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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| Strategic Account Technology Strategist - Automotive The Strategic Account Technology Strategist (ATS) role at Microsoft focuses on driving digital transformation for enterprise customers in the Automotive industry. The ATS acts as a virtual CTO, mapping business scenarios to technical foundations, building customer roadmaps, and orchestrating resources. This role involves leveraging technical expertise and business acumen to enable customers to adopt new technologies like AI and the Industrial Metaverse, driving the adoption of Microsoft Azure, Modern Workplace, and Dynamics 365. The position requires understanding customer business objectives, technology landscapes, and industry trends to build and maintain technology strategies and roadmaps, while also fostering trusted relationships with IT decision-makers and driving Microsoft business growth through co-sell motions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Senior Technical Program Manager for Azure Core, responsible for collaborating across Microsoft to accelerate delivery of critical capabilities and services, partnering with Engineering on technical solutions, defining success criteria, managing roadmaps, and driving continuous improvements. |
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| Critical Environment Program Manager - Business Operations This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager focused on Business Operations within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. The primary responsibilities include financial controllership, governance, commercial and contract management, spend and performance management, cost optimization, and operational partnership for datacenters that power Microsoft's cloud services. The role requires strong project management, communication, and stakeholder alignment skills, with a focus on operational planning and cost management. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Investigator - CTJ - Poly Senior Security Investigator role focused on investigating threats, proactive threat hunting, automating security capabilities, and developing security tooling for Microsoft 365 cloud services. Requires expertise in analyzing large datasets, identifying security issues, and recommending improvements. | — | 0 |
| Senior Procurement Manager This role is for a Senior Procurement Manager within Microsoft's Finance Operations (FinOps) organization. The primary focus is on delivering business value through proactive global supplier solutions that are innovative, compliant, and cost-effective. The role involves leading sourcing strategies, contract negotiations for complex purchasing categories, integrating business requirements into RFI/RFP processes, and ensuring alignment with pricing, capacity, and policy compliance. Collaboration with internal teams and suppliers is key to driving early engagement, defining supply solutions, and executing contracts. The role also emphasizes relationship management, driving innovation, and achieving cost savings within Microsoft's procurement of indirect services. | — | 0 |
| Chief of Staff - Responsible AI (CoreAI) This role is for a Chief of Staff within Microsoft's Responsible AI organization. The primary focus is on designing and managing the business operating system, including operating cadences, decision management, performance rhythms, and process optimization for hiring and execution. The role emphasizes building scalable mechanisms and resolving friction points to enable leaders and teams to operate effectively at scale within a fast-moving, highly visible environment. It is an individual contributor role focused on operational excellence and business processes, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and managing the core platform for Azure's cloud capacity management technologies. This involves developing and optimizing distributed systems at a global scale, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring high operational quality. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineering Manager This role is for a Technical Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers to resolve complex customer technical issues. The role involves people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, and contributing to product/process improvement through feedback and automation. While the role operates within an organization that leverages AI technology, the core responsibilities do not involve building or directly managing AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Account Manager 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 understanding client business drivers, optimizing campaigns, influencing stakeholders with data insights, and managing sales targets. | — | 0 |
| Executive Compensation Program Manager Microsoft is seeking an Executive Compensation Program Manager to design, deliver, maintain, and evolve executive compensation programs. This role involves compensation analysis, modeling, consulting, and governance, partnering with HR, Legal, and other business partners to provide data-driven insights and ensure compliance with disclosure and governance requirements. The position requires a blend of analytical rigor and clear communication to translate complex pay and governance considerations into practical guidance. | — | 0 |
| Technical Narrative Designer - Gears of War - The Coalition Technical Narrative Designer for Gears of War at Microsoft, focusing on implementing and polishing story-based experiences, narrative systems, and environmental storytelling within the game engine. Requires experience in game development and design, with a preference for Unreal Engine/Blueprint and rapid prototyping. | — | 0 |
| Business Support ATR-D Executive Business Administrator supporting a CVP of Design at Xbox, focusing on calendar management, resource management, rhythm of business, project ownership, leadership support, team management support, event coordination, cross-functional collaboration, and travel/operational support. Requires 5+ years of administrative or customer service experience with an emphasis on executive support. | — | 0 |
| Digital Security Specialist This role is for a Digital Security Specialist within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) sales team. The role focuses on driving digital transformation conversations with customers, collaborating with partners and services to identify and expand opportunities, and managing the end-to-end business of an assigned territory. While the team leverages AI, the specialist's core function is sales and customer engagement, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Sales Excellence Director Director of Sales Excellence for Microsoft Advertising in China, focusing on driving operational excellence, scalable solutions for sellers and partners, optimizing investments, and accelerating growth. This role involves partnering with sales leadership, collaborating with various internal teams (Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Finance, HR, Legal), and leading business transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate is a seasoned leader with strong coaching, collaboration, and influencing skills, experienced in sales operations, data-driven decision-making, and people management. | — | 0 |
| Client Solutions Manager - Microsoft Advertising Client Solutions Manager for Microsoft Advertising, focusing on driving revenue and customer satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized digital advertising solutions. The role involves understanding client business drivers, optimizing campaigns, influencing stakeholders with data insights, and managing client accounts to achieve sales targets. | — | 0 |
| Service Delivery Manager This role is for a Service Delivery Manager at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing vendor delivery performance in VL operations. The manager will ensure alignment with business outcomes like quality, velocity, cost efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Key responsibilities include vendor governance, performance management, continuous improvement, and leading AI-enabled transformation initiatives. The role requires strong experience in service delivery, vendor management, and stakeholder management, with a focus on driving operational excellence and scalable delivery models. | — | 0 |
| Développeur(euse) logiciel senior / Senior Software Engineering Senior Software Developer role focused on building and maintaining core components of the Power Query platform, which handles data connectivity, transformation, and query execution for various Microsoft products like Power BI, Fabric, and Excel. The role involves developing high-performance, reliable, and scalable systems for interacting with diverse data sources and resolving complex production issues. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Engineer This role focuses on guiding process integration decisions and fabrication flows for scalable quantum computing systems using theoretical insights and atomistic simulations. The engineer will own the simulation roadmap, build models for validation and optimization, and partner with fabrication teams. The role also involves architecting scalable workflows for High-Performance Computing and communicating recommendations to leadership. While the role mentions AI, its core function is in quantum engineering and simulation, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Procurement Manager This role is for a Senior Procurement Manager within Microsoft's Finance Operations (FinOps) organization. The primary focus is on sourcing and category management for indirect services, supporting the engineering business organization. Responsibilities include defining and executing sourcing strategies, leading contract negotiations, ensuring policy compliance, managing supplier relationships, and driving cost savings. The role requires strong collaboration with internal business units and external suppliers to deliver innovative, compliant, and cost-effective solutions. | — | 0 |
| HR Consultant Senior HR Consultant role in Microsoft Israel focusing on end-to-end consultation and case management for employees and managers. Responsibilities include employee relations, performance, leave management, organizational change, and policy matters, partnering with various HR and Legal stakeholders. The role also involves contributing to manager capability building, scalable HR programs, and data-informed decision making to strengthen manager effectiveness and organizational health. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Intern Internship role for a Critical Environment Technician at Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on supporting cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include operational tasks, learning system operations, monitoring equipment, using CMMS, assisting with emergency response, and documenting activities. Requires a High School Diploma and basic knowledge of electrical/mechanical systems, with preferred qualifications in Facilities Management or engineering. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician (electrical / mechanical) - Shift This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including electrical and mechanical systems. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, and monitor equipment performance. The role involves shift work and requires a high school diploma or equivalent with at least one year of relevant experience in critical environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of datacenters, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The role involves performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and ensuring the operational performance of equipment. It requires shift work and involves coordinating with various stakeholders to ensure the reliability and safety of datacenter operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, responsible for building, validating, and delivering software artifacts for reliable customer shipment. This role focuses on OS and container builds, package generation and certification, integration test environments, and artifact distribution across major cloud providers. The engineer will improve release reliability, accelerate issue detection, and ensure high-quality, secure, and dependable software for enterprise customers. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory management, delivery coordination, and asset tracking within Microsoft's data centers. Responsibilities include cycle audits, managing incoming/outgoing deliveries, coordinating with vendors, processing warranty claims, and ensuring accurate inventory records. The role also involves the destruction of data-bearing devices and compliance with security and data management policies. | — | 0 |
| Specialist - Business Applications This role is a Specialist - Business Applications Sales Executive at Microsoft, focused on helping customers digitally transform their businesses using Microsoft's Business Applications cloud. The role involves account alignment, outcome-driven business process transformation, envisioning solutions, mapping capabilities to business value, and orchestrating pursuit teams of technical experts and partners. It emphasizes a data-first approach with AI-powered insights and analytics to drive new revenue, customer engagement, and profitability. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the installation, maintenance, and decommissioning of hardware within Microsoft's data centers. The technician will follow standard procedures for diagnostics, troubleshooting, and component replacement, ensuring quality checks and proper labeling. They will also communicate and escalate incidents, contribute to team efforts, and undergo required training. The role requires a high school diploma and basic knowledge of computer hardware, with preferred experience in IT support and relevant certifications. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It requires basic knowledge of computer hardware and components, with experience supporting IT equipment. 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 services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and building scalable data platforms and pipelines for threat protection strategy, utilizing big data technologies and graph-based data models. The role involves processing large-scale datasets, developing analytics solutions, and ensuring data quality and performance in production systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Electrical and/or Mechanical Technician / Technicien(ne) Electrique ou CVC Sénior This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, managing operational and safety situations, mentoring junior technicians, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance using telemetry. The role involves shift work and is crucial for delivering the core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Service Engineer 2 Service Engineer II role focused on building and running reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services within Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team. Responsibilities include automating service deployment, implementing monitoring and observability, improving system scalability and resilience, and ensuring service reliability. Requires 2-4+ years in SRE/DevOps/Software Engineering with strong coding/scripting skills. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer- Microsoft Security - Platform Team Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Security's Platform Team in Israel. The role involves contributing to business-critical cyber defense initiatives, improving end-to-end service lifecycles, analyzing complex system behavior, and applying modern engineering practices. Collaboration with various disciplines including data science experts is expected, leveraging cloud technologies, big data, and AI. The focus is on building cutting-edge cyber defense solutions to protect global users. | — | 0 |
| Senior Customer Success Account Manager This role is for a Senior Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft, focused on strategic enterprise customers. The primary responsibility is to act as a trusted advisor and orchestration lead for the customer's post-sales journey, ensuring they achieve business value and outcomes by leveraging Microsoft Cloud solutions. The role involves creating customer success plans, driving adoption, managing relationships, and coordinating Microsoft and partner resources. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician (Electrical/Mechanical) This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including electrical and mechanical systems. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, and monitor equipment performance. | — | 0 |
| Materials Handling Technician/Logistics Technician This role is for a Materials Handling/Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing incoming/outgoing deliveries, coordinating security escorts, documenting shipments, performing cycle audits, and handling warranty claims for hardware. The position involves inventory management principles, data bearing device destruction, and maintaining accurate records within inventory systems. It is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, supporting global cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves performing standard procedures for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning equipment in a data center environment. The technician will learn about the data center environment, security, and data management procedures, contributing to the delivery of Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Microsoft Data Center Technician responsible for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning equipment in a data center environment. This role involves following standard procedures, adhering to security and data management policies, and contributing to team efforts to ensure the smooth operation of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer-II Software Engineer II role on the Windows Connected Experiences team, focusing on building scalable, reliable, and intelligent cross-device features for PC and mobile integration, such as Phone Link. The role involves agile development, problem-solving, and effective communication within a diverse, customer-focused team. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - LatAm POD Lead This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect with POD Lead responsibilities, focused on driving delivery excellence and technical quality for Microsoft's Secured cloud environments, including AI solutions. The role involves overseeing vendor CSAs, ensuring compliance with standards, mentoring teams, and acting as a technical authority and operational leader for a designated group of CSAs. The focus is on customer success and accelerating business value through Microsoft's products and services, with a specific mention of AI transformation. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Edge Software Engineer role focused on developing and enhancing the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly JIT compiler and execution engine for the Microsoft Edge browser, primarily using C++. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and managing Microsoft's online identity providers for Azure, Office, Xbox, and Windows. The role involves leading the architecture, design, and implementation of extremely high scale, throughput, durability, and low latency services, with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and continuous improvement of live site operations. This is a core engineering role within the Identity engineering team. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Analog Design Lead Principal Quantum Analog Design Lead at Microsoft Quantum, focusing on developing analog infrastructure for scalable quantum computers. Responsibilities include defining SoC and IP microarchitecture specifications, coordinating design and verification teams, and ensuring high-quality analog IP development for quantum systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Analog Mixed-Signal Verification Engineer This role is for a Senior Quantum Analog Mixed-Signal Verification Engineer at Microsoft Quantum. The primary focus is on developing quantum computing platforms by integrating high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum information technology. The engineer will be responsible for creating and defining system-wide Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) models, simulation environments, and test plans for SoC and IP blocks, and coordinating with various teams to ensure high-quality design for scalable quantum systems. The role involves working with AI tools to drive innovation and efficiency, but the core craft is in quantum hardware and mixed-signal verification, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Microsoft Security's Entra Conditional Access team, focusing on enhancing secure access solutions for customers in a world of digital threats and regulatory scrutiny. The role involves anticipating customer needs, building enterprise-grade product experiences, influencing cross-functional teams and external partners, and ensuring roadmap alignment with OKRs and KPIs. | — | 0 |
| Principal Global Solution Architect - Security This role is for a Principal Global Solution Architect focused on Security within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary responsibility is to support customers in enhancing their security posture using Microsoft's security solutions. This involves providing thought leadership, influencing product roadmaps, developing intellectual property, evaluating customer security environments, and removing technical blockers in their security journey. The role requires deep technical knowledge of cloud security domains and hands-on experience with Microsoft Security products like SIEM, XDR, Data Security, Endpoint Security, Cloud Security, and Identity. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Analog Layout Engineer Senior Quantum Analog Layout Engineer responsible for designing and delivering Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and analog circuitry for Microsoft's quantum computer. This role involves schematic-to-GDS layouts, coordinating junior team members and vendors, and utilizing EDA tools. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Design Verification Engineer Principal Quantum Design Verification Engineer at Microsoft Quantum, focusing on developing verification infrastructure for quantum SoC and IP blocks. Responsibilities include defining pre-silicon simulation and post-silicon validation plans, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and managing verification environments. The role requires expertise in hardware design and verification, with a focus on ensuring high-quality designs for scalable quantum systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Quality Engineering IC1 The Software Test Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of a highly integrated, end-to-end analytics ecosystem within the Microsoft Fabric platform. This role involves designing and implementing scalable test strategies and automation, building intelligent test infrastructure leveraging telemetry and production signals, and identifying systemic quality risks in a cloud-native environment. The focus is on validating complex cross-workload scenarios and ensuring seamless interoperability across various data services. | — | 0 |
| Business Manager - Worldwide Industry Solution Delivery Excellence This role is for a Business Manager in Microsoft's Worldwide Industry Solution Delivery (ISD) organization, focusing on accelerating cloud growth by selling and delivering solutions. The role involves strategy, planning, business performance, operational excellence, and people/culture agenda for a global team. While the organization is described as 'AI-first' and involved in 'AI transformation', the core responsibilities of this Business Manager role are centered around business operations, financial planning, and program management, rather than direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Acquisition Account Executive - MSA This role is for an Acquisition Account Executive at Microsoft Advertising, focused on driving revenue and customer satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized digital advertising solutions, primarily for Search and Native offerings. The role involves sales strategy, prospecting, pipeline management, and expanding client adoption of Microsoft Advertising products. | — | 0 |