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 |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and improving the conversational core (Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat) of Microsoft's AI-first strategy. The role involves developing features, engineering systems for rapid iteration and deployment, automating workflows, and leveraging AI-driven solutions to optimize performance and user experience for a product used by millions globally. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture Portuguese Speaking The Cloud Solution Architect will design and build AI and Agentic solutions for customers, focusing on accelerating adoption of Microsoft AI products like Copilot and Azure AI. This role involves technical engagements across architecture, POCs, and MVPs, leveraging existing IP and driving consumption growth. The architect will also act as a liaison between customers and internal teams, sharing insights and feedback, and maintaining deep technical expertise in AI trends. |
| Agent |
| 5 |
| Solution Engineering - Intern Opportunities Intern opportunity in Solution Engineering focused on AI Transformation for customers, involving customer engagement, product expertise development, and technical win contributions. | — | 5 |
| Senior Sales Specialist -Cloud & AI Platforms This role is for a Senior Sales Specialist focused on Cloud & AI Platforms, specifically Azure. The primary responsibility is to lead AI transformation initiatives for customers, helping them modernize infrastructure, optimize operations, and drive innovation using Azure's AI capabilities. The role involves customer engagement, sales strategy development, pipeline management, and leveraging AI tools to identify and close sales opportunities. While the role is within an AI-focused company and heavily involves AI concepts in its sales strategy, the core craft is sales, not building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) Cloud & AI Apps This role focuses on designing and delivering secure, resilient solutions for customers leveraging Microsoft's cloud and AI technologies, including Copilot. The Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) will work on security-focused technical engagements, assist with deployment and validation of security capabilities, interpret security alerts, and contribute to repeatable security solutions. The role emphasizes understanding customer security postures, risks, and operational challenges, and translating these into practical solutions. While the role involves working with AI-driven and agentic systems, its core focus is on the secure architecture, implementation, and operational readiness of these solutions within customer environments, rather than the direct development or research of AI models themselves. | — | 5 |
| Senior Solution Area Specialist - AI Business Process This role focuses on helping organizations transform their business processes using AI, acting as a consultative partner to C-suite executives. The specialist will lead sales processes, identify high-impact AI scenarios, drive platform adoption, and coach sales teams. The role emphasizes understanding customer business challenges and articulating Microsoft's AI solutions to achieve business goals. | — | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialist - AI Business Process This role focuses on selling AI-powered business process solutions to enterprise customers, guiding them through digital transformation and leveraging Microsoft's AI capabilities. The specialist will build C-suite relationships, lead sales processes, and deliver the One Microsoft narrative to achieve business goals. | — | 5 |
| Principal, Data Science & Analytics This role focuses on ecosystem data science within Microsoft AI, owning cross-product measurement strategy, shared measurement systems, and experimentation frameworks. The Principal Data Scientist will apply machine learning, statistical modeling, and data mining to large datasets to define and deliver metrics that measure user and business value across products. They will also be responsible for designing and executing experiments, and standardizing processes for data acquisition, quality, and operationalizing ML models. The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and driving data-driven decisions within an integrated consumer AI ecosystem. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect- AI Business Process Customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect specializing in AI Business Process applications using Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio. The role focuses on guiding customers through technical and business strategies, developing solutions, and ensuring optimal performance and cost-efficiency in leveraging Microsoft's AI investments. | — | 5 |
| Senior Solution Engineer - AI Business Process Senior Solution Engineer focused on AI Business Processes, specializing in Finance & Supply Chain, Power Platform, and/or Sales & Services. The role involves guiding enterprise AI developers, accelerating adoption of Microsoft's AI-powered stack through PoCs, hackathons, and workshops, and acting as a trusted technical advisor to help customers modernize applications using AI and realize the value of Microsoft's platform. This includes accelerating AI applications and agents into development workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - AI Business Process Solution Engineer specializing in AI Business Processes (Finance & Supply Chain, Power Platform, Sales & Services) to guide enterprise AI developers in leveraging Microsoft's AI-powered stack. This role involves hands-on engagements like PoCs and hackathons, accelerating the adoption of AI applications and agents into customer development workflows, and acting as a trusted technical advisor for secure, scalable solution design. | Agent | 5 |
| Sales Specialist-Cloud & AI Platforms Sales Specialist focused on driving customer adoption and transformation with Microsoft's Cloud & AI Platforms, including Azure's AI capabilities. The role involves engaging customers, assessing opportunities, managing sales pipelines using AI-powered tools, and developing sales strategies aligned with AI-driven market intelligence. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II- (GCC‑High/DoD) Backend Software Engineer II for Microsoft Viva Insights (Copilot Analytics) platform, focusing on building AI-powered experiences for understanding and accelerating Copilot/Agent adoption. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems, applying generative AI/ML, and managing Azure infrastructure within government cloud environments (GCC-High/DoD). Requires experience with AI/ML in production, Azure services, and infrastructure-as-code, with a strong emphasis on security and compliance for government clouds. | Ship | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Developer Experience This role focuses on improving the developer experience and CI/CD pipelines for Microsoft's Consumer Copilot, aiming to increase engineering velocity, reliability, and product quality for AI-powered consumer products. | — | 5 |
| MTS - Site Reliability Engineer This role is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on ensuring the reliability, availability, and efficiency of large-scale distributed AI infrastructure. The SRE will work with ML researchers, data engineers, and product developers to operate platforms for training, fine-tuning, and serving generative AI models. Key responsibilities include maintaining uptime, designing observability systems, optimizing performance, building automation for deployments and incident response, and ensuring security and compliance in hybrid cloud/on-prem CPU+GPU environments. The role requires strong experience in SRE/DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, public cloud platforms, monitoring tools, and programming languages like Python or Go, with a preference for experience with large-scale GPU clusters and HPC. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and maintaining authentication and authorization components for Microsoft Security. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, making data-driven decisions, and exploring AI-assisted development practices to improve velocity and quality. Experience with distributed services and a customer-first mindset are essential. The team supports thousands of internal Microsoft services and uses .NET as its primary language, with other languages being a plus. | — | 5 |
| Principal Researcher - Data Systems - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher in Data Systems at Microsoft Research, focusing on query execution, data storage, resource management, data discovery, and data preparation. The role involves leveraging AI/ML for data management challenges and contributing to Microsoft products. Requires a Doctorate and a strong publication record. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director of Customer Success Marketing Senior Director of Customer Success Marketing for Microsoft Azure & Commercial Cloud, focusing on customer adoption, deployment, and success. The role involves leading marketing strategy, integrating pricing and feedback, championing product truth, and building AI-assisted customer success systems. It requires tracking business health using metrics and influencing product roadmaps. | — | 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 laying the foundation for scalable, production-ready AI solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will guide customers through their AI transformation journey, design and implement scalable solutions, and optimize environments for AI use cases. While not directly building AI models, the role is crucial in enabling AI adoption and ensuring the underlying infrastructure is robust. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Data Platform Customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect focused on data platforms and analytics, guiding organizations in building secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include architectural design, proof-of-concept initiatives, and production deployments for mission-critical workloads, utilizing technologies like Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, and Purview to unlock data and AI value. | — | 5 |
| Japan AI Transformation Area Integrated Marketer - Field Integrated Marketing This role focuses on marketing and positioning Microsoft as an AI Transformation Partner in Japan. It involves developing AI transformation narratives, leading cross-solution marketing orchestration, driving demand, and building thought leadership through AI-focused storytelling. The role aims to influence go-to-market strategy and accelerate demand by leveraging AI messaging. | — | 5 |
| Azure Solution Specialist Sales leader for Azure solutions, focusing on driving cloud adoption and digital transformation for enterprise customers, with a specific emphasis on Gen AI workloads. The role involves building executive relationships, leading virtual teams, and exceeding Azure consumption targets. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on the Cosmos service. The role involves owning end-to-end delivery of platform features, driving product strategy and roadmap by leveraging AI, and translating customer needs into requirements. Experience with LLM APIs and tool use is required, with a focus on building AI-enabled operational databases and data-first applications. | Ship | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on the Cosmos service. The role involves owning end-to-end delivery of platform features, driving product strategy and roadmap leveraging AI, translating customer needs into requirements, and managing capacity planning and incident management. The team actively uses AI tools and expects candidates to be comfortable using AI as a core part of their work. Requires experience with LLM APIs and tool use. | — | 5 |
| Network Engineer II This role focuses on designing, building, and managing cutting-edge networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The Network Engineer will ensure high performance, low latency, and minimal jitter for distributed AI workloads, working with diverse network architectures and processor/accelerator technologies to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end solution with a focus on performance, scalability, and observability. | — | 5 |
| Sales Specialist - Workforce AI This role focuses on selling Microsoft's AI Business Solutions, including Copilot, Copilot Studio, Viva, and Cloud PC/Virtualization offerings, to enterprise customers. The Sales Specialist will drive AI transformation deals through consultative selling, building business cases, and orchestrating cross-functional teams to accelerate adoption and value realization. The role emphasizes growing Copilot adoption and FLW sockets, and requires experience with Generative and Agentic AI, and building AI Agents. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Workforce AI Solution Engineer focused on driving customer adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio & Agents and related AI-powered productivity solutions. Responsibilities include leading technical engagements, delivering demonstrations, guiding envisioning sessions, and ensuring governance, security, and compliance. | Agent | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Workforce AI Customer-facing role focused on driving adoption and business value of Microsoft's AI solutions, specifically Microsoft 365 Copilot and Cloud Endpoint solutions, by acting as a trusted advisor and technical subject matter expert. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer The Principal Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team focuses on building and optimizing big data analytics services, specifically within the Microsoft Fabric Spark team. The role involves pushing the frontiers of analytics performance and scale by working with open-source technologies like Spark, Gluten, Velox, and Delta, as well as proprietary Microsoft services. The goal is to improve onboarding and tuning of workloads, requiring an AI-forward approach to deliver impact at Azure scale. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, and operating data services, mentoring engineers, and participating in live site operations. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Ads Data Platform Team, part of Microsoft AI. The role involves designing and operating high-scale data platforms that process billions of events daily, supporting business analytics, machine learning models, and real-time reporting for Microsoft Ads. Focus on distributed systems, machine learning, and big data technologies. | Serve | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Data Platform Solution Engineer for Microsoft's Cloud & AI Data Platform, focusing on Azure databases and analytics services. The role involves driving technical sales, leading customer engagements like Proof of Concepts and hackathons, designing scalable architectures, and resolving technical blockers to accelerate customer adoption and modernization of their data platforms. Requires deep knowledge of Microsoft's data stack and on-premise data solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Data Security Solution Engineer focused on data security for enterprise clients, helping them modernize their data security architecture and posture. The role involves driving technical sales, leading engagements, co-designing secure architectures, and resolving technical blockers. A key aspect is enhancing team capabilities for protecting data within AI Platforms and Applications, and accelerating AI applications and agents into customer development workflows. | — | 5 |
| Sales Specialist - Security Sales Specialist focused on Microsoft Security solutions for enterprise customers. Responsibilities include managing senior relationships, identifying opportunities, building business cases, and driving sales execution. Requires strong industry and security knowledge, technical acumen, and collaboration skills. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Security Solution Engineer focused on security, helping customers modernize their security architecture and posture by leveraging AI and Microsoft's security solutions. The role involves driving technical sales, leading engagements, building trusted relationships, and resolving technical blockers. | — | 5 |
| Principal Consultant A2- Data & AI Principal Consultant role focused on leading 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 within an AI-native context, with a strong emphasis on enterprise data architecture and modern platforms like Microsoft Fabric. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Microsoft Fabric Data & Telemetry team, responsible for building and maintaining the operating system for the unified data platform. The team focuses on observability, including telemetry creation, routing, storage, and consumption, supporting live-site monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics. The engineer will design and build scalable telemetry instrumentation services and pipelines, develop tools for metadata management, create job monitoring and notification services, and streamline operations through automation, leveraging Azure technologies and Fabric/Azure-Data stack. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect specializing in AI and Azure workloads, responsible for guiding enterprise customers in their digital transformation and AI adoption journey. This role involves architectural design, deployment, and operational excellence for AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric Data & Telemetry team, responsible for building and maintaining telemetry instrumentation services and pipelines, developing tools for metadata management, and creating job monitoring and notification services for data pipelines. The role focuses on providing high-quality data for running the service and business, supporting pillars like live-site monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics for product development, and ensuring customers have data for their own observability needs. The team applies classic cloud and software engineering practices alongside big data-engineering and analytical practices. | Data | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer focused on Azure cloud infrastructure for commercial customers, helping them design, migrate, and modernize architectures to support AI workloads and business-critical applications. This role involves technical sales, architecture design, and collaboration to drive Azure adoption and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Infrastructure This role focuses on helping enterprise customers migrate, modernize, and secure their infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, specifically enabling them to build and scale production-ready AI solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will design and implement scalable solutions, optimize environments for AI workloads, and drive adoption of Azure services. | Ship | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists - Global Black Belt This role is a Solution Area Specialist, a high-level seller focused on guiding customers through AI-led business transformations using Microsoft's AI Business Process portfolio, particularly Power Platform. The role involves understanding customer needs, envisioning AI solutions, executing the sales process, and orchestrating virtual pursuit teams. It emphasizes driving profitability and achieving AI transformation wins. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Microsoft Advertising Senior Data Scientist role within Microsoft Advertising focused on defining and delivering metrics, experimental design, and product iteration to improve user and business value. The role involves partnering with engineering and product teams to solve complex data science problems and influence product improvements through data-driven insights and workflows. | — | 5 |
| Principal Architect-UI Platforms This role focuses on evolving the Windows UI platform (WinUI) to be AI-native, enabling AI agents to author, refactor, and optimize UI code. It involves designing semantic models, stable abstractions, and predictable composition patterns for AI consumption, as well as facilitating migration and adoption through AI-assisted tooling. The goal is to create a declarative, dynamic UI foundation that supports personalization and agent-driven mutation, making it easier for web and SwiftUI developers to adopt and future-proofing for AI-generated code. | Agent | 5 |
| (Senior) Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI The role is for a Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within CoreAI at Microsoft. This platform enables high-scale online experimentation for AI systems and product features, helping teams ship better AI experiences faster. The engineer will design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable services and features for this platform, contributing to its operational excellence and supporting AI innovation across Microsoft. | — | 5 |
| Principal/Senior Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Principal/Senior Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within CoreAI at Microsoft. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation to accelerate product learning and drive progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will design and build services for rapid iteration in AI systems and product features, empowering others to measure impact and validate hypotheses. The role involves developing critical components of a large-scale experimentation platform, focusing on distributed systems, service reliability, and experimentation methodologies. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within Microsoft's CoreAI division. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation for AI systems and product features, accelerating product learning and driving progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will lead architecture and development of this critical infrastructure, focusing on systems that help teams ship better AI experiences faster through rigorous experimentation and responsible AI practices. | ShipEval Gate | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager, Health AI Technical Program Manager for Microsoft's Health AI team, focusing on translating AI research into consumer products. The role involves managing end-to-end technical programs, driving cross-functional execution, and ensuring the quality, privacy, and security of AI-driven health features. Requires experience with production AI systems, launch processes, and working with compliance and legal teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Browser Platform Senior Software Engineer to join the on-device ML team for the Edge browser. The role involves delivering on-device ML capabilities via web APIs, integrating models and runtimes into Edge, developing evaluation pipelines and datasets, and contributing to the Chromium project. The focus is on shipping AI-powered features to end-users. | ShipData | 5 |
| Senior Researcher - Research in Software Engineering - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on advancing software engineering through rigorous research, integrating AI and agent technologies into programming languages, testing, and automated reasoning. The role involves driving high-impact research, developing new ideas, building state-of-the-art systems, and preparing technical papers and presentations. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on implementing advanced Identity and Access Management standards by leveraging emerging AI-forward technologies. The role involves improving AI tools and practices within the SDLC, incorporating Responsible AI, and experimenting with AI tools to enhance capabilities. It also emphasizes building scalable, secure solutions and adhering to modern software engineering practices, including the use of GenAI. | Ship | 5 |