Currently tracking 224 active AI roles, down 11% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
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| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on developing cloud-based solutions for financial services customers in the capital markets sector, collaborating with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities. The role involves working side-by-side with customers to solve challenges and develop broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open-source software assets. | — | 0 |
| Business Program Manager - Data Centre Operations This role is for a Business Program Manager in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) organization, focusing on leading strategic programs to enhance operational excellence, service availability, and continuous improvement within data centre operations. The role involves partnering with operations, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate priorities into actionable plans, drive measurable outcomes, and influence leadership decisions to ensure the reliability, security, and optimization of the infrastructure supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — |
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| Cloud Solution Architect - Infra This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Azure infrastructure to help customers build secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. The architect will deliver engagements spanning architecture design, proof of concepts, and production deployments, ensuring performance, resiliency, and security for mission-critical workloads. Responsibilities include driving customer and partner engagements for Azure migrations, developing Azure Landing Zones, providing technical oversight, and ensuring the health, resiliency, security, and optimization of customer workloads. The role requires deep technical expertise in Azure services and related infrastructure technologies. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering The Azure Data engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining the Microsoft Fabric platform, a unified data stack for customers. The role involves designing, developing, and implementing highly secure, performant, and resilient platform infrastructure, with a focus on enabling next-generation data-first applications and driving a data culture in the age of AI. The team collaborates with cross-functional teams to build scalable backend infrastructure services. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering Software Engineer II role on the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team, focusing on improving availability, scalability, query performance, storage, and networking optimizations for operational database systems. The role involves collaborating with partner teams on first-party integrations for Open-Source Databases on Azure, writing and maintaining code, testing, and supporting live services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician at Microsoft, responsible for the installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of equipment within Microsoft's data centers. The position involves contributing to issue tracking, participating in safety briefings, completing assigned tickets efficiently, and maintaining security and data management procedures. It requires a basic understanding of computer hardware and components, with preferred experience in IT equipment support and relevant certifications. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Azure Data Analytics team, focusing on building the core analytics experiences in Microsoft Fabric. The role involves developing and designing highly reliable systems and applications for storing, managing, and analyzing large volumes of structured and unstructured data, integrating Azure technologies for scalability and reliability. This is a general software engineering role within an AI-focused company, not directly building AI models or agents. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II Site Reliability Engineer II role within the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on the Analysis Services Engine that powers Power BI. The role ensures reliability, scalability, availability, and performance of large-scale services through automation, observability, and incident response. It involves working with high throughput, multi-tenant services, collaborating with partner teams, and participating in on-call rotations. Core responsibilities include system reliability, incident management, performance monitoring, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement. | — | 0 |
| Managing Director, SPT - Japan Managing Director for Strategic Partnerships and Transformation (SPT) in Japan, focusing on driving large-scale customer engagements and digital transformation initiatives. This role involves leading senior sales teams, building strategic partnerships, and achieving significant revenue growth by leveraging Microsoft's cloud solutions. | — | 0 |
| Electrical and/or Mechanical Technician - Technicien(ne) électrique ou CVC This role involves maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure, including monitoring, inspection, maintenance, and troubleshooting of facility equipment. It requires adherence to safety and security protocols and documentation of tasks. The position is within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation. It involves managing inventory, processing warranty claims, and ensuring data-bearing device destruction, with a focus on operational efficiency and adherence to SLAs and company policies. | — | 0 |
| Senior HR Service Advisor This role focuses on managing the end-to-end new hire onboarding process, ensuring accurate data validation and timely payroll input submission across various systems and geographies. It involves stakeholder coordination, root cause analysis for discrepancies, and maintaining audit readiness. An added advantage is identifying opportunities for automation using low-code/no-code tools. | — | 0 |
| Principal, Regional Delivery Enablement & Operating Excellence Lead (APAC) This role leads a regional delivery enablement and operating excellence function across APAC, focusing on structuring complex work, improving delivery models, and driving adoption of standards and tooling. It involves people leadership, cross-functional integration, and strategic influence to ensure predictable and scalable execution for delivery teams. | — | 0 |
| Principal Mechanical/Thermal Architect This role is for a Principal Mechanical/Thermal Architect focused on designing and optimizing cooling systems for AI servers and data centers. The responsibilities include leading mechanical and thermal development, end-to-end system design ownership, architecting liquid cooling solutions, and ensuring manufacturability and reliability. The role requires extensive experience in mechanical engineering, thermal design, fluid dynamics, and CAD software, with a focus on high-volume manufacturing and reliability for cloud hardware infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Engineer II Data Engineer II for the Microsoft Insider Risk Program, responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines, joining and filtering diverse data sources, and developing insider risk detection models. The role involves working with large datasets, applying advanced data transformation techniques, and collaborating with team members to define and refine detection use cases. Responsibilities also include maintaining and monitoring engineering systems, leading incident response, and documenting processes. Requires a Master's degree or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience in a relevant field. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians - Evening Microsoft Data Center Technicians are responsible for staging, setting up, performing hardware deployments, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and decommissioning of IT equipment in data centers. This role involves following Standard Operating Procedures, understanding data center processes, and ensuring security and safety compliance. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on data center inventory and asset management, including handling deliveries, audits, and data bearing device destruction. The role involves coordinating with vendors, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring operational efficiency and safety within the data center environment. | — | 0 |
| Environmental Health & Safety Manager Manage Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) programs for Microsoft Datacenters, ensuring compliance with regulations and company policies. Responsibilities include risk assessment, incident investigation, safety metric analysis, and implementing controls to mitigate risks in datacenter operations. | — | 0 |
| Environmental Health & Safety Manager This role is for an Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Manager responsible for implementing EHS programs in Microsoft datacenters. The manager will focus on preventing incidents and illnesses by managing high-risk activities, emergency response, and safety protocols. Key responsibilities include identifying risks, implementing controls, monitoring performance, ensuring compliance with regulations and Microsoft standards, and supporting incident investigations. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and experience in EHS regulations, with preferred qualifications including more experience or a Master's degree. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Campaigns & Advocacy This role leads campaigns and advocacy for Microsoft's infrastructure investments, focusing on datacenters, energy, workforce development, and community investment. It involves building public support and shaping conversations around infrastructure, especially as AI scales. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Data Platforms and Services - Minecraft Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data platforms and services that power Minecraft player insights, personalization, and analytics. This role involves end-to-end development of cloud-based data services and APIs on Azure using Terraform and CI/CD, focusing on production reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and security compliance. The role also involves building and maintaining C++ telemetry libraries and working with C# or Python for tooling. | — | 0 |
| Go-to-Market Retail Execution Category Manager This role is a Go-to-Market (GTM) Retail Execution Category Manager responsible for leading worldwide retailer execution, ensuring retail partners are prepared to activate strategy and deliver consistent, high-quality execution. The role translates Windows Consumer priorities into retailer-ready actions, drives aligned activation across retailers, ensures participation and guideline compliance, and partners across various teams to improve conversion and share. It operates at the intersection of strategy, portfolio, category management, and channel marketing. | — | 0 |
| Go-To-Market Execution Director This role is for a Go-To-Market Execution Director for Windows Consumer, focusing on orchestrating worldwide execution across OEM, Silicon, and Retail partner ecosystems. The director will drive new sales motions to increase demand, simplify consumer choice, and secure conversion, operating at the intersection of strategy, portfolio, category management, and channel marketing. Key responsibilities include GTM orchestration across three ecosystems, field execution of investment plans, ecosystem orchestration for competitiveness, simplifying the shopper journey, delivering GTM briefs, and establishing a performance loop for investment ROI. | — | 0 |
| Growth & Competitive Strategy Director This role owns the long-term growth, channel, and competitive strategy for Windows Consumer worldwide. It involves translating market, consumer, and competitor signals into sales priorities and investment choices, orchestrating the annual growth strategy plan across various departments, defining channel strategies, and adapting global plans for regional realities. The goal is to defend and grow market share in the consumer PC market. | — | 0 |
| Senior Verification Engineer Senior Verification Engineer for Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team. Responsible for defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. This role involves creating test plans, writing and debugging verification code (UVM), defining functional coverage, and collaborating with design engineers and architects. | — | 0 |
| Client Delivery Partner Client Delivery Partner responsible for successful planning and execution of transformational programs for Microsoft's largest customers, leveraging deep industry experience to lead teams and achieve measurable business outcomes. Focuses on building executive relationships, driving digital transformation, orchestrating the Microsoft ecosystem, and enabling sustainable account growth. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager - Business Operations This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. The primary focus is on the business operations and financial controllership of datacenter financials, including contract management, invoice reviews, spend management, and evaluating cost-saving opportunities. The role requires strong project management, communication, and stakeholder focus, with a background in IT equipment or large-scale datacenter infrastructure. While the company operates AI services, this specific role is centered on the operational and financial aspects of the physical infrastructure, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Manager- CTJ - Poly Lead a mixed organization of Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers responsible for building and operating IC3 services across highly regulated and enterprise-critical environments. This role requires strong technical depth, operational judgment, and people leadership, with the ability to scale impact through others while remaining deeply connected to engineering fundamentals and service health. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialists Customer-facing solution sales role focused on driving digital transformation and designing solutions that deliver business value. Engages with customers and account teams to understand business priorities, lead complex opportunities, and close deals. Provides competitive insights and supports business planning. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Engineer This role is for a Principal Product Engineer focused on semiconductor IC development, manufacturing, fabrication, testing, and packaging. The responsibilities include driving pre-Si readiness for tests and features, optimizing ATE test programs, managing fuse requirements, and leading cross-functional teams. The candidate should have strong knowledge of ATE test program development, DFT, silicon fabrication, and product quality & reliability. Experience in high-performance computing, AI, GPUs, or CPUs is beneficial, but the core function is in hardware engineering and manufacturing, not AI model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing the operations, maintenance, and safety of critical facility equipment like electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The manager will lead a team, ensure adherence to procedures and safety protocols, and manage incident response within the data center environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician This role is for a Senior Data Center Technician at Microsoft, responsible for the physical infrastructure of data centers that power Microsoft's cloud services. The technician will prepare, install, diagnose, troubleshoot, replace, and decommission IT equipment, including network and server hardware. They will also provide guidance to other technicians on processes and procedures, ensure operational efficiency, and maintain a safe and secure work environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician (nightshift) This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining datacenter infrastructure, including monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security requirements. The role involves developing operating procedures and working with third-party contractors. It is a nightshift position with potential for business travel. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - ASP.NET Senior Software Engineer to own and shape a modern ASP.NET platform that underpins millions of applications worldwide, spanning high traffic consumer products and mission critical enterprise systems. The role involves tackling challenges at scale, diving deep into .NET fundamentals, and collaborating with top engineers to evolve the platform with modern capabilities, including AI-driven features. Responsibilities include designing, building, and evolving core platform components, taking ownership of architectural decisions, and integrating intelligent capabilities into the platform. | — | 0 |
| Senior Logistics Technician This role is for a Senior Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center. Responsibilities include prioritizing and assigning work, providing guidance on logistics tasks, ensuring inventory accuracy, managing Data Bearing Device (DBD) destruction, and coordinating inbound/outbound deliveries. The role also involves operational excellence, procurement support, safety practices, and tactical shift management. It is not directly related to AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager Program Manager for Critical Environment in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in datacenters. The role involves managing preventative and corrective maintenance, ensuring equipment efficiency, acting as an escalation point, managing projects, and driving cost/energy efficiency initiatives. It also includes ensuring compliance with infrastructure operations standards and identifying/remediating vulnerabilities. | — | 0 |
| CE Field Service Engineer This role is for a Field Service Engineer focused on data center operations, ensuring the availability and efficiency of mechanical and electrical equipment in leased datacenters. It involves managing day-to-day operations, maintenance, compliance, and incident reduction, with a strong emphasis on safety and operational policies. | — | 0 |
| CE Programme Manager This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager responsible for end-to-end delivery of operational and engineering programs within Microsoft Data Center campuses. The focus is on ensuring safe, compliant, and reliable infrastructure operations, bridging engineering, operations, and compliance to improve availability, reduce risk, and drive operational excellence. Key responsibilities include program ownership, KPI management, risk and compliance adherence, cross-functional leadership, and project portfolio management. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation. It involves managing hardware, processing warranty claims, and ensuring accurate inventory tracking and data bearing device destruction. The role requires experience in warehouse/supply chain within an IT environment. | — | 0 |
| IMDA-CLT Program: Solution Engineering INTERN Internship program focused on solution engineering, involving customer engagement, product expertise development, and technical wins, with a focus on building awareness of product strategy and partners. | — | 0 |
| IMDA-CLT Program: Customer Success Account Management INTERN This is a one-year internship program for recent graduates focused on Customer Success Account Management. The intern will help develop and strengthen relationships with key customer stakeholders and technical teams to support high-quality solution delivery, guide conversations driving customer business objectives, and contribute to planning and execution of customer programs. The role emphasizes building communication, coordination, and customer engagement skills while working with cutting-edge technology. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager This role manages critical environment operations for Microsoft's global datacenters, focusing on mechanical and electrical equipment, availability, safety, and efficiency. It involves leading a team and ensuring compliance within a large-scale infrastructure supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer- GitHub India Principal Software Engineer role focused on driving system architecture, inspiring and coaching engineering teams, and delivering innovative solutions for GitHub's Developer Experience (DX) team. The role emphasizes building and tuning scalable, high-performance systems, optimizing high-throughput services, and leading technical strategy and performance optimization across teams. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect Dynamics 365 CRM & ERP This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP workloads for enterprise customers. It focuses on the design, deployment, optimization, and operation of these business applications, explicitly stating it is for non-AI, governance, optimization, and operational excellence scenarios delivered at scale. The role requires deep technical expertise in Dynamics 365, including legacy versions, and troubleshooting complex issues. It emphasizes working with enterprise environments and integration scenarios. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician (CET) responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, ensuring safe work environments, understanding equipment operation, performing maintenance, responding to onsite incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires expertise in areas like electrical, mechanical, or HVAC systems and involves using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role involves performing destruction of data-bearing devices, harvesting and testing parts from decommissioned devices, overseeing third-party destruction processes, conducting inventory cycle audits, and managing inbound/outbound deliveries within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. The technician will work with various inventory management systems and ensure accurate physical inventory tracking. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialists This role is a Digital Solution Specialist for Microsoft's Small Business Segment (SMB) within the Azure Solution Area in ASEAN. The primary focus is on driving Azure adoption and consumption by acting as a trusted technical advisor to customers, leading technical engagements, and guiding them through their digital transformation journey. The role involves sales execution, territory management, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to identify and close new opportunities, ultimately contributing to net-new revenue and workload expansion. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, performing maintenance on critical environment equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, generators), responding to onsite incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires hands-on understanding of equipment, troubleshooting, and adherence to safety procedures. It is not directly related to AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Firmware Engineer II Firmware Engineer II at Microsoft's Azure SCHIE team, focusing on designing and implementing security solutions for server and rack infrastructure firmware. Requires experience in firmware development, SoC bring-up, security primitives, and secure boot workflows. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, handling deliveries, coordinating vendors, processing warranty claims, and ensuring accurate documentation. It involves cycle audits, data corrections, and destruction of data-bearing devices, adhering to strict SLAs and policies. The role requires a high school diploma with experience in inventory management or a related field, with preferred experience in IT logistics and operating heavy-load equipment. | — | 0 |