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 245 new AI-related roles.
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| Principal Security Program Manager - Windows Security This role is for a Principal Security Program Manager at Microsoft Windows Security, focusing on end-to-end security assurance, including compliance, risk assessment, vulnerability research, and security tooling. It involves platform security architecture, threat intelligence, and vulnerability discovery, with broad influence across Windows engineering and security partners. The role requires shaping how Windows identifies, prioritizes, and mitigates security risks at scale. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician - CTJ - Top Secret This role is for a Critical Environment Technician on the U.S. Government Airgap team at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's dedicated online services supporting the U.S. Government. The technician will perform operations, inspections, and maintenance on critical environment equipment like HVAC and electrical systems, respond to incidents, and ensure adherence to safety, security, and operational procedures in a high-security, high-compliance datacenter environment. |
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| Principal Packaging Engineer Principal Packaging Engineer for Microsoft Quantum, focusing on adapting industry-standard packaging processes and materials for quantum devices, collaborating with global teams, and evaluating external suppliers. Requires a Master's degree and 7+ years of technical engineering experience or equivalent. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Critical Environment Technician in a U.S. Government Airgap datacenter. Responsibilities include operating and maintaining critical facility equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, controls, generators), responding to incidents, performing maintenance, and ensuring adherence to strict security and compliance procedures in a high-security environment. Requires a High School Diploma/GED and experience in mission-critical services or specialized fields, along with a Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Senior Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - TS/SCI Seeking a Senior Cloud Solution Architect to act as the voice of the customer/partner, translating problems into industry solutions and driving seamless customer experiences. The role involves identifying and mitigating blockers, delivering solutions in line with company methodologies, and identifying opportunities for expansion. This position is within the Microsoft Federal organization, requiring flexibility and potentially serving in various roles to meet USG needs. The role emphasizes enabling customers to realize the full potential of the cloud and accelerate AI transformation. | — | 0 |
| Process Program Manager This role focuses on defining, designing, and improving operational processes within Microsoft's Services business, aiming to enhance efficiency, quality, and compliance across the quote-to-cash lifecycle. It involves working across various departments like Sales, Finance, Legal, and Engineering to standardize ways of working and support the adoption of AI-enabled solutions for process streamlining. The role requires strong program management, process optimization, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a focus on operating in ambiguous environments and driving measurable outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - TS/SCI This role is for a Senior Cloud & AI Cloud Solution Architect who will act as the voice of the customer, translating customer problems into industry solutions and driving seamless customer experiences. The role involves identifying opportunities for consumption and expansion, ensuring solutions are well-architected, AI-enabled, and cost-optimized. It requires collaboration across teams, managing risks, and staying updated on industry trends to map architectures to business outcomes. The position is within Microsoft Federal, requiring adherence to USG mission, legal, and regulatory requirements, including security clearances. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including equipment maintenance, safety, and operational monitoring. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager Manage a team of technicians responsible for the critical environment operations and maintenance of Microsoft's data centers, ensuring the safety, reliability, and efficiency of electrical, mechanical, and control systems. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Logistics Technician This role is for a Data Center Logistics Technician responsible for managing inventory, handling deliveries, coordinating with vendors for returns, and ensuring accurate record-keeping within a data center environment. It involves physical inventory tracking, processing warranty claims, and adhering to security and data management policies. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Logistics Technician This role is for a Data Center Logistics Technician responsible for inventory audits, managing deliveries, coordinating vendor access, documenting shipments, processing warranty claims, and handling returns. The position involves working with inventory management systems and ensuring accurate physical tracking of assets within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Technical Advisor - Engineering, Enablement, and Operations This role focuses on evaluating emerging technologies, prototyping concepts, and advising senior leaders on technology strategy to drive commercial growth and operational excellence within Microsoft's commercial business. It involves research, hands-on evaluation, and executive advisory work, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and communication. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Ops Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring safety and security, performing various types of maintenance and repairs on electrical, mechanical, and cooling systems, and monitoring equipment performance. The role involves coordinating with vendors and third-party contractors, documenting work, and potentially traveling to support other metros. | — | 0 |
| Service Engineer This role is for a Service Engineer focused on physical security systems for Microsoft's global datacenters. The engineer will work on the core infrastructure platform, ensuring reliability, stability, and performance. Responsibilities include understanding physical access control systems, contributing to optimal configurations, assisting in the implementation of scalable solutions, responding to incidents, and developing an understanding of security, privacy, and compliance standards. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and technical experience in software, network, service, or systems engineering, with a background check required. | — | 0 |
| People Operations Manager - Brazil The People Operations Manager – Brazil is responsible for delivering high-quality, compliant, and scalable HR services across the employee lifecycle in Brazil. This role involves managing HR generalist expertise and shared services operational leadership, owning core lifecycle products, handling escalations, operationalizing changes, and strengthening HR systems and processes. Key responsibilities include end-to-end HR operational support, data management, people management, customer support, policy and compliance management, stakeholder partnership, process management, and vendor management. | — | 0 |
| Regional Technical Director - DC Operations The EMEA Director of Data Centre Operations Technology provides leadership and accountability for technology governance across EMEA Data Centre Operations, covering IT operations and Critical Environment domains. This role focuses on ensuring technology standards, patterns, and decisions scale safely and reliably across EMEA, enabling growth without compromising safety or resilience. It involves establishing governance, decision models, and readiness mechanisms, identifying and eliminating technical incident patterns, and providing senior technical insight to leadership. | — | 0 |
| Creative Lead Social - Copy This role is for a Creative Lead Social (Copy) at Microsoft, focusing on driving storytelling and copy for commercial marketing efforts. The role involves conceptualizing across social, digital, and emerging platforms, partnering with various teams to create audience-first assets, and ensuring copy quality and strategic relevance. It also requires staying updated on trends, managing workstreams, and experimenting with generative AI tools to improve workflows. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) responsible for empowering strategic enterprise customers to achieve business value and accelerate realization of benefits from Microsoft's cloud platforms and services. This role involves end-to-end post-sales delivery and support orchestration, managing customer relationships, aligning customer objectives with Microsoft's portfolio, and driving adoption and usage of products and services. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Intern This is an internship role for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft's data centers in Denmark. The intern will gain hands-on experience in managing data center operations, inventory tracking, coordinating with suppliers, and ensuring compliance with policies. The role requires basic knowledge of logistics and supply chain, and the candidate must be currently studying towards a relevant qualification. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Intern Internship role focused on supporting the physical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including hardware installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of data-bearing devices. The role involves working in a ticket-based environment and assisting with inventory management. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Sales Manager, Media & AdTech Solutions This role is for a Sr. Sales Manager at Microsoft Advertising, focusing on media and AdTech solutions. The primary responsibility is to drive revenue growth by leading sales teams, building strategic client relationships, and executing sales strategies across various digital advertising channels. While the role mentions leveraging AI and automation to empower sales teams, the core function is sales management and revenue generation within the advertising domain, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior / Principal Quantum Error Correction Engineer This role focuses on designing and developing infrastructure for evaluating fault-tolerance strategies in quantum computing systems, advancing quantum error correction codes, and empowering research for scalable quantum computers. It requires a background in quantum error correction and fault-tolerance research, with experience in modeling circuit-level noise. While the role mentions applying and leveraging AI tools for engineering acceleration and innovation, the core craft is quantum computing, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Training & Readiness Manager The Training & Readiness Manager at Microsoft is responsible for developing and executing learning, enablement, and readiness strategies for an operational Services organization. This role involves partnering with stakeholders to identify capability gaps, design and deliver training programs, manage readiness for changes, and ensure learning quality and effectiveness. A key aspect is the adoption of AI-assisted workflows to improve training content creation and delivery velocity. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineer - Entry Level Entry-level Technical Support Engineer role focused on troubleshooting customer technical issues for Microsoft products and services, leveraging AI technology within the Customer Service & Support organization. The role involves responding to and resolving customer issues, collaborating with teams, and identifying potential product defects. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role involves maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on electrical, mechanical, and controls systems. Responsibilities include performing maintenance, responding to incidents, monitoring equipment performance, and ensuring safety and security protocols are followed. The role requires a hands-on understanding of critical environment equipment and troubleshooting skills. | — | 0 |
| AE Digital Natives: High Growth Startups Sales professional to identify prospects and execute Microsoft cloud deals for startups and ISVs on the Azure platform. This role involves strategic thinking, market analysis, deal making, and stakeholder management to drive growth and transformation for customers and Microsoft. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician - Part time This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform diagnostics, replace faulty components, and ensure proper setup and cabling. The role also includes assisting other technicians, completing training, and contributing to a positive team environment. It requires a basic knowledge of computer hardware and experience supporting IT equipment. | — | 0 |
| Director - Real Estate Operations, Asia This role is for a Director of Real Estate Operations in the Asia Pacific region for Microsoft. It involves managing the full lifecycle of the real estate portfolio, including transactions, facilities management, construction projects, and workplace services. The role requires people management, budget accountability, client relationship management, oversight of construction and real estate projects, continuous improvement, and facilities and services management. The position is based in either Singapore or Sydney and requires a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, monitor equipment performance, and ensure safety and operational standards are met. This is a non-AI role focused on physical infrastructure management. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive-Web3 This role is for an Account Executive at Microsoft focusing on Web3, responsible for cultivating customer relationships, understanding customer needs, leading digital transformation initiatives, developing and executing account plans to drive sales, and identifying upselling/cross-selling opportunities. The role involves strategic account planning, engaging with internal and external partners, and leveraging executive relationships to build trust and drive business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer (ISE) Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and delivering cloud-based solutions for customers, collaborating with product teams and open-source communities. The role involves developing solution patterns and open-source software assets, working side-by-side with customers and their engineers to solve business challenges using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, asset tracking, deliveries, and coordinating with vendors. It involves performing cycle audits, processing returns, and ensuring accurate documentation of inventory movements. The role requires basic experience in inventory management or a related field and fluency in Korean. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory and asset management within Microsoft Data Centers. Responsibilities include cycle audits, managing deliveries, coordinating vendors, documenting shipments, and handling warranty claims and data-bearing device destruction. Requires experience in warehouse/supply chain within an IT environment. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory and asset management within Microsoft Data Centers. Responsibilities include cycle audits, managing deliveries, coordinating vendors, documenting shipments, and handling warranty claims and data-bearing device destruction. Requires experience in warehouse/supply chain within an IT environment. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in performing hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissions within a data center environment. Focus on technician performance, task prioritization, monitoring KPIs and SLAs, and providing training and guidance. This role supports the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Compensation Consultant Sr. Compensation Consultant at Microsoft, focusing on developing and implementing compensation strategies, job evaluation, and market analysis for technology roles. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in leased datacenters. The role focuses on ensuring the availability and efficiency of critical infrastructure that supports Microsoft's cloud services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. Key responsibilities include managing day-to-day operations, ensuring compliance with policies, reducing incidents, and coordinating with partners and internal teams. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineer - Entry level Entry-level Technical Support Engineer role focused on troubleshooting and resolving customer technical issues, leveraging Microsoft's AI technology to enhance support experiences. The role involves collaboration, problem-solving, and contributing to product improvements. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineer Manager This role is for a Senior Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team that resolves complex customer technical issues. The role focuses on people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback, and business integration for collaboration. While the company and its support organization leverage AI technology, this specific role is focused on managing a support team and does not involve building or directly working with AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Global Solution Architect - Security This role is for a Senior Global Solution Architect focused on Security within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary focus is on supporting customers in enhancing their security posture using Microsoft's security solutions and cloud-native approaches. Responsibilities include developing security plans and strategies, proposing and demonstrating solutions, acting as a subject matter expert, and identifying technical blockers to accelerate customer adoption. The role involves close collaboration with field teams and Engineering to remove technical impediments in the customer's security journey. | — | 0 |
| Training & Readiness Manager Microsoft is seeking a Training & Readiness Manager to build and sustain readiness for an operational Services organization. This role will shape and deliver learning, enablement, and readiness strategies to accelerate time-to-productivity and support operating model adoption. Responsibilities include training program management, learning design and delivery, quality and risk management, and continuous improvement, with a focus on leveraging AI-assisted learning content creation workflows. | — | 0 |
| Senior Hardware Program Manager Senior Hardware Program Manager for Microsoft's Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering team, responsible for end-to-end product development of infrastructure hardware and multi-source programs at scale. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and external partners to deliver high-quality products for the Azure platform, focusing on schedule, budget, and quality targets. | — | 0 |
| Senior Reliability Engineer Senior Reliability Engineer role focused on ensuring the quality and performance of Microsoft's cloud hardware infrastructure, including servers and components. Responsibilities involve supplier management, technical issue resolution, process improvement, and risk management throughout the product lifecycle. Requires a strong background in engineering and quality disciplines, with experience in electronics manufacturing and quality tools. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Applications Architect This role focuses on developing applications for fault-tolerant quantum computers in areas like chemistry, cryptography, and simulation of physical systems. It involves creating and refining quantum algorithms, designing cryptographic schemes, validating models, and conducting large-scale simulations. The role requires a strong background in physics or engineering and experience in industry or R&D, with a focus on mathematical research and experimentation for new quantum algorithms. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Systems Software Engineer II Software Development Engineer II role focused on building software tools and systems for operating quantum computers, involving configuration, calibration, monitoring, and control. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and collaboration with physicists and hardware engineers. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - Top Secret This role focuses on acting as the voice of the customer/partners, translating their problems into industry solutions, and delivering solutions in line with company methodologies. It involves identifying opportunities for consumption, usage, and unified expansion, particularly in Enhanced Solutions, and guiding customers towards well-architected, AI-enabled, cost- and performance-optimized solutions. The role emphasizes customer experience, risk management, and collaboration across teams. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer Mechanical Engineer role within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, responsible for delivering and maintaining the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud services. This involves working with large-scale mechanical systems, cooling, and backup electrical systems in datacenters globally, collaborating with design and operations teams, and ensuring safety and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Build & Pipeline Architect - Turn 10 Studios Senior Build & Pipeline Architect role focused on defining and driving the technical vision for build systems, CI/CD, and development pipelines supporting game production workflows. This role requires deep hands-on expertise and architectural leadership to ensure scalable, reliable, and optimized systems for large-scale development. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Partner Practice Building & IP Development This role focuses on IP governance and skilling for partners within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization, specifically related to Azure, ABS, and Security. The IP Governance Lead CSA maps existing skilling and IP to partner maturity frameworks, identifies gaps, and works with teams to develop new IP and skilling. The role also involves creating roadmap updates, developing playbooks, and advising partners on maturity. A key aspect is developing 'Agentic experiences' to close partner maturity gaps and tracking key performance indicators related to IP and skilling development and delivery. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer responsible for the electrical engineering aspects of Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure. The engineer will be involved in design, testing, verification, and implementation of electrical systems within datacenters, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability. The role requires collaboration with other engineers, documentation, and adherence to project schedules and safety guidelines. | — | 0 |