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 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.
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| Critical Environment (CE) Technical Trainer This role is for a Critical Environment (CE) Technical Trainer within Microsoft's Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) Learning team. The trainer will be responsible for establishing technical training delivery, conducting workforce training needs analysis, and engaging in procedural change management activities for datacenters. The role involves leveraging technical and adult learning fundamentals to evaluate and report on training activities, and to coach learners in their career growth. The trainer will deliver in-person or virtual training sessions, incorporating the latest features, technologies, and processes into learning experiences. They will also apply classroom management techniques and foster a supportive learning environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and enhancing high-performance advertising SDKs and platform capabilities for Windows. The role involves building CI/CD pipelines, automation, improving ad delivery experience, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. It emphasizes data-informed rollouts, design/code reviews, and ensuring end-to-end readiness for production releases. Familiarity with advertising technology concepts is a plus. |
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| Group Finance Manager, Azure Solution Area Group Finance Manager for Azure Solution Area at Microsoft, responsible for financial strategy, resource allocation, and compliance. This role partners with business and finance teams to drive strategic decisions, provide insights, and manage forecasts and budgets, ensuring alignment with company priorities and regulatory requirements. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician - CTJ - Top Secret This role involves performing standard processes for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning equipment in a data center environment. Responsibilities include preparing and setting up hardware, performing quality checks, troubleshooting issues, and decommissioning hardware. The role also requires compliance with safety, security, and data management procedures, and contributing to team collaboration. A strong sense of accountability for service quality and client focus is expected. | — | 0 |
| Senior Trademark Paralegal This role is for a Senior Trademark Paralegal within Microsoft's Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization. The primary responsibilities include managing worldwide trademark clearance, prosecution, and enforcement, coordinating with attorneys and outside counsel, and supporting portfolio operations. The role also involves contributing to practice innovation through AI and digital transformation, and identifying automation opportunities including AI-enabled workflows. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II-Backend Software This role is for a Software Engineer II on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building the data platform for the age of AI. The team works on products like Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, etc., enabling data engineers and scientists to extract intelligence from data. The role involves designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale services and components for data engineering experiences, with a focus on quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and security. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Defender, focusing on building and delivering cloud security solutions within US Government clouds. The role involves ensuring 24x7 service reliability, automating deployments, building scalable systems for monitoring and alerting, driving compliance and security, leading post-incident learning, and collaborating across teams to maintain high uptime and performance for critical services. | — | 0 |
| Network Automation Engineer This role focuses on network automation engineering within the Azure WAN team, involving the design, development, and building of networking and automation components for the Wide Area Network. Responsibilities include assisting in network feature design, contributing to testing and validation, managing network buildouts, analyzing capacity issues, and supporting incident management. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer -Backend Software The Senior Software Engineer will join the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building the data platform for the age of AI. This role involves designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale services and components for Microsoft Fabric, enabling users to manage massive volumes of data. The position requires experience with cloud services and backend systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Data Analytics team, focusing on building the core analytics experiences in Microsoft Fabric. The team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering data-first applications. The engineer will leverage AI in an AI-first development organization to design, implement, test, and ship large-scale services and components for Fabric Data Engineering experiences, focusing on quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and security. Responsibilities include collaborating with product management, applying a growth mindset to solve complex problems, contributing to team culture, supporting live site operations, and mentoring peers. | — | 0 |
| Director, Product Marketing Director, Product Marketing for Microsoft Plus, focusing on driving adoption, engagement, and retention of Microsoft's consumer apps and services on Windows and mobile through product-led growth strategies and in-product experiments. This role involves people management, cross-organizational partnership, and a blend of inbound and outbound marketing. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Development Manager - Sell to Senior Business Development Manager on the Frontier AI Partnerships team responsible for shaping strategy and driving execution for Microsoft’s most strategic and complex partnerships. This role involves leading high-stakes negotiations, operationalizing partnership commitments, and establishing operating models for global-scale collaborations. The role requires deep collaboration with finance, engineering, legal, and product teams, as well as executive communication and decision-making. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager The Principal Software Engineering Manager will lead the design, development, and validation of core platform components for Azure Usage Billing. This role involves driving architectural decisions for complex distributed systems that power billing across all Microsoft services, ensuring reliable ingestion, aggregation, and processing of high-volume usage data. The team builds a mission-critical, scalable, and compliant data platform leveraging Azure real-time messaging, streaming, and analytics services, with a direct impact on Microsoft's revenue stream. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role focuses on maintaining and managing Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) within Microsoft's mission-critical datacenters, ensuring their availability, data quality, service, change management, reporting, and security. It involves program and project management for ICS systems, including servers, applications, networks, and device infrastructure, as well as governing access and permissions. The role also emphasizes a culture of safety and security, compliance with safety programs, and developing positive working relationships. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer 2, Azure Data Platform Software Engineer II for Azure Data Platform, specifically focusing on Azure PostgreSQL. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining a globally distributed, fully managed PostgreSQL service. Responsibilities include improving reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the cloud service, contributing to production support, and collaborating with global teams. The role requires experience with distributed systems and cloud services, and preferred qualifications include using AI tools responsibly and contributing to product features. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer - Cryo-CMOS Analog Circuit Design Seeking a Senior Quantum Engineer specializing in Cryo-CMOS Analog Circuit Design to develop control systems for quantum computing platforms. Responsibilities include designing, simulating, and validating high-performance CMOS circuits for cryogenic environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to system architecture and technical publications. | — | 0 |
| Security Consultant-CTJ-Poly This role is for a Security Consultant at Microsoft Federal, focusing on the design, implementation, and operationalization of cybersecurity solutions within classified or mission-sensitive federal environments, particularly those aligned with Zero Trust principles. The role requires expertise in Microsoft Security solutions and involves technical delivery, customer engagement, and collaboration with various stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialist- Cloud & AI, SMB This role is a customer-facing technical advisor focused on driving Azure adoption and consumption within the Small Business Segment. The specialist will lead technical engagements, design cloud solutions, and guide customers through digital transformation, focusing on net-new revenue and workload expansion. | — | 0 |
| Finance Director, Data Center Investments and Deals Finance Director role focused on data center investments and deals, involving financial analysis, deal structuring, and portfolio strategy for Microsoft's cloud expansion. Requires leading a team and providing executive decision support. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician - Day Shift This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician at Microsoft, responsible for monitoring and managing critical alarms in data centers, coordinating with local teams, and ensuring seamless performance. The technician will handle incident resolution, conduct root cause analysis, and oversee data center systems, CMMS application, and safety/security initiatives. The role also involves executive reporting and supporting decision-making. It requires experience in mission-critical services or specialized fields like mechanical or electrical systems, and the ability to work shifts. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves supporting the physical infrastructure of data centers, including equipment installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning, under the guidance of experienced technicians. It focuses on maintaining data center operations and adhering to security and data management procedures. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive - Public Sector Enterprise Account Manager for Microsoft's Public Sector team in HK, focusing on driving digital transformation and achieving business outcomes for customers through consultative engagement and leveraging the Microsoft product portfolio. Responsibilities include customer engagement, account management, and sales excellence, with a requirement for 5+ years of experience in Public Sector or related fields. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Management 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 across Microsoft's ecosystem. The role involves advanced troubleshooting, leading resolution of high-severity incidents, acting as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders, and collaborating with global teams and partners to ensure customer success and drive continuous improvement in support operations. While the company and its customers are undergoing AI transformation and leveraging AI-powered capabilities, the core function of this role is in customer support and escalation management, not in building or directly deploying AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician This role is for a Senior Data Center Technician at Microsoft, responsible for the 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, maintaining awareness of KPIs, and adhering to safety and security protocols. It is a hands-on infrastructure role supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Logistics/Warehouse Technician This role is for a Logistics/Warehouse Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, deliveries, warranty claims, and equipment returns. It involves performing cycle audits, documenting shipments, and ensuring compliance with security and data management policies. The position requires travel between sites and fluency in French and English. | — | 0 |
| Principal Design Verification Engineer This role is for a Principal Design Verification Engineer focused on verifying AI accelerators. The responsibilities include creating verification environments, developing test cases, and debugging simulation/emulation failures. While the role works with AI accelerators, the core craft is silicon verification engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Azure Storage team, focusing on building, managing, and running the Persistent Cloud Storage for Microsoft Azure. The role involves designing and developing complex logic for highly distributed systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, and debuggability. Responsibilities include collaborating on requirements, driving design documents, writing and optimizing code, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), and staying updated on new trends and technologies to improve system performance and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician (Shifts) This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring equipment performance, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and ensuring the safe and reliable operation of electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The role requires shift work and the ability to meet security screening requirements. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform quality checks, and communicate incidents. The role is focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician (Shift Lead) This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician (Shift Lead) at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in datacenters. The role involves coordinating with vendors, managing operational and safety situations, mentoring technicians, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. It is focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Operations Program Manager Operations Program Manager for Microsoft's Global Brand & Advertising team, focusing on supporting the operating system for campaign work, partnering with leads on strategy, workflow, and AI platforms. The role involves program planning, execution, and evaluation, aiming to improve processes and support AI pilots within the organization. Requires adaptability, problem-solving skills, and comfort with ambiguity. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Manager This role is for a Support Escalation Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. The primary focus is on managing escalated customer and partner issues, acting as an internal expert, and driving resolution. While the role operates within an organization that leverages AI technology and aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers, the core responsibilities do not involve building or directly working with AI models or systems. The role emphasizes customer resolution, collaboration, communication, process improvement, and vendor relationships, with a focus on delivering a seamless support experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer -CTJ- Poly Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Specialized Clouds Power Platform team, focusing on building, deploying, and operating Power Automate services in Air-Gapped and Sovereign Cloud environments. The role involves live-site ownership, incident response, service reliability, engineering system design, deployment automation, and product/feature support, with a strong emphasis on security, compliance, and operational excellence in regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Customer Advisor Customer Advisor at Microsoft Experience Center focused on providing technology solutions, customer service, and driving sales. Responsibilities include understanding customer needs, troubleshooting issues, explaining product value, and collaborating with the team to close sales. Requires customer obsession, moderate technical acumen, and adherence to compliance. | — | 0 |
| Cloud & AI Specialist This role is for a Cloud & AI Specialist at Microsoft in Prague, focusing on enterprise sales. The primary responsibility is to drive the adoption and purchase of Microsoft Azure & AI technologies by customers. The role involves identifying new leads and opportunities, building business cases, and acting as a trusted advisor to customers' business and technology decision-makers. It requires strong sales and technical expertise in cloud computing and AI platforms, with a focus on consultative sales and orchestrating resources to achieve digital transformation for clients. | — | 0 |
| Regional Immigration Lead This role is for a Regional Immigration Lead at Microsoft, responsible for managing the end-to-end global immigration program across assigned regions (Europe). The role involves program strategy, day-to-day operations, compliance, risk management, and partnering with external providers to ensure effective service delivery and visibility. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive Account Executive role focused on cultivating customer relationships, understanding their needs, and driving digital transformation to achieve business outcomes and sales for Microsoft. This involves strategic account planning, leading virtual teams, engaging with partners, and identifying upselling/cross-selling opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Azure Edge Security - Identity Software Engineer role focused on Azure Edge Security, specifically identity, cryptography, keys, and certificates. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining security solutions for edge and cloud environments, leading technical architecture, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. It requires experience with AI-based development tools like GitHub Copilot. | — | 0 |
| Client Solutions Manager - Microsoft Advertising Client Solutions Manager for Microsoft Advertising in Paris, France. This role focuses on driving revenue and customer satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized digital advertising solutions. Responsibilities include partnering with internal teams, understanding client business drivers, optimizing campaigns (Search, Audience Ads, Gaming, Video), influencing stakeholders with data insights, managing sales targets, and ensuring contract renewals. Requires experience in online media, digital advertising, or SEM sales, and hands-on campaign management. Fluency in English and French is mandatory. | — | 0 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager This is a Principal Group Engineering Manager role at GitHub (Microsoft) focused on leading software engineering teams, defining feature requirements, driving architecture, and ensuring operational excellence. The role involves people management, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and driving the delivery of production software. AI/ML is not the core focus of this role. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform quality checks, and assist other technicians. The role is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, supporting core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building key infrastructure services for Microsoft Fabric's core analytics engines, based on Apache Spark. The role involves managing engineering processes, implementing advanced capabilities for data engineers, and collaborating with product managers and US teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in leading software engineering teams and building large-scale distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician The Data Center Technician role involves preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning equipment in Microsoft's data centers. This role requires understanding standard processes, security, and data management procedures under the guidance of experienced technicians. It is a hands-on role focused on maintaining the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect: Internship Opportunities Internship opportunity for final-year students to provide technical expertise, sales presentations, product demonstrations, and installation/maintenance of company products. The role involves assessing customer needs and preparing product specifications for customer applications/solutions, focusing on cloud architecture. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager: Internship Opportunities This is a 12-week internship for final-year students focused on Customer Success Account Management. The role involves developing relationships with customers, guiding conversations to meet business objectives, and contributing to program planning and execution. The intern will learn about customer engagement, technical aptitude, and the Microsoft portfolio. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center. It focuses on following standard operating procedures and ensuring the core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services is maintained. The role requires basic knowledge of computer hardware and industry work experience supporting IT equipment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager- GitHub India This role is for a Principal Engineering Manager on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, responsible for critical parts of the GHES release pipeline, including OS and container builds, package generation, integration test environments, and distribution of release artifacts. The manager will define technical and operational priorities, drive execution, and partner across engineering organizations to ensure GHES ships as a high-quality, secure, and dependable appliance for enterprise customers. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II- GitHub India Software Engineer II on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, responsible for building, validating, and delivering software artifacts for reliable customer shipment. This involves managing OS and container builds, package generation and certification, integration test environments, and distribution across major cloud platforms. The role focuses on improving release reliability, accelerating issue detection, and ensuring high-quality, secure, and dependable software for enterprise clients. | — | 0 |
| Learning & Growth Leader - Culture & Employee Expereince, Microsoft This role is responsible for building the learning ecosystem and learning culture for Security Engineering at Microsoft. It involves designing and delivering technical programs, leadership development, and communities of practice, with a focus on AI-augmented security practices and systems thinking. The role also supports customer-facing engineers and inclusion communities. | — | 0 |
| Talent Enablement Leader - Culture & Employee Experience, Microsoft Security This role is for a Talent Enablement Leader within Microsoft Security, focusing on building the talent pipeline and enablement strategies for customer-facing engineering teams. The role involves partnering with HR and engineering leadership to define candidate profiles, selection approaches, career paths, and onboarding experiences. A key aspect is supporting new hires in embracing an AI-first way of working and identifying future talent capability gaps. While AI is mentioned as a focus for the teams this role supports, the role itself is not directly involved in building or shipping AI models or systems. | — | 0 |