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 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.
Currently tracking 205 active AI roles, down 11% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
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| Senior Quantum Software Engineer - Telemetry (Internet-of-Things & Application) Senior Software Engineer to lead telemetry for a quantum computing system, focusing on instrument and application telemetry. The role involves designing and implementing data collection, ensuring observability, and using AI-assisted workflows for debugging and operational insights. This is an engineering role focused on building the infrastructure for a complex scientific system. | — | 2 |
| AI Business Process Solution Specialist (公共/ヘルスケア) This role is for an AI Business Process Solution Specialist in the Public/Healthcare sector in Tokyo, Japan. The primary focus is on strategic sales activities to drive digital transformation for clients using Microsoft's Business Applications, including CRM, ERP, Power Platform, and AI agent scenarios with Copilot Studio. The role involves customer engagement, solution leadership, sales execution, and collaboration with partners, with a strong emphasis on understanding business needs and proposing innovative solutions. | — |
| 2 |
| Senior Business Development Manager This role focuses on leading global Maps and Local data partnerships for Microsoft, managing and negotiating complex deals across various products like Bing, Windows, and Copilot. It involves transitioning from traditional data models to AI-driven approaches, structuring deals for AI/ML rights, and aligning partnerships with product and engineering roadmaps. The role requires significant business development experience, technical fluency in data rights, APIs, and AI/ML, and cross-functional leadership, with experience in regulated and international partnerships. | — | 1 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Security This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Security, focusing on Microsoft's Purview Data Security, Sentinel, and Defender XDR solutions. The primary responsibility is to drive customer security transformation by owning the technical relationship, providing architecture design, implementation guidance, and ensuring operational health. The role involves working with enterprise-level customers on the bleeding edge of Microsoft's security solutions, leveraging foundational AI and security expertise to deliver end-to-end security outcomes. | — | 1 |
| Technical Program Manager II - Security Platforms & Operational Readiness This role is for a Technical Program Manager II focused on the strategic launch and operational readiness of security platforms within Azure and Microsoft Security solutions. The TPM will drive cross-organizational security initiatives, manage requirements, dependencies, and risks, and partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure successful launches and Day-0 readiness. The role involves defining program strategy, managing stakeholders, providing technical oversight, ensuring program governance, and coordinating readiness assets. Experience with data-driven or AI-enabled approaches for operational analytics or security workflows is preferred, and the role requires U.S. citizenship due to government security requirements. | — | 1 |
| Senior Azure Customer Engineer (ACE) This role is for a Senior Azure Customer Engineer focused on supporting strategic customers in sovereign and regulated environments. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, owning end-to-end support experiences, resolving complex issues, driving proactive improvements, and influencing Azure engineering teams. It emphasizes an AI-first, engineering-led approach leveraging automation and intelligence for detection, diagnosis, and resolution to ensure reliability, compliance, and resiliency at scale. | — | 1 |
| Sr. Account Executive - ASEAN High Tech This role is for a Sr. Account Executive focused on the High Tech industry in ASEAN, specifically working with startups and unicorns. The role involves driving the adoption of Microsoft Cloud & AI platform solutions to help these companies innovate and scale. It emphasizes understanding industry trends, customer business strategies, and orchestrating internal resources to deliver customer outcomes and achieve revenue targets. | — | 1 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Collections Manager This role is for a Senior Finance Manager, Collections Manager at Microsoft. The primary focus is on maximizing protection of Accounts Receivable (AR), accelerating cash flow, and optimizing collections performance. The role involves managing collections for an assigned portfolio, providing support and direction, and utilizing AI to drive improvements. It also includes participation in AI projects to enable business processes and managing vendor relationships. The position requires strong leadership principles, collaboration, and adherence to Microsoft's policies and ethical standards. Experience with AI toolsets is preferred. | — | 1 |
| Senior Tooling PM Senior Program Manager for incentive compensation tooling, focusing on modernization, scalability, and user-centricity. The role involves defining product strategy, driving execution, and improving system effectiveness through automation and AI. Key responsibilities include owning tooling as a product, driving end-to-end execution, improving system effectiveness, making data-informed decisions, partnering across teams, ensuring governance, and identifying AI opportunities to reduce manual effort and accelerate decision-making. | — | 1 |
| Sales Specialist - Workforce AI Sales Specialist focused on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers by positioning Microsoft's AI Business Solutions like Copilot and Viva. The role involves consultative selling, building business cases, and accelerating adoption of AI tools to enhance productivity and employee/customer experiences. | — | 1 |
| Cloud & AI (Azure) Solution Sales Specialist for Global IT Service This role is for a Solution Sales Specialist focused on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers using Azure. The primary responsibility is sales and customer engagement, leading initiatives around infrastructure modernization, AI agent adoption, and data platform transformation to maximize business value. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and partners to close deals and position Microsoft solutions. | — | 1 |
| Finance Manager This role is for a Finance Manager in Microsoft Devices, focusing on hardware production, supply chain asset management, and compliance control. The candidate will partner with operations and business teams to drive cost efficiency, manage pricing, ensure compliance, and provide financial predictability. A key aspect of the role involves identifying and driving AI and RPA opportunities to automate and simplify finance workflows, leveraging data-driven insights and automation tools to improve business outcomes. | — | 1 |
| Principal Optical Engineer This role is for a Principal Optical Engineer focused on rack-scale fiber-optic infrastructure and cabling for data centers, including those supporting AI systems. The engineer will develop standards, partner with suppliers, manage documentation, and assist with troubleshooting. While the role involves supporting AI infrastructure, the core craft is optical engineering for data center hardware, not AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 1 |
| Software Quality Engineering IC1 Software Quality Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data Analytics team, focusing on testing and improving the reliability of Power BI services and clients. The role involves manual and automated testing, cross-team collaboration, and ensuring quality in a data platform environment that supports AI. | — | 1 |
| Principal Applied Threat Intelligence Analyst - Microsoft Security Threat Response This role focuses on building and refining data pipelines and tooling to deliver cyber threat intelligence at machine speed. While it involves analyzing data and potentially using ML models, the core function is threat intelligence analysis and reporting, not the direct development or deployment of AI/ML models as a primary product or service. | — | 1 |
| Customer Experience Leader - Asia This role is a Customer Experience Leader for Asia at Microsoft, focusing on empowering customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services. The role involves leading customer-facing technical and service leaders, managing critical customer situations, driving proactive service and customer success models, and engaging with executives. While the role aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers and mentions contributing to evolving service delivery toward AI-enabled models, the core function is customer experience leadership and support, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 1 |
| Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer to build core embedded software for quantum readout instruments, interfacing with FPGA/SoC hardware. The role involves designing, developing, and testing C++ systems for controlling and measuring topological qubits, focusing on high-performance data paths, hardware-software integration, and reliable, diagnosable services. Collaboration with quantum experimentalists and FPGA engineers is key. The role mentions leveraging AI tools for innovation and efficiency, and familiarity with building AI agents/copilots is listed as a requirement. | — | 1 |
| Principal Customer Experience Engineer Principal Customer Experience Engineer for Microsoft Security Cloud, focusing on pre-sales, solution architecture, delivery, and program improvements. The role involves strategic technical leadership, customer advocacy, and identifying systemic issues, with an emphasis on adapting and using AI to improve repeatability and scale. | — | 1 |
| Global Partner Success Lead This role focuses on developing and executing the global partner ecosystem strategy for Microsoft Fabric, specifically targeting System Integrator (SI) partners. The Global Partner Success Lead will recruit, enable, and drive success with these partners in delivering analytics and AI solutions, aligning partner offerings with business objectives to accelerate customer adoption and value realization. The role involves strategic planning, program management, relationship management, cross-functional coordination, and ensuring partners are proficient in Fabric solutions, including AI/ML capabilities. | — | 1 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role at Microsoft Quantum focused on developing system software for scalable commercial quantum computers, integrating high-performance computing and AI, and implementing novel algorithms for computationally hard problems, including quantum error correction. | — | 1 |
| Account Executive - Microsoft Advertising Account Executive for Microsoft Advertising, responsible for maximizing digital and search advertising investment on the Microsoft Advertising platform. This role involves nurturing client relationships, meeting revenue targets, serving as a product expert, creating client initiatives, analyzing data for insights, executing scaled programs, and partnering with cross-functional teams. The position also requires troubleshooting and onboarding new advertisers, and maintaining CRM hygiene. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager Customer Success Account Manager responsible for empowering strategic enterprise customers to achieve business value through Microsoft's cloud platforms and services. This role involves end-to-end post-sales delivery and support orchestration, managing customer relationships, aligning objectives with the Microsoft portfolio, and driving adoption and usage of products and services. | — | 0 |
| Account Technology This role is a technology strategist and advisor for enterprise clients, focusing on driving business transformation through Microsoft solutions, including AI. The individual will leverage deep expertise in Microsoft technologies and industry trends to shape technology strategies, develop roadmaps, identify opportunities, and ensure customer success and adoption of Microsoft's innovation agenda. The role involves building executive relationships, leading technology engagements, and acting as a trusted advisor to guide customers on their digital transformation journey. | — | 0 |
| Partner Solution Sales Partner Solution Sales professional focused on driving revenue acceleration and growth within the unmanaged customer segment by working with partners to sell Microsoft solutions, including AI-powered offerings. The role involves developing and executing sales plans, managing partner performance, and ensuring co-sell strategies are implemented to achieve sales targets. | — | 0 |
| Sourcing Manager The Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying the growth of Microsoft's Cloud business, including AI. The Sourcing Manager role focuses on data analysis, reporting, and process improvement within the supply chain for this infrastructure. Responsibilities include collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data using tools like Excel and Power BI, developing data models, creating visualizations and dashboards, identifying opportunities for automation, and supporting supply chain initiatives. The role also involves project management aspects like tracking component qualification progress and managing purchase orders. | — | 0 |
| Field Product Marketing (Data & AI GTM KR) This role is a Field Product Marketing Manager focused on Data Platforms Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy in Korea. The primary responsibility is to accelerate revenue growth and boost field agility by deepening partnerships with sales, marketing, consulting, customer success, and partner functions. The role involves designing, operationalizing, and managing strategic programs for the Data Platforms solution play, ensuring alignment across processes and tools, and driving data-driven decision-making. It requires collaboration with various teams to land and champion solution plays, activate sales and marketing execution, and advocate for the voice of the customer, partners, and field. | — | 0 |
| Solution Area Specialists - Cyber Security This role is for a Sales Security Specialist at Microsoft, focusing on driving consumption and business growth with strategic customers in cybersecurity. The specialist will act as a security leader, develop sales strategies, build C-stakeholder relationships, understand customer security initiatives, demo cloud security solutions, and engage partners to accelerate sales cycles. The role involves performing ROI/TCO analysis and managing sales hygiene to meet revenue targets. While the company invests in AI-based security innovations and the role requires understanding cloud security technologies, the core function is sales and business development, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Account Tech Strategist This role is a technical strategist for enterprise accounts, focusing on integrating Microsoft technologies into customer businesses and developing long-term technical and business roadmaps. It involves understanding customer needs, identifying opportunities, driving conversations about Microsoft solutions versus competitors, and orchestrating internal teams and partners to support demand generation and account planning. The role acts as a technology mentor to senior customer leaders and contributes to customer skilling initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive - Industrial & Manufacturing This role is for an Account Executive in the Industrial & Manufacturing business group, responsible for major manufacturing customers. The role involves building mid- to long-term partnerships, leading business growth and transformation by engaging directly with executives to address global and enterprise-wide challenges using Microsoft technology. The Account Executive will lead the entire process from shaping transformation roadmaps to proposing and executing them, collaborating with internal specialist teams and partners to drive Digital Transformation (DX) and AI Transformation (AX). | — | 0 |
| Solution Area Specialists - Biz Apps This role is a sales specialist for Microsoft's Business Applications portfolio, focusing on CRM, ERP, and Power Platform. While it involves discussions around AI agentic scenarios and Co-pilot Studio, the core function is sales and strategic account planning, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Technical Solutions Manager The Technical Solutions Manager operates at the intersection of business operations, data, and engineering, supporting emerging non-standard scenarios including AI platform partner motions. This role relies on developing deep program and progress expertise to translate complex operational, billing, and compliance requirements into durable, scalable solutions through a balanced model of hands-on solution development and close partnership with Engineering and Data Engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Vaga Afirmativa para Pessoas com Deficiência/ Affirmative Job Posting Solution Engineer - Data Solution Engineer focused on Microsoft's cloud database and analytics stack, including Fabric Data Platform, Azure Databases, and Analytics. The role involves hands-on engagements like Proof of Concepts, hackathons, and architecture workshops to accelerate customer adoption, design secure and scalable solutions, and guide customers through data platform modernization and migration. | — | 0 |
| Director of Business Operations and Business Management This role is for a Director of Business Operations and Business Management within Microsoft Research Americas. The primary focus is on driving operational excellence, strategic planning, financial management, and business program design to support research and innovation. The role involves leading the Rhythm of Business, managing budgets, and improving processes. It is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Operations Program Manager This role supports and executes cloud processes for AI Partner Customers and custom Azure workloads, focusing on accurate and timely transaction execution, escalation management, and process improvements. It interfaces with various internal organizations to ensure efficient operations and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager This role manages programs for critical data center environments, focusing on safety, reliability, and scalability of electrical, mechanical, and operational systems. It involves cross-functional coordination, risk mitigation, and process improvement in highly regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Director, Global SMB Strategy & Growth Director, Global SMB Strategy & Growth at Microsoft, focusing on shaping and executing strategies for SMB customers in the AI era. This leadership role involves translating strategic vision into scalable execution, enabling field and partner ecosystems, and driving measurable business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of IT equipment within Microsoft's data centers. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, manage tickets, and ensure the smooth functioning of network, server, and storage infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator to the Corporate Vice President of Security for AI (SAI). This role supports the CVP by managing calendars, travel, operational tasks, budget, and events. It requires strong administrative, organizational, and communication skills, with experience supporting senior leaders in fast-paced environments. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It focuses on standard operating procedures, hardware maintenance, and ensuring the smooth operation of data center infrastructure that supports Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and operating a high-throughput, low-latency, and highly available API gateway service for Microsoft Graph. The role involves end-to-end design, development, and operation of distributed services, leading design reviews, incident resolution, performance optimization, and strengthening observability. It requires strong coding skills in languages like C++, C#, Java, or Python, and experience with high-scale services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining the mechanical and electrical equipment in leased data centers to ensure optimal operational efficiency and availability. The role involves overseeing day-to-day operations, managing maintenance, reducing incidents, delivering on cost/energy efficiency, and supporting emergency response plans. It also includes coordinating audits, reporting on power/temperature/humidity, and building relationships with engineering groups and landlord partners. The role emphasizes compliance with policies, safety, security, and cost adherence. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Admin Executive Business Administrator to provide comprehensive support to Engineering leaders across the Platform/Infrastructure team within Microsoft AI, helping drive operational efficiency, coordination, and strategic execution across key initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer responsible for the electrical engineering aspects of Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure. The engineer will be involved in design, testing, verification, and technical project implementation, focusing on ensuring the reliability and scalability of power systems within datacenters. | — | 0 |
| Technical Consultant, Cloud & AI - CTJ - Poly This role is a Technical Consultant focused on Cloud & AI solutions, involving pre-sales support, technical delivery, customer relationship management, and identifying opportunities for Microsoft technology adoption. It requires implementing technical solutions, managing customer relationships, and contributing to pre-sales activities as a subject matter expert. The role also involves intellectual property management and continuous learning of new technologies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Growth Systems & Marketing Technology Manager, Minecraft This role focuses on building growth systems for Minecraft by integrating marketing technology, attribution, audience activation, web, and commerce capabilities. The Senior Growth Systems & Marketing Technology Manager will drive player acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization at a global scale, acting as a connective layer across various teams like Marketing, Data & Analytics, Product, and Engineering. The role requires strategic thinking, technical fluency, and operational rigor to translate business priorities into scalable solutions and integrated systems. | — | 0 |
| Sr Technical Consultant, Cloud & AI - CTJ - Poly This role is a Sr. Technical Consultant focused on cloud and AI solutions, collaborating with internal stakeholders in the pre-sale process, understanding business requirements, and providing technical input. The role involves drafting proposals, SOWs, and identifying staffing needs. It requires mapping customer requirements to Microsoft technology solutions, communicating business value, and identifying technical/business risks. The consultant will also act as an ambassador for intellectual property and provide feedback to improve offerings, aiming to expand adoption of cloud and Microsoft technologies. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team, specifically within the regional capacity optimization team for Azure SQLDB. The role focuses on placement optimization problems for Azure SQLDB across infrastructure, involving distributed systems, algorithmic efficiency, security, numerical analysis, and statistics. The candidate will evaluate optimization ideas, develop datasets using production telemetry, and improve optimization strategies. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Program Manager This role is for a Data Center Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for managing projects, troubleshooting service incidents, and ensuring safety and security within data center operations. The role involves collaboration across teams, risk assessment, and adherence to policies to support Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Solution Engineer-Digital Native Solution Engineer focused on Digital Native customers, responsible for technical solution expertise in public cloud, leading customer engagements, architectural design sessions, Proof of Concepts, and technical advising on best-practices for Azure services. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) responsible for post-sales delivery and support orchestration for strategic customers, ensuring they achieve value from Microsoft's Digital Cloud platforms. This role involves relationship management, understanding customer objectives, driving adoption of Microsoft products and services, and managing consumption milestones. | — | 0 |