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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| 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 |
| Director, Federal Program Management Delivery - CTJ - POLY Director of Program Management Delivery for Federal Intelligence customers in the Washington DC area, focusing on secure delivery, people leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to achieve mission and business outcomes in a highly regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Logistics Technician Manager Manager for Data Center Inventory & Asset Technicians responsible for logistics, inventory audits, and regulatory compliance, including data bearing device destruction. Focuses on leadership, operational efficiency, and stakeholder management within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. |
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| Principal Software Engineer - Observability Common Infrastructure The Principal Software Engineer will design, develop, and operate cloud-native platform components on Kubernetes for Observability services within Azure Data. The role focuses on building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure for AI-enabled capabilities, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes expertise and distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Services Account Manager This role is for a Services Account Manager at Microsoft, focusing on selling services and solutions that leverage AI and cutting-edge technologies to customers. The primary responsibility is to lead the consulting virtual account team, identify and sell industry cloud solutions, and manage the full sales cycle to achieve consumption and sales targets. The role emphasizes consultative selling, strategic alignment, and collaboration within Microsoft and with partners to drive customer value and business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Customer Success Account Manager Senior Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft, focused on helping enterprise customers achieve business value and accelerate adoption of Microsoft's cloud platforms and services. This role involves relationship management, strategic alignment, delivery orchestration, and driving consumption and usage of products. | — | 0 |
| Sr Commercial Executive Senior Commercial Executive for Microsoft's Defense Industrial Base (DIB) organization, focusing on leading commercial strategy and execution for complex, strategic DIB customers. This role involves owning sophisticated deals, negotiations, and risk profiles within a regulated, mission-critical environment, influencing cross-functional teams, and ensuring compliance and customer value creation. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role focuses on hands-on cloud software engineering within the Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) team, which operates within Microsoft's Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization. The primary responsibility is to work on challenging customer projects using the Azure platform, contributing to core Azure services and shaping the platform's evolution. The role involves designing, developing, and operating production workloads at scale, with a focus on an observability-focused Azure service. It combines deep engineering work with customer engagement and production troubleshooting, including on-call participation. | — | 0 |
| Human Resources Director, Labor Relations Human Resources Director, Labor Relations for Xbox (U.S.), responsible for influencing and executing labor relations strategy in unionized environments. This role involves developing operating models, standards, and escalation frameworks, partnering with business leaders and Legal, and leading complex labor engagements. The Director will build and lead a labor relations team, develop enterprise labor capability, and cultivate relationships with union leadership. The role also involves creating training programs for business leaders on managing in a union environment and serving as a liaison with HR Legal. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician (Shift pattern) This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of equipment in Microsoft's data centers. It involves working shifts and adhering to security and data management procedures. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, overseeing hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focus on team performance, KPI monitoring, and ensuring compliance with policies and safety procedures. This role is crucial for the core infrastructure supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Fullstack Engineer Senior Fullstack Engineer for Microsoft Edge team, focusing on service integration for enterprise manageability, security, and productivity. The role involves building and operating cloud-scale microservices, integrating with Microsoft 365 and other platform services, and collaborating across teams to deliver end-to-end solutions for commercial customers. This is a full-stack engineering role within a mature AI/Copilot-focused division, emphasizing the delivery of customer-facing features. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, and deploying hardware in a data center. It also includes troubleshooting equipment, performing hardware decommissions, and adhering to standard operating procedures. The role contributes to Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) group, which supports services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building the data platform for the age of AI. The role involves delivering impactful solutions, driving design and implementation of large-scale services and components for Microsoft Fabric, and collaborating with Product Management. It requires full stack programming experience and experience with cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center IT Support Technician This role provides IT support for data center infrastructure, including secure access workstations, laptops, servers, and audio/visual equipment. Responsibilities include managing inventory, deploying devices, troubleshooting hardware and network issues, and ensuring security compliance for IT assets within Microsoft's global data centers. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Backend The role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and enhancing Microsoft Fabric, a data platform for AI. The engineer will design, develop, and maintain cloud offerings for big data analytics, data engineering, and data science, working with technologies like Spark and Kubernetes. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Fullstack This role is for a Principal Software Engineer 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, and others, aiming to power data-first applications and drive a data culture. The engineer will lead design, implementation, testing, shipping, and support of large-scale services and components within Microsoft Fabric's Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Researcher This role focuses on advanced threat research within Microsoft's Defender Experts (DEX) Research team, utilizing AI-driven analytics to protect customers from cyberattacks. The Senior Threat Researcher will lead research on emerging endpoint, identity, and cloud-based threats, develop detection and response strategies using EDR and SIEM platforms (especially Microsoft Defender and Sentinel), and translate raw security data into actionable intelligence. The role involves collaboration with security teams, mentoring other researchers, and contributing to industry knowledge through publications and threat modeling, all within complex, multi-cloud environments. | — | 0 |
| Principal Embedded Software Engineer Principal Software Development Engineer for the Surface Product team, responsible for partnering with silicon partners, system engineers, and firmware engineers to deliver product designs optimized for high-volume consumer products. The role involves leading strategic initiatives, defining architecture, platform bring-up, and debugging complex system-level problems, with a focus on enabling AI-native workflows. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, ensuring safe work environments, understanding equipment operation, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires shift work and involves hands-on maintenance and troubleshooting of electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Logistics Technician This role is for a Senior Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, focusing on inventory and asset management, prioritizing ticketed work, providing guidance on logistics tasks, and ensuring inventory accuracy. It involves coordinating with external stakeholders, managing RMA processes, and ensuring compliance with safety procedures. The role is not directly AI/ML related but operates within the infrastructure that supports AI services. | — | 0 |
| Business Operations Co-Ordinator This role supports the Business Operations team by managing purchase orders, reviewing quotes and contracts, maintaining governance standards, and supporting reporting and quality assurance processes. It involves coordinating with procurement, finance, legal, and vendor management teams. | — | 0 |
| Asia Finance Lead - FSI/EPS This role is responsible for financial insights and strategic resource allocation for Microsoft's commercial segments and products, focusing on New Business and consumption with an industry and workload perspective. The Asia Finance Lead will track and report on post-sales performance, provide financial insights for Asia regional FSI projects, and influence business decisions to maximize return on investments. Key responsibilities include developing financial models, coordinating with finance stakeholders, enabling financial reporting and analysis, monitoring deal execution, and managing deal and partnership P&Ls. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Fault Tolerant Quantum System Architecture Research Intern position focused on quantum computing, specifically the implementation of error correction codes for quantum resource estimation. Responsibilities include generating and exploring codes, computing distances, and setting up experiments for logical error rates. The role utilizes and contributes to open-source quantum computing libraries. | — | 0 |
| Backend Software Engineer 2 Backend Software Engineer role focused on building and operating large-scale data platform services for Microsoft Fabric, enabling data engineers and data scientists. The role involves designing, implementing, testing, shipping, and supporting services related to data engineering, data science, and data integration within the Azure Data ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager Manager for Data Center Critical Environment Technicians, responsible for overseeing operations, maintenance, and safety of critical facility equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, generators). The role involves people management, incident response, and ensuring adherence to safety and operational procedures in a night shift and on-call capacity. | — | 0 |
| Principal Silicon Engineer - Networking Principal Silicon Engineer for the Data Processing Unit (DPU) team within Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure group. Responsible for front-end Micro-architecture and RTL implementation of networking accelerator modules. Requires Doctorate or Master's/Bachelor's with significant experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science. | — | 0 |
| Senior Silicon Test Engineer This role is for a Senior Silicon Test Engineer responsible for product and test engineering activities supporting new product development and manufacturing of computer chips, including those used in AI applications. The engineer will contribute to silicon bring-up, validation, and manufacturing readiness, working closely with cross-functional partners. Responsibilities include ATE test program development, test bring-up, silicon characterization, debug, and yield analysis, as well as applying knowledge of DFT, fabrication processes, and transistor theory. The role also involves supporting DFT test content generation and pre-silicon validation. | — | 0 |
| Logistics/Warehouse Technician Logistics/Warehouse Technician role focused on inventory management, delivery coordination, and data bearing device destruction within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. Requires travel, fluency in French and English, and a high school diploma with relevant experience. | — | 0 |
| Business Operations Program Manager- Global Growth & Revenue Optimization (GGRO) This role is a Business Operations Program Manager focused on Global Growth & Revenue Optimization (GGRO) for Azure's infrastructure portfolio. The core responsibilities involve executing pricing actions, managing product and region launches, coordinating cross-functional teams, and improving operational processes related to pricing and monetization. While the role operates within the Cloud and AI Platforms Monetization (CAPM) organization and deals with Azure's infrastructure, it is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models. The focus is on the business operations and commercialization aspects of AI-related products, rather than the AI development itself. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Apps This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Cloud & AI Apps within the Small Medium Enterprise & Channel (SME&C) team. The primary responsibility is to enable customers and partners to achieve their business outcomes by leveraging Microsoft technologies. This involves adapting business models, acting as the voice of the customer, driving technical architecture discussions, demonstrating solution capabilities, resolving technical blockers, and leading architecture design and optimization for production deployments. The role requires a strong understanding of customer environments, application development, and cloud architecture. | — | 0 |
| Senior Customer Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI This role is for a Senior Customer Engineer focused on customer deployments within highly secured and regulated industries, specifically in air-gapped environments. The role involves strategic business planning, driving customer experience improvements, managing change initiatives, and synthesizing research findings to inform stakeholders. While the company is in the cloud and AI space, this specific role is not directly involved in building or shipping AI/ML models but rather in the deployment and customer experience aspects within a regulated context. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves installing, configuring, and troubleshooting servers, switches, and associated infrastructure in a data center environment. The technician will perform hardware start-up and shut-down, monitor system performance, and follow operational guidelines and safety procedures. The role requires basic knowledge of computer hardware and the ability to work shifts, with a focus on maintaining service quality and adhering to KPIs and SLAs. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, deliveries, vendor coordination, warranty claims, and equipment returns. It involves cycle audits, documentation, and data bearing device destruction, supporting Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect-User Experience (UX)-CTJ-Top Secret This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on User Experience (UX) within Microsoft Federal. The primary focus is on driving customer success and adoption of Microsoft Business Applications and Cloud solutions, rather than directly building or researching AI/ML models. The role involves understanding customer needs, providing expertise, identifying growth opportunities, leading workshops, designing technical solutions, managing change, and developing adoption strategies. While AI transformation is mentioned as a goal for customers, the role itself is not directly involved in AI development. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role at Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland, focusing on full-stack and backend development for mission-critical services across various Microsoft organizations. The role involves designing, developing, testing, and shipping large-scale solutions, with an emphasis on quality, performance, and maintainability. While the role mentions AI infrastructure and AI tooling, the core craft is software engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves the physical installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of data center IT hardware, including servers, network devices, and related infrastructure. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, safety protocols, and security policies to ensure the reliable and secure operation of the data center environment, supporting services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance of facility equipment (HVAC, mechanical systems), troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security requirements are met. The role requires a high school diploma and a Polish SEP-certified electrician's license. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - DBA This role focuses on acting as the voice of the customer/partner, translating their problems into industry solutions, and guiding them towards well-architected, AI-enabled, and cost-optimized solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will identify cross-solution opportunities for consumption and usage expansion, consult with customers on architectures, and mitigate blockers to accelerate solution deployment. They will also build relationships with technical and business decision-makers and provide feedback to engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - C++ ( Security) Principal Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing security and enterprise features for the Windows operating system. The role involves building foundational security capabilities, ensuring engineering excellence, collaborating with partner teams, and leveraging AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows to improve development processes. | — | 0 |
| Education Account Executive This role is for an Education Account Executive at Microsoft, focusing on driving AI transformation within educational institutions in Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. The executive will partner with customers to envision possibilities, deliver solutions, and achieve business outcomes by leveraging Microsoft's AI and digital technologies. The role requires developing account plans, engaging senior stakeholders, orchestrating cross-functional teams, and driving revenue growth by helping customers adopt AI. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, deliveries, vendor coordination, warranty claims, and equipment returns. It involves cycle audits, documentation, and data bearing device destruction, supporting Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Narrative Design Director - Halo Studios Director of Narrative Design for the Halo franchise, responsible for defining and delivering the campaign story, tone, character arcs, and narrative integration across gameplay, environments, and player experience. This role involves leading narrative designers and writers, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams, and ensuring alignment with franchise direction. | — | 0 |
| Technology Consultant - CTJ - TS/SCI Microsoft Federal is seeking a Technical Consultant to drive opportunities for cloud and Microsoft technology adoption within the US Government. The role involves business development, intellectual property management, operational excellence, readiness, and technical delivery, including implementing technical solutions, supporting project planning, and defining customer requirements. A Top Secret/SCI security clearance is required. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. This global team collaborates with customers to develop cloud-based solutions using modern software engineering practices and modern technologies. The role involves joint development with customer engineers, contributing to open-source projects, and working with Microsoft product teams to build impactful solution patterns. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and delivering cloud-based solutions for customers, collaborating with cross-functional teams and Microsoft product teams. The role involves developing solution patterns and open-source assets, working side-by-side with customers to solve their challenges using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Identity team, focusing on the Entra Authentication services within the Azure ecosystem. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, experience in coding languages like C++, C#, Java, Python, and a U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Edge Datacenter Operations Specialist This role is responsible for IT and logistics support for a portfolio of edge sites, ensuring the deployment and maintenance of collocated facilities that provide network connectivity for hyperscale datacenters and low latency connectivity for Microsoft's Cloud Services. The specialist will own site operations, work with partner teams on deployments and daily operations, and contribute to process development and program management. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Windows Cloud Experiences (WCX) focusing on Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). The role involves implementing low-latency streaming protocol features, optimizing performance, and contributing to security within the VDI solution. This is a core engineering role focused on infrastructure and performance optimization for a cloud-based virtual desktop service. | — | 0 |
| Account Technology Strategist Financial Services This role focuses on deepening relationships with financial services customers, understanding their industry and technology platforms, and driving strategic technology transformation. The Account Technology Strategist will develop and oversee account plans, identify opportunities for digitalization, and educate decision-makers on Microsoft's value proposition. The role involves orchestrating internal teams and partners to meet customer business needs and revenue targets, acting as a technology mentor to senior leaders, and contributing to customer skilling initiatives. | — | 0 |
