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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| Critical Environment Ops ATR-C This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, monitor equipment performance, and ensure safety and security protocols are followed. The role requires hands-on understanding of equipment and troubleshooting skills. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Azure Messaging team, focusing on building and evolving the core messaging infrastructure for Azure. The role involves driving the design and implementation of large-scale distributed systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability. It supports strategic scenarios within Microsoft Fabric and powers critical platform capabilities like eventing and asynchronous workflows. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II Site Reliability Engineer II for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on the messaging and real-time analytics services like Azure Service Bus, Event Hub, Event Grid, and Fabric RTI Eventstreams. The role involves scaling and operating Fabric Event Stream as a globally distributed, highly reliable platform, with a primary focus on region build-out, deployment, and SRE practices. Responsibilities include onboarding new regions, driving deployment automation, ensuring service reliability, improving availability, monitoring, incident response, and building observability and telemetry. |
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| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform diagnostics, replace faulty components, and ensure proper setup according to safety protocols and design tasks. They will also assist and guide other technicians, complete required training, and contribute to a positive team environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft 365 (M365) Workload Management (WLM) team, responsible for managing execution of millions of background and system tasks for M365 backend servers. The role focuses on maximizing resource utilization, ensuring system stability and efficiency, and driving intelligent automated operations. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and ability to own features from design to production. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering II Software Engineer II at Microsoft 365 (M365) responsible for managing execution of millions of background and system tasks for M365 backend servers. The role focuses on maximizing resource utilization, ensuring system stability and efficiency, and driving continuous improvement towards integrated and intelligent automated operations. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of technical engineering experience, proficiency in modern programming languages, and solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Experience with distributed systems, telemetry, logging, and cloud platforms is preferred. Exposure to AI-powered systems or AI-assisted development tools is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Dynamics 365 - Arabic Speaking This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Dynamics 365, supporting mission-critical customers in banking, stock exchanges, and government entities. The role involves gathering customer insights, mapping architecture and digital transformation solutions, developing customer relationships, and identifying growth opportunities by leveraging Microsoft's products and services. While the job mentions "accelerate AI transformation for our customers," the core responsibilities are centered around solution architecture and customer engagement for Dynamics 365, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the OneLake & ISVs team within Azure Data, focusing on building and maintaining Microsoft Fabric's data lake. The role involves designing, developing, and ensuring the quality and production readiness of services, with a focus on partner integration and leveraging AI tools like Microsoft Copilot. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric OneLake & ISVs team, focusing on building and maintaining the data lake and unified data stack for AI-powered applications. The role involves designing and developing services for high availability, scalability, and observability, collaborating with internal and external teams, and onboarding partners. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools like Copilot, the core responsibilities are in data engineering and platform development, not direct AI/ML model building. | — | 0 |
| CE Field Service Engineer This role is for a CE Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in leased datacenters. The focus is on ensuring critical environment availability, managing day-to-day operations, and adhering to safety and security policies. The role involves working with various teams and partners to maintain optimal operational efficiency and deliver on cost/energy initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer -.NET Libraries Software Engineer role focused on designing and building high-performance .NET libraries for various platforms. The role involves contributing to core .NET libraries, improving performance, scalability, and developer experience. It also emphasizes leveraging AI-assisted development workflows to enhance productivity and code quality, and collaborating with the global developer community. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the OneDrive-SharePoint (ODSP) team within the Office M365 ecosystem. Focuses on building service fabric and engineering ecosystem for SharePoint Online, including automated datacenter management, continuous delivery, Azure integration, and optimizing scalability and latency. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of experience in languages like C#, C++, Java, or Python, and experience with Azure or other cloud/distributed systems is a plus. Security screening is required. | — | 0 |
| Senior Consulting Project Manager This role is for a Senior Consulting Project Manager at Microsoft, focusing on managing the delivery of projects, ensuring financial accountability, accurate forecasting, and customer satisfaction. The role involves engaging with senior stakeholders, managing risks, and adhering to complex delivery methodologies and compliance standards. While the company is in the AI space, this specific role is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Senior Azure Cloud Customer Experience Engineer - Japanese Speaking Senior Azure Cloud Customer Experience Engineer responsible for customer support and issue resolution on Azure, acting as a liaison between customers and the Azure engineering team. Requires technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and customer advocacy to enhance the Azure support experience. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager: Internship Opportunities Product Manager Intern role at Microsoft's MAIA team, focusing on AI product innovation and development for various products like Edge, Bing, and Maps. The internship involves defining product vision, strategy, roadmap, and features, collaborating with engineering and design teams, and driving product growth. The role requires identifying customer needs, tracking metrics, and iterating on designs. | — | 0 |
| Sales Director - Manufacturing & Energy Senior Sales Director for Microsoft's Manufacturing and Energy sector in Australia, focusing on driving growth through cloud and AI adoption. This role involves leading a team of Account Executives and Strategists, setting strategy, managing revenue targets, and building C-suite relationships to position Microsoft as a transformation partner. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team responsible for delivering a planet-scaled, business-critical, and secure-by-default service for Entra Identity provisioning and Governance products. The focus is on managing engineers, collaborating across divisions and with industry partners to build identity products for cloud and hybrid environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Firmware Development Engineer Senior Firmware Development Engineer for Microsoft's Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team, focusing on developing firmware for next-generation AI and compute silicon for Azure Infrastructure. The role involves developing test applications, workload profiling tools, and post-silicon tests for hardware systems, with collaboration across various engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer II Security Engineer II role focused on proactive threat detection, investigation, and response within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization. Responsibilities include analyzing alerts, conducting deep-dive investigations, correlating signals, driving incident response actions, improving detection logic, and enhancing investigation workflows. Requires strong analytical thinking and collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve security posture. | — | 0 |
| Consulting Project Manager, Microsoft Federal This role is for a Consulting Project Manager within Microsoft Federal, focusing on managing projects for US Government clients. It involves account delivery management, business growth, contract management, and ensuring adherence to security and regulatory requirements. The role requires engaging with customer stakeholders, managing project lifecycles, financial health, and driving project closure. While the company operates in the AI space, this specific role is centered on project management and client relations, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Energy Marshall This role is for a Critical Environment Energy Marshall within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. The primary responsibility is to oversee and ensure compliance with Microsoft's Energy Isolation Program, including implementing LOTO procedures and liaising with construction and engineering teams. The role requires a strong understanding of electrical engineering principles and experience in critical environments, focusing on safety and operational compliance within data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Applications Architect - Cryptography This role focuses on developing quantum algorithms for cryptography and simulation, designing quantum cryptographic schemes, and optimizing quantum system architectures. It involves mathematical research and experimentation for new quantum algorithms, with a focus on fault-tolerant quantum computers and hybrid quantum-classical workflows. | — | 0 |
| Chief of Staff The Chief of Staff serves as a strategic partner to the CVP of Microsoft Security User Experience, enabling the leadership team and broader organization to operate with clarity, focus, and impact. This role sits at the center of the business—driving execution of priorities, shaping organizational strategy, and ensuring alignment across UX, Engineering Product Teams, Customer Experience Engineering (CXE), and Benchmarking. The Chief of Staff is both an advisor and operator—translating vision into execution, accelerating decision-making, and scaling the effectiveness of the leadership team and organization. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Manager - AI Infrastructure This role is for a Senior Business Manager on the AI Infrastructure team at Microsoft. The primary focus is on financial management, workforce planning, and operational rigor for a growing organization that builds and manages AI infrastructure. The role involves partnering with Finance, HR, and Recruiting to provide financial clarity, headcount management, and reporting systems to support leadership decision-making and organizational scaling. While the team builds AI infrastructure, this specific role is focused on the business management aspects, not the direct building or research of AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the design, testing, and implementation of electrical systems within datacenters. The engineer will work on developing designs, creating documentation, performing tests, and ensuring project schedules are met, contributing to the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Management - Data Center Leasing This role is for a Principal Technical Program Management focused on Data Center Leasing within Microsoft's Cloud Operations + Innovation (MCO+I) team. The TPM will manage technical and delivery alignment for leased datacenters globally, acting as the primary point of contact between internal and external parties. Responsibilities include evaluating lessor proposals against technical requirements, mitigating non-compliance, managing site risks, and collaborating with stakeholders throughout construction and handover. The role requires extensive experience in data center design, engineering, and project management, with familiarity with emerging technologies for AI workloads. | — | 0 |
| Global Datacenter Engineering Lease Electrical Director This role is for a Global Datacenter Engineering Lease Electrical Director at Microsoft, responsible for managing electrical and EPMS infrastructure requirements for leased datacenter capacity. The position involves coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, developing lease standards, and overseeing projects and process improvements within the Datacenter Engineering team. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning of equipment within Microsoft's data centers. The position involves physical tasks and requires understanding standard operating procedures under supervision. It is part of the Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, supporting core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Group Collections Manager, LATAM Finance This role is for a Group Finance Manager in LATAM, focusing on collections and financial operations. While the company is involved in AI initiatives and the role requires adopting new automation, the core responsibilities are in finance, collections, and team leadership, not AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Sourcing Engineer - Strategic Sourcing Team This role is for a Principal Sourcing Engineer focused on driving the Silicon strategy and performance for Xbox and Surface Hardware. Responsibilities include negotiating commercial agreements, optimizing collaboration, developing long-term strategy, managing contracting activities, analyzing the supply chain for risks, and managing supplier relationships. The role requires experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, or engineering, with a preference for experience in the semiconductor and silicon space within consumer electronics. | — | 0 |
| Principal Memory Controller Architect Seeking a Principal Memory Controller Architect to design and develop next-generation memory controllers for Cobalt CPUs, supporting various DDR technologies and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high performance, efficiency, and reliability of SOCs and IPs. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager, Datacenter Execution This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager focused on the execution and transformation of Microsoft's data center infrastructure. The candidate will manage cross-functional initiatives, leverage technical acumen in infrastructure systems, and drive business results to ensure efficient and on-schedule delivery of data centers. The role involves partnering with engineering leaders, design, construction, and networking teams to pilot innovative programs and shape strategy. | — | 0 |
| Senior Games Software Supply Strategist This role focuses on developing and executing global supply chain strategies for Xbox physical game products, managing inventory, and optimizing supply positioning to meet business objectives related to working capital, cost, and service. It involves demand-supply alignment, monitoring inventory health, developing forecasting models, and coordinating with various internal teams and external partners. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Manager - Outbound Manage outbound logistics for Microsoft Devices in North America, LATAM, and Canada, focusing on freight, customs compliance, cost, and service performance. This role involves managing logistics execution, collaborating with internal teams and external partners (3PLs, carriers), and ensuring timely delivery of goods. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician The Critical Environment Technician maintains critical infrastructure for Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on equipment maintenance, safety, and operational reliability. This role involves hands-on work with electrical, mechanical, and cooling systems, responding to incidents, and ensuring compliance with safety and security protocols. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Operations Specialist This role is for a Datacenter Operations Specialist at Microsoft, responsible for IT and logistics support for edge sites. The specialist will manage site operations, support deployments, break-fix, inventory, and asset management, and act as a primary contact for major incidents. The role requires a high school qualification or equivalent and 2+ years of experience in IT equipment support or related technology/projects in large-scale environments. Security screening is also required. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Partner Practice Development This role focuses on building and developing Customer Success Practices (CSP) within partner organizations, aiming to deliver measurable outcomes across various Microsoft practices like Support, Azure, ABS, and Security. The Cloud Solution Architect will be responsible for end-to-end development of practice builders, including reporting, capability assessments, action planning, and execution. The role involves developing requirements for standard reports, building assessment questionnaires, creating action planning playbooks, and managing the logging of commitments. It also includes identifying business and technical IP aligned with solution area priorities, developing targeted skilling and solutions for partners, and managing the delivery of various enablement collateral. A key aspect is building 'Agentic' delivery experiences to reduce delivery costs and identifying ROI KPIs. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician (Nightshift) This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the physical maintenance, installation, and troubleshooting of network and server equipment within Microsoft's data centers. The role involves adhering to strict operational, safety, and security procedures, working night shifts, and potentially traveling up to 25% of the time. It is a hands-on, operational role focused on infrastructure support. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Program Manager - IT/Network This role is for a Data Center Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on IT and network infrastructure within their global data centers. Responsibilities include troubleshooting service incidents, managing projects, ensuring cost adherence, following safety policies, and collaborating with various teams. The role requires experience in IT equipment support or large-scale deployment projects, with preferred qualifications in critical environment infrastructures and relevant certifications. The role is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, which supports services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager This role manages operations for Microsoft's critical datacenter environments, ensuring the availability and efficiency of core infrastructure powering cloud services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. It involves leading a team of technical professionals, overseeing maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment, and driving safety, security, and cost-efficiency initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It focuses on maintaining the physical infrastructure that supports Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including inbound/outbound logistics, cycle audits, warranty processes, and data bearing device destruction, while ensuring regulatory compliance. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer Mechanical Engineer responsible for the availability, reliability, and compliance of mechanical critical environment (CE) infrastructure across Microsoft's AMS campuses. This includes daily operational ownership, incident management, project delivery, and vendor management for systems like cooling, fuel, water, and generators. The role requires a subject matter expert in mechanical systems, with a basic understanding of electrical infrastructure for a full system-level view. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer This role is for an Electrical Engineer focused on the design, testing, and implementation of electrical systems within Microsoft's datacenters. The responsibilities include developing designs, creating documentation, selecting parts, performing tests using various equipment, and contributing to project implementation and reporting. The role emphasizes collaboration with other engineers and adherence to established procedures and safety guidelines. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician This role is for a Senior Data Center Technician responsible for the preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning of network and server equipment within Microsoft's global data centers. The position involves providing guidance to other technicians, ensuring quality execution, maintaining awareness of KPIs, and training junior staff on standard procedures and safety protocols. It is a hands-on operational role focused on maintaining the physical infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineering Manager Senior Software Engineering Manager role at Microsoft, focusing on collaborating with stakeholders to define user requirements, driving design documents, and creating/optimizing code. The role involves acting as a DRI, guiding engineers, monitoring systems, and staying updated on new technologies. Technical stack includes C++, C#, big data, ML, NLP, and search technologies, with familiarity in Microsoft Cloud Services and security awareness. The position requires a Bachelor's degree, 9+ years of experience, and the ability to pass security screenings. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Intern Intern role focused on maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, involving electrical systems, equipment monitoring, maintenance, and incident response. The role emphasizes learning and hands-on experience in a critical environment. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Executive Strategic Account Executive role focused on driving digital transformation and AI adoption with enterprise customers, leveraging Microsoft's solutions portfolio to achieve business outcomes and revenue growth. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Engineer This role is for a Senior Product Engineer focused on the manufacturing and silicon aspects of Microsoft's cloud hardware infrastructure, including Azure Cobalt chips. The engineer will drive alignment across design, test, packaging, and manufacturing teams, manage yield ramps, lead problem-solving for complex issues, and leverage data analytics for decision-making to ensure high quality and cost efficiency in hardware production. While the role is within a team supporting AI missions and mentions AI-driven manufacturing systems as a preferred qualification, the core responsibilities are in traditional silicon manufacturing and product engineering, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Project Manager Project Manager for Microsoft's Data Center Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, responsible for delivering and managing the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. The role involves troubleshooting incidents, managing projects, ensuring cost adherence, and maintaining safety and security policies within data center operations. | — | 0 |