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.
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| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on implementing advanced Identity and Access Management standards by leveraging AI-forward technologies. The role involves improving AI tools and practices across the SDLC, incorporating Responsible AI, and using GenAI for coding and design. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Computer Aided Design Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating components for analog electronic devices, specifically within the Microsoft Quantum team. The engineer will define design approaches, technical specifications, and test requirements, leveraging industry-standard electronic design automation and electromagnetic simulation toolsets. A key aspect involves developing and refining process-design-kit (PDK) requirements for superconducting circuit technologies and collaborating with various teams to codesign for performance, scalability, and reliability. The role also includes leading the design and layout of superconducting cryogenic control and readout circuits and establishing physical-design, layout, and verification workflows. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools to accelerate discovery and drive innovation, the core craft is hardware engineering for quantum computing, not AI/ML model development. |
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| Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and scaling AI-powered growth systems for Microsoft's core AI products like GitHub Copilot and VS Code. The engineer will design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments, improve A/B testing frameworks, and use data to drive decisions, aiming to accelerate user adoption and engagement with AI features. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Microsoft Azure Data engineering team, focusing on designing and building internal tools, engineering systems, and automation capabilities to enhance the quality and reliability of Power BI Desktop and Service. The role involves end-to-end tool development, including architecture, backend services, dashboards, telemetry integration, and AI-powered workflows, with a focus on integrating GenAI into developer workflows and modernizing engineering processes. | Data | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) Principal Software Engineer focused on building AI-first growth and experimentation systems for Microsoft's CoreAI organization, which powers products like GitHub Copilot. The role involves architecting and implementing foundational engineering systems for measuring, experimenting with, and scaling AI experiences across Microsoft products, with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence, reliability, and driving measurable business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Azure High Performance Computing & AI team, responsible for defining, building, and managing AI supercomputers. The role involves understanding customer needs, identifying pain points, collaborating with SREs and developers to resolve challenges, and introducing new tooling and features to ensure a world-class customer experience on Azure infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Manager & Sr. Manager - AI Strategy This role is for a Manager/Sr. Manager of AI Strategy within Microsoft's Office of the CEO. The focus is on shaping Microsoft's AI strategy across infrastructure, platform, and applications/agents, including thought leadership, rethinking the economics of AI, and translating strategy into product reality. It involves analyzing M&A, market trends, and influencing product direction. The role requires a background in strategy, consulting, or product management and collaboration across various company teams. | — | 5 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Teams Core Services Infrastructure and Security team, focusing on building and operating mission-critical distributed systems for real-time communication. Responsibilities include network security, gateway infrastructure, routing, load balancing, DNS, CDN, monitoring, and observability. The role involves hands-on implementation, design discussions, incident response, and continuous improvement using automation and potentially AI-enabled tooling. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team, specifically focusing on the Power BI business intelligence product. The role involves technical planning, implementation, and monitoring of features, collaborating with program managers and partner teams, and mentoring junior developers. While the core product is BI, there's an emphasis on building the data platform for the age of AI and leveraging generative AI for copilot automation. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and maintaining core components of the control plane for Azure Database for MySQL. The team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications. The role involves technical leadership, architecture, design, development, and maintenance of large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on availability, performance, and operational simplicity. While the team's mission is AI-centric, the core responsibilities are in building and operating database services, not directly developing AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Data & Analytics - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on building and owning end-to-end technical vision and execution for infrastructure analytics within Microsoft AI. The primary responsibility is to turn raw telemetry into trusted insights on utilization, capacity, readiness, and efficiency, supporting leadership in making informed investment and planning decisions at scale. The role involves designing and building scalable data pipelines, defining core metrics, architecting self-service dashboards and APIs, and ensuring data quality and governance. | — | 5 |
| Research Intern - Azure Storage Research intern role focused on optimizing storage systems for AI workloads, including training, checkpointing, and inferencing. The role involves working with leading-edge AI customers to gain insights into their needs. | Serve | 5 |
| Cloud & AI Specialist (Azure sales for SME&C) This role is for a Cloud & AI Specialist on the SME&C team at Microsoft, focusing on selling Azure cloud solutions, particularly in AI and data, to small, medium, and enterprise customers. The specialist will work with sales, technical, and partner teams to propose solutions, drive digital transformation, and maximize Azure's value. The role involves account management, leading virtual teams, and achieving consumption targets, with an emphasis on consultative selling and leveraging Microsoft's full suite of services, including AI and data platforms. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling AI infrastructure within Azure's specialized division. The role involves using AI tools in the SDLC, reviewing code, debugging, and collaborating with partner teams to ensure end-to-end functionality, scalability, and performance of AI workloads on the Azure platform. Experience in High Performance Computing (HPC)/AI infrastructure is preferred. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Security / Global Solutions This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Security, focusing on driving customer transformation using Microsoft's security solutions like Purview Data Security, Sentinel, and Defender XDR. The role involves owning the technical relationship with enterprise customers, designing and implementing security architectures, and ensuring successful customer outcomes. It requires deep technical expertise in security, foundational AI, and cloud technologies, with a focus on Zero Trust, threat management, and SOC monitoring. | — | 5 |
| Principal Consultant - Apps This role is for a Principal Consultant focused on the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects within Microsoft's Industry Solutions - Global Center Innovation and Delivery Center (GCID). The role emphasizes embedding AI-first principles and AI-native thinking into delivery models, leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot to drive engineering excellence and modernize applications. While AI is a significant theme and toolset, the core responsibility is project delivery and technical leadership, not direct AI model development or research. | — | 5 |
| "Purview" Software Engineer Software Engineer for Microsoft Purview, focusing on data protection and governance solutions. The role involves using AI tools within the SDLC, contributing to architecture, and developing automation for production and deployment. It emphasizes cost-optimization and resource utilization for services. | — | 5 |
| Cloud & AI Platform Activation GTM Manager, JAPAN This role is a Go-to-Market (GTM) Manager for Cloud & AI Platforms (CAIP) in Japan, focusing on accelerating revenue growth and customer adoption. The manager will partner with sales, marketing, and other functions to execute solution plays, drive demand generation, and act as an advocate for Azure and CAIP solutions. The role requires understanding emergent technologies, industry trends, and regulatory requirements, with a preference for experience leveraging AI for customer success. | — | 5 |
| Senior Researcher - Data Systems - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Data Systems at Microsoft Research focusing on query execution, data storage, resource management, data discovery, and data preparation. Special interest in leveraging AI/ML for data management challenges. Past research has influenced products like SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Requires a Doctorate or equivalent experience and a track record of research accomplishments, including major conference publications. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Thermal & Mechanical Engineer - Cryogenic ASIC Integration This role is for a Senior Thermal & Mechanical Engineer focused on cryogenic ASIC integration for quantum computing. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for efficiency and working in an AI-first environment, the core responsibilities and deliverables are in thermal and mechanical engineering for quantum hardware, not in building or directly applying AI/ML models. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on building an AI-powered engineering system for Windows OS updates, aiming for efficiency, scale, and re-bootless deployment. The role involves leveraging AI to solve engineering and scale problems, working with cloud-native applications on Azure, and utilizing OpenAI APIs or similar LLM platforms. Requires strong understanding of Windows OS internals and experience with databases. | Serve | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Azure HPC/AI team focusing on networking for large-scale AI training supercomputers. The role involves working with AI compute product managers, AI model developers, and datacenter experts to ensure operational uptime and workload throughput for AI supercomputers. The goal is to support the training of advanced AI models for consumer and enterprise services. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Microsoft Azure High Performance Computing & AI Engineering team, responsible for managing the core platform and fleet of AI High Performance Computing products. The role involves designing and developing capabilities to monitor and operate supercomputers at scale, diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale systems, and creating data pipelines for telemetry and alerts. While the role supports AI customers and uses AI HPC products, the core craft is infrastructure engineering and operations, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Principal Consultant A2 - Infra This role is for a Principal Consultant focused on AI-first infrastructure delivery. The consultant will lead the technical execution of complex client projects, embedding AI-native thinking into delivery models. Responsibilities include designing, building, and optimizing cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions, leveraging automation and intelligent orchestration, and ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing environments. The role requires proficiency in Python for AI integration and scripting, and experience with Azure AI Services. | Serve | 5 |
| Principal Consultant A2 - Apps This Principal Consultant role focuses on leading the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, with a strong emphasis on embedding AI-first principles and leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot across the software development lifecycle. The role involves architectural ownership, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes within an enterprise context. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and operating services for Microsoft Devices (Surface, Xbox), involving supply chain, manufacturing, and delivery. The role emphasizes using AI tools within the SDLC, code reviews, debugging, system architecture, and automation, with a focus on product delivery and operational excellence. | — | 5 |
| Research Intern - Office of the Chief Scientific Officer This is a Research Intern position within Microsoft's Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, focusing on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible AI. The intern will collaborate with researchers on various projects, contributing to research and development strides in areas like AI, biology, and responsible AI, with a focus on societal influences. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer (full-stack) for Microsoft's MSN team, focusing on creating impactful web experiences for over 1 billion users. The role involves technical leadership, collaborating with frontend and backend teams, designing, coding, and operationalizing experience and services at hyper scale. Experience with modern front-end frameworks, cloud architecture, and A/B experimentation is required. The role contributes to a personalized content feed that leverages AI/ML for content moderation, personalization, and content entry points. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on accelerating the adoption of Copilot and Microsoft 365 by delivering embedded experiences across the Microsoft 365 suite. The role involves designing and developing end-to-end features, scaling Azure-hosted services, or delivering high-performance native experiences, with a focus on customer-centric design and data-informed decision-making to drive business growth. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building next-generation networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The role involves developing high-performance, low-latency, and reliable networking capabilities to support distributed AI workloads, working at the intersection of AI and high-performance computing. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer role focused on full-stack and low-code development, integrating AI agents into production services, and building scalable business applications using cloud technologies like Azure and Power Platform. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying solutions, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring quality and compliance. | Agent | 5 |
| Head of Specialist Sales (STU), Philippines This role oversees and aligns multiple sales teams with the organization's strategic vision and customer success objectives, ensuring adherence to sales frameworks and guidelines. The Head of Specialist Sales strategically guides and empowers teams to proactively anticipate and address competitive threats and gaps in the market across all solution areas. They develop and empower teams to lead end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-driven transformation initiatives for customers. The role works with area or organization leaders to ensure an accurate forecast through pipeline management and a deal-based forecast in each of the core solution areas. They drive cross-organizational collaboration to achieve operational excellence and execution of the business strategy. The role coaches teams to leverage technology to drive business growth across solution areas and ensures the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision. They proactively identify and align solution scenarios with customer and partner organizations, ensuring that Microsoft's offerings integrate with and add value to their business operations. As a prominent customer and partner advocate, they provide feedback to solution area leaders to shape strategy and drive continuous improvement to capture market opportunities and establish trust. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance. | — | 5 |
| Security Solution Area Specialist This role drives Microsoft's Security business by leading AI-enabled security sales motions, shaping customer transformation strategies, and orchestrating cross-functional teams. It involves using AI-powered analytics for pipeline reviews, analyzing market opportunities with AI and automation, and leveraging AI-driven insights for account strategies. The specialist will engage senior executives to accelerate opportunities, align AI transformation with business priorities, and use predictive analytics for sales plays. They will also lead AI- and cloud-driven security transformations and assess opportunities through AI-enhanced frameworks. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager to define and drive the strategy, vision, and execution for AI agents that elevate quality engineering across specialized enterprise workloads like SAP, focusing on reliability, resilience, and security within Microsoft Azure. | Agent | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Engineer This role focuses on building and scaling the backend platform for Microsoft's consumer AI products, specifically powering Copilot. It involves designing, developing, and maintaining AI Platform services, collaborating with AI researchers and engineers, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of platform components. The role requires strong experience in backend technologies, public cloud infrastructure, and production software development. | Serve | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Product Engineer, iOS This role is for an iOS engineer on the Native Engineering team responsible for building the core experience of Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, on iOS. The role focuses on developing consumer-grade mobile applications and collaborating with product management, design, and AI research teams to deliver AI-powered features to users. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product - Backend Engineer Backend engineer for Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, focusing on building APIs for mobile apps, optimizing user growth, engagement, and retention. Collaborates with various teams to deliver scalable infrastructure and impactful results in a fast-paced consumer product environment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer in the Applied Sciences Group (ASG) at Microsoft, focusing on creating innovative, machine learning-powered features across Windows and other Microsoft products. The role involves end-to-end feature development, from ideation to deployment, and collaborating with researchers and designers to deliver user-centered solutions. Experience with ML models in production, semantic search, and voice interaction is a plus. | Ship | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager - Compute This role is for a Technical Program Manager focused on compute infrastructure for large-scale AI/ML training and serving of foundation models. The role involves driving projects, collaborating with various teams, leveraging data for optimization, and advocating for resource needs. It is part of Microsoft AI's Superintelligence Team, aiming to push the boundaries of AI while ensuring control and safety. | — | 5 |
| Research Intern - Computational Social Science Research Intern position focused on computational social science, exploring the impact of AI-based tools at individual and societal levels. This includes research on AI-augmented human cognition, decision-making, and the economics of agentic markets. The role involves leveraging digital data and designing experiments to understand human behavior and the implications of AI. | Agent | 5 |
| Research Intern - AI Network Observability Research intern to design and develop tools for AI datacenter network observability, focusing on high-performance tracing and analysis systems for packet-level behavior at high speeds. The role involves prototyping solutions on real hardware and collaborating with engineers to improve reliability and explainability of AI intra-datacenter networking. | — | 5 |
| Director - AI Strategy Director of AI Strategy within the Office of the CEO, focusing on Microsoft's AI strategy across infrastructure, platform, and applications/agents. This role involves thought leadership, rethinking the economics of AI, and translating strategy into product reality, including M&A. The position requires influencing senior leadership and charting AI journeys for customers. | — | 5 |
| Senior Microsoft FastTrack Architect (FTA) - FastTrack This role focuses on helping enterprise customers adopt and derive value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and E5 Security products. The architect will engage with customers to understand their needs, design solutions, and drive successful deployment and adoption, working closely with various Microsoft teams. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of large-scale AI training infrastructures, specifically GPU clusters. It involves designing and developing hardware health monitoring and diagnostic frameworks, building predictive analytics pipelines using telemetry data, and leading incident triage for hardware anomalies. The goal is to drive automation in health management and partner with cross-functional teams to improve hardware design for reliability. | Serve | 5 |
| Research Intern - Data Systems Research intern focused on data systems, with potential to leverage AI/ML for data management challenges. The role involves working with researchers on innovative solutions and contributing to publications. | Data | 5 |
| Research Intern - Networking Research Group Research Intern position in Microsoft's Networking Research Group, focusing on networked systems including AI's role in networking challenges. The internship involves contributing to research agendas, collaborating with researchers, and potentially working on systems, sensing, security, AI, edge computing, optimization, and probability theory. | — | 5 |
| Senior Security Researchers Senior Security Researcher role focused on researching emerging attack vectors, analyzing detection/prevention gaps, and designing/developing solutions. The role involves guiding the design of AI-based solutions for security problems and has a preferred qualification in AI workflows or generative AI/LLM frameworks. The primary focus is on building security solutions, with AI being a tool to achieve that. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Quantum Architect This role is for a Principal Quantum Architect focused on the readout and control layer of a topological quantum system. The role involves translating system requirements into subsystem requirements, analyzing performance and scaling, and using modern AI tools for architectural validation and rapid prototyping. The primary focus is on building and scaling quantum computing platforms, with AI tools being used as a supporting technology. | — | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and securing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution (Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop). The role involves modernizing authentication, establishing secure practices, and adopting phishing-resistant credentials. While the role mentions using AI tools in the SDLC and GenAI approaches, the core product is VDI, not an AI model or agent. | — | 2 |
| Senior Security Research Engineer - Microsoft Defender Experts Team This role is for a Senior Security Research Engineer on the Microsoft Defender Experts Team. The primary focus is on detecting, investigating, and responding to advanced attacks and data breaches using Microsoft 365 Defender and rich telemetry. The role involves analyzing attacker behaviors, generating custom alerts, building new tools and automations for hunting, and driving innovations in detecting advanced attacker tradecraft. While AI/ML might be used as a tool, the core craft is cybersecurity detection and response, not building AI models. | — | 2 |