Microsoft currently has 313 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (18), Senior Software Engineer (17), Software Engineer II (6), Principal Applied Scientist (5), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (39%), application (22%), serving infrastructure (18%). 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 (271 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (10 roles), United Kingdom (8 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 237 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.
Currently tracking 224 active AI roles, down 11% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
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| Customer Operations Manager Customer Operations Manager responsible for customer-facing licensing solutions, providing direct transactional support for Microsoft Field sellers and customers. Focuses on contracting, order management, billing, and customer service to ensure adherence to account plans and high-quality deliverables. | — | 0 |
| Franchise Marketing Leader, Turn 10/Playground Games Lead franchise marketing for Turn 10 and Playground Games, managing a team of Global Marketing Managers. This role involves setting strategy, guiding investments, managing consumer-facing executions, and fostering collaboration across game, platform, and services teams. Experience launching and growing game franchises, running global marketing campaigns, developing strategic partnerships, and utilizing consumer insights are critical. | — | 0 |
| Data Engineer II Data Engineer II role focused on maintaining and advancing a data platform using Spark, PySpark, and Spark SQL within Microsoft Fabric. The role involves code optimization, metadata-driven orchestration, DevOps best practices, and providing feedback on new products and features. It also includes live site and on-call duties for analytics solutions. |
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| Critical Environment Operations Manager This role manages critical environment operations for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, focusing on mechanical and electrical systems in datacenters to ensure availability, efficiency, and compliance. It involves leading a team of professionals, overseeing daily operations, and collaborating with engineering groups. | — | 0 |
| Physical Security Engineer This role focuses on the implementation, maintenance, and operation of physical security systems within Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include programming access control and video systems, supporting regional systems, assessing system health, and collaborating with partner engineering teams. The role requires experience in software development lifecycle, cybersecurity, and operations incident response. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, responsible for the core infrastructure and foundational technologies powering Microsoft's cloud services. The role involves overseeing day-to-day operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in datacenters, managing projects, ensuring compliance, driving cost/energy efficiency, and identifying/remediating vulnerabilities. It requires establishing working relationships with customers and acting as an escalation point for facilities-related issues. The role also emphasizes promoting a culture of safety, security, and compliance, and mentoring others. | — | 0 |
| Principal Site Reliability Engineer Principal Site Reliability Engineer for the Substrate team, focusing on ensuring the uptime, resilience, and continuous improvement of Microsoft 365 services. The role involves leading incident response, enhancing observability, defining reliability metrics, conducting live site reviews, engineering for prevention, executing reliability drills, and defining incident management policies. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Admin Executive Business Administrator to support the Engineering Director of Evaluations, Response Quality, and Safety, who is dedicated to ensuring the quality, reliability, and safety of Microsoft’s AI copilot experiences. This role requires managing complex administrative tasks, including calendar management, travel, expenses, and team logistics, in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Designer This role is for a Senior Product Designer within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. The team works directly with customers to leverage the latest technologies, including AI, to solve their toughest challenges by jointly developing cloud-based solutions. The designer will define product needs, ideate solutions, create design concepts, and optimize user experience. They will collaborate with engineers, program managers, and data scientists, working side-by-side with strategic customers to build innovative solutions and contribute to open-source projects. The role involves creating wireframes, journey maps, interaction models, and communicating product stories. | — | 0 |
| Account Mgr - Ads Account Manager for Microsoft Advertising responsible for driving revenue and customer satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized solutions. This role involves managing client accounts, proactively monitoring activities, seeking feedback, growing business, and creating long-term strategies to improve client experience and establish the business value of Microsoft's advertising services. The Account Manager will also adopt Microsoft sales strategies, leverage Unified Client Management tools, generate business and upsells through value-proposition presentations and specialized business plans, and develop a comprehensive understanding of clients' marketing needs and competition to anticipate needs and deliver insights. The role requires acting as a thought leader on industry trends, technology, and KPIs, and leveraging competitive knowledge to elevate client success and create revenue-increasing solutions. | — | 0 |
| Account Manager(Advertising) Account Manager for Microsoft Advertising, focused on driving revenue and customer satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized digital advertising solutions. The role involves managing client accounts, understanding marketing needs, and acting as a thought leader on industry trends. | — | 0 |
| Process Program Manager This role focuses on defining, designing, and improving operational processes within Microsoft Services, particularly in areas of ambiguity. The Process Program Manager will shape the operating model, ensure process efficiency, quality, and compliance, and collaborate across various departments like Sales, Finance, Legal, and Engineering. A key aspect is supporting the adoption of AI-enabled solutions to streamline processes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Logistics Technician This role is for a Senior Logistics Technician at Microsoft, focusing on managing inbound/outbound logistics, inventory accuracy, and ticketed work prioritization for data center operations. It involves coordinating with various teams and vendors, ensuring compliance with destruction processes for data-bearing devices, and overseeing fleet management. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician responsible for cycle audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation within a data center environment. Focuses on inventory management, warranty processes, and data bearing device destruction. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory management, inbound/outbound deliveries, and data bearing device destruction within a data center environment. This role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure operations. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Specialist - Security - German Speaking This role is for a Digital Solution Specialist focused on Security within the Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) sales team at Microsoft. The role involves building digital transformation security strategies with customers, leading consultative conversations, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and partners to drive security opportunities. While the team is described as 'AI-powered' and leverages AI, the core responsibilities of this specialist role are in sales, strategy, and customer engagement within the security domain, not in building or directly deploying AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager This role is for a Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) at Microsoft, focused on empowering strategic enterprise customers to achieve business value from Microsoft's cloud platforms and services. The CSAM acts as the primary delivery lead, orchestrating post-sales delivery and support across the Microsoft and Partner ecosystem. Key responsibilities include customer relationship management, aligning customer objectives with Microsoft's portfolio, program management, and driving adoption and usage of Microsoft products and services. The role requires a technical background, customer success experience, and a proactive problem-solving approach, with a preference for experience in Cloud & AI technologies and multiple industries. | — | 0 |
| Principal Hardware Architect This role is for a Principal Hardware Architect responsible for designing and developing next-generation PCIe/CXL architecture for Microsoft Azure silicon platforms. The focus is on high-performance, scalable, and reliable I/O subsystems within the cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Integration & Technical Infrastructure Manager (ITIM) This role manages the integration and technical infrastructure fit-out for Microsoft's data center construction projects, ensuring timely delivery of core infrastructure. Responsibilities include project planning, stakeholder coordination, safety advocacy, compliance, and collaboration with engineering teams. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and significant experience in data center construction and project management. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator for the Azure Data engineering team, supporting a Corporate Vice President (CVP) and their leadership team. Responsibilities include complex calendar management, meeting logistics, project ownership, resource and travel management, and team management support (recruitment, onboarding, headcount). The role requires strong administrative, interpersonal, and organizational skills, with a focus on supporting a team that builds data platforms for AI. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager - CTJ - TS/SCI Senior Product Manager for SDN Control Plane and buildout, focusing on automation-first delivery in regulated and sovereign environments. Drives product strategy, execution, and operational readiness for scalable cloud network virtualization, partnering with engineering on control plane innovation, and ensuring parity across sovereign clouds. Engages with customers on connectivity patterns and establishes health/telemetry frameworks for SDN-managed services. | — | 0 |
| Senior SoC Performance Verification Engineer This role is for a Senior SoC Performance Verification Engineer within Microsoft's Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering team. The engineer will be responsible for owning performance verification endeavors, developing verification strategies, creating performance tests, and collaborating with various teams to improve hardware design and verification processes for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Design Verification Engineer II Design Verification Engineer II role focused on the verification of moderately complex System on Chip (SoC) flows, including developing verification agents, environments, and testbenches, and supporting the full product life cycle from definition to silicon. Requires a Master's or Bachelor's degree in a related field with relevant experience. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technicians Manager (On-Site) Manages a team of Critical Environment Technicians responsible for the operations, maintenance, and safety of data center facilities, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. Focuses on people management, equipment operations, system maintenance, and fostering a strong safety culture. | — | 0 |
| Surface Consumer Lead, Microsoft Digital Sales, Americas This role is responsible for delivering revenue, margin, growth, and customer satisfaction targets for the Microsoft Store Direct Americas business for Surface. It involves end-to-end ownership of the Surface Consumer Line of Business (LOB) across the Americas region, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure business plans are aligned, field teams are informed, and execution is consistent. Key responsibilities include planning and evolving the go-to-market (GTM) framework, translating priorities into execution plans, driving last-mile execution of product launches and campaigns, and tracking/analyzing performance to optimize customer outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a data center environment, focusing on inventory management, delivery coordination, and asset management. It involves physical handling of equipment, documentation, and coordination with various teams and vendors. | — | 0 |
| Circular Center Logistics Technician This role is for a Circular Center Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing inventory, handling inbound/outbound deliveries, coordinating security, and documenting logistics. It involves cycle audits, data entry, and ensuring compliance with policies and SLAs for data bearing device destruction. The role is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, supporting global data center operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Operations This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure, including monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security requirements are met. The role involves developing operating procedures and supporting cloud operations for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Security Engineer Principal Security Engineer role focused on protecting Microsoft's critical cloud services by reducing systemic security risk in identity, tenant governance, and core infrastructure trust boundaries. The role involves designing enforceable security architectures, defining scalable policies and guardrails, partnering with engineering teams, and establishing proof mechanisms for continuous control effectiveness. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a data center, focusing on inventory management, deliveries, and device destruction. It does not involve AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Principal Security Engineering Manager Lead a team responsible for improving the security posture of production tenant environments through strong operational governance, risk reduction programs, and platform investments. This role focuses on building a disciplined execution engine, driving measurable improvements in isolation and application hygiene, and strengthening incident readiness and compliance-driven cloud buildouts within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization. | — | 0 |
| HR Service Advisor This role supports employees and managers with HR inquiries and transactions, contributes to training material creation, and assists with policy/process implementation. Responsibilities include data entry into HRIS, maintaining data privacy, documenting processes, providing customer support for HR services, and coordinating with vendors. The role requires proficiency in English and Spanish and experience in HR operations. | — | 0 |
| Software Quality Engineering IC1 The Azure Data engineering team is building the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications. This role focuses on ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of a highly integrated, end-to-end analytics ecosystem within the Microsoft Fabric platform. The team uses a shift-left approach, building intelligent automation, leveraging telemetry, and validating customer workflows in a cloud-native environment. The Software Test Engineer will develop scalable test frameworks, ensure interoperability across Fabric workloads, and identify systemic quality risks. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager (Night Shift) This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the operations and maintenance of critical environment systems (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, generators) within Microsoft's data centers. The manager will oversee daily operations, maintenance, incident response, and ensure safety and security protocols are followed. The role involves people management, technical oversight of facility equipment, and ensuring the reliability of data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Principal Architect This Principal Architect role focuses on defining and driving the security architecture for foundational security services within Microsoft Security, specifically within the Authorization and Root of Trust (ART) team. The role involves improving AI tools across the software development lifecycle, guiding customer requirements, overseeing complex product architecture, mentoring, debugging, code reviews, and automating production deployments. It emphasizes enhancing security, privacy, and safety, ensuring strategic compliance, and championing collaboration and design principles within partner teams. While AI tools are mentioned as part of the SDLC improvement, the core focus is on security architecture, cryptography, PKI, and trust services, not on building or shipping AI models themselves. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, specifically the Analysis Services (AS) Engine team. This role focuses on building and evolving the core data processing engine that powers Power BI and other Microsoft BI systems, emphasizing performance, scalability, and integration within cloud-scale services. The engineer will lead design, architecture, and end-to-end project execution, mentor other engineers, and champion best practices in a collaborative environment. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician - Phoenix West This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, focusing on inventory management, data bearing device destruction, and inbound/outbound logistics within a data center environment. It involves performing cycle audits, coordinating deliveries, documenting shipments, and ensuring compliance with security and data management policies. The role requires attention to detail, adherence to SLAs, and the ability to work in a dynamic operational setting. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Poly Site Reliability Engineer for M365 sovereign cloud operations, focusing on building tools and systems for faster, smarter, and more reliable service delivery and maintenance. The role involves writing code for operational challenges, internal platforms, automation, and agentic workflows, while ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence for government and sovereign cloud customers. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. This role focuses on partnering with customers to design and deliver cloud-based solutions using modern software engineering practices. The engineer will work in a cross-functional team, contribute to open-source projects, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams to solve customer challenges. The role emphasizes deep experience in software engineering and cloud technologies, with a focus on building broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a data center, responsible for managing inventory, handling deliveries, performing audits, and ensuring data bearing device destruction. It involves operational tasks within a data center environment, focusing on logistics and asset management. | — | 0 |
| Business Administrator Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is seeking an Executive Business Administrator to provide operational, logistical, and organizational support to senior leaders and teams within their Analytics organization. This role supports leaders in managing calendars, coordinating meetings and events, facilitating cross-functional communication, and managing projects within a fast-moving technical environment focused on data and AI products. | — | 0 |
| IT Operations Manager This role is for an IT Operations Manager in a data center environment, focusing on project execution, team leadership, operational control, infrastructure management, compliance, and SLA performance. The role requires managing IT development and operations, incident response, capacity planning, governance, and team development. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the operations and maintenance of critical environments within Microsoft's data centers. The manager will oversee electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems, ensuring safety, reliability, and efficiency. Responsibilities include people management, system operations, maintenance oversight, and ensuring adherence to safety and security protocols. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacing, and/or decommissioning equipment in a data center, with a holistic understanding of network and server equipment functions. The technician will also provide input for process improvements and guidance to other technicians. The role is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, supporting core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Services Account Executive This role is for a Senior Services Account Executive at Microsoft in Seoul. The primary focus is on selling services, including Unified Support and Consulting Services, to customers. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, aligning services to customer goals, driving cloud growth and AI transformation, and managing the full sales cycle. While the role mentions guiding customers through their AI transformation journey and leveraging Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions, the core responsibilities are in sales and account management, not in building or directly developing AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Metro Build Program Manager This role is for a Metro Build Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for delivering core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services like Azure, Office 365, Xbox, and OneDrive. The role involves managing data center build operations, including liaising between construction and operations, coordinating turnover, and documenting lessons learned. It also includes service delivery responsibilities such as monitoring KPIs, standardizing infrastructure, and assisting with facility design and commissioning. The role emphasizes a culture of safety, security, and compliance, and requires experience in large-scale projects within critical environments. | — | 0 |
| Director, Total Rewards Mergers & Acquisitions This role is for a Director of Total Rewards focused on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) within Microsoft's HR organization. The primary responsibility is to lead compensation and benefits integration for acquired companies, ensuring alignment with business strategy and talent management needs. The role involves analyzing data, developing compensation strategies, and advising leadership on complex M&A-related compensation issues. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager - Insider Risk Investigator - CTJ - TS/SCI This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager focused on the operational excellence and investigative rigor of Microsoft's insider risk investigations program. The responsibilities include end-to-end investigative execution, evidence development, technical analysis, documentation of findings, partnering with technical SMEs, refining detection logic, applying technical expertise for root cause analysis, maturing investigative processes and tooling, and collaborating with legal, HR, and security partners. The role also involves defining and tracking program metrics and translating technical findings into actionable insights. A Bachelor's Degree with 6+ years of relevant experience and 1+ year of management experience is required, along with a Top Secret/SCI security clearance. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Support Assistant This role supports senior colleagues in a data center environment, assisting with equipment and systems operations, maintenance, and team management. Responsibilities include data entry, documentation, preparing materials for maintenance, onboarding support, and managing access requests. The role also involves supporting the development of operational procedures and managing SharePoint sites. The position requires the ability to work 12-hour shifts, including nights and weekends, and may involve up to 25% business travel. It is not directly related to AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cybersecurity (Identity) - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Cybersecurity and Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Microsoft Federal. The architect will lead customer engagements, own the technical relationship, and deliver secure Identity architectures aligned with Zero Trust principles for U.S. Federal Government clients. Responsibilities include leading IAM engagements, administering identity systems (Active Directory, MIM, AD FS), assisting with hybrid identity modernization (Entra ID integration, MFA, Conditional Access, Privileged Access Management), remediating security risks, and collaborating with partners and account teams. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, with a strong emphasis on security clearance requirements (Top Secret with SCI and Polygraph). | — | 0 |