Currently tracking 224 active AI roles, down 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Account Technology Strategist - Defence & Justice Account Technology Strategist for Microsoft's Defence & Justice sector in New Zealand, focusing on leveraging Microsoft technologies (cloud, data, AI) to help government organizations modernize systems, enhance security, and improve citizen engagement. The role involves shaping technology strategies, building executive relationships, and orchestrating technical teams to deliver solutions in highly regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Stagiaire en opérations critiques / Critical Environment Ops INTERN This is a 4-month internship for a Critical Environment Technician (CET) Apprentice in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team. The role involves learning to operate and monitor data center equipment (electrical, mechanical, fire/life safety) safely and professionally, assisting in emergency responses, and documenting maintenance activities using a CMMS. The intern will have the opportunity to obtain Microsoft CET Level 1 certification. | — |
| Sales Excellence Lead This role serves as the COO of the Public Sector segment, partnering with business leadership to operationalize strategy into disciplined execution, drive operating rigor, and ensure performance accountability to grow the business and take market share. The role focuses on business planning, defining and driving a predictable rhythm of business, guiding sales strategies, optimizing sales processes, and coaching sales leaders. | — | 0 |
| Microsoft Data Center Technician (DCT) Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft data centers, ensuring compliance with KPIs and SLAs. This role involves managing escalations, championing safety, and overseeing technician readiness and training within a large-scale cloud infrastructure environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer Senior Security Engineer role focused on identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's operating systems, platform technologies, and cloud platforms. The role involves design review, code review, fuzzing, variant analysis, developing mitigations, and collaborating with engineering teams to integrate security into the development lifecycle. It also includes developing and scaling security tooling and staying current on attacker techniques. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving a hyper-scale distributed cloud service within Microsoft's Security organization, specifically for Azure Active Directory. The role involves participating in all stages of the service lifecycle, addressing global-scale service issues, and improving resiliency, latency, and reliability. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C++, C#, Java, or Python. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Technology Strategist - Telecommunications This role is a Strategic Account Technology Strategist (SATS) focused on the telecommunications industry within the enterprise business unit. The SATS will work at the forefront of customer digital transformation, understanding their business and industry scenarios to provide resources for their digital journey. The role involves proposing innovative business ideas based on technical insights and industry expertise, driving the adoption of Microsoft Azure Cloud, AI, Modern Workplace, and business applications. The SATS will act as a virtual CTO for clients, building relationships with CIOs/CTOs and accelerating AI transformation. The role emphasizes strategy leadership, technology leadership, and industry knowledge to build digital technology strategies aligned with business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Technician (DCT) Apprentice - Level 3 Apprentice role focused on learning and supporting the installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and decommissioning of data center infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Principal Engineer for Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building key infrastructure services for Fabric Data Engineering based on Apache Spark. The role involves collaborating with product managers and US teams, guiding design and development, maintaining online services, and mentoring junior engineers. Experience with scalable, distributed services, multi-threaded programming, and Service Fabric/Kubernetes is required. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in Microsoft's data centers. It focuses on maintaining the physical infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services, ensuring hardware is deployed and maintained according to standard operating procedures. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Sales This Commercial Sales role focuses on achieving revenue targets by leading collaborations with sellers and business stakeholders, leveraging knowledge of customer needs and ethical selling methods. The role involves optimizing sales processes, identifying business opportunities (including those related to artificial intelligence), and managing commercial plans for strategic accounts. It also requires driving adherence to commercial solutions policy, analyzing deals for risks, and negotiating complex commercial terms in collaboration with account teams. Responsibilities include proactive engagement, understanding customer priorities, structuring deals for growth, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manufacturing Product Engineer Senior Manufacturing Product Engineer for Microsoft's Surface and Xbox hardware operations. The role focuses on ensuring product quality and manufacturing execution throughout the product lifecycle, involving technical understanding of design, test, assembly, and operation. Responsibilities include identifying and mitigating manufacturing risks during NPI, driving fault isolation and failure analysis, developing corrective actions, collaborating with data system partners for quality control, creating product training, developing debugging tools, resolving technical challenges in refurbishment, monitoring quality metrics, and leading cross-functional teams for continuous improvement. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and 5+ years of experience in technical engineering, manufacturing, or operations. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Manager This role is a Support Escalation Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, focusing on managing escalated customer and partner issues. The role involves collaborating with engineering and operations teams, acting as a subject matter expert, owning escalated issues, and improving customer support experiences. It emphasizes communication, customer resolution, and process improvement, with a focus on accelerating AI transformation for customers. | — | 0 |
| Sales Compensation Insights Manager This role focuses on delivering actionable insights for sales compensation programs by performing analytics, statistical modeling, and partnering with stakeholders to inform compensation design and data-driven strategies. It requires strategic thinking, execution, and the ability to navigate ambiguity in a hybrid/virtual team environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role within Microsoft's Engineering Operations (EngOps) organization, focusing on building products for Customer Success at scale. The role involves designing and implementing solutions that prevent issues, embed AI-powered automation, and improve quality, reliability, and security across the Microsoft Cloud. It requires collaboration with multiple teams, participation in the full engineering lifecycle, and a focus on operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Design Verification Engineer This role is for a Design Verification Engineer responsible for the pre-silicon verification and post-silicon validation of custom silicon components within Microsoft's Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering team. The engineer will work on developing verification IP, UVM components, stimulus, scoreboards, and assertions, while collaborating with various cross-functional teams to ensure design correctness and coverage closure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Power Engineer This role is for a Senior Power Engineer focused on designing and integrating rack-level power systems for Microsoft's data centers. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to define and qualify power systems, contribute to the power infrastructure roadmap, and collaborate on power delivery for high-performance compute and AI workloads. The engineer will also define and enforce power system design standards, safety protocols, and compliance with global regulatory requirements, and engage with external partners for innovation. | — | 0 |
| Group Finance Manager, Marketplace This Group Finance Manager role for Microsoft Marketplace focuses on providing financial expertise, strategic guidance, and operational support to accelerate revenue growth. The role involves acting as a central finance SME for Marketplace revenue mechanics and billing, leading planning and forecasting processes, developing performance metrics, and supporting incentives and compensation programs. It also requires cross-functional partnership with Sales, Product Marketing, and Engineering, and driving improvements in finance processes and reporting tools. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, addressing operational and safety situations, mentoring junior technicians, performing equipment maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role emphasizes safety, security, and adherence to procedures in a datacenter environment. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Director, Audience Marketing This role is for a Sr. Director of Audience Marketing at Microsoft, focusing on defining and executing marketing strategies for commercial Cloud & AI. The position involves leading a team to create narratives, thought leadership, and enablement assets that drive business transformation and adoption of Microsoft's AI strategy. The role requires cross-functional collaboration with product marketing, sales, and engineering to ensure a cohesive market presence. Success is measured by content adoption, amplification, and business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Support Assistant This role supports senior colleagues in data center operations, focusing on equipment and systems maintenance, team management support, and critical environment culture. Responsibilities include data entry, documenting changes, preparing for maintenance, assisting with onboarding, and supporting the development of operational procedures. The role requires adherence to security screenings and may involve travel and non-standard work hours. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Core AI Senior Finance Manager role focused on optimizing investments in cloud infrastructure for Azure AI services, driving down unit costs, and improving product margins. This role partners with engineering, PM, and planning teams to inform pricing, investment, and scaling decisions, and influences monetization strategy. | — | 0 |
| National Security & Resilience Director The Lead for National Security & Resilience will serve as the Brussels-based owner for Microsoft’s European initiatives related to national security, resilience, and defense modernization. The role is externally facing and focused on building trust, designing and executing strategic partnerships and initiatives with NATO, related organizations and selected national governments across Europe. It will lead Brussels-based workstreams on security and resilience policy engagement while acting as a key connector across EGA colleagues in European capitals - supporting local advocacy efforts and enabling coordination, alignment, and delivery across markets. | — | 0 |
| Principal Circuit Design Engineer Principal Circuit Design Engineer responsible for developing Memory SRAM and Register file solutions, working with process technology teams, devising statistical analysis and characterization methodologies, and developing IP and post-silicon characterization plans. | — | 0 |
| Senior Design Verification Engineer This role is for a Senior Design Verification Engineer focused on verifying AI accelerators within Microsoft's Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering team. The engineer will develop verification environments and test suites for pre-silicon functional verification at block, chip, and system levels, as well as reference modeling and post-silicon validation. Responsibilities include collaborating with architects and designers on verification plans, creating and driving test plans, designing technical solutions, developing verification components, debugging failures, and creating automation scripts. The role also involves applying Agile methodologies and collaborating with cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Manager This role is for a Senior Business Manager within Microsoft Business Operations (MBO), focusing on strategic planning, business performance, Rhythm of Business (ROB), and operational/financial excellence for a global team. The role requires influencing leadership, driving initiatives, and possessing strong business, process, and financial acumen. Key responsibilities include strategic planning, ROB design, program management, performance management, financial planning, data analysis, executive communication, stakeholder management, change management, process design, and enabling AI transformation. | — | 0 |
| Director, Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Team (CPD) This role is for a Director of Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy within Microsoft's Customer Security and Trust Organization. The primary focus is on working with governments, private sector, and civil society to advocate for and implement cybersecurity policies, with a specific emphasis on AI cybersecurity priorities. The role involves building external relationships, leading policy initiatives, collaborating with communications teams on thought leadership, and fostering internal collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering This role is for a Software Engineer on the Microsoft Fabric platform team, focusing on building and maintaining telemetry pipelines. 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 developing core services, APIs, and SDKs for producing, pipelining, and consuming telemetry, working with stakeholders on service data models, and driving improvements in areas of ownership. It requires leading architecture, design, and development of scalable solutions in partnership with Product Management and partner teams, and participating in on-call rotations. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the operations and maintenance of critical environment systems within Microsoft's datacenters, ensuring the reliability and uptime of cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician- Part Time This part-time Data Center Technician role involves learning and executing standard procedures for installing, troubleshooting, and decommissioning IT equipment in data centers under supervision. The role focuses on understanding data center operations, security, and data management, contributing to the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Networking Team focused on designing and delivering scalable software and network solutions to automate Azure Edge Networks. The role involves end-to-end delivery of critical networking components, cross-functional collaboration, and promoting engineering best practices. While AI is mentioned as a powering technology for the vision, the core responsibilities are in network engineering and automation. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly Software Engineer role focused on building and improving scalable, highly reliable cloud security services within Microsoft Defender, protecting millions of computers from cyber threats, particularly in government environments. Requires strong engineering skills, experience with complex cloud solutions, and the ability to investigate and fix production issues. A U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph is a mandatory requirement. | — | 0 |
| Business Strategist This role is a Business Strategist within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, specifically in the AI Transformation and Business Innovation team. The role focuses on defining foundational business strategy and monetization models for customer experience and success, driving revenue growth, and redefining how Support is designed, monetized, transacted, delivered, and implemented. It involves structuring complex problems, understanding market trends, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and developing business strategies. | — | 0 |
| Deal Manager Deal Managers are responsible for designing and executing creative licensing solutions and commercial contracts for Microsoft customers, working closely with sales and business teams to increase revenue and profitability, and improve customer satisfaction by accelerating technology adoption. This role requires strong relationship-building, deal analysis, complex scenario simplification, and agreement creation skills. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Manager This role is a Senior Support Escalation Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, focusing on managing escalated customer and partner issues related to Microsoft's products and services. The role involves acting as an internal expert, leading strategic projects, mentoring junior staff, collaborating with internal and external teams, managing vendor relationships, and driving process improvements. While the company and its services leverage AI, this specific role is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models, but rather in supporting customers who use AI-powered solutions. | — | 0 |
| Continuous Improvement Program Manager Microsoft is seeking a Continuous Improvement Program Manager to identify, lead, and support strategic initiatives to improve operational performance across the organization. This role applies lean, six sigma, and other performance enhancement methodologies to embed a culture of continuous improvement. Responsibilities include leading Lean Six Sigma projects, analyzing business processes, facilitating Kaizen events, and collaborating cross-functionally. Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification, and at least 7 years of experience in process improvement. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center IT Support Technicians This role provides IT support for secure access workstations (SAWs) laptops, servers, and conference room A/V equipment within Microsoft's data centers. Responsibilities include maintaining inventory, installing updates and OS, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, performing component replacements, and supporting the deployment of physical data center infrastructure like servers and network devices. The role also involves managing SAW inventory, performing RMAs, and ensuring devices meet security compliance standards. | — | 0 |
| Energy Resource Manager This role focuses on managing IT allocation within datacenters, applying optimization techniques to reduce stranded capacity by improving space, power, cooling, and network utilization. It involves collaborating with engineers, managing IT resources, ensuring compliance, and leading projects to enhance Infrastructure Utilization Effectiveness and Power Harvesting, particularly in upgrading legacy datacenters. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Project Manager This role is for a Data Center Project Manager at Microsoft. The primary responsibilities include troubleshooting service incidents, managing projects to meet service delivery objectives, escalating issues to stakeholders, and following safety policies. The role involves understanding data center procedures, collaborating across teams, and sharing best practices. The job is in London, England, and requires a High School Diploma or equivalent with industry experience, or college coursework with industry experience. Preferred qualifications include experience in critical environment infrastructures and relevant technical certifications. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Project Manager Project Manager for Microsoft's Data Center Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, responsible for delivering core infrastructure for cloud services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. The role involves managing projects, troubleshooting service incidents, ensuring safety and security, and collaborating with various teams to meet service delivery objectives. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager responsible for the operational excellence of mechanical and electrical infrastructure in datacenters, ensuring service continuity, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement in safety, reliability, and efficiency. The role involves overseeing daily operations, maintenance, and driving safety and compliance within a datacenter environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Design Engineer This role is for a Principal Design Engineer focused on the design of AI System on Chip (AISoC) silicon. The responsibilities include IP microarchitecture specification, RTL design and synthesis, and SoC integration. While the role is within the AI Silicon team and involves designing hardware for AI usages, the core craft is electrical and computer engineering (digital design, RTL, synthesis, integration), not the direct development or deployment of AI models or agents themselves. Therefore, it is not considered AI-related in terms of the primary craft. | — | 0 |
| Deal Manager Deal Manager role at Microsoft, focusing on designing and executing customized deals and licensing models for customers to help them achieve more with Microsoft's products and services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics. The role involves collaborating with sales, legal, and finance teams, negotiating terms, and ensuring strategies align with business principles. Requires strong business judgment, critical thinking, relationship building, and negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager - Melbourne Program Manager for Critical Environments in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, responsible for the day-to-day operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in datacenters. This role involves managing preventative and corrective maintenance, ensuring equipment efficiency, acting as an escalation point for facilities issues, and driving cost/energy efficiency projects. It requires establishing strong working relationships with customers and ensuring compliance with infrastructure operations standardization. The role also emphasizes safety, security, and compliance within datacenter activities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician This role is for a Senior Data Center Technician responsible for the preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of network and server equipment within Microsoft's global data centers. The role involves providing guidance to other technicians, ensuring quality execution, and maintaining awareness of performance indicators and safety protocols. It is a hands-on technical role focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Business Support ATR-D This role provides strategic calendar management, meeting logistics, cross-functional collaboration, event coordination, and project ownership for a Corporate Vice President (CVP) within Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team. It involves managing resources, supporting recruitment, and coordinating travel arrangements. | — | 0 |
| Backend Software Engineer II Backend Software Engineer II role at Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building the core analytics experiences in Microsoft Fabric. The role involves designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale services and components for data warehousing, data engineering, data science, AI, and Power BI workloads, enabling customers to process and analyze massive data volumes. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing the operations and maintenance of critical facility equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, generators) within data centers. The manager will lead a team, ensure safety and security protocols are followed, manage maintenance work orders, respond to incidents, and contribute to environmental sustainability efforts. The role involves people management, operational oversight, and ensuring the reliability of data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Physical Security Engineer This role is for a Physical Security Engineer responsible for implementing and maintaining physical security infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud services, including datacenters. Responsibilities include programming access control and video systems, assessing system health data, identifying performance trends, and collaborating with partner teams on security initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician This role provides IT support for data center infrastructure, including secure access workstations, servers, and A/V equipment. Responsibilities include maintaining inventory, installing updates and OS, troubleshooting hardware issues, performing component replacements, and supporting the deployment of physical infrastructure like servers and SANs. The role also involves managing SAW inventory and assisting with shipping/receiving. | — | 0 |