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 Customer Experience Program Manager This role focuses on understanding customer experiences with Microsoft 365, particularly in the context of AI-first experiences, and translating those insights into product and go-to-market improvements. The Principal Customer Experience Program Manager will lead customer engagement programs, influence product roadmaps, and drive cross-organizational alignment to ensure customer success and adoption of Microsoft 365. | — | 5 |
| Senior Cloud Solution Architect - AI Business Process Senior Cloud Solution Architect specializing in AI Business Process applications using Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio. This customer-facing role focuses on guiding customers through architectural design, implementation, and operational health to drive adoption and business impact of Microsoft's AI solutions. | Ship |
| 5 |
| Learning Manager - Security Professionals This role focuses on developing and scaling a learning program for security professionals, emphasizing how they can effectively use AI and cloud tools in their daily work. The primary output is educational content, with a focus on short-form video and social media distribution, aiming to help a global audience build skills in applying AI within security contexts. | — | 5 |
| Learning Manager - Data Professionals This role focuses on developing and scaling a center of excellence for upskilling data professionals using AI and cloud tools through short-form content, primarily video, distributed across various platforms including social media. The goal is to help learners effectively apply AI in their daily work and build a comprehensive learning portfolio. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II - CoreAI Software Engineer II role focused on building and operating Azure Managed Grafana and Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana services, including new feature areas of Microsoft Foundry (formerly AI Foundry). The role involves designing and maintaining highly available cloud services, developing integrations, and creating scalable infrastructure. A key aspect is leveraging AI to enhance observability through anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and intelligent insights to help developers detect service health changes and resolve issues. The position requires strong programming skills in languages like C#, C++, or Java, and experience with cloud development, particularly Azure. | Serve | 5 |
| AI Business Process Sales Specialist - Telco or Retail This role is for an AI Business Process Sales Specialist focused on driving end-to-end business transformation for strategic customers in the Telco or Retail industries. The specialist will lead sales engagements, build C-suite relationships, and collaborate with partners to deliver AI, Automation, CRM, and ERP solutions. The role emphasizes understanding how AI can enhance customer value and enable business transformation. | — | 5 |
| Enterprise Sales Leader - Azure Enterprise Sales Leader for Azure Cloud & AI Platform, responsible for leading and mentoring sales teams to drive strategic cloud and AI initiatives with government, education, and healthcare customers. The role requires strong sales leadership, business acumen, and technical depth across Azure infrastructure, data, AI, and app innovation, focusing on shaping territory strategy, identifying growth opportunities, and aligning sales execution to customer priorities. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - ISE Principal Software Engineer on the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers using Microsoft's Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE) methodology. This role involves deep technical leadership, customer engagement, and contributing to reusable solution patterns. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Data This role is a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Data, focusing on helping enterprise customers leverage Microsoft's data platform (Azure Data Services, Microsoft Fabric) and AI-powered analytics. The role involves gathering customer insights, mapping architecture, proposing solutions, and driving adoption and business outcomes through technical leadership and customer engagement. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to help customers bring their AI-powered applications to production scale on Azure. This customer-facing role leads technical engagements across design, build, and operations, removing blockers and accelerating adoption of Azure AI, App Services, GitHub, and data platforms. The role ensures production readiness of mission-critical workloads and contributes to reusable IP. Requires expertise in Azure AI Foundry, AKS, Cosmos DB, and GitHub. | Ship | 5 |
| Digital Solution Specialists-Security This role is for a Digital Solution Specialist focused on Security within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) sales team. The role involves leveraging AI-powered sales strategies, selling cloud services, and driving digital transformation for customers. The specialist will engage in consultative sales, identify security opportunities, collaborate with partners, and act as a subject matter expert in security solutions. The focus is on sales execution and business value selling within the security domain, utilizing AI tools and strategies to achieve customer leadership and drive growth. | — | 5 |
| Senior Quantum Software Engineer This role focuses on building developer tools for quantum computing, including languages, compilers, simulators, and VS Code integrations. A key aspect is exploring and integrating AI capabilities into these quantum development workflows, aiming to accelerate research and development. The role involves significant software engineering in Rust, Python, and TypeScript, with a focus on open-source contributions and collaboration with quantum experts. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Low Code (Power Platform & Copilot Studio) Solution Engineer focused on Low Code and Agentic AI (Power Platform & Copilot Studio) for enterprise customers, helping them adopt and integrate these technologies into their business processes and applications. The role involves hands-on engagements like Proof of Concepts, hackathons, and workshops, and guiding customers on secure, scalable, and governed architectures. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Microsoft AI – Bing Places Data team, responsible for building data foundations that deliver geospatial & business location data to services & experiences across Bing, Copilot & Grounding to drive growth of Generative AI and Agents capabilities. The role involves large-scale interactive data analytics, scalable map-reduce compute, machine learning and AI, LLM models, service and data engineering, security, compliance, and service management. They will develop engineering systems to extract, transform, and load places data content from billions of location entities globally. | — | 5 |
| Principal, Business Transformation, AI & Automation This role focuses on transforming business processes within Microsoft Security by embedding AI and automation, redesigning roadmap management, and building foundations for KPI, telemetry, and automation to improve visibility, decision quality, and operating velocity. It's about optimizing how work gets done using AI-enabled workflows, not directly building AI models. | — | 5 |
| Director, Business Transformation & Business Architecture This role focuses on transforming business processes and building the execution engine for Microsoft Security, leveraging AI and agentic workflows to improve visibility, decision quality, and operating velocity. The Director will redesign critical business processes, starting with roadmap management, and build foundations for KPI, telemetry, and automation. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Microsoft's Generative Search team, focusing on defining the vision and strategy for GenAI experiences in Search. This role involves collaborating with Research, Engineering, and other teams to deliver AI-powered search capabilities to millions of users. | — | 5 |
| Senior Business Development Manager - Product Senior Business Development Manager on the Frontier AI Partnerships team responsible for shaping strategy and driving execution for strategic partnerships. This role involves leading negotiations, operationalizing commitments, and establishing operating models for global-scale collaborations. It requires strong judgment, executive presence, and the ability to navigate ambiguity. The role interfaces with business development, product, engineering, legal, and security teams. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager The Principal Software Engineering Manager will lead teams building and scaling Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a globally distributed, fully managed database service. This role involves owning core database engine capabilities and PostgreSQL extensions development, driving engagement with the open-source PostgreSQL community, and setting technical strategy for reliability and performance. The role also emphasizes driving an automation-first engineering approach by leveraging AI across the engineering lifecycle, including design assistance, code quality improvements, test and validation automation, and migration tooling, while modernizing service telemetry, observability, and core service infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director, Cloud & AI Sales Senior Director of Cloud & AI Sales responsible for leading a team of managers and specialists to drive customer acquisition, consumption, and satisfaction with Azure's AI capabilities. Focuses on sales execution, business value selling, and scaling impact through partners and technical expertise within the Small Medium Enterprises and Channel segment. | — | 5 |
| Threat Context Analyst This role focuses on researching and analyzing AI-enabled threats and influence operations, identifying AI abuses, and developing intelligence products. It involves synthesizing technical data, OSINT, and geopolitical context to inform stakeholders. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Consultant This role involves consulting on and delivering enterprise AI solutions using Microsoft Cloud and AI services. The consultant will articulate value propositions, drive adoption of Microsoft Cloud, ensure solutions align with architecture, identify and mitigate risks, and provide stakeholder assistance throughout deployment. Key responsibilities include translating business requirements into technical and AI-enabled application solutions, and integrating AI services or APIs into applications. Experience with AI-assisted development and data platforms supporting AI workloads is required. The role supports government customers in a regulated environment. | — | 5 |
| Sustainability Enablement Director This role supports Microsoft's commercial teams by enabling effective customer engagement on sustainability topics related to AI and cloud infrastructure. The focus is on translating Microsoft's sustainability commitments and progress into business-relevant narratives for customer engagements, and supporting field teams in addressing customer questions about the environmental impacts of AI and cloud technologies. | — | 5 |
| Specialist Sales Manager Specialist Sales Manager at Microsoft in Seoul, leading multiple teams to drive sales opportunities for AI and cloud solutions with high-value customers. The role involves setting sales strategy, managing pipelines, engaging customers in digital transformations, and people management, utilizing AI-driven tools for market intelligence and forecasting. | — | 5 |
| Solution Play & Demand Generation Strategy Lead This role focuses on developing and executing top-of-funnel strategy and demand generation for enterprise AI and Copilot solution plays. It involves creating solution narratives, marketing content, and reporting to communicate business value and accelerate pipeline, operating at the intersection of marketing, product marketing, and sales. | — | 5 |
| Senior Corporate Counsel - Patents This role supports Microsoft's Cloud & AI businesses by shaping and executing patent strategy for cloud, AI, and hardware technologies. The Senior Corporate Counsel will collaborate with engineering and product teams to identify patentable innovations, develop global filing and prosecution strategies, and build a high-quality patent portfolio. | — | 5 |
| Senior Client Director - Microsoft Advertising Senior Client Director for Microsoft Advertising in Paris, focused on driving revenue and client satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized digital advertising solutions. The role involves creating and executing long-range account plans, influencing strategic customer decisions, and leading outcome-led AI and intelligent marketing conversations to help clients scale AI adoption. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, designing multiyear account growth strategies, acting as a trusted advisor, and contributing thought leadership. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role within the Dynamics 365 Contact Center team, focusing on building AI-first, scalable contact center solutions on Azure. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent features, integrating AI models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready systems for large businesses. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud ＆ AI Specialist (流通小売担当 Azure 営業) This role is a Cloud & AI Specialist focused on selling Azure solutions to general trading companies in Japan. The primary responsibility is to understand customer business needs and propose optimal cloud solutions, including AI and cloud-driven transformations, to create new customer experiences and solve operational productivity issues. The role involves building relationships with C-level decision-makers, collaborating with internal sales and technical teams, and partners to maximize Azure utilization from deal creation to adoption. Key aspects include leading sales strategies, managing sales pipelines using AI-enhanced tools, and promoting solution plays related to migration, data platforms, and AI applications. | — | 5 |
| Principal Data Scientist The Principal Data Scientist will leverage data science techniques to solve real-life problems, focusing on defining compensable metrics, designing quota models, and evaluating outcomes. The role involves partnering with data engineering, product, field, and Finance teams to turn large-scale telemetry into decision-ready insights, influencing product direction and executive decision-making. Responsibilities include defining quota-setting strategy, applying ML to quota and incentive design, bridging Finance and Sales teams, and educating stakeholders on quota methodology. The role also involves analyzing challenges, shaping strategy, writing efficient code, leading data integration, and applying expert-level proficiency in big-data and ML engineering tools. Additionally, the role emphasizes a customer-first mindset, building data platforms, and incorporating AI ethics best practices. | Data | 5 |
| AI Transformation Leader - Culture & Employee Expereince, Microsoft Security This role is responsible for activating and scaling Microsoft Security's AI-first operating model within the Security Engineering organization. It focuses on building programs, rituals, and change infrastructure to embed AI-first behaviors, drive adoption of AI tools and agents, and measure progress. The role acts as a change agent to transform the organization's way of working to be AI-first. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering IC4 Software Engineer IC4 at Microsoft, focusing on building the platform for Microsoft's advertising business. The role involves designing and building backend services on Azure, driving an Azure Kubernetes migration, and delivering full-stack features. While the core is platform engineering, there are opportunities to work on AI-powered product features like Copilot and LLM integrations, and the role emphasizes using AI-powered development workflows. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II on the Bing Places Data team, owning data product features for Microsoft's geospatial services (Bing Maps, Local Search, Copilot). The role involves understanding partner requirements, translating AI concepts, leveraging AI for customer needs identification, applying data-driven insights, and influencing data product features (models, pipelines, quality systems). The focus is on improving data products for search and copilot experiences, balancing scalability, reliability, and partner needs. | — | 5 |
| Director of Competitive and Market Intelligence This role is for a Director of Competitive and Market Intelligence focused on Securing AI and Cloud Security. The individual will develop a market view, translate technical and competitive signals into strategies for product, marketing, and go-to-market, and influence product direction by partnering with engineering teams. The role requires understanding customer use cases, emerging threats, vendor landscapes, and translating complex technical concepts into clear narratives. The goal is to help shape how the industry evolves and how Microsoft positions its AI security solutions. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Design Archnitect This role focuses on evolving the Microsoft 365 design system for the AI era, specifically as M365 Copilot expands. The Principal Product Design Architect will explore and apply emerging AI tools within the design system workflow, prototype utilities to accelerate the design process, define how AI models interface with design libraries, and establish system architecture and lifecycle standards. The goal is to build the foundation for AI-native UX across M365 and simplify the productivity ecosystem. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Digital Solution Area Specialist-AI Workforce This role is a quota-carrying sales specialist focused on driving the adoption of AI-powered solutions, specifically M365 Copilot, within small and medium enterprises. The specialist will engage with customers, craft value propositions, and collaborate with internal teams and partners to accelerate AI adoption and achieve revenue targets. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Designer Principal Product Designer for Microsoft AI Monetization (MAI) Publisher Monetization team. Focus on designing AI-powered products for advertisers, publishers, sellers, and consumers, with an emphasis on user experience, innovation, and responsible design. This role involves setting design vision, end-to-end product development, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The designer will use AI tooling and integrate generative AI into products. | — | 5 |
| Director, Product Marketing Manager - Windows 365 Inbound Director, Product Marketing Manager for Windows 365 Inbound, responsible for defining inbound strategy, messaging, narrative, competitive strategy, and product partnerships for Desktop as a Service (DaaS). This role involves guiding product shaping based on market landscape and customer needs, crafting the overarching story for Cloud PC, and integrating AI narratives into product messaging. The role requires leading a team of product marketers, driving product marketing strategy, owning positioning and value propositions, and collaborating with various internal teams (Product Management, Engineering, Sales, PR, etc.) for launch excellence and sustained growth. The role also involves contributing to internal communications about Windows Cloud + AI strategy. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Designer Principal Product Designer for Microsoft AI Monetization, focusing on next-generation CRM and Marketing technology experiences. The role involves crafting AI-powered solutions that unify sales and marketing workflows, exploring AI agents, predictive insights, and conversational interfaces to enhance productivity and intelligence for advertisers, publishers, sellers, and consumers. The position emphasizes end-to-end design execution, user-centered approaches, and collaboration across disciplines to deliver category-defining products. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Service Engineer Senior Service Engineer for Microsoft Advertising's Trust and Safety team, focusing on platform integrity, security, and fraud detection. The role involves analyzing large-scale data, leading complex investigations, and designing scalable solutions using automation and AI to improve detection and strengthen platform resilience. Requires experience in advertising, data analysis, cybersecurity, and programming languages like Python, with familiarity in ML/AI concepts. | Ship | 5 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialists This role is for a Digital Solution Area Specialist focused on AI Workforce solutions within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) sales team. The primary responsibility is to drive sales and adoption of AI-powered productivity tools and transformations for businesses, leveraging AI and partner ecosystems. The role involves consultative selling, orchestrating sales execution, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell AI Workforce solutions like M365 Copilot and Agents. | — | 5 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialists - AI & Business Process This role is for a Digital Solution Area Specialist focused on AI and Business Process at Microsoft. The primary responsibility is to drive AI-powered business-process transformations by selling Microsoft's Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot solutions. The role involves owning the engagement cycle, crafting value propositions, and partnering with sales and engineering teams to accelerate customer adoption and achieve revenue targets. While the role is within an AI-focused company and involves selling AI solutions, the core craft is sales and customer engagement, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - GitHub Copilot Principal Software Engineer for the GitHub Copilot API team, focusing on backend large-scale service design, execution, and operations. The role involves shaping and building a robust, scalable, and reliable platform for GitHub Copilot, leading the design and evolution of highly available backend services and APIs for global scale. Key responsibilities include hands-on implementation, architecture reviews, mentorship, and ensuring system health, reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. The role requires deep experience in distributed systems and operating them in production, with a focus on platform capabilities, architectural patterns, and security/compliance. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Global Skilling Product Team, focusing on Azure Full Stack development to build enterprise-grade features for learning platforms. The role involves leveraging AI and Copilot features to enhance user experience, modernizing content operations, and developing AI/LLM models for test failure analysis. The engineer will also lead junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions impacting millions of learners. | Ship | 5 |
| Consultant A2 - Data & AI Consultant role focused on delivering end-to-end data and AI solutions using Microsoft technologies. Responsibilities include solution design, development, deployment, and ensuring customer value through technical expertise and customer focus. The role involves working with Azure Data Services, AI/ML foundations, and operationalizing ML pipelines. | Data | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager Principal Technical Program Manager to drive high-impact engineering projects with customers and partners, transforming their missions using AI and other cloud-based solutions and services. This role involves defining customer scenarios, orchestrating engineering approaches, and developing end-to-end user stories. The TPM will work within a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, and designers to build innovative solutions side-by-side with strategic customers. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Finance Manager - Cloud & AI Revenue Planning Senior Finance Manager for Microsoft's Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (C+AI) business, focusing on revenue planning, investment strategy, and financial analysis for Azure AI. The role involves partnering with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Marketing to shape business models, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence executive decision-making through data-driven insights and financial storytelling. Requires strong strategic and analytical rigor, experience with complex problem-solving, financial judgment, and executive influence. | — | 5 |
| Service Engineer II Service Engineer II role focused on building AI-driven automation and full-stack tools to improve the reliability, quality, and customer experience of the Microsoft Advertising platform. The role involves deep technical investigations, debugging distributed systems, writing production-quality code, and partnering with engineering teams. Experience with AI-based coding tools is required. | Serve | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Copilot Solution Engineer focused on driving customer adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio & Agents, and related AI-powered productivity solutions. The role involves leading technical engagements, delivering demonstrations, guiding customers through envisioning sessions, and ensuring governance, security, and compliance. | ShipAgent | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II to own and deliver features within Azure AI Foundry and Azure Machine Learning, focusing on platform capabilities to improve developer productivity and enable AI/ML workloads at scale. The role involves translating customer needs into requirements, working with engineering, and contributing to the long-term AI platform direction. | — | 5 |