprise workflows. The role involves rapid prototyping, influencing product strategy, and building design systems. While the role uses AI tools and designs AI-powered products, the core craft is product design, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II or Senior Software Engineer - Simulation Platform Software Engineer role focused on developing and ensuring the quality of an AI chip simulator and its integration into an SDK. The role involves designing, implementing, and verifying hardware simulators for next-generation AI chips, collaborating with hardware designers and AI model developers, and identifying requirements and scoping solutions. Experience with systems programming, low-level or performance-critical software, hardware interfaces, and accelerator architectures is preferred. | Serve | 5 |
| Partner Sales Director, Americas Microsoft is seeking a Partner Sales Director for the Americas to lead sales and partnership strategy for Windows and AI-powered devices. This role involves managing an internal team and external partner relationships (e.g., Dell) to drive adoption of Windows devices, Azure, and AI-powered experiences. The director will be responsible for regional revenue growth, market share, and overall business performance, operating in a matrixed environment and engaging with senior executives. The focus is on driving the transition to next-generation AI and cloud-connected solutions. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers using the Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE) methodology. The role involves customer technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and providing product roadmap feedback. It's a senior individual contributor position on the technical leadership career path, requiring deep technical skills and customer engagement. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers. The role involves applying AI across the full lifecycle using the Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE) methodology, providing hands-on technical leadership, and offering product roadmap feedback. It's a senior individual contributor role with significant customer-facing responsibilities. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role on the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. This role focuses on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers using the Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE) methodology. The position involves customer technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and providing product roadmap feedback. It is a senior individual contributor role on Microsoft's technical leadership career path. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Account Technology Strategist Strategic Account Technology Strategist responsible for the technology relationship between Microsoft and UBS, a flagship FSI customer. The role focuses on building and growing technology executive networks, bringing industry-relevant solutions, and helping the client adopt and embrace AI technologies to accelerate their AI vision and become a trusted technology advisor. | — | 5 |
| Senior Applied Threat Intelligence Analyst - Microsoft Security Threat Response This role focuses on building and refining pipelines and tooling for cyber threat intelligence, transforming raw signal into actionable intelligence for customers. While it uses AI tools and deals with data, the core craft is not AI/ML model development but rather the engineering of intelligence delivery systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Microsoft's Substrate Storage Fabric platform, which powers Microsoft 365 experiences and Copilot-era retrieval paths at hyperscale. The role focuses on driving product strategy and execution for platform excellence in efficiency, trust, resilience, and modernization, leveraging AI and telemetry to identify opportunities and translate complex technical systems into clear product direction and business value. | — | 5 |