Currently tracking 224 active AI roles, down 17% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
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.
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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Business Program Management - Intern Opportunities This is an internship role for Business Program Management at Microsoft. The intern will identify, define, and design programs, advocate for their value using metrics, and monitor program execution. Responsibilities include program landscape research, improving operations, contributing to strategy, defining success criteria, and collaborating with stakeholders. The role requires pursuing a degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field, with a preference for familiarity with AI concepts. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - Quantum The Principal Technical Program Manager will lead cross-functional engineering initiatives for Microsoft Quantum's hardware infrastructure, focusing on the development of scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computers. This role involves strategic planning, roadmap development, and managing relationships with internal and external partners across various scientific and engineering disciplines. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the operations and maintenance of critical environment systems (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, generators) within Microsoft's data centers. The manager will oversee daily operations, maintenance, incident response, and ensure safety and security protocols are followed. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager (Quantum Hardware and Firmware Systems) The Principal Technical Program Manager will lead the end-to-end delivery of next-generation quantum hardware and firmware systems for Microsoft Quantum. This role involves driving cross-functional execution across research, engineering, and external partners to develop scalable, production-ready quantum solutions, aligning roadmaps, managing risks, and delivering critical milestones. The position requires deep technical expertise, strong program management skills, and a customer-focused mindset to shape the future of Microsoft's quantum platform. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Studios Expense Lead This role is for a Senior Finance Manager on the Xbox Game Studios Finance team, focusing on supporting first-party studios by managing studio expenses, ensuring accuracy with accounting and royalties, and optimizing gross margin and accountability margin. The role involves allocating central expenses, managing the balance sheet, and collaborating with various finance, accounting, and marketing teams to drive margin growth and P&L optimization. It requires strong financial analysis, reporting, and data translation skills, as well as the ability to manage compliance and mitigate risks. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician (Electrical / Mechanical Maintenance - Shifts) This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on electrical and mechanical systems. Responsibilities include performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and ensuring operational safety and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the critical environment operations and maintenance of Microsoft's data centers, ensuring the reliability and sustainability of the cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Storage team, focusing on building and managing persistent cloud storage for Microsoft Azure. The position involves working on large-scale distributed systems, specifically in areas like index management and garbage collection for exabyte-scale data, aiming for high availability, durability, and low latency. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage Senior Software Engineer role at Microsoft Azure Storage, focusing on designing and implementing protocols and features for a highly distributed, massively scalable, and ubiquitously accessible cloud storage platform. The role involves ensuring data durability, availability, scalability, and performance of backend distributed block storage, with a focus on the Ultra Disk team. | — | 0 |
| Snr Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. The technician will focus on electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and ensuring operational reliability. This is a hands-on role requiring expertise in critical environment equipment and adherence to safety and operational procedures. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Advisory This role is a Technical Support Advisory position within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. The primary focus is on ensuring the technical readiness and process compliance of frontline support staff and delivery partners. Responsibilities include case management, mentoring engineers, contributing to self-help initiatives, and providing product/process improvement feedback. The role requires experience in system development, IT, consulting, or technical troubleshooting, with a strong emphasis on customer support and delivery excellence. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including inbound/outbound logistics, cycle audits, warranty processes, and data bearing device destruction, ensuring regulatory compliance. | — | 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 focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services. | — | 0 |
| CE Field Service Engineer This role is for a CE Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in leased datacenters. The role focuses on ensuring critical environment availability, operational efficiency, and compliance with policies, while also managing costs and safety. It involves working with various teams, including landlord partners and engineering groups, and contributing to best practices and continuous improvement within datacenter operations. | — | 0 |
| Snr Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, ensuring the operational integrity of cloud services. Responsibilities include equipment maintenance, incident response, and adhering to safety and operational procedures. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the operation and maintenance of critical environment systems within Microsoft's data centers, ensuring the reliability and safety of the infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Windows team at Microsoft, focusing on building and shipping features for both current and next versions of Windows. The role involves designing, developing, and optimizing software at scale, collaborating with stakeholders, providing technical leadership, and mentoring other engineers. While the role mentions leveraging AI-powered tools for development, the core craft is software engineering for the Windows product, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the safe, compliant, and reliable operation of mechanical and electrical infrastructure in a 24x7 data center environment. It involves leading day-to-day operations, maintenance, alarm response, incident handling, and enforcing safety procedures. The role also focuses on team performance and development, ensuring operational quality, and supporting audits. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager Lead the operational excellence of Microsoft datacenters, ensuring critical mechanical, electrical, and control systems deliver maximum availability and reliability. Build and develop high-performing teams, reduce high-impact incidents, and drive continuous improvement across safety, performance, and efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in Microsoft's data centers. It's a hands-on role focused on maintaining the physical infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services, with opportunities for learning and career growth within the CO+I division. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves hardware deployment, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and decommissioning within a data center environment. It focuses on maintaining the physical infrastructure that supports cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer responsible for the design, testing, verification, and implementation of electrical systems within Microsoft's datacenters. The role involves developing designs, creating documentation, selecting components, conducting tests, and ensuring project schedules are met, all within the context of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer for Bing Sports, focusing on building and delivering high-scale, low-latency services and experiences. Responsibilities include leading end-to-end design, defining architecture, setting engineering standards, improving data ingestion, optimizing latency and cost, and mentoring engineers. Requires 10+ years of experience in production services, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering. | — | 0 |
| Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role focuses on Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) Engineering within Microsoft's mission-critical datacenters. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining the availability, data quality, service, change management, reporting, and security of all ICS systems, including servers, applications, networks, and device infrastructure. The role also involves site-level ICS program and project management, governing logical and physical access, and ensuring compliance with safety programs and policies. The position requires a Bachelor's Degree in a related field and 2+ years of technical experience, with preferred qualifications in critical environments, datacenter operations, and specific ICS protocols. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, and monitor equipment performance. The role is focused on the physical operations and maintenance of datacenter facilities, not on AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician at Microsoft, responsible for hardware deployment, troubleshooting, and decommissioning within Microsoft's global data centers that support services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. The role involves following standard operating procedures, performing quality checks, and collaborating with a team to ensure the smooth operation of data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II -Full Stack Software Engineer II role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves contributing to core business intelligence investments, shaping the next generation of semantic modeling, reporting, and end-to-end analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering user experiences and cloud services, ensuring implementation resiliency, security, and reliability, and participating in code reviews and bug triage. | — | 0 |
| Group Risk Manager, Business Risk & Insurance Microsoft's Business Risk & Insurance team seeks an experienced finance/insurance professional to analyze business risk, develop risk mitigation strategies, and manage insurance programs. This role involves collaborating with external brokers, overseeing contract reviews, and assessing program risks to ensure appropriate insurance placement. The position requires strong judgment, strategic planning, and the ability to quantify financial impacts of risks. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on secure production access and device engineering. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving design documents, writing and optimizing code, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), and implementing robust validation and release management practices. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of experience, and the ability to pass security screenings. Preferred qualifications include experience with telemetry, live-site engineering, cloud environments (Azure), and scaling distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Service Engineer- CTJ- TS/SCI This role is for a Service Engineer on the M365 Air-Gapped Cloud (AGC) team, responsible for delivering and operating Microsoft 365 services in highly regulated, disconnected, and sovereign cloud environments. The focus is on ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance with strict security and operational standards. Responsibilities include providing advanced technical expertise, leading incident response and root cause analysis, collaborating with engineering and security teams, and driving improvements in service health, telemetry, and automation. The role requires experience supporting complex IT environments and operating in large distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and operational excellence within regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Global Supplier Account Manager This role is for a Senior Global Supplier Account Manager at Microsoft, responsible for managing key Global Independent Software Vendors (GISVs). The primary focus is on driving supplier accountability, managing risk, and realizing economic value across critical supplier relationships that support engineering software services. The role involves aligning with business strategies, monitoring supplier performance, mitigating risks, and fostering innovative opportunities. It also includes managing contract agreements, leading complex supplier relationships, and acting as a thought leader for continuous improvement in Supplier Relationship Management processes. The role emphasizes Microsoft's culture and values, including diversity, sustainability, and trust. | — | 0 |
| Entry Level Technical Support Engineer Entry Level Technical Support Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on troubleshooting and resolving customer technical issues using available tools and processes. The role involves identifying defects, escalating issues, providing feedback for product improvement, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. While the role is within an organization that leverages AI, it does not involve building or directly working with AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II- Front End Development This role is for a Software Engineer II on the Fabric Platform Shell team, focused on building a leading SaaS data development environment. The team's mission is to create a simple, functional, and extensible web experience for data ingestion, storage, processing, and analysis, aiming for a best-in-class DevOps experience. The role involves full-stack and backend development, collaborating with designers and product managers, and writing high-quality code. Key responsibilities include designing and building user experiences, collaborating on features, and ensuring engineering excellence through testing, automation, and adherence to security standards. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of experience in software engineering and 1+ year in web application development using frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular. | — | 0 |
| System Software Engineer - WSD Software Engineer II on the Update Platform team responsible for Windows software updates. The role involves designing and implementing new features, improving quality and reliability of the update stack, and working with ML/AI models and Agentic AI/AI Orchestration. The engineer will also address security vulnerabilities, monitor releases, and mentor junior developers. | — | 0 |
| Sales Excellence Mgr This role focuses on driving sales growth through strategic account and business planning, guiding sales teams on opportunity management, and optimizing sales processes and capabilities. It involves analyzing revenue drivers, coaching sales leaders, and ensuring adherence to sales standards. The role acts as a subject matter expert to improve sales tools and support executive capacity. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Senior Technical Program Manager for Microsoft's Entra ID Identity Buildout team, focusing on strengthening engineering and financial efficiency, enabling expansion into new regions and sovereign clouds, and driving complex, cross-organizational programs related to identity management and security. | — | 0 |
| South Africa Finance Lead The Subsidiary Finance Lead for Microsoft South Africa is a key role on the Country Leadership team, responsible for executing all finance deliverables to enable sustainable long-term growth. This role advises business leaders on financial performance, leads financial planning cycles, ensures compliance with financial and ethical standards, and acts as a strategic advisor to business and commercial leaders. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation. It involves managing inventory principles, warranty processes, and data-bearing device destruction. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect (Dynamics 365 CE & CCaaS) This role focuses on designing and delivering solutions that modernize customer engagement and enable AI adoption, primarily within the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and Digital Contact Center space. The Cloud Solution Architect will work with stakeholders to create architectures that are secure, resilient, and cost-optimized, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI capabilities within business applications. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft data center, focusing on physical operations such as receiving, unpacking, staging, packing, shipping of server equipment, inventory and asset management, and destruction of data-bearing devices. It requires business-level Japanese and English, basic computer skills, and the ability to perform physical labor. The role is not directly involved in AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business & Strategy Program Manager This role is a Senior Business & Strategy Program Manager within Microsoft's CoreAI Division, focusing on shaping the future of a large (600+ people) AI organization. It's a Chief-of-Staff-style role driving strategic initiatives, streamlining operations, and elevating employee engagement. Responsibilities include business operations (budget, headcount, hiring, RoB), leadership enablement, organizational health, product strategy alignment, people strategy, and leading special projects. The role requires experience in financial management, business planning, operations, strategy, or project management, with a focus on driving strategic cross-org initiatives and executive communication. While the division works on AI products like GitHub Copilot and Foundry, this specific role is focused on the business and operational aspects rather than direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Security Solution Specialist Senior Solution Specialist for Microsoft Security, focusing on selling enterprise security solutions to large customers in the Philippines. This role involves managing CISO relationships, understanding customer challenges, building solutions and business cases, and driving sales to meet targets. It requires deep industry and security knowledge, technical acumen, and collaboration with virtual teams. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory and asset management, including handling deliveries, coordinating vendors, processing warranty claims, and ensuring accurate tracking of assets. The role requires adherence to security and data management policies. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It focuses on maintaining the physical infrastructure that supports Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Corporate Counsel, Honors Program This role is for a Corporate Counsel in Microsoft's Honors Program, focusing on legal matters at the intersection of law, technology, and business, within the context of the AI era. The program involves structured rotations to develop legal skills and prepare for future leadership roles, with an emphasis on using AI tools in everyday work. | — | 0 |
| Senior Corporate Counsel - Security Product Senior Corporate Counsel to support product security and secure-by-design efforts across Microsoft Security's AI and cloud product portfolio. This role partners closely with product engineering and security teams to provide legal guidance throughout the product lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Senior Threat Intelligence Manager Microsoft is seeking a Senior Threat Intelligence Manager to lead a team responsible for producing and delivering threat intelligence content to customers. This role involves working with internal stakeholders, developing finished intelligence reports, and presenting technical research to various customer audiences. The position requires cross-team and cross-geo collaboration to support customers using Microsoft security products. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technical Manager This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing the operations and maintenance of critical facility equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, generators) within Microsoft's global datacenters. The manager will lead a team, ensure safety and security protocols are followed, manage incident response, and oversee maintenance and repair work to maintain the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Corporate Counsel This role is for a Senior Corporate Counsel supporting Microsoft's Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) team, which leverages Agentic AI solutions. The counsel will advise on commercial strategy, global operations, operational compliance, and delivery of technical services. Key responsibilities include advising on complex contractual structures, risk considerations, intellectual property, data handling, and evolving global regulatory requirements, particularly concerning AI deployment and diffusion. The role requires supporting go-to-market readiness and responsible AI implementation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Measurement Engineer This role is for a Senior Quantum Measurement Engineer focused on the research and development of scalable quantum computing systems. The position involves developing and running qubit experiments, performing advanced measurement techniques, and identifying opportunities to streamline and automate quantum measurement processes. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools and designing AI agents for assistance, the core of the job is in experimental quantum physics and engineering, not in building or shipping AI models or products as the primary deliverable. | — | 0 |