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 205 active AI roles, down 11% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 295 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Engineer (18), Principal Software Engineer (15), Software Engineer II (6), Senior Data Scientist (5), Senior Product Manager (5). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (41%), application (23%), serving infrastructure (17%). 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 (252 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (10 roles), United Kingdom (8 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, C#, C++, Machine Learning.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 250 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Corporate Counsel Senior Corporate Counsel to provide legal support for Microsoft's worldwide commercial licensing business, focusing on program design, licensing terms, agreements, and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. The role involves advising on contracts, intellectual property, data privacy, competition, and regulatory compliance, as well as negotiating complex commercial transactions with enterprise customers. | — | 5 |
| Business Management and Agentic Lead This role focuses on the operational support and agentic transformation of an executive office within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The Business Management and Agentic Lead will support the Rhythm of Business (RoB) director and Chief of Staff with operational execution, calendar governance, team planning, and coordination. A key aspect is partnering with an AI transformation lead to redesign manual workflows into agentic processes, identify, prioritize, and automate high-impact processes, and support the rollout and adoption of these new agentic workflows. | — |
| 5 |
| Software Engineer II - CoreAI This role focuses on building core services for an AI evaluation platform, specifically for agent observability within Microsoft's CoreAI group. The engineer will design, implement, and deliver AI services to support product offerings for large-scale agent observability, collaborating with product management and partner teams, and taking end-to-end responsibility for development lifecycle and production readiness. | Eval GateAgent | 5 |
| Cloud & AI /SR Specialist (Azure sales for Public Sector) This is a sales role focused on Azure for the public sector in Tokyo. The specialist will develop and execute sales strategies, build relationships with C-level executives and IT leaders, and drive new business development. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and partners, managing sales pipelines using AI-powered tools, and aligning AI transformation visions with customer business priorities. While AI tools are used to enhance sales processes and customer engagement, the core function is sales, not building AI models or systems. | — | 5 |
| AI Business Solutions Workforce Specialist (M365, Copilot & AI Agent solution, 大手エンタープライズ企業担当） This role is a solution sales specialist focused on driving business transformation for enterprise clients using AI solutions like Microsoft 365 Copilot. The primary goal is to engage with business and IT leaders to identify strategic challenges and propose AI-powered solutions that enhance productivity and decision-making, ultimately contributing to long-term business results. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Marketing Manager This role is for a Principal Product Marketing Manager within Microsoft AI (MAI) Content. The primary focus is on articulating the value proposition of AI-powered content experiences to various stakeholders including publishers, sales teams, and customers. Responsibilities include owning the product narrative, defining AI principles and guardrails, shaping communication channels, and partnering with Sales for revenue growth. While the role deals with AI-generated content and AI principles, it is a product marketing function, not a direct AI/ML development or research role. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Senior Technical Program Manager role within Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. This role focuses on driving high-impact engineering projects with customers and partners, transforming their missions using AI and other cloud-based solutions. The TPM will identify customer scenarios, orchestrate engineering approaches, and develop end-to-end user stories, fulfilling the Product Owner role. The role involves collaboration with software engineers, data scientists, and designers to build innovative solutions side-by-side with customers. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager Principal Technical Program Manager to drive high-impact engineering projects with customers, transforming their missions using AI and other cloud-based solutions. This role involves identifying customer scenarios, orchestrating engineering approaches, and developing end-to-end user stories, fulfilling the Product Owner role within a cross-functional team. | — | 5 |
| Solution Architect (Japan) Seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead customer AI adoption using Microsoft's AI solutions, focusing on end-to-end architecture and business transformation. The role involves conceptualizing, proposing, and driving AI-centric solutions across Microsoft's AI portfolio, including M365 Copilot, Azure OpenAI, and data platforms. | Ship | 5 |
| AI Governance Consultant (Japan) AI Governance Consultant to help enterprise customers build and operate AI governance frameworks, focusing on responsible AI use, risk management, and compliance with regulations like NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and EU AI Act, using Microsoft products such as Agent365, Purview, M365 Copilot, and Azure AI. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager - Privacy & Policy This role focuses on building privacy products for AI monetization across various Microsoft products (Ads, Bing, Copilot, Xbox, LinkedIn, ABK). The core responsibility is to ship software enabling consent, transparency, controls, and privacy-preserving personalization, acting as a platform for other teams to build compliant AI monetization features. The role involves defining product roadmaps, building platform primitives (APIs/SDKs), partnering with engineering on runtime guardrails, improving personalization quality under privacy constraints, defining metrics for trust and revenue, enabling privacy-safe partnerships, and driving cross-org adoption. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr. Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - TS/SCI This role is for a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect specializing in data platforms and analytics to help customers build secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role involves delivering engagements across architecture design, proof of concepts, and production deployments, ensuring performance, resiliency, and security for mission-critical workloads. The architect will leverage existing IP and execution engines to drive delivery excellence, accelerate adoption, and ensure successful customer deployments for services like Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, and Purview. Collaboration with engineering teams, sharing best practices, and staying current with trends are key to helping customers maximize their data and AI investments. The role requires deep technical expertise in data and analytics, customer engagement skills, and the ability to influence product improvements. A U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance is required. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role focuses on protecting the health and integrity of the Microsoft Ads marketplace by leading investigations into anomalies, shaping monitoring and response strategies, and driving cross-organizational resolution efforts. It involves advanced data analysis and technical leadership in a complex, data-rich environment. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager Principal Technical Program Manager for the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. This role involves working directly with customers to understand their needs and develop cloud-based solutions, leveraging AI and other technologies. The TPM will define customer scenarios, orchestrate engineering approaches, and develop end-to-end user stories, acting as a Product Owner within a cross-functional team. The role focuses on building broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open-source assets. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Foundry Control Plane Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Foundry Control Plane, focusing on the go-to-market strategy for a platform that enables secure and scalable AI deployment. The role involves developing messaging, building launch plans, and partnering with engineering and sales teams to highlight security, compliance, identity, and lifecycle management features for AI solutions, particularly agentic AI. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect (data platforms and analytics) Cloud Solution Architect specializing in data platforms and analytics to help customers build secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. This customer-facing role involves leading technical engagements from architecture design to production deployments, advising C-level executives, and partnering with Customer Success Leaders to shape cloud strategies. The role focuses on services like Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and Azure SQL, collaborating with engineering teams and staying current with data and AI trends. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect Cloud Solution Architect specializing in data platforms and analytics to help customers build secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. This customer-facing role involves architecture design, proof of concepts, and production deployments, ensuring performance, resiliency, and security. The role leverages existing IP and execution engines to drive delivery excellence, accelerate adoption, and ensure successful deployments for services like Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, and Purview. Collaboration with engineering teams and staying current with trends are key to helping customers unlock the full value of their data and AI investments. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineering Solution Engineer for Azure Platform, focusing on modernizing customer infrastructure and designing architectures for AI workloads and business-critical applications. Involves cloud migration, containerization, hybrid networking, and leveraging AI/intelligent agents for legacy transformation. Requires strong understanding of Azure security and compliance. | — | 5 |
| Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI - Federal - CTJ - POLY Senior Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft Federal, focusing on Azure workloads including AI, data, applications, and infrastructure. This role involves leading strategic technical engagements, acting as a trusted advisor to executives, and driving the adoption of AI solutions at scale within US government agencies. The architect will ensure successful project delivery, shape Cloud and AI strategy, and accelerate Azure consumption. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Identity for Services (ID4S) Team within Microsoft Entra, focusing on authentication and authorization components. The role involves developing robust, extensible APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring security, resilience, and performance. The team embraces AI-powered workflows to accelerate development and improve efficiency, exploring new ways to co-create with AI for better engineering outcomes. The primary focus is on building and maintaining core security services, with AI being a tool to enhance development processes. | — | 5 |
| Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI - Federal - CTJ - Secret Senior Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft Federal, focusing on Azure workloads including AI, data, applications, and infrastructure. The role involves leading strategic technical engagements, acting as a trusted advisor to executives, and driving the adoption and implementation of AI solutions for US government agencies. Key responsibilities include ensuring successful project delivery, leading architectural design, optimizing AI readiness, and accelerating Azure consumption. | Ship | 5 |
| Security Customer Experience Engineer II This role focuses on improving the customer experience for Microsoft's security products by identifying and resolving technical issues, gathering feedback, and contributing to product improvements. While it leverages AI tools like Security Copilot and mentions AI-driven solutions, the core function is not building AI models but ensuring the effective deployment and operation of security solutions for customers. | — | 5 |
| Principal Engineering - Azure Storage This role is for a Principal Engineer in Azure Storage, focusing on enhancing storage control plane and disk platforms to meet the demands of AI-scale workloads. The engineer will lead design and implementation of optimizations, identify and address bottlenecks, and ensure system availability, performance, and fault tolerance. The role involves working with distributed systems and cloud technologies to support AI applications. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & Data Solution Architect specializing in AI, responsible for enabling customers to achieve their goals through strategic investments in Microsoft technology, leveraging Azure or Data & AI solutions. The role involves leading technical discussions, guiding customers to extract maximum value, and identifying solutions to overcome challenges in their data and AI projects. Responsibilities include designing secure, scalable Data & AI solutions, leading architecture design sessions, driving POCs/MVPs, ensuring technical delivery, and providing delivery oversight for Data & Analytics workloads. The role also focuses on driving technical excellence for mission-critical data workloads, identifying and resolving technical blockers, and maintaining deep technical expertise in Microsoft's evolving data and AI capabilities. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect (Azure Apps and Infra) This role focuses on helping customers migrate, modernize, and secure their infrastructure and applications to lay the groundwork for scalable AI solutions on Azure. The Cloud Solution Architect will design resilient architectures, drive modernization initiatives, and ensure environments are optimized for AI use cases, working closely with IT decision makers and Microsoft engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture - Data & AI Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Data & AI on Microsoft Azure, responsible for driving technical strategy, architecture design, and deployment of data and AI solutions for Small, Medium, and Corporate customers and Partners to achieve business outcomes and Azure consumption growth. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer The Principal Software Engineer will join the M365 Evaluation Platform Team to enhance the evaluation system for AI offerings, supporting millions of users. The role involves building capabilities to enable agile and faster evaluations, providing continuous tools throughout the development lifecycle, and automating tasks via tools or agents to improve performance understanding. The focus is on building reliable, scalable infrastructure and driving quality in products using data, with a platform engineering mindset. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Copilot Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft 365 Copilot, focusing on outbound marketing, messaging, content creation, and go-to-market strategy. This role translates complex AI product capabilities into compelling narratives for various audiences, partnering closely with product, engineering, and sales teams. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer (Fullstack - Copilot) This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Copilot Content Experience team at Microsoft. The team is responsible for delivering the best user experience for various surfaces like the Copilot app, Edge browser, and Windows Widgets. The role involves implementing full-stack features, improving feed experiences across different products and endpoints, and collaborating with international teams. The position requires solid full-stack engineering capabilities, experience leading teams, and a background in AI with hands-on experience developing or integrating AI into development processes. The role is highly visible, impacting millions of users and having significant monetization opportunities. | Ship | 5 |
| Azure Apps and AI Solution Engineer This role is for an Azure Apps and AI Solution Engineer focused on designing and delivering modern, intelligent applications using Azure AI Foundry and agentic AI patterns. The engineer will partner with customers to modernize their application estates, enable AI-powered workloads, and guide them through application modernization decisions. Key responsibilities include designing secure, scalable, and resilient cloud application architectures that support AI workloads, translating technical capabilities into business outcomes, and leading technical sales efforts through demos and proof of concepts. The role requires hands-on experience with generative AI workloads on Azure, including RAG, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM engineering fundamentals. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Sr. Technical Program Manager The role is for a Sr. Technical Program Manager within Microsoft's Engineering Operations (EngOps) team, focusing on driving operational excellence for Azure Reliability. The role involves designing solutions that prevent issues, embedding AI-powered automation, and turning signals into actions to deliver customer impact. Success requires advancing operational autonomy, quality, and security through continuous learning, governance, and responsible AI practices. The role is customer-obsessed and AI-curious, aiming to build scalable ML infrastructure for autonomous, reliable, and secure cloud systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director of Production This role leads end-to-end production for Microsoft's in-house advertising agency, focusing on modernizing operations with AI-accelerated, in-house models. The Senior Director will define production vision, build best-in-class processes, lead teams, and champion the integration of AI tools to enhance speed, iteration, and scalability while protecting craft and brand quality. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering Software Engineer on a data engineering team that builds and manages large-scale, real-time data platforms and analytics systems. The role focuses on transforming raw signals into trusted, high-quality data products used for automation, decision-making, and AI-driven workflows, enabling agentic automation for infrastructure services. The team uses modern data mesh architectures and emphasizes reliability, governance, and observability. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Teams, focusing on AI-powered collaboration features like Microsoft 365 Copilot, channel agents, and Teams Mode. The role involves defining positioning, go-to-market strategies, and customer insights to drive adoption and showcase the transformative power of AI in teamwork. | — | 5 |
| Director of Product Marketing Management for Health Director of Product Marketing Management for Health at Microsoft, focusing on how AI Copilot shows up in people's health journeys, earns trust, and becomes indispensable. This is an upstream role involving user/competitive insights, narrative, and strategic conditions for building AI health solutions. Requires deep domain experience in healthcare, understanding of clinical workflows, patient needs, regulatory environments, and ethical stakes. The role influences product strategy, user experience, and quality bars, crafting category-defining positioning and early go-to-market strategies. It emphasizes building trust, privacy, and responsible AI, aiming to turn ambition into adoption and innovation into trusted outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Senior Process Engineer - Quantum Seeking a Senior Process Engineer with UHV experience and a background in superconductor/semiconductor materials for quantum computing system fabrication. The role involves running and owning manufacturing processes, driving development, and implementing mature processes into the Plan of Record (POR) flow. Responsibilities include fabricating quantum devices, monitoring and controlling fabrication process flows, yield tracking, data analysis, and root cause analysis for device quality and fabrication processes. The role also requires troubleshooting operational issues and participating in UHV tool maintenance. While not core to the role, the candidate should be able to leverage AI tools for innovation and efficiency in an AI-first environment. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer 2 Software Engineer role focused on building and integrating customer-facing AI services within Microsoft's CoreAI organization, specifically within the Responsible AI group. The role involves designing, implementing, and delivering software features, debugging, troubleshooting, and ensuring secure coding practices for high-performance, low-latency, and high-availability AI services. While the role is within an AI organization and involves working with AI platforms and LLMs, the core responsibilities are in software engineering for AI services rather than direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Technical Support Engineer - Security & Compliance (Cloud Protection) This role provides technical support for Microsoft's security and compliance products, including AI-powered solutions like Microsoft Security Copilot. The engineer will assist enterprise customers with advanced technical issues, acting as a liaison between customers and product development teams. The role involves troubleshooting, problem-solving, and contributing to product quality improvements, with a focus on cloud security, SIEM, and identity security. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture Cloud Solution Architect focused on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agentic AI, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform. Responsibilities include architecting solutions, leading customer-facing technical conversations, guiding AI adoption, and conducting Secure AI Assessments. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr Digital Solution Engineer, Cloud & AI Data This role is for a Sr Digital Solution Engineer focused on Microsoft's Cloud & AI Data Platform for K12 and Community College customers. The engineer will drive technical sales, lead hands-on engagements like PoCs and hackathons, build trusted relationships with platform leads, and resolve technical blockers. The role requires deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview Data Governance, and Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL), as well as on-prem EDW and Hadoop solutions. The goal is to help customers modernize their data platforms and accelerate adoption of Microsoft's cloud database and analytics stack. | — | 5 |
| Director, Process Excellence This role focuses on improving enterprise-wide business operations by leveraging AI and continuous improvement frameworks. The Director will be responsible for deploying AI to enhance processes, streamline workflows, and drive efficiencies within Microsoft Business Operations, partnering with various departments to ensure operational and regulatory compliance. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Apps & AI This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on helping enterprise customers deploy AI-powered applications on Azure. The role involves technical engagements across design, build, and operations, removing blockers, and accelerating adoption of Azure AI services. It emphasizes execution excellence, customer value realization, and growth of Azure consumption in a regulated, partner-driven market. The architect will collaborate with customers, sales, and partners to ensure production readiness and build trusted relationships. | — | 5 |
| Senior Communications Manager This role is for a Senior Communications Manager within Microsoft's Research & Scientific Discovery Communications team. The primary focus is on translating complex scientific research and emerging technologies into compelling stories for external audiences. The role involves strategic planning, media relations, content development, and influencer engagement, with a familiarity with AI-enabled tools. | — | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists This role focuses on leading strategic sales engagements for Microsoft's Business Applications portfolio, including CRM, ERP, Power Apps, and Co-pilot Studio for AI agentic scenarios. The specialist will drive business planning, customer engagement, solution leadership, and sales execution, acting as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders and collaborating with internal teams and partners to deliver business value. | — | 5 |
| MTS - Backend Engineer Backend Engineer role focused on building and scaling the core backend platform, including Orchestrator, Inference, and APIs, for Microsoft's personalized AI assistant, Copilot. The role involves developing consumer-facing AI-powered features and experiences in a fast-paced environment. | Serve | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Azure AI Translation & Language Team The Principal Software Engineer will design and implement large-scale distributed systems for Azure AI Translation and Language services, focusing on infrastructure for model inference, service reliability, and platform architecture. This role involves defining and evolving platform architecture for high availability, scalability, and performance, driving improvements in reliability and operational excellence, and building core infrastructure components. Collaboration with applied science and product teams is key, as is mentoring engineers. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineering-CoreAI This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Core AI team at Microsoft, focusing on building the foundational platforms and services for Microsoft Foundry Platform. The role involves designing and developing platform services for enterprise AI agent solutions, including agent tooling frameworks, authentication, control plane APIs, and advanced security features. The engineer will also drive live site excellence and adopt AI-first development practices. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on enhancing the quality and reliability of Power BI Desktop and Service by developing automation frameworks, engineering systems, and integrating AI/GenAI into testing and development workflows. The role supports live site operations and aims to improve engineering efficiency and compliance within Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Commerce – Platforms, Data, and Experiences (PDX) team, focusing on data strategy, scalable data platforms, and ML-driven insights. The role involves data engineering, data processing, and machine learning to solve business problems, design experiments, build predictive models, and develop scalable solutions. Responsibilities include designing analytics solutions with ML models, ensuring operability and scalability, conducting data analysis and feature engineering, leading experimentation, and building solutions on LLM models. | AgentData | 5 |
| Senior Brand Strategist - Microsoft & Copilot This role is for a Senior Brand Strategist focused on Microsoft Copilot, responsible for leading and delivering brand strategy across various Microsoft and Copilot initiatives. The strategist will translate enterprise brand direction into actionable strategies for campaigns, product experiences, and go-to-market efforts, partnering with Product Marketing, MAI, Media, Engineering, Research, and Brand teams. Success involves clear, actionable brand strategy, strong campaign execution, and trusted cross-functional partnerships. | — | 5 |