Microsoft has 521 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, representing 37% of the total, followed by application and serving infrastructure. Engineering is the most frequent function, with a significant number of openings, and the United States is the primary hiring country. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, model serving, and LLM observability, suggesting a focus on operationalizing AI models. Over the last 30 days, Microsoft has added 280 new AI roles, a 157% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Microsoft currently has 295 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Engineer (18), Principal Software Engineer (15), Software Engineer II (6), Senior Data Scientist (5), Senior Product Manager (5). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (41%), application (23%), serving infrastructure (17%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Microsoft is hiring AI talent in: United States (252 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (10 roles), United Kingdom (8 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, C#, C++, Machine Learning.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 250 new AI-related roles.
Currently tracking 205 active AI roles, down 11% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
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| Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly Software Engineer II role focused on building and deploying scalable, highly reliable cloud security services within Microsoft Defender. The role involves improving engineering systems, investigating and fixing production issues, and participating in an on-call rotation. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field with 2+ years of experience, and a Top Secret clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret Site Reliability Engineer II for Microsoft Defender, focusing on building and delivering cloud solutions for US Government clouds. Responsibilities include live site operations, incident response, automation, compliance, and collaboration with engineering teams to ensure stability and performance of security products in highly sensitive environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer This role focuses on designing and testing the readout system for topological qubits within Microsoft Quantum. It involves component, subsystem, and system-level engineering, interfacing with other teams, documenting work, and applying engineering best practices. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for innovation and working in an "AI-first" environment, the core craft is quantum engineering, not AI/ML model development. |
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| Quantum Applications Architect Develops applications and algorithms for fault-tolerant quantum computers, including designing algorithms, developing toolsets for modeling quantum applications, and applying techniques for quantum circuit compilation and optimization. Leverages AI tools for efficiency and evaluates agentic solutions with responsible AI requirements. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Manager (Incident Manager) This role is for a Support Escalation Manager at Microsoft, focusing on managing customer incidents and improving support experiences. While the company leverages AI technology and aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers, the core responsibilities of this role do not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models. The role focuses on customer service, incident management, collaboration with engineering/operations teams, and process improvement within a support context. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Network Engineer This role is for a Senior Critical Infrastructure Network Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and operating network infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services, including Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. The position involves technical analysis, network design, installation, upgrades, maintenance, incident management, and problem resolution for network and security systems. It requires expertise in Layer 3 technologies, enterprise networking solutions, and monitoring tools, with a focus on availability, scalability, and resilience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer and Principal Security Engineer (Multiple Positions)- Windows Security This role focuses on offensive security and security engineering for Microsoft Windows products and devices. Responsibilities include security design reviews, code reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability research, and developing mitigations to enhance the security posture of OS platforms. The role requires hands-on experience with native code, OS security fundamentals, and a passion for customer safety. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Engineer This role is for a Principal Product Engineer within Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE), specifically in the Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization. The focus is on the design, development, manufacturing, and packaging of state-of-the-art computer chips, particularly for Azure Cobalt. The engineer will drive pre-silicon readiness, ATE test program implementation, product manufacturing fuse requirements, and overall product engineering from definition to launch. While the role benefits from experience in AI/ML hardware, the core function is in semiconductor product engineering and manufacturing, not AI model development. | — | 0 |
| Principal Signal and Power Integrity Engineer This role focuses on Signal and Power Integrity (SIPI) for compute and AI SoCs and platforms, ensuring end-to-end power delivery from silicon to the cloud. The engineer will design, model, and simulate power delivery solutions for data center processors and platforms, working closely with various architecture and engineering teams. The role also involves driving future power delivery solutions for chiplet architectures and advanced packaging. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager - M365 This role is for a Senior Finance Manager focused on Microsoft 365 subscriber retention and growth. The individual will collaborate with various teams to drive business execution, analyze performance, and make strategic decisions related to the subscriber lifecycle and revenue. The role involves financial deliverables, business insights, and ensuring compliance. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician "Day Shift" This role involves standard data center operations, including preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning IT equipment like servers, storage, and network devices. It focuses on following established procedures and gaining foundational knowledge of data center infrastructure under guidance. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in Microsoft's Data Centers, focusing on inventory and asset management, prioritizing tasks, providing guidance on logistics, and ensuring inventory accuracy. It involves physical tasks and potential travel. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Partner Communications Senior Product Marketing Manager for Azure Partner Communications at Microsoft. This role focuses on shaping how Azure marketing moments, product news, and partner thought leadership are communicated to partners through various channels. It involves strategy, execution, cross-functional collaboration, and building differentiated partner thought leadership and influencer presence. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on building and maintaining services for access control, authentication, authorization, and secret management within Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. The role involves designing and developing large-scale full-stack solutions, adhering to modern engineering practices, and ensuring secure and compliant access to cloud resources. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Software Engineer II This role is for a Quantum Software Engineer II at Microsoft Quantum, focusing on building a scalable commercial quantum computing system. The engineer will contribute to the quantum software stack, including SDKs, UX, APIs, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, applying software engineering best practices and LLMs to develop experiences for quantum algorithm developers and researchers. The work involves designing, implementing, and integrating system software for quantum components, and developing novel algorithms for computationally hard problems, collaborating with hardware designers. The role also involves monitoring system performance and adapting to new trends. | — | 0 |
| Senior Marketing Excellence Operations & Communications Lead This role is for a Senior Marketing Excellence Operations & Communications Lead at Microsoft, focusing on driving marketing growth through operational rigor, performance governance, and clear field communications. The responsibilities include owning marketing scorecards, leading performance reviews, orchestrating cross-team planning, operationalizing marketing tooling, and managing communications strategy. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree and experience in business consulting, sales operations, or marketing, with preferred experience in performance management and cross-functional execution. | — | 0 |
| Marketing Excellence Lead, Small and Medium Business (SMB) This role focuses on defining and executing marketing strategies for the Small and Medium Business (SMB) segment, with a goal of driving growth through Cloud & AI and AI Business Solutions. The Marketing Excellence Lead will align strategy to execution, optimize investments, improve signal quality, strengthen funnel performance, and enable consistent execution across global and field teams, ultimately aiming for measurable improvements in pipeline generation, conversion, signal quality, and overall marketing ROI. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, responsible for maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, enforcing safety and security, and developing operating procedures. The role supports Microsoft's online services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Communications, Copilot This role is for a Senior Director of Communications supporting a senior executive in the Copilot organization at Microsoft AI. The focus is on executive storytelling, product positioning, and market influence to shape the perception of the leader and Copilot. Responsibilities include developing and executing an executive communications strategy, drafting high-impact content, and translating product priorities into clear messaging. This is a product-focused role within the AI domain, but the core craft is communications, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Executive Assistant Executive Business Admin to support the CVP Copilot and Browser at Microsoft, focusing on strategic calendar management, operational excellence, onboarding, expense management, event and travel coordination, and cross-functional communication within the AI Copilot organization. | — | 0 |
| Principal Service Engineering Manager Principal Service Engineering Manager to lead the MSD M365 MultiTenant US engineering team, responsible for operating, securing, and improving Microsoft 365 multitenant services at scale. The role involves leading a team of service engineers, defining technical priorities, and driving operational excellence in complex, business-critical services, partnering with global teams and product engineering. | — | 0 |
| Process Program Manager This role is for a Process Program Manager within Microsoft Enterprise Direct Solutions, focusing on optimizing transactional services for Strategic Direct customers. The role involves overseeing the entire program lifecycle, driving continuous improvement, managing risks, and ensuring effective communication. Key responsibilities include process management, business program planning and design, execution, and evaluation, with a focus on efficiency, quality, and customer experience. While AI is mentioned as a tool for optimization, the core function of the role is process and program management, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Service Engineer II Service Engineer II role focused on administration, configuration, governance, and operation of Microsoft Fabric and Power Platform within internal Microsoft tenants. Responsibilities include defining baselines, driving automation and policy as code, monitoring service health, triaging incidents, and interfacing with product teams. Requires experience in service engineering, operating production services at scale, and multitenant operations. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician The Data Center Technician (DCT) role involves staging, setting up, and performing hardware deployments, as well as troubleshooting, diagnostics, and decommissioning of equipment in Microsoft's data centers. This role supports core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services and requires adherence to standard operating procedures, safety protocols, and security measures. | — | 0 |
| Construction Project Manager This role is responsible for driving the delivery of metro-based/campus construction projects, ensuring they are executed safely, on time, and within budget. It involves reviewing engineering designs, site, and building plans to support data-driven decisions and successful project outcomes. The role works closely with project teams, contractors, and stakeholders to coordinate execution, manage procurement activities, and track progress across scope, schedule, and budget. It also plays a key part in risk management, vendor oversight, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards, acting as a safety leader across all project activities. Additionally, the role contributes technical expertise during project meetings, collaborates with internal teams and contractors, and uses metrics, dashboards, and reporting to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement in project delivery. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering Software Engineer role on the Azure PostgreSQL Rollouts & Upgrades team, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable solutions for upgrading PostgreSQL servers. The team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering data-first applications and driving a data culture. The role involves architecture and design discussions, writing high-quality code, participating in code reviews, enhancing test coverage, and maintaining live services on-call. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture - Infra This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Azure Infrastructure, enabling customers to achieve their outcomes by leveraging Microsoft's technology. The role involves developing customer relationships, providing technical expertise on Azure Infrastructure services for AI solutions, and guiding customers in architecting and deploying cloud infrastructure solutions in Azure to be AI Ready. The focus is on ensuring customers can operate AI solutions at scale by applying best practices and frameworks like CAF and WAF. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Energy Marshall This role is responsible for overseeing and assuring compliance with Microsoft's Energy Isolation Program within critical environments, specifically data centers. The Marshall implements safety policies, establishes Lockout Tag Out (LOTO) procedures, liaises with construction and engineering teams, and generates reports on the program's status. The role requires a strong understanding of electrical engineering principles and experience with critical infrastructure operations. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for prioritizing and assigning ticketed work, providing guidance on logistics tasks, and ensuring inventory accuracy within a data center operations environment. The role involves coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, managing deliveries, handling escalations, and ensuring compliance with safety and operational procedures. It also includes opportunities for process improvement and automation. | — | 0 |
| Audience Growth & Social Media Producer This role produces and creates native social content for MSN social channels, aiming to drive audiences to MSN content and CoPilot. It involves editing and creating video and graphics, developing social publishing strategies, and experimenting with content formats and trends. | — | 0 |
| Senior Audience Growth & Creative Lead This role focuses on audience growth and creative strategy for MSN and MAI content, leveraging social media, SEO, and newsletters to drive top-of-funnel engagement. It requires strong editorial judgment, creative thinking, and an understanding of social media trends and engagement data. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician at Microsoft, responsible for the physical installation, maintenance, and decommissioning of IT hardware within data centers. The technician will apply diagnostic and troubleshooting expertise, delegate tasks, ensure quality execution, and provide guidance to other technicians. The role also involves training, mentoring, and ensuring compliance with safety and security protocols. Experience supporting IT equipment and working in a data center environment is required, with preferred qualifications including an Associate degree and relevant certifications. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Senior Technical Program Manager to drive tenant onboarding of Microsoft 365 services within Microsoft's internal IT organization. This role involves creating clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, partnering across engineering teams, and delivering on time and with quality in high-stakes scenarios with conflicting requirements. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Operational Rhythm and Performance Management This role is for a Senior Director of Operational Rhythm and Performance Management within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) organization. The role focuses on defining, implementing, and managing the business's operational rhythms to monitor and accelerate performance. It involves partnering with leadership to identify opportunities, drive discussions, and ensure best practice sharing. The team leads commercial strategy, planning, and the rhythm of business (RoB) to coordinate improvements across revenue, investments, resource design, and go-to-market strategies, ultimately supporting sales leaders in running, measuring, and gaining insights from their businesses. The role requires strong leadership, strategic planning, and operational rigor to deliver cohesive changes and experiences for the field. | — | 0 |
| ROP-Software engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on performance engineering for Azure SQL Database, involving benchmarking, deep performance investigations, and optimization of distributed systems. The role requires C++ programming and performance engineering skills, with a focus on enterprise-class relational database engines and cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Designer Senior Designer role focused on creating modern, high-impact web experiences across various Microsoft products. The role requires a blend of design sensibility and front-end fluency, leading concepting, visual and interactive expression, and ensuring performance, accessibility, and data-informed iteration. Collaboration with engineering and other cross-functional teams is key. | — | 0 |
| Finance Manager Finance Manager role focused on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) within Microsoft's Core Financial Planning & Analysis team. Responsibilities include supporting CFO deliverables, managing financial data, planning processes (budgeting, forecasting, reporting), and conducting strategic analyses. The role involves coordinating with various finance teams, preparing executive-level reports, and driving efficiency and automation. It also includes enabling the adoption of AI capabilities through training and application in daily tasks, and supporting system transitions like S4 SAP. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Azure Data Analytics team, focusing on building the core analytics experiences within Microsoft Fabric. The role involves designing and developing big data cloud offerings, ensuring quality software delivery, and maintaining cloud services. While the team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, this specific role is centered on data engineering and platform development, not direct AI/ML model building. | — | 0 |
| Senior Economist This role is for a Senior Economist focused on AI Strategy and Business Innovation within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary focus is on applying economic and data-driven methods to evaluate business initiatives, quantify customer and business outcomes, and build analytical frameworks. While the role is within an AI-focused team and discusses AI transformation, the core responsibilities involve economic analysis, causal inference, and business strategy, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Electrical Engineer This role is for a Senior Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud services, including Azure. The engineer will be responsible for the design, operation, and maintenance of electrical systems within large-scale datacenters, ensuring safety, compliance, and reliability. The role requires significant technical engineering experience and involves supporting 24x7 operations. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Senior Mechanical Engineer Microsoft is seeking a Critical Environment Senior Mechanical Engineer to join their Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team. This role involves designing, testing, and implementing critical infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services, including datacenters and server systems. The engineer will be responsible for make-versus-buy recommendations, creating robust designs, developing verification plans, and managing project implementation schedules. The role also includes extensive documentation, reporting, and ensuring reliability and safety of hardware features. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician - PHX East This role involves performing and guiding standard processes for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning IT datacenter equipment, with a focus on network and server interactions. The technician will also provide guidance to other technicians on process modifications and ensure compliance with safety and operational procedures. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Customer Experience Innovation This role is for a Senior Finance Manager focused on Customer Experience Innovation within Microsoft's Global Treasury department. The primary responsibilities involve leading cross-company projects to improve the order-to-cash cycle, driving innovative solutions, and partnering with various teams (Sales, Operations, Engineering, Customer Support) to enhance customer and partner experiences. The role requires strong financial analysis, process improvement, and project management skills, with a focus on policy, process, and technology changes to support Microsoft's digital transformation journey. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager, Sovereign & Regulated Cloud This role leads the strategy and execution of a unified sovereignty approach across Microsoft Security, focusing on data residency, isolation models, and cross-service data flows in regulated cloud environments like EU Sovereign Cloud and government clouds (e.g., FedRAMP High). It involves driving alignment across engineering, Azure, and compliance teams to ensure services operate consistently, securely, and at scale in highly regulated markets. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician This role is for a Senior Data Center Technician at Microsoft, responsible for the preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning of IT datacenter equipment. The technician will also provide guidance to other technicians on standard processes and procedures, contribute to improving service quality and efficiency, and ensure compliance with safety and security policies. The role involves hands-on work with network, server, and storage equipment within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Test Engineer Senior Test Engineer role focused on scan (structural) test for semiconductor IC development, including ATE test program development, bring-up, validation, and yield analysis. Collaborates with design, DFT, and manufacturing teams to ensure test readiness and issue resolution for logic defects. Exposure to product domains like HPC, AI, and GPUs is mentioned. | — | 0 |
| Principal ML Architect This role focuses on exploring new algorithms and architectures for AI Silicon accelerators, developing bit-accurate C-models, and driving architecture studies. It involves collaboration with hardware and software architecture teams and supporting various stages of the silicon development cycle. | — | 0 |
| Principal Foundry Technologist This role focuses on semiconductor process development and manufacturing for Microsoft's cloud hardware, including custom chips like Azure Cobalt. The Principal Foundry Technologist will lead technical interactions with external foundries, analyze data for yield and performance optimization, and contribute to the design and characterization of testchips. The role requires deep understanding of semiconductor physics, manufacturing processes, and statistical analysis to ensure high-quality, cost-effective silicon production for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager Senior Finance Manager role focused on Core Financial Planning & Analysis at Microsoft. Responsibilities include leading finance-wide processes like financial data management and planning (target-setting, budgeting, forecasting, reporting), and analytical leadership for company-wide financial impacts. The role involves collaborating with various finance, engineering, and field teams to integrate diverse business models into corporate planning, forecasting, and reporting processes. Requires strong communication, change management, and problem-solving skills. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Edge Web Platform team, focusing on core web platform technologies like DOM and HTML, advancing performance and user experience, and driving web standards. This role involves deep systems thinking in browser architecture and end-to-end ownership of features. | — | 0 |