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.
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.
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| Senior Silicon Engineer This role is for a Senior Silicon Engineer focused on ASIC verification for Data Processing Units (DPUs) within Microsoft's Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure Engineering group. The engineer will be responsible for validating silicon to solve complex datacenter problems, leading functional validation of complex ASIC SOCs using UVM/C test benches, and performing pre-silicon and post-silicon validation. The role involves working with cross-functional teams and contributing to the development of next-generation designs. | — | 0 |
| Senior Logistics Technician - Circular Center This role is for a Senior Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Circular Center, focusing on prioritizing ticketed work, providing guidance on logistics tasks, and ensuring inventory accuracy. It involves managing inbound/outbound logistics, data bearing device destruction, and operational excellence within a data center environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer |
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| Director, Investment and Cash Operations Lead global investment and cash operations, including trade settlement, confirmations, reconciliations, corporate actions, and lifecycle management. Own global cash management operations, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Establish and maintain a strong control environment, own operational risk identification, mitigation, and remediation, and ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements. Drive automation, process re-engineering, and platform modernization. Define and track operational KPIs and SLAs. Lead, develop, and grow a team of operations professionals. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Executive This role focuses on leading enterprise transformation strategies for strategic accounts, acting as a trusted advisor to senior executives. The primary goal is to drive long-term business outcomes for customers by aligning technology, business priorities, and operating models, and by orchestrating cross-functional teams within Microsoft and partner ecosystems. The role requires deep industry expertise, strong business acumen, and experience in closing complex deals. | — | 0 |
| Data Center IT Operations Manager This role is for a Data Center IT Operations Manager at Microsoft, responsible for leading a team, overseeing data center site services and logistics, and ensuring the delivery of core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. The position involves managing operations, collaborating with internal groups, and maintaining quality standards within a global data center portfolio. | — | 0 |
| Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer responsible for functional validation of PCIe IP at Block, Cluster, or Fullchip level using UVM/C test bench and Verification IP (VIP). The role involves developing test plans, writing unit tests, managing regression suites, debugging failures, and driving timely resolution. It also requires innovating to improve validation efficiency through methodologies and tools. | — | 0 |
| Sr Data Center Technician "Nights" This role is for a Senior Data Center Technician responsible for the installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning of IT datacenter equipment. The technician will also provide guidance to other technicians on processes and procedures, ensuring compliance with policies and safety regulations. The role involves working in a cloud operations environment supporting Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Supply Chain Manager Senior Supply Chain Manager role focused on managing GPU platform supply and demand for Azure, developing sourcing strategies, and mitigating execution issues. Requires experience in procurement and supply chain, with a preference for semiconductor sourcing experience in GPUs at a CSP or hyperscaler. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Windows Strategy and Planning Senior Finance Manager for Windows Strategy and Planning at Microsoft, focusing on driving long-term strategy, product roadmaps, go-to-market plans, and monetization strategies for Windows and Surface. This role involves cross-functional collaboration with engineering, finance, marketing, and business planning teams to evaluate product initiatives, create growth frameworks, and ensure alignment. Key responsibilities include analyzing Windows Ecosystem data, long-range planning, evaluating initiative performance, consolidating financial reporting, and driving process improvements. The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, business acumen, and the ability to navigate ambiguous challenges in a fast-paced technology environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Corporate Counsel - CTJ - Secret This role is for a Principal Corporate Counsel to support Microsoft Federal's sales organization, focusing on legal, contractual, policy, compliance, and regulatory aspects of software, cloud computing, devices, and professional services for U.S. Government customers. It involves advising on cutting-edge issues related to cloud computing and artificial intelligence at the intersection of technology, business, and law, and requires a U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Program Manager - Customer Reliability Engineering This role focuses on improving the reliability, security, and customer trust of the Microsoft Cloud, specifically within Azure. The Senior Program Manager will work with strategic customers to ensure their critical workloads are resilient and well-architected, analyze architectures to identify gaps, and drive improvements through proactive risk identification and targeted resiliency enhancements. The role involves managing customer engagements across the incident lifecycle, converting incidents into durable improvements, and influencing product design and roadmap priorities based on customer pain points and operational gaps. Success requires technical depth, executive communication, and the ability to navigate ambiguity to translate complex customer challenges into scalable solutions. | — | 0 |
| Principal Strategic Planning Program Manager - Data Center Leasing This role focuses on strategic planning for data center leasing within Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team. The Principal Strategic Planning Program Manager will develop and operationalize strategies for optimal acquisition of global lease infrastructure, translating demand and supply strategies into a multi-year roadmap. Responsibilities include architecting planning mechanisms, synthesizing data for senior leadership decisions, establishing cross-functional governance, leading scenario planning, driving fiscal accountability, and managing a team. The role requires strong analytical rigor, business acumen, and the ability to influence stakeholders across Finance, Capacity Acquisition, and Capacity Planning. | — | 0 |
| Principal Business Strategy Manager This role is a Principal Business Strategy Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain organization, focusing on enabling the hardware infrastructure for Cloud and AI growth. The role involves establishing business partner relationships, communicating insights to senior leadership, engaging with external industry figures, developing market perspectives, contributing to portfolio strategy, problem-solving, and leading research and analysis projects. While the role operates within an organization that supports AI infrastructure, the core responsibilities are in business strategy, supply chain, and market analysis, not in the direct development or deployment of AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering II Software Engineer II role in Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and scaling capacity management infrastructure for Azure SQL Database. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable services for capacity allocation, placement, and lifecycle management, with a focus on improving reliability, performance, and availability through automation and observability. The team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering data-first applications and driving a data culture. | — | 0 |
| Senior Communications Manager Senior Communications Manager for Microsoft Bay Area, responsible for shaping the company's internal and external communications strategy in the region. This role involves advising leadership, developing storytelling, managing content across various channels, and measuring impact to enhance employee engagement and brand reputation, particularly among technical audiences. | — | 0 |
| Chief Information Officer Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a newly created electronic money institution in Dublin, Ireland. This role is responsible for the IT strategy, governance, and security operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and secure service delivery. The CIO will oversee IT policies, risk management, business continuity, and alignment with industry standards, collaborating with engineering and product teams to deliver compliant and scalable financial products. Key responsibilities include managing vendor relationships, outsourcing oversight, and fostering in-house competencies. The role requires deep subject matter expertise and a focus on protecting merchants, supporting business growth, and meeting financial objectives within a regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Frontend Senior Software Engineer focused on frontend development for online advertising, specifically ad layout rendering and UX. The role involves working with design and product teams, building rendering libraries, and analyzing system performance using data processing and monitoring systems. While the company operates in the online advertising space which is increasingly influenced by AI, this specific role is centered on frontend engineering and UX for ad delivery, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Consultant - CTJ - TS/SCI Early-career Software Development Consultant for Microsoft Federal, focusing on cloud engineering, software development, integration, and modernization for US government customers. The role involves contributing to backend services, CI/CD pipelines, and secure application delivery within Azure environments, with mentorship and growth opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Live Site Reliability Senior Software Engineer role focused on live site reliability, operational excellence, and automation within the Customer Data Integration (CDI) organization for Azure Data engineering. Responsibilities include on-call support, incident response, designing automation systems for triage and incident lifecycle management, and improving the reliability of data integration services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Live Site Reliability Senior Software Engineer role focused on live site reliability, operational excellence, and automation within Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team. Responsibilities include on-call support, incident response, designing automation systems for triage and incident lifecycle management, and improving the reliability of data integration services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Live Site Reliability Senior Software Engineer role focused on live site reliability, operational excellence, and automation within the Customer Data Integration (CDI) organization for Azure Data engineering. Responsibilities include on-call support, incident response, designing automation systems for triage and incident lifecycle management, and improving the reliability of data integration services. | — | 0 |
| APAC CO+I Business Manager Microsoft is seeking an APAC CO+I Business Manager to drive business execution, operational governance, and organizational effectiveness across a complex, rapidly expanding infrastructure portfolio in the APAC region. This role involves supporting day-to-day business operations, managing the rhythm of business, creating business processes, tracking KPIs, and analyzing performance metrics. The role also focuses on organizational health, including tracking compliance trainings and driving culture initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in operations management, program management, or related fields, with excellent project management, collaboration, and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Finance Lead - Philippines This role is a Finance Lead for Microsoft in the Philippines, partnering with the Country Manager to drive strategy, growth, and operational rigor. It involves financial analysis, business partnering, compliance, and engaging with customers and partners on digital transformation initiatives. The role requires a strong understanding of financial principles and business strategy within the context of Microsoft's products and solutions. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves performing standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning IT datacenter technology and equipment under the guidance of more experienced technicians. The role focuses on developing an understanding of the data center environment, security, and data management procedures, contributing to the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory and asset management, including cycle audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation. It involves physical inventory tracking, data bearing device destruction, and ensuring accuracy in inventory systems. The role requires on-site presence and may involve travel between sites. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing inventory, handling deliveries, coordinating with vendors, processing returns, and ensuring data bearing device destruction compliance. It involves operational tasks within a data center environment, focusing on logistics and asset management. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Program Manager This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing the operations, maintenance, and efficiency of mechanical and electrical equipment within data centers. It involves managing preventative and corrective maintenance, ensuring compliance, acting as an escalation point for facilities issues, and driving cost/energy efficiency projects. The role also focuses on identifying and remediating vulnerabilities and contributing to new equipment designs and technologies. It requires experience in IT equipment support or large-scale IT infrastructure deployment, with preferred qualifications in critical environment infrastructures or physical IT infrastructures. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Executive Director This role is for a Commercial Executive Director at Microsoft, leading a global sales team focused on Small Medium Enterprises and Channel partners. The role involves driving digital transformations, managing sales teams, negotiating commercial terms, and ensuring profitable deals. While the team leverages AI-powered strategies and AI is mentioned in the context of business opportunities, the core function of the role is sales leadership and commercial negotiation, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in a data center environment. Focus on team performance, KPI monitoring, SLA adherence, and ensuring compliance with policies and procedures. This role emphasizes leadership, coaching, and accountability for service quality and safety. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Project Manager This role is for a Data Center Project Manager at Microsoft, responsible for managing projects, troubleshooting service incidents, and ensuring the delivery of core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. The role involves adhering to safety policies, performing root cause analysis, and collaborating across teams to maintain data center operations. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for cycle audits, managing incoming/outgoing deliveries, coordinating vendor access, documenting shipments, and handling warranty claims and data-bearing device destruction. It focuses on inventory management and operational efficiency within an IT infrastructure environment. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory management, delivery coordination, and asset management within Microsoft's data centers. Responsibilities include cycle audits, managing incoming/outgoing deliveries, coordinating vendor escorts, documenting shipments, processing warranty claims, and performing data bearing device destruction. Requires experience in warehouse/supply chain within an IT environment and adherence to security protocols. | — | 0 |
| Consulting Project Management IC2 This role is for a Project Manager within Microsoft Industry Solutions, focusing on managing the delivery lifecycle of customer engagements, particularly those involving AI transformations. The role involves end-to-end project financials, risk management, process adherence, and coordination with various stakeholders to ensure successful project execution and maximize customer outcomes. While the company and its customers are involved in AI transformations, the core function of this role is project management, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 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 |
| AI Business Solutions and Security Finance Manager Finance Manager for AI Business Solutions and Security, focusing on aligning revenue targets with market opportunities and driving customer adoption of AI and Security Solutions. The role involves financial analysis, planning, and partnering with business leaders to ensure compliant conduct and identify growth opportunities within Microsoft's AI product stack. | — | 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 |
| Mechanical Engineer Mechanical Engineer role focused on the design, operation, and maintenance of mechanical infrastructure within Microsoft's global datacenters, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of core cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Energy Marshall This role is for a Critical Environment Energy Marshall at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing and assuring compliance with the Energy Isolation Program in their datacenters. The role involves implementing safety policies, establishing LOTO procedures, liaising with construction teams, and acting as a subject matter expert in energy isolation incident investigations. It requires a degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with relevant experience, and the ability to meet security screening requirements. | — | 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 |
| Director, Project Management This role is a Director of Project Management within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) organization, focusing on leading large transformational deals for strategic customers. The role involves customer-facing executive leadership, orchestrating cross-functional teams, driving project delivery strategy, managing financial performance (Azure Consumed Revenue, revenue, gross margin), and ensuring quality management. While the company and its customers are undergoing digital and AI transformation, this specific role is about managing the delivery of these solutions, not building or researching AI/ML models themselves. | — | 0 |
| Specialist Recruiter Specialist Recruiter for Microsoft's EMEA Talent Acquisition team, focusing on hiring for the Commercial Business in Germany, Austria, and EMEA. The role involves stakeholder engagement, data analysis for hiring plans, candidate attraction, ensuring a positive candidate experience, and maintaining operational compliance. Requires prior talent acquisition experience in the German market, ideally within the Tech industry (Sales sector), and experience utilizing AI in recruiting and/or sourcing. Fluency in German and English is mandatory. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Specialist - Security - Finnish Speaking This role is for a Digital Solution Specialist focused on selling Microsoft's security solutions to Finnish-speaking customers in the Nordic market. It involves account management, pipeline development, stakeholder relationship building, understanding customer security needs, and driving sales outcomes. The role requires fluency in Finnish and English and experience in technology sales or account management. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialist Manager - Security - Nordic Markets, SME&C This is a management role focused on leading a team of security specialists to enable secure AI transformation for top-tier organizations in the Nordic markets. The role involves developing strategies for sales opportunities, overseeing business operations, building new markets, coaching the team, and fostering a collaborative leadership culture. While AI is mentioned as a context for transformation, the core responsibilities are in sales leadership and security management, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Azure Data integration team, focusing on building and operating a next-generation service for large-scale data transfer and orchestration on the Microsoft Cloud. The role involves cloud-scale product development, CI/CD pipelines, cluster management, and end-to-end component ownership. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer This role is for an Electrical Engineer focused on the design, testing, and implementation of electrical systems for Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure. The engineer will work on developing designs, creating documentation, selecting components, executing test plans, and ensuring the performance and reliability of hardware. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory and Asset Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including logistics, audits, compliance, warranty processes, and device destruction. It involves leadership, operational oversight, and stakeholder management within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation division. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager This role manages critical environment operations for Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on mechanical and electrical equipment, availability, and cost/energy efficiency. It involves leading a team of technical professionals and ensuring compliance and safety. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Engineer This role is for a Digital Solution Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on engaging with customer technical decision makers to drive technical wins. The role involves leveraging customer context, portfolio expertise, and deep technical knowledge to build credibility, represent the customer to product teams, and contribute to strategy development. Responsibilities include capturing competitive intelligence, providing technical input, and ensuring consistency in engagements. The role also involves presenting architecture patterns, customizing demonstration assets, and engaging in partner sell-with scenarios. The engineer will coach sales teams on digital transformation and build readiness plans. This is not an AI-focused role, but rather a technical sales and consulting position within an enterprise context. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Sr. Software Engineer on the Microsoft Defender team, focusing on building and delivering scalable, reliable cloud security solutions for government environments. The role involves service development, engineering systems improvement, automation, and incident investigation, with a strong emphasis on security clearance requirements. | — | 0 |