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 235 new AI-related roles. That is a -21% change versus the prior 30 days (299 → 235).
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| Cloud Solution Architecture - Infrastructure This role focuses on acting as a trusted technical advisor for Microsoft's strategic customers, helping them improve the reliability, resilience, security, performance, and operational excellence of their Azure environments. It involves proactive assessments, technical guidance, incident leadership, and cross-functional collaboration within a global follow-the-sun model. The CSA will advise on architecture and operations aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework, lead complex troubleshooting efforts, facilitate Root Cause Analysis, and drive reduction of reactive operational demand through reliability-focused recommendations and operational maturity improvements. The role also involves performing proactive health assessments, risk reviews, and analyzing telemetry and monitoring platforms to identify trends and develop actionable insights. Customer engagement includes creating knowledge documentation, delivering onboarding assessments, and tracking remediation progress. Global collaboration with various Microsoft teams is essential. | — | 0 |
| Lease Construction Manager This role is for a Lease Construction Manager responsible for overseeing the construction of leased data center projects, ensuring compliance with Microsoft's requirements as outlined in the lease contract. The manager will act as Microsoft's Employer's Representative, coordinating with internal Subject Matter Experts and lease providers to achieve 'Ready for Service' status for each project. Key responsibilities include managing safety, stakeholder dependencies, vendor contracts, and ensuring alignment with regional business objectives and OKRs. The role requires strong communication, negotiation, and analytical skills, with a focus on driving safe, high-quality, and efficient project delivery in a fast-paced, technical environment. |
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| Sr Consulting Program Management-CTJ-Top Secret This role is for a Senior Consulting Program Management Individual Contributor at Microsoft, focusing on complex Federal opportunities. The role involves orchestrating sales, solution architects, partners, and delivery teams to ensure successful qualification, structuring, governance, and delivery of AI-related projects. Key responsibilities include deal shaping, partner and stakeholder orchestration, delivery readiness, financial management, and ensuring compliance with security and federal requirements. The role requires a Top Secret security clearance and experience in project management within a regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role focuses on the engineering and maintenance of Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) within Microsoft's mission-critical datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring the availability, data quality, service, change management, reporting, and security of ICS systems, managing electrical and mechanical systems, and governing access to these systems. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls. | — | 0 |
| Business Manager This role is for a Business Manager within Microsoft's Commercial HR team, focusing on transforming HR operations globally. The Business Manager will act as a strategic partner to senior leaders, translating priorities into action, orchestrating execution, and managing key engagements. Responsibilities include guiding impact through context and complexity, acting as a connector across strategy, operations, and communications, and synthesizing insights from data and employee signals. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years of experience in relevant fields like financial management, business planning, operations, strategy, project management, or HR. | — | 0 |
| Digital Account Executive This role is for a Digital Account Executive at Microsoft, focusing on serving Medium Enterprise managed clients and guiding them through their Digital Transformation journey. The role involves building executive-level relationships, leveraging digital tools and AI, orchestrating internal resources and partners, managing territory and pipeline, and forecasting sales revenue. The goal is to drive customer success and achieve revenue targets by understanding customer needs and presenting tailored Microsoft solutions. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves performing standard procedures for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning equipment in a data center environment. The technician will work under guidance, learn about security and data management, and contribute to issue tracking and team collaboration. The role requires adherence to safety and security protocols and meeting performance indicators. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers, ensuring service compliance, quality, and safety. This role involves coaching, performance management, and operational oversight of data center infrastructure supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| SR CONSULTING AE This role is for a Senior Consulting Account Executive at Microsoft, focused on selling services and solutions that leverage AI and Microsoft Cloud. The primary responsibility is to drive customer value and achieve sales targets by aligning business goals with transformative solutions, managing the full sales cycle, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and partners. While AI is mentioned as a key component of the solutions sold, the core craft of the role is sales and account management, not building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| SR CONSULTING AE - Retail This role is for a Senior Consulting Account Executive in the Retail industry, focusing on selling Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions to customers. The primary responsibility is to drive sales and customer value through consultative selling, managing the full sales cycle, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to achieve sales targets. While AI is mentioned as a component of the solutions sold, the core craft of the role is sales and account management, not building or directly working with AI models. | — | 0 |
| Government Affairs: Events and Operations Internship Opportunities Internship role supporting event management, operations, and program management within Microsoft's European Government Affairs team. Responsibilities include coordinating events, managing systems, supporting projects, contributing to facility experience (including AI demonstrations), and assisting with financial operations and budget management. Requires interest in technology policy and strong English skills. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Windows team, focusing on building and innovating Shell and Services Experiences for future Windows versions. The role involves influencing product vision, mentoring engineers, delivering high-quality results, and driving engineering excellence. Requires strong coding skills in C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, experience in modern app development (XAML/WinUI), and leadership in shipping large-scale software. | — | 0 |
| IT Technical Trainer This role is for an IT Technical Trainer on the Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) Learning team. The trainer will be responsible for technical training delivery, workforce training needs analysis, and procedural change management activities supporting datacenters. They will leverage technical and adult learning fundamentals to evaluate and report on training activities, and coach learners. The role involves delivering training on core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Regional Environmental Compliance Program Manager The Regional Environmental Compliance Program Manager will support data centre sites with regulatory environmental requirements in the EMEA region, focusing on air, water, waste management, and energy efficiency. This role involves identifying risks, ensuring compliance, communicating requirements, and providing training on environmental management systems (EEMS) aligned with ISO14001 and ISO50001. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Kusto Software Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data Kusto team, focusing on building and improving a high-scale, cloud-native log analytics platform. The role involves designing, developing, and operating distributed systems for real-time data insights, contributing to the future of analytics in Microsoft Fabric. | — | 0 |
| Senior Consultant Senior Consultant role focused on delivering high-quality solutions and business outcomes using Microsoft Azure cloud technologies for strategic customers. Responsibilities include articulating value propositions, driving adoption of Microsoft Cloud, ensuring solution alignment with architecture, identifying and mitigating risks, and providing stakeholder assistance throughout deployment. Requires deep technical background in Azure, Identity, and Security, with experience in multi-phase global implementations. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Sales - Contracting & Pricing This role is a Commercial Executive responsible for deal-making, negotiation, and collaboration to drive revenue growth and customer success within Microsoft's Enterprise Commercial organization. The role acts as a trusted advisor on commercial activities and contracting, leading internal and external sales through commercial construct and deal value proposition, while optimizing investment and customization. A key focus is supporting AI transformation across accounts, maximizing business opportunities with new AI offerings like Copilot, and ensuring compliant, on-time deal execution. | — | 0 |
| Senior Materials Manager Senior Materials Manager role focused on global materials management and supply chain execution for Windows devices, ensuring material readiness, inventory optimization, and risk mitigation with contract manufacturers and global supply chain partners. Responsibilities include COS management, E&O management, inventory control, and continuous improvement of supplier capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Principal Consulting Project Manager This role is for a Principal Consulting Project Manager at Microsoft, focused on managing the delivery of industry-specific solutions to strategic customers. The role involves account delivery management, intellectual property research and sharing, relationship development with customer stakeholders, project initiation, contracting, presales support, and detailed project planning. The core responsibilities revolve around managing project lifecycles, ensuring customer satisfaction, adhering to compliance standards, and driving project profitability and risk management within a broader enterprise solutions context. | — | 0 |
| Category Manager Microsoft is seeking a Category Manager for its Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) procurement team, specifically for data center operations supply chain. The role involves defining and executing sourcing strategies, managing supplier scorecards, negotiating contracts, and ensuring compliance within critical equipment maintenance and services categories. The position requires experience in supply chain, data analytics, finance, or project management, with a strong commercial understanding and contract negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Construction Manager Microsoft is seeking a Construction Manager to oversee the delivery of datacenter capacity for their cloud business. This role involves managing project execution across multiple sites, ensuring safety, quality, sustainability, schedule, and budget requirements are met. Responsibilities include project controls, program delivery, cross-functional collaboration, technical oversight, risk and safety leadership, vendor management, and executive reporting. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 5+ years of experience, with a preference for 12+ years and data center project experience. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager (DIAM) Lead a team of technicians responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including logistics, audits, regulatory compliance, warranty processes, and data bearing device destruction. The role involves modeling leadership, driving efficiency, managing escalations, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| SE&O Lead, Malaysia This role focuses on driving an integrated operating model across Sales, Marketing, and Partner teams within a subsidiary, leveraging AI adoption to accelerate demand generation and pipeline growth. It involves orchestrating initiatives, advising leadership, localizing go-to-market strategies, and translating market insights into actionable plans. | — | 0 |
| Security Solution Specialist (公共/ヘルスケア) Microsoft is seeking a Security Solution Specialist for the Public Sector (Healthcare) in Tokyo. This role involves achieving sales targets, developing sales strategies for Microsoft Security solutions (primarily Microsoft 365 and Azure Security), building customer relationships, identifying cybersecurity needs, and proposing optimal solutions. The specialist will act as a liaison between customers and internal teams, provide feedback to the product team, and lead complex transformational opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Principal Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer This role is for a Principal Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer responsible for technical leadership, operational excellence, reliability, troubleshooting, and safety within Microsoft's cloud datacenters. The role involves providing expert guidance, leading technical response efforts, establishing engineering standards, and driving complex cross-functional programs. | — | 0 |
| Principal Corporate Counsel, Infrastructure Legal Affairs This role provides legal advice and counsel to the Azure Hardware and Systems Infrastructure division, focusing on cloud and AI infrastructure capacity to support customer AI transformation. The role involves managing negotiations and transactions related to hardware development, manufacturing, and supply chain, and advising on cutting-edge technology. It also includes evaluating process improvements and the development/deployment of AI tooling. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Manager This role is for a Strategic Account Manager at Microsoft in São Paulo, Brazil. The primary focus is on managing and growing a portfolio of customer accounts by developing and executing multi-year account plans, identifying new opportunities, and leveraging industry expertise to shape the ecosystem. The role involves building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, understanding customer business models and needs, and orchestrating solutions that drive digital transformation and business value for customers. It also includes competitive analysis and sales excellence to position Microsoft's offerings effectively and act as a trusted advisor to C-level decision makers. | — | 0 |
| Government Cloud Investigations Analyst - CTJ - TS Investigate fraud, abuse, and security incidents within U.S. Government cloud environments, adhering to federal compliance frameworks and protecting government customers. This role involves deep-dive investigations, incident response, threat hunting, and cross-functional collaboration in a regulated, high-trust environment. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator supporting leaders at Microsoft, focusing on calendar management, logistics, cross-functional communication, event coordination, and project ownership. The role requires strong organizational, communication, and judgment skills in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager The Critical Environment Program Manager role at Microsoft focuses on the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment within datacenters, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. This role involves managing daily operations, preventative maintenance, project management, and ensuring compliance with infrastructure standards. It is not directly involved in AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend Senior Backend Engineer for Microsoft Ads' high-throughput, low-latency real-time bidding platform. Focuses on architectural evolution, modernization, performance, scalability, and operational excellence. Requires deep expertise in distributed systems and leadership in large-scale refactoring. Collaborates with data science, experimentation, and business stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Senior Communications Manager, Cloud & AI This role is for a Senior Communications Manager focused on Microsoft's Cloud & AI infrastructure, including datacenters, energy, water sustainability, and external impact. The role involves developing and executing communication strategies, managing media relations, and handling issues management for high-visibility topics with potential regulatory interest. It requires partnering with various internal teams and external agencies to shape narratives and ensure clear, compelling storytelling. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineers Senior Software Engineers are needed to build innovative agentic and software-security solutions, including Microsoft MDASH. The role focuses on designing and building scalable backend services and data platforms that support high-impact security scenarios, bridging the gap between source code and runtime security. This is a new team focused on shaping the future of AI and security. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineers Principal Software Engineers are sought to build innovative agentic and software-security solutions, focusing on closing the gap between source code and runtime security. The role involves designing, building, and improving systems for software supply chain security, analyzing dependencies and vulnerabilities, applying program analysis techniques, and developing scalable cloud-based pipelines. Integration with developer tools like GitHub and Visual Studio is key, as is contributing to supply chain integrity practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building high-performance advertising SDKs and platform capabilities for digital advertising at Microsoft. The role involves leading design, architecture, development, and enhancement of Windows Ads SDK components, improving ad delivery experience, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Emphasis on performance, reliability, scalability, security, privacy, and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer The Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer will own the development of C and C++ based test content at the subsystem and SoC levels, build and maintain the C test infrastructure, own the pre-silicon verification strategy and execution for security IP blocks and subsystems, architect and extend SystemVerilog and UVM environments, drive coverage signoff, act as a verification lead, mentor engineers, and improve verification efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Director of Content Experience for Skilling Events Director of Content Experience for Skilling Events at Microsoft, responsible for shaping the end-to-end content narrative and experience for skilling events, aligning content to business priorities, audience needs, and skill outcomes. The role involves leading audience segmentation, establishing content standards, partnering with production, and leveraging data to improve content strategy and experience design. It also includes designing scalable operating models for content across events and driving disciplined execution. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager (Quantum Manufacturing) This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager focused on Quantum Manufacturing at Microsoft. The primary responsibility is to manage the end-to-end lot lifecycle in a cleanroom and lab environment, coordinating across fabrication, packaging, and measurement teams. The role involves driving execution, managing the production schedule, planning capacity, and improving operational rigor through KPIs and data analysis. The goal is to mature operations from pilot-line R&D towards low-volume production, ensuring reliability and repeatability. While the company aims to integrate AI with quantum computing, this specific role is focused on the manufacturing operations and program management aspects, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Cloud & AI Digital Solution Area Specialist This role is a sales and account management position focused on helping mid-market customers adopt Microsoft's AI, data, and cloud solutions. The specialist will drive strategic customer conversations, advance opportunities, and achieve revenue targets by connecting Cloud & AI solutions to customer business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, managing operational and safety situations, mentoring junior technicians, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires hands-on understanding of critical environment equipment like electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems, and involves using CMMS for work orders and adhering to safety procedures. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of equipment within Microsoft's data centers. The technician will work under guidance, learn standard procedures, and contribute to issue resolution, ticket completion, and team collaboration, ensuring adherence to security and data management policies. The role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure powering various online services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role focuses on securing Microsoft products, including operating systems and cloud platforms, through security design reviews, code reviews, vulnerability research, and building mitigations. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with native code, penetration testing, and OS security fundamentals. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineering This role is for a Senior Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers to resolve complex customer technical issues. The role involves people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback and automation, and fostering business integration for a great customer experience. While the company and its support services leverage AI, the core function of this role is managing a support team, not directly building or deploying AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Advisory This role is a Technical Support Advisory position within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, focusing on ensuring the technical readiness and process compliance of frontline support staff and delivery partners. The role involves providing in-depth technical expertise for Microsoft products and services, handling complex customer issues, mentoring engineers, contributing to self-help initiatives, and providing feedback for product and process improvement. While the company and its support systems leverage AI, the core function of this role is technical support and readiness, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Sales Executive This role is for a Commercial Sales Executive at Microsoft in London. The primary focus is on leading commercial strategy, negotiation, and deal shaping for complex, high-value opportunities, particularly within the Public Sector or Financial Services sectors. The role involves acting as a trusted commercial advisor, designing innovative deal structures, influencing senior stakeholders, and ensuring compliance. Collaboration across internal teams (Sales, Finance, Legal, etc.) and with the partner ecosystem is crucial for driving successful customer and business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Manager - CritSit This role is a Support Escalation Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. The primary focus is on managing escalated customer and partner issues, collaborating with internal and external teams, and improving resolution times and customer satisfaction. While the role mentions leveraging AI technology and accelerating AI transformation for customers, the core responsibilities are centered around customer support, issue resolution, and process improvement, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Customer Operations Manager Customer Operations Manager at Microsoft, focusing on direct and centralized operations services for Enterprise Agreement customers. Responsibilities include contracting, order management, billing, and customer service, with an emphasis on process efficiency, quality, and compliance. The role involves providing frontline transactional support and shaping next-generation experiences. | — | 0 |
| Regional Security Integration Manager This role is for a Regional Security Integration Manager responsible for physical security systems and devices at datacenters and other facilities within an assigned region. The role involves leading projects related to physical security systems design, implementation, testing, commissioning, and acceptance, ensuring compliance with baselines, cost, and schedule efficiency. It also includes project management for operational state security systems and devices, and collaboration with peer teams. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of equipment within Microsoft's data centers. It involves following standard procedures, adhering to security and data management policies, and contributing to team efforts. The role requires on-site presence and travel between sites. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissions in Microsoft data centers, focusing on performance, KPIs, SLAs, and team development. | — | 0 |
