Currently tracking 224 active AI roles, down 11% 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 Product Designer Principal Product Designer for Microsoft AI Monetization, focusing on building next-generation AI-powered products for advertising and monetization across various Microsoft consumer surfaces like Copilot, Bing, and MSN. The role involves end-to-end design ownership, driving innovation, and shipping world-class AI-powered consumer experiences. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - HR Employee Experience This role focuses on building and improving internal HR products and services at Microsoft, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI capabilities like intelligent automation, LLM-driven assistants, and predictive analytics to enhance employee experience and streamline tasks. The engineer will design, build, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and secure systems, leveraging AI tools throughout the development lifecycle and driving test strategy including AI-assisted testing. |
| 5 |
| Customer Success Insights, Director Business Program Management of Agent Insights This role is for a Director of Business Program Management focused on Agent Insights within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary responsibility is to drive the strategy, execution, and requirements for reporting that supports the Go-To-Market motion for AI, specifically focusing on measuring performance, usage, and consumption KPIs for AI offerings like Copilot and Agents. The role involves building measurement frameworks, partnering with business strategy teams, designing scalable reporting, and advancing risk and performance models by integrating AI-related signals. While the role is within an AI-focused organization and deals with AI products, the core craft is program management and insights reporting, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Product Marketing Manager - Consumer M365 Copilot Product Marketing Manager for Consumer M365 Copilot, focusing on building and communicating the trust narrative around data practices, privacy, and responsible AI to everyday users. This role involves defining messaging, leading strategy for safety features, and using research to influence product development and strengthen user confidence. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Copilot, focusing on sales enablement, messaging, and driving adoption of AI features. This role translates complex AI strategy into actionable guidance for sellers and customers, ensuring consistent communication of Copilot's value and competitive differentiation. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on building and operating large-scale, real-time data pipelines and feature/embedding materialization systems for Microsoft Ads. The role involves designing and implementing streaming ETL, managing messaging systems like Kafka, ensuring data contracts, and integrating with ML inference serving. Success metrics include freshness, correctness, latency, reliability, and cost. The role requires strong programming skills, experience with distributed systems, and observability. | DataServe | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II to join the Microsoft Discovery team, working on an AI-driven platform that uses AI agents and high-performance computing to accelerate scientific research and development. The role involves designing and building scalable, distributed systems, delivering features from ideation to rollout, and improving engineering velocity through AI-enabled process enhancements. Collaboration with Microsoft Research and platform teams is key, along with applying site-reliability engineering practices. | Agent | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack Software Engineer Full Stack Software Engineer to build capabilities for Microsoft's personalized AI assistant, Copilot. The role involves working across the evaluation platform, including data sampling, collection, processing, analysis, and insight generation. Responsibilities include full-stack development, prompt engineering, leveraging AI tools, and collaborating with teams to assess Copilot's performance, trustworthiness, and visual appeal across various platforms and scenarios like multi-turn conversations with voice input. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager Technical Program Manager to lead large-scale, high-impact programs powering Microsoft’s AI-driven location and search experiences. This role sits at the intersection of AI, Search, and Geospatial Intelligence, driving mission-critical location services that fuel both consumer experiences (Copilot, Ads, Bing and Bing Places), and commercial partner platforms across Microsoft Products such as Azure, Office and Windows. Owns end-to-end delivery of core location capabilities, including location understanding, location search, user location detection, and geospatial platforms. Ensures high reliability, accuracy, and trust, enabling location-dependent AI and search systems to deliver precise, real-world relevance at global scale. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - AI Apps This role focuses on helping customers deploy and scale AI-powered applications on Azure. The Cloud Solution Architect will lead technical engagements, design solutions, ensure production readiness, and contribute to reusable intellectual property. The role involves collaborating with customer executives and engineers to drive business value and adoption of Azure AI services. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect (Azure, Security and AI) This role is for a Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) with POD Lead responsibilities focused on driving delivery excellence, technical quality, and operational discipline for vendor CSAs within a designated group. The role involves technical guidance, architectural oversight, and delivery assurance across Microsoft solution areas including Azure, Security, and AI. It requires strong project management, leadership skills, and an investigative approach to customer engagements in secured cloud environments. The primary focus is on enabling customers to achieve business value through Microsoft's cloud services, with AI being one of the solution areas supported. | — | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager, Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) / Data Science Manager for an Industry Solutions Engineering team focused on delivering customer outcomes using AI and cloud technologies. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team of engineers, coaching talent, and championing AI-forward practices to build broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open-source assets. | Ship | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager, Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) / SWE Manager for an Industry Solutions Engineering team focused on delivering customer outcomes using AI and cloud technologies. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team, coaching engineers, and championing AI-forward practices to build customer solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager, Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) / TPM This role leads a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on developing and delivering high-impact customer outcomes using AI-forward hypervelocity engineering. The team will apply responsible AI practices and integrate emerging AI capabilities into customer solutions, acting as a player-coach and enabling technical program managers. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Technology Consultant-CTJ-Poly This role focuses on designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud architectures, specifically leveraging Azure AI services and generative AI solution patterns. The consultant will guide customers on secure, compliant, and responsible AI adoption, including integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, and advise on adoption, governance, and value realization. The role involves customer engagement, technical quality assurance, leading meetings, managing escalations, and driving the adoption of Microsoft cloud technologies. | Ship | 5 |
| Digital Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Platforms (German Speaking) This role is for a Digital Cloud Solution Architect focused on Cloud & AI Platforms for Small Medium Enterprises and Channel customers in Ireland, requiring German language skills. The architect will lead customer engagements, drive Azure consumption, architect solutions, and collaborate within the Microsoft ecosystem to ensure successful cloud deployments, leveraging AI-powered sales strategies and leading-edge cloud services. | — | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists - Azure This role focuses on strategic sales engagement with senior customer stakeholders to identify, qualify, and accelerate high-value sales opportunities. It involves market analysis using AI-powered intelligence, aligning sales strategies with customer priorities, leading cross-organizational collaboration for AI/cloud transformations, and managing sales pipeline and forecasting accuracy. The role emphasizes the integration of AI and cloud services in customer solutions. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer- Frontend Senior Software Engineer focused on frontend development for Microsoft Clarity, a user behavior analytics platform. The role involves leading the design and delivery of complex, scalable AI features, owning end-to-end user-facing features, and collaborating with product and design teams to build AI-forward, intuitive, high-performance interfaces. The engineer will also drive architecture decisions, mentor other engineers, and partner with backend and data teams. The role emphasizes using AI tools like GitHub Copilot Pro and Claude Code to accelerate development workflows. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team. The primary focus is on collaborating with customers to understand their needs and co-develop cloud-based solutions, particularly leveraging AI, to address their toughest challenges. The TPM will define customer scenarios, orchestrate engineering approaches, develop user stories, and manage cross-functional projects to deliver impactful solutions. While the role involves working with AI technologies, the core function is program management and customer-facing solution development, not direct AI/ML model building or research. | — | 5 |
| Director of Delivery Excellence This Director of Delivery Excellence role focuses on establishing and driving the success of large-scale, complex cloud programs for Microsoft's enterprise customers. The role emphasizes program governance, operational cadence, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation, with a strong expectation to leverage AI-powered solutions and intelligent automation to enhance delivery, streamline recovery, and improve efficiency throughout the program lifecycle. The core function is product delivery management, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II - Finance Data & Experiences Software Engineer II role in the Finance Data & Experiences organization at Microsoft, focusing on redefining how the company measures, monitors, and optimizes its global business. The role involves applying cutting-edge technology, including AI, to deliver high-impact business solutions and drive business excellence. It requires collaboration across various departments and leveraging Microsoft Cloud and AI technologies to build scalable, intelligent systems. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II - Finance Data & Experiences Software Engineer II role in Microsoft's Finance Data & Experiences organization, focusing on leveraging AI and cutting-edge Microsoft Cloud technologies to build intelligent systems for business operations. The role involves assessing new technologies, implementing AI in daily coding, collaborating on complex problems, and providing feedback on Azure services and Power Platform. Requires a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of technical experience, with preferred qualifications including experience with AI developer tools, agentic AI patterns, LLMs, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions for customers. The role involves data acquisition, dataset development, model evaluation, and building operational models at scale, working collaboratively with customers and internal product teams. | Data | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager, AI Monetization, Ads & Creatives, Copilot Principal Product Manager for AI Monetization in Ads & Creatives, focusing on building AI-driven creative products for advertisers to produce high-quality assets at scale, drive performance, and maintain brand integrity. The role involves owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap, partnering with cross-functional teams, and leveraging generative models and creative performance signals. The goal is to establish Microsoft as a leader in responsible AI-powered creative advertising. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Interactive Web Designer Senior Interactive Web Designer at Microsoft, focusing on creating high-impact digital experiences for consumer brands like Windows, Surface, and Copilot. The role involves leading visual and interactive expression, combining design sensibility with front-end fluency using modern web technologies. Responsibilities include experience design, front-end development, interaction and motion design, prototyping, performance optimization, accessibility, and data-informed iteration. The role requires 6+ years of experience, expertise in Figma and component-based design systems, strong proficiency in web technologies (React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript), and comfort using AI tools to accelerate workflow. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on leading the architecture, design, and implementation of high-scale, low-latency services with an AI First approach within Microsoft's Identity engineering team. The role involves driving AI/ML-based engineering solutions, cloud environments (Azure), and large distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on security and reliability. | Serve | 5 |
| Principal Security Product Manager Product Manager for Windows Security, focusing on driving security innovations and strategy. The role involves leading OS-level security features, influencing architecture, and managing cross-functional programs. While the role encourages using AI tools for product management and embedding AI in workflows, its core function is not building AI models but rather applying AI to enhance security product development and strategy within the Windows OS. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to architect and deliver high-quality, high-scale cloud services for next-generation identity and security scenarios, focusing on how applications and intelligent agents are identified, trusted, and authorized. The role involves building foundational capabilities for secure access by both human-operated and AI-driven applications, shaping the future of secure AI and identity. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Group Product Manager Product leader for Microsoft's Security Access Service Edge (SASE) strategy, focusing on building and scaling Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Private Access. The role involves advancing AI-driven capabilities for threat detection and automation, ensuring secure adoption of AI workloads, and translating customer insights into product features. This is a people management role with a focus on product vision, strategy, and roadmap. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Director, Enterprise Transformation This role focuses on driving enterprise transformation by embedding AI-enabled operating models and leveraging AI and operational excellence to improve business performance. The Senior Director will lead strategic initiatives, redesign workflows, and influence senior leaders to shape how a modern, AI-powered enterprise operates. | — | 5 |
| AI Biz Sol-Workforce AI Specialist This role focuses on selling and scaling AI Workforce solutions (like M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Agents) to organizations. The specialist will lead customer engagements, develop strategies, and collaborate with internal teams and partners to drive AI adoption and achieve business outcomes. It involves consultative selling, understanding customer priorities, and orchestrating sales execution. | — | 5 |
| Cloud and AI Specialist This role is a solution sales leader focused on driving enterprise adoption of Microsoft's cloud and AI solutions, particularly Azure. The specialist will work with customers to understand their business needs, recommend and demonstrate solutions, and help them achieve digital transformation through cloud computing and Generative AI. The core responsibility is to exceed Azure consumption targets by leading virtual teams and closing multi-million dollar deals, acting as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Architect This Principal Software Architect role focuses on defining and owning the technical strategy for managed identity and service-to-service authentication at Microsoft. A key responsibility is to lead innovation in the application of AI, including guiding the adoption of AI-driven tools for engineering productivity and shaping/delivering AI agents for automating operational and engineering workflows at scale. The role requires deep technical judgment and platform-level ownership within a highly secure and resilient system. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to design and build a Postgres-based database for modern, AI-native, agent-driven workloads within Microsoft Fabric. The role involves innovating on query planning, execution, and storage layers to support high-performance data access for next-generation applications, extending PostgreSQL with open engines and formats. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager to own and deliver core Microsoft Foundry platform capabilities, focusing on defining product requirements, partnering with engineering, and driving predictable delivery across experimentation, training, deployment, and monitoring workflows for AI systems at scale. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer 2, Azure DataBases Software Engineer role focused on building next-generation data platforms in Azure, specifically Azure Database for PostgreSQL and HorizonDB, which have built-in AI capabilities. The team works on client experience, telemetry, and LLMs to improve product insights and customer-facing surfaces. The role involves designing and delivering user experiences and platform capabilities, owning complete features, and working with other disciplines. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Enterprise Transformation This role focuses on identifying and embedding AI applications within enterprise workflows to improve speed, quality, and business performance. It involves reimagining end-to-end processes, operationalizing strategy, and driving outcomes through data-driven insights, with a strong emphasis on large-scale change and AI-powered enterprise operations. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Advertising's Smart Bidding products, focusing on AI-driven, scalable advertising solutions. This role requires deep AI/ML expertise, technical background, and experience in defining product vision, stakeholder management, and go-to-market planning. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineering - CTJ - Poly Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for Azure AI Platform workloads, specifically for air-gapped and sovereign cloud environments. The role involves designing, developing, and operating foundational services that power Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft Foundry capabilities, leveraging AI-assisted development tools and adhering to strong engineering fundamentals. | Serve | 5 |
| Principal Data Scientist The Principal Data Scientist will work on Copilot Discover, a personalized AI content feed within Microsoft's Copilot apps. The role involves building metrics systems, analyzing large datasets for recommendation systems, designing A/B tests, and communicating insights to stakeholders to improve engagement and product relevance. The focus is on leveraging data science to enhance AI-powered personalized web experiences for consumers. | Ship | 5 |
| Director of Product Marketing & Go to Market for Frontier Models & Innovation Product Marketing Director role focused on defining the positioning, understanding, adoption, and scaling of frontier AI models globally. This hybrid role combines upstream product marketing, technical understanding, GTM strategy, and employer branding to shape narratives, influence product direction, and launch breakthrough research. It emphasizes Microsoft's humanistic AI approach, including interpretability and safety. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II (Networking) Software Engineer II role focused on delivering scalable and secure networking capabilities for private and hybrid cloud environments using AI tools to enhance the software development lifecycle. The role involves full-stack development, API design, microservices, and ensuring security and reliability. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Infrastructure This role focuses on helping customers migrate, modernize, and secure their infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, specifically to lay the foundation for scalable, production-ready AI solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will design and implement scalable solutions, resolve blockers, and accelerate adoption of Azure services, ensuring customer environments are optimized for AI use cases. While the role supports AI, its core craft is cloud infrastructure architecture and migration, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Digital Solution Engineer - Data & Analytics This role is for a Sr. Digital Solution Engineer focused on Data & Analytics on Microsoft Azure and Fabric. The engineer will act as a technical expert and advisor to customers, designing and delivering data platform and analytics solutions, with a focus on AI integration. Responsibilities include customer engagement, solution design, hands-on technical execution (POCs, pilots, demos), and driving technical wins for Azure. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Partner Solution Sales - Azure (SMEC) This role focuses on driving sales and co-selling AI solutions with partners, leading AI strategy within partner organizations, and developing go-to-market plans to accelerate partner commercial performance and cloud consumption. It involves building trusted advisor relationships with C-suite leaders and aligning partner strategies with Microsoft's goals. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager - Ads Campaign Management This Principal Product Manager role focuses on building AI-driven advertising products for Microsoft Advertising. The role involves owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for campaign management products, partnering with Data Science, Engineering, and other teams to leverage AI and ML for precision targeting and brand trust. The goal is to deliver measurable ROI for advertisers while ensuring appropriate targeting and controls in an automation-first environment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role focuses on building foundational UX systems for Microsoft Copilot within Microsoft 365, aiming to make Copilot feel intelligent, responsive, and integrated into the user's workflow. The Senior Software Engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to shared systems that power Copilot across various endpoints like Teams, Outlook, and Office apps. The role emphasizes designing, building, and maintaining scalable, user-facing systems using modern web technologies, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, and engineering craft. | — | 5 |
| Director, Content Engineering, MAI This role leads the editorial direction, operations, and cross-functional collaboration for AI-powered content experiences within Microsoft MAI. The Director will shape editorial guidelines, implement quality workflows, and oversee content strategy, prompt engineering, and model evaluation in partnership with product and engineering teams to ensure the success and integrity of AI-generated content. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer The Senior Software Engineer will work on the Power Platform connection management space, a critical platform that enables secure, scalable, and compliant access to enterprise and thirdparty systems. This service is a core dependency for Copilotbased agents, lowcode and procode workflows, and intelligent applications across Microsoft. The role involves designing, building, and operating highscale backend services for connection and credential management, ensuring secure authentication and authorization, and driving architectural decisions for connection lifecycle, isolation, throttling, and resiliency. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager - Ads Measurement Product Manager for Ads Measurement platform, focusing on AI-powered surfaces and AI-driven insights to help advertisers understand and optimize their business growth across the Microsoft ecosystem. The role involves defining strategy, building and launching measurement capabilities, and collaborating with engineering, data science, and sales teams. | — | 5 |