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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| Support Escalation Manager This role is a Senior Support Escalation Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. The primary focus is on managing escalated customer and partner issues, driving resolution through internal and external collaboration, and improving support processes. While the role operates within an organization that leverages AI technology, the core responsibilities do not involve building or directly managing AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves supporting the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services by performing standard procedures for equipment preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning 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. | — | 0 |
| Sr Consultant This role focuses on designing and implementing Azure cloud infrastructure solutions, including IaaS/PaaS, cloud migrations, landing zones, governance, and security. It involves architectural leadership, customer engagement, and automation using Infrastructure as Code. While the role supports customers in regulated environments and mentions AI-ready infrastructure, its core function is cloud infrastructure delivery, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. |
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| HR Consulting Leader, Japan This role leads the HR Consulting function in Japan, focusing on delivering global People ROB programs and processes with agility. It partners with Japan's managers, employees, and leadership team to accelerate digital transformation and enable AI-driven innovation. The role involves people leadership, enhancing employee experience, managing employee relations, providing HR solutions consulting, building HR capabilities, and overseeing HR projects and programs, all while fostering an inclusive culture and leveraging technology and agile methodologies. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive Account Executive responsible for serving as a trusted advisor to strategic customers, helping them achieve their business goals through digital transformation and Microsoft technology solutions. The individual builds and strengthens executive-level customer relationships, develops long-term account strategies, and leads cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes and drive revenue growth. | — | 0 |
| Services Account Executive, New Zealand Sales role focused on guiding customers through cloud and AI transformation journeys, positioning Microsoft Services portfolio, and driving customer success and business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Vaga Afirmativa para Pessoas com Deficiência/ Affirmative Job Posting Commercial Executive Commercial Executive responsible for leading deal-making, negotiation, and collaboration activities to drive revenue growth and customer success, with a focus on supporting AI transformation and maximizing business opportunities with new AI offerings like Copilot. | — | 0 |
| Solution Architect Manager (SAM) - Japan ABS This role is a Solution Architect Manager within Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery, focusing on helping strategic customers address challenges and implement industry-specific solutions using Microsoft Cloud and AI. The role involves people management, pre-sales support, technical delivery oversight, intellectual property management, and business development, with a strong emphasis on customer outcomes and adherence to Microsoft processes. While AI is mentioned as a component of customer transformations, the core responsibilities of this management role are not directly building or shipping AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Executive Commercial Executive responsible for deal-making, negotiation, and collaboration to drive revenue growth and customer success, with a strong focus on supporting AI transformation and new offerings like Copilot. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive | Enterprise Majors Growth Senior Account Executive focused on enterprise majors growth, partnering with C-level executives to drive AI, Copilot, and Cloud transformation for strategic business goals. This role involves orchestrating cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions, accelerate business outcomes, and strengthen strategic relationships. | — | 0 |
| Fraud Operations Enablement Program Manager Program Manager for Fraud Operations Enablement, focusing on designing and scaling systems, processes, and tooling to improve operational efficiency, quality, and risk reduction. This role enables frontline teams by improving workflows, identifying friction points, partnering with engineering for automation, defining data requirements, and managing cross-functional enablement programs. Experience with AI-assisted investigations is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - TS/SCI Software Engineer II role focused on building and operating platforms for mission-critical cloud services, specifically underpinning Azure SQL and next-generation cloud experiences. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable services, partnering with cross-functional teams, and ensuring operational excellence. Requires experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms, with on-call responsibilities. Security clearance (TS/SCI) is a mandatory requirement. | — | 0 |
| Incident Command & Threat Hunting Operations Manager This role leads incident response and threat hunting operations for Fraud & Abuse Security at Microsoft. It involves managing major incidents, defining threat hunting strategies, and coordinating cross-functional teams to reduce customer and Microsoft harm. The role requires strong leadership, operational excellence, and experience in cybersecurity incident management. | — | 0 |
| Director, Strategic Customer Engagement & Enterprise Initiatives This role is a senior individual contributor within Microsoft's Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization, focused on leading strategic customer engagements and enterprise initiatives. The Director will manage complex escalations, identify systemic gaps, incubate strategic projects, and drive cross-functional alignment to improve customer experience and operational efficiency, particularly in the context of accelerating AI transformation for customers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Executive Administrator Senior Executive Administrator role supporting the President & Technical Fellow and the worldwide OneDrive & SharePoint organization. Responsibilities include calendar management, travel planning, expense reporting, distribution list management, event coordination, rhythm of business processes, recruiting and onboarding support, budget forecasting and management, and space management. Requires strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to work under pressure and independently. | — | 0 |
| Sr Data Center IT Support Technician This role provides IT support for data center infrastructure, including secure access workstations, servers, and A/V equipment. Responsibilities include maintaining inventory, installing updates and OS, performing hardware troubleshooting and component replacement, and supporting the deployment of physical infrastructure. The role requires building relationships, ensuring compliance, managing inventory, and providing guidance to users. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager Product Manager for Microsoft's Identity Security Premium team, focusing on Entra Identity Protection and Conditional Access. The role involves anticipating customer needs, building enterprise-grade product experiences, influencing cross-functional partnerships, and aligning roadmaps with OKRs/KPIs. Experience in cybersecurity and identity products is preferred, with a desirable mention of using Generative AI tools for product development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Minecraft's Bedrock Platform team, focusing on graphics and rendering systems. This role involves leading planning and delivery, working with C++ engineers, designers, and QA to ship technical work for both player-facing features and foundational rendering systems. Requires technical depth, product instincts, and cross-organizational collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager - Business Operations This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. The primary focus is on managing the financial and operational aspects of datacenters that power Microsoft's cloud services, including Azure. The role involves financial controllership, contract management, spend analysis, and coordinating with field operations to ensure business success and optimize datacenter infrastructure. While the role operates within the context of cloud services which utilize AI, the core responsibilities are in business operations, financial management, and program management of physical IT infrastructure, not in the direct development or deployment of AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Network Engineer This role focuses on the design, implementation, maintenance, and operation of critical infrastructure networks for Microsoft's cloud services. Responsibilities include network design and architecture, installation and maintenance of network hardware and software, incident management, and supporting network infrastructure services. The role requires expertise in various Layer 3 technologies and enterprise networking solutions. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Executive This role manages the development and application of a mature customer plan to manage a long-term business portfolio. It involves collaborating across organizations and partners, leveraging relationships with leaders to shape strategic direction and influence business metrics. The role expands strategic customer relationships, anticipates issues, and develops strategies that showcase the value of Microsoft's cloud offerings based on industry trends and customer needs. It also leverages internal networks to strengthen knowledge of the industry, competitors, and customer priorities, and shares knowledge internally to enhance account growth. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Strategy Manager This role is a Senior Business Strategy Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain organization, focusing on enabling hardware infrastructure for cloud and AI growth. The role involves analyzing supply chain strategies, leading cross-functional teams on strategic projects, and ensuring supply chain resiliency. It is not directly involved in building or researching AI models but supports the infrastructure that enables AI capabilities at scale. | — | 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 |
| Senior Program Manager, Strategy This role is for a Senior Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) organization, specifically supporting the Cloud Infrastructure Acquisition team. The focus is on planning, building, and operating global datacenter infrastructure, including demand and supply planning, business operations, and strategic acquisition of land, lease, power, and networking. The role involves synthesizing feedback, managing complex projects and acquisition support processes, shaping regional portfolio strategies, and ensuring alignment between customer needs, market opportunities, and Microsoft's strategic goals. It requires strong program management, cloud technology, and strategic planning skills, with an emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and driving strategic execution. | — | 0 |
| Director, Sales Strategy Enablement Process Design & Adoption This role is for a Director of Sales Strategy Enablement Process Design & Adoption at Microsoft. The primary focus is on designing and executing resource planning processes, establishing operating models, and ensuring quality delivery within a global, cross-functional organization. The role also involves leading and developing a team, providing feedback, and maintaining a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. It requires strong stakeholder engagement and the ability to translate complex work into clear, repeatable processes. The role is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Microsoft Data Center Technicians (DCTs) are responsible for staging, setting up, performing hardware deployments, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and decommissions of equipment in data centers. This role involves following standard operating procedures, understanding data center processes, and ensuring security and data management compliance. The role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, including Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| * Software Engineer II Software Engineer II for the Azure Resource Builder team, focusing on developing a high-performing, highly available data processing engine for billions of cloud resources. The role involves designing, developing, and testing software systems for massively distributed cloud-based applications, with an emphasis on scale, performance, and live site maintenance. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator for a Frontier Marketing organization, providing high-level administrative and operational support to General Managers. Responsibilities include calendar management, stakeholder engagement, operational rhythm, travel coordination, event planning, and budget oversight. Requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, proactivity, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator for a Frontier Marketing organization, providing administrative and operational support to General Managers. Responsibilities include calendar management, stakeholder engagement, operational excellence, cross-functional collaboration, travel management, event planning, and resource oversight. Requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to anticipate needs in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Memory Controller RTL Design Engineer This role is for a Principal Memory Controller RTL Design Engineer. The engineer will define and implement micro-architectural specifications, refine implementations for area, power, and performance, integrate functional IP into SoC, and exercise block functionality. Responsibilities also include design quality checks, automating tasks using scripting and AI, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering high-quality functional blocks on schedule. The role requires a Doctorate or Master's/Bachelor's degree with significant experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields. Preferred qualifications include experience with high-performance DDR memory controllers, digital design principles, low power design, Verilog/System Verilog, front-end and synthesis tools, scripting languages, error correction, and industry standard interface protocols. The role involves working with export-controlled information and requires security screening. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineering Manager This role is for a Technical Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers who resolve complex customer technical issues related to Business Applications. The role involves people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback, and business integration for effective collaboration. While the company and its products leverage AI, this specific role focuses on managing the support and resolution process for customers, not on building or directly developing AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Outsourcing Manager Senior Outsourcing Manager for a new Payments Institution in Dublin, Ireland, responsible for owning outsourcing service delivery and governance, managing intra-group and third-party vendor relationships, and ensuring compliance with Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) requirements. The role involves leading complex outsourcing programs, defining success criteria, managing risks, supporting contract negotiations, and preparing for audits and regulatory reviews. | — | 0 |
| Change Manager Microsoft Treasury is seeking a Change Manager to own the Change Management Framework for regulated products and services within a new Payments Institution in Dublin, Ireland. This role involves shaping how Microsoft assesses, governs, and monitors change risk, providing oversight across customer operations and complaints, and driving reporting to senior leadership. The position requires experience in program management, process management, and supporting audits/regulatory reviews in regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Training Manager Microsoft is seeking a Training Manager for their Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) Learning team. The role involves managing a team of trainers, establishing technical training delivery, conducting workforce training needs analysis, and managing procedural change management activities for datacenters. The manager will partner with site managers and trainers to address operational risks and training gaps, encourage innovation in training topics, and ensure training content and delivery meet learning expectations for availability, safety, and throughput goals. The position requires a Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience, and the ability to pass a Microsoft Cloud Background Check. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building scalable and reliable data integration systems (Azure Data Factory, Power Query) for Microsoft's cloud-based data platforms. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration services, contributing to distributed systems, and ensuring system reliability and performance. Requires a Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with preferred experience in distributed systems, cloud services, and data processing. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Logistics Technician - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Senior Data Center Logistics Technician focused on inventory and asset management within a U.S. Government Airgap Team. Responsibilities include prioritizing tickets, providing guidance on logistics tasks, ensuring inventory accuracy, coordinating with external stakeholders, and managing RMA processes. The role requires experience in warehouse/supply chain within an IT environment and a U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Sr Technology Consultant-CTJ-Poly This role is for a Sr. Technology Consultant focused on helping customers adopt and optimize Microsoft technology solutions, including cloud and security. The consultant will engage with customers to understand requirements, communicate business value, identify risks, and collaborate with internal teams to shape deals and drive adoption. The role emphasizes leveraging existing intellectual property and providing feedback for continuous improvement. | — | 0 |
| Construction Project Management This role is for a Construction Project Manager responsible for overseeing the planning, compliance, and progress of Early Works General Contractors for datacenter construction projects. The role involves directing day-to-day field activities, managing vendor relationships, driving risk mitigation, and ensuring on-time delivery of complex global construction projects. | — | 0 |
| Physical Security Engineering Manager This role manages a team responsible for physical security systems in Microsoft datacenters, focusing on break/fix, system configuration, program improvements, and access control/video systems. It involves people management, driving automation and AI solutions for security operations, customer/partner experience, data-driven analysis of security metrics, and identification/detection of control failures, including adherence to compliance programs like HIPAA. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer Electrical Engineer role focused on the design, testing, and verification of electrical systems for Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure, supporting services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. The role involves developing designs, creating documentation, implementing solutions, and ensuring quality metrics for hardware components within a critical environment. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Operations Manager This role manages a team responsible for data center IT operations, site services, and logistics, ensuring the delivery of core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. It involves leading a team, managing operations, collaborating with internal groups, and ensuring stability and quality standards. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Network Engineer This role is for a Cloud Network Engineer responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and operation of critical network infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. It involves technical analysis, network design architecture, installation, upgrades, and maintenance of network and security hardware and software. The role also includes participating in on-call rotations, complex incident management, problem resolution, and supporting less experienced staff. Experience with Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, Layer 3 technologies (BGP, OSPF, IPv6), and monitoring tools is required. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, focusing on hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Responsibilities include managing technician performance, monitoring KPIs and SLAs, providing training, and ensuring safety and operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer 2 Software Engineer II role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and running reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services for operational databases. Responsibilities include service deployment, reliability, automation, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and incident resolution within a cloud-enabled, AI-powered data platform. | — | 0 |
| Principal Manager, Incident Management - AMER This role is for a Principal Manager of Incident Management within Microsoft's Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (CO+I) division. The primary focus is on leading end-to-end incident management and crisis response for Microsoft's global data centers, driving service reliability, and improving operational metrics like Time to Detect (TTD) and Time to Mitigate (TTM). The role also involves defining and executing reliability engineering strategy, building cross-organizational partnerships, and leading high-performing teams. It requires participation in an on-call rotation and has specific security screening requirements. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Management This role is a Senior Support Escalation Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, specifically in the Customer Service & Support (CSS) division. The primary focus is on managing escalated customer and partner issues, ensuring timely resolution, and improving the overall support experience. While the role operates within a company that heavily utilizes AI technology and aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers, the core responsibilities of this specific position are centered around customer issue management, process improvement, and relationship building, rather than direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Business Manager - SME&C Business Manager for the SME&C team at Microsoft, focusing on strategic projects, confidential activities, and supporting executive leadership to drive organizational success and operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing incoming and outgoing deliveries, performing cycle audits, coordinating with vendors for warranty claims and returns, and ensuring accurate documentation and inventory control within a data center environment. The role involves adherence to security and data management policies, including the destruction of data-bearing devices. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Azure Cosmos DB team, focusing on building and maintaining a large-scale distributed operational database. The role involves designing, implementing, and shipping distributed systems to enhance security, performance, reliability, usability, and manageability, contributing to Microsoft's mission of building the data platform for the age of AI. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing the flow of goods within data centers. Key duties include performing cycle audits, coordinating deliveries, processing returns, managing inventory, and ensuring accurate documentation. The role supports Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, which powers services like Azure and Office 365. It requires experience in inventory management or related fields and adherence to security and data management policies. | — | 0 |
