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 Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Storage team, responsible for building and managing persistent cloud storage for Microsoft Azure. The role involves designing and implementing core platform capabilities and critical infrastructure for hyperscale storage systems, tackling challenges in fault tolerance, consistency, and cost-efficiency at zettabyte scale. Focus is on distributed systems, scalability, and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role focuses on engineering, maintaining, and securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) within Microsoft's mission-critical data centers. Responsibilities include managing ICS availability, data quality, service, change management, reporting, and security, as well as project management for ICS systems. The role involves governing electrical and mechanical industrial control systems, including servers, applications, networks, and device infrastructure, and managing access controls. It emphasizes safety, security compliance, and developing positive working relationships. | — |
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| Associate Director - Corporate Strategy & Development This role is for an Associate Director in Corporate Strategy & Development at Microsoft, focusing on advising the CEO and executive leadership on the company's long-term strategic direction and growth. The role involves leading strategy projects, conducting market and competitive analysis, evaluating strategic acquisitions, and identifying new opportunities. It requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills to influence executive decision-making within a large technology company navigating industry disruptions. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer in a data center, responsible for ensuring the availability and operational efficiency of mechanical and electrical equipment, managing maintenance, and adhering to safety and compliance policies. The role involves overseeing day-to-day operations, reducing incidents, supporting emergency response plans, and coordinating audits within leased data centers. It also includes fostering strong relationships with partners and sharing best practices. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager This role is for a Principal Product Manager within Microsoft's Identity and Network Access division, focusing on security products and solutions. The core responsibility is to define and build product capabilities in close partnership with customers, engage with them to refine offerings, and drive adoption. The role also involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineering and product marketing, to position and enable sales for these offerings. While the company operates in the AI space, this specific role is focused on product management for security solutions, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 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 |
| Critical Environmental Technical Trainer - Data Center This role is for a Critical Environmental Technical Trainer in a Microsoft datacenter. The trainer will be responsible for establishing technical training delivery, conducting needs analysis, and managing procedural changes. They will leverage adult learning principles to evaluate training activities and coach learners. The role involves delivering training on core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 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 |
| Critical Environment Technician Intern This is an internship role for a Critical Environment Technician at Microsoft's datacenters. The intern will support the infrastructure powering Microsoft's cloud services by performing operational tasks, learning to operate critical systems, monitoring facility equipment, using maintenance management systems, assisting with emergency response, and documenting activities. The role involves hands-on experience with HVAC, electrical, and mechanical systems, with opportunities for training and certification. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's data centers. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, managing operational and safety situations, mentoring junior technicians, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires experience in mission-critical services industries and specialized areas like mechanical, electrical, or controls. | — | 0 |
| Account Management - Industrial & Manufacturing This role is for an Account Manager within Microsoft's Enterprise Commercial organization, specifically in the Industrial & Manufacturing business group. The primary focus is on managing 2-4 major customers in the discrete manufacturing segment, engaging with executives to address business challenges and drive digital transformation using Microsoft solutions. Responsibilities include developing and executing account plans, building executive relationships, generating demand, and closing deals. The role requires a deep understanding of the customer's business strategy and technology challenges, as well as knowledge of the manufacturing industry and Microsoft technologies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Manager This role supports the CEO office for Microsoft AI, specifically for the Microsoft Copilot team. The Business Manager will manage procurement, vendor selection, contract negotiation, headcount, organizational operations, financial planning, budget management, and business operations to enable leaders to focus on building products. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator supporting the CVP of Central Finance Team (CFT) and the VP of Investor Relations (IR) at Microsoft. Responsibilities include calendar and meeting management, event coordination, resource management, and maintaining the rhythm of business. This role partners with finance teams and senior leaders to improve leader and team effectiveness in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering Software Engineering role focused on designing, building, testing, and maintaining software features under guidance from senior engineers. Contributes to product development across the full engineering lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, deployment, and live service support. Collaborates with cross-functional partners, writes high-quality code, participates in code reviews, and helps resolve defects. Supports quality assurance, security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility standards, while continuously learning engineering best practices. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Inventory & Asset Technician This role is for a Datacenter Inventory & Asset Technician responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle management of datacenter inventory and assets, including receiving, physical handling, inventory accuracy, and logistics coordination. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of equipment within Microsoft's global data centers. The position involves adhering to standard operating procedures, security protocols, and safety guidelines, with a focus on supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer for the Policy & Configuration team, responsible for the deployment control plane of Microsoft Threat Protection. This role involves designing the migration from a legacy system to .NET Aspire, encoding deployment rules and compliance policies into the toolchain using Roslyn analyzers and CI gates, and driving adoption across organizational boundaries. The goal is to integrate deployment capabilities into Azure and .NET platforms, shaping the developer experience for service teams. | — | 0 |
| Director of Strategic Growth Initiatives & Business Management This role is for a Director of Strategic Growth Initiatives & Business Management within Surface Marketing at Microsoft. The primary focus is on strategic planning, business management, and ensuring cross-functional alignment for growth initiatives. The role involves translating growth ambitions into structured plans, developing Go To Market strategies, and enabling executive decision-making. It requires strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence stakeholders without direct people management. The role is not directly involved in building or shipping AI/ML models but operates within a product-focused environment that may leverage AI. | — | 0 |
| Senior Communications Strategist - Microsoft & Copilot This role is for a Senior Communications Strategist at Microsoft, focusing on the Microsoft and Copilot brands. The strategist will translate brand and Go To Market strategy into audience, channel, and engagement plans, working across various internal teams and agency partners. Responsibilities include developing communications strategy, recommending channel mixes, collaborating cross-functionally, and synthesizing insights for optimization. The role requires strategic planning, audience understanding, and translating insights into actionable communications to support market effectiveness. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator reporting to the VP for CXA, supporting the CE&S Technology Office (CTO). This role requires excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and professionally at the Microsoft executive level. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment, supporting a global team and demonstrating passion for their role as a business support professional. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building foundational security capabilities for Microsoft's security cloud, emphasizing identity, data security, and platform engineering. The role involves designing, implementing, and shipping reusable security primitives that ensure secure-by-default behavior, reduce systemic risk, and simplify least-privilege and data protection practices across Microsoft's services and developer ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Principal Customer Experience Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Customer Experience Engineering Manager within Microsoft's Azure Customer Experience team. The manager will lead a team of Azure Customer Engineers, focusing on end-to-end engineering support delivery for strategic customers. The role involves direct people leadership, coaching, and mentoring, as well as direct customer engagement on complex support issues. Key responsibilities include driving continuous engineering improvement, fostering innovation through AI and automation, and ensuring operational excellence in a 24x7x365 environment. The role requires collaboration with Azure engineering teams to address platform gaps and improve product quality, while also focusing on attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse, high-performing team. | — | 0 |
| Launch Program Manager --Hardware This role is for a Launch Program Manager for Microsoft Devices, responsible for the entire lifecycle of hardware product launches, from concept to production and delivery. The role involves leading cross-functional teams, managing schedules, budgets, and resources, overseeing build readiness, driving risk management, and communicating status to stakeholders. It requires strong technical acumen, program management skills, and the ability to influence across the organization. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of shipping consumer electronics products on time and advanced knowledge of manufacturing and product development processes. | — | 0 |
| Service Manager for Partner This role is for a Service Manager focused on supporting Microsoft Partners, managing their reactive support landscape and operational health. The individual will act as a primary contact for escalated customer and partner issues, lead resolution of high-severity incidents, and serve as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders. The role involves collaborating with global teams, establishing governance with vendors, and driving continuous improvement within the support ecosystem. While the company works with AI products, this specific role is focused on customer success and operational management of support, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Part Time Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, performing hardware deployments, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and decommissioning of hardware in a data center environment. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, ensure proper setup according to safety protocols, and communicate/escalate incidents. The role also includes providing guidance to peers and completing required training. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager at Microsoft's datacenter campus in Cheyenne, WY. The primary focus is on the day-to-day operations, maintenance, and project management of mechanical and electrical equipment within the datacenter to ensure peak efficiency, compliance, and reliability. It involves managing preventative and corrective maintenance, overseeing equipment performance, acting as an escalation point for facilities-related issues, and driving cost/energy efficiency projects. The role also emphasizes safety, security, and compliance within the datacenter environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager Manages day-to-day operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in a datacenter, focusing on critical environments, cost/energy efficiency, and identifying/remediating vulnerabilities. This role involves project management, ensuring compliance, and acting as an escalation point for facilities-related issues. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Manager Microsoft is seeking a Business Development Manager to drive strategic partnerships and initiatives for Windows & Devices. This role involves identifying and executing high-impact partnerships, corporate venture investments, and acquisitions to drive growth. The manager will collaborate with product, engineering, and go-to-market leaders to enhance product value, unlock new business models, and accelerate partner innovation, positioning Windows as the platform of choice for new, AI-first experiences. Responsibilities include deal management, governance, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, and partnership strategy development, requiring a deep understanding of industry trends and Microsoft's strategic positioning. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer II - Windows Security (Multiple Positions) Security Engineer II - Windows Security role at Microsoft focuses on offensive security and security engineering for Windows. Responsibilities include security design reviews, code reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability research, and developing mitigations to secure Windows products and devices. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Business Planner This role focuses on the monetization strategy, pricing, and packaging for Microsoft 365 products, including Microsoft 365 Copilot. The Business Planning Lead will advise on promotional offer strategies, cultivate relationships with internal and external stakeholders for strategic partnerships, and drive growth through business model innovation. Responsibilities include proposing pricing changes, leading cross-functional teams, conducting market research, evaluating partnerships, and influencing senior leadership with data-driven recommendations. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environments Field Service Engineer Seeking a Critical Environments Field Service Engineer to ensure the availability and compliance of datacenter operations for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include overseeing mechanical and electrical equipment maintenance, managing CE programs, engaging with partners, and adhering to safety policies. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Windows Platform and Development team, focusing on leading envisioning and building the developer ecosystem for Windows. Responsibilities include product leadership, strategy and execution, partnering with engineering and data science, defining roadmaps for intelligent search experiences, setting success metrics, and driving strategic partnerships. The role requires influencing technical architecture and long-term platform strategy. | — | 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 |
| Commercial Executive - Public Sector Commercial Executive role focused on designing, negotiating, and executing complex commercial models for Public Sector clients in Japan, ensuring value for both customers and Microsoft. This role requires deep understanding of public sector procurement, accounting rules, and compliance requirements, leading cross-functional collaboration to achieve long-term commercial outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Technology Strategist - Transportation/Mobility Microsoft is seeking a Strategic Account Technology Strategist for the Transportation/Mobility industry in Tokyo. This role involves driving digital transformation for enterprise customers by mapping business scenarios to technical foundations, understanding customer priorities, and orchestrating internal and external resources. The strategist will promote adoption of Microsoft Azure, Modern Workplace, and Dynamics 365, acting as a virtual CTO and building trusted relationships with IT decision-makers. Responsibilities include strategy leadership, technology-relevant selling, thought leadership on emerging trends like AI and Industrial Metaverse, and applying industry knowledge to build digital technology strategies aligned with business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Operations Management IC3 This role focuses on Data Center Operations Management, ensuring adherence to compliance, security standards, and budget requirements. Responsibilities include troubleshooting incidents, monitoring KPIs, managing projects, and collaborating with teams to maintain service delivery and security within the data center environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - Red Team This role manages a team of software engineers and analysts to build tooling that leverages a security graph to discover and quantify security risks. The team will model lateral movement paths, use graph and data to uncover security antipatterns, and communicate findings to stakeholders. The role is within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on cybersecurity and risk analysis. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager - CTJ - Top Secret Manage a team of technicians responsible for data center operations, including installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of equipment. Focus on people management, service delivery, and ensuring compliance with safety and security procedures within a U.S. Government Airgap environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior EMEA Labor Relations Consultant This role is for a Senior EMEA Labor Relations Consultant at Microsoft. The primary focus is on shaping labor relations across Europe, managing the European Works Council (EWC) project, and partnering with Centers of Excellence to implement AI-driven labor relations programs. The role involves program managing the deployment of AI tools in partnership with various teams and strengthening relationships with employee representative bodies. While the role collaborates with AI initiatives and deploys AI tools, it does not involve building or researching AI models directly. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialists This role is for a Digital Solution Area Specialist at Microsoft, focusing on advising customers on digital transformation and driving business growth. The specialist acts as a thought leader, assesses customer needs, proposes solutions, and develops strategies for closing opportunities. They collaborate with account teams and partners to orchestrate sales and delivery, manage end-to-end business for strategic accounts, and mentor team members. The role involves market analysis, identifying industry trends, and ensuring customer satisfaction through strategic planning and execution. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on hardware/software co-design and evaluation of novel systems architecture concepts to improve datacenter performance, efficiency, and reliability within Microsoft's Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure organization. The role involves pathfinding, architecture for future compute platforms, storage, and related technologies, collaborating across the Azure organization to evaluate next-generation datacenter technologies and influence product roadmaps. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Energy Marshall This role is for a Critical Environment Energy Marshall within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. The primary responsibility is to oversee and ensure compliance with Microsoft's Energy Isolation Program, including establishing acceptance criteria, implementing learnings, and driving rigor into the program. The role involves establishing centralized Lockout Tag Out (LOTO) procedures, coordinating energy isolation activities, acting as a subject matter expert in incident investigations, and participating in high-risk activity planning. The position requires a degree in a related engineering field or equivalent experience, with a strong emphasis on safety policies and procedures within critical environments. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - C++ This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on building and evolving a large-scale client platform for remote computing experiences. While the role emphasizes leveraging AI-powered development tools and AI-assisted workflows to improve engineering practices, the core product is not an AI system itself, but rather a client platform for remote desktop access. The role involves leading architecture, design, and development of these client applications, driving innovation in cloud-connected desktop experiences, and establishing best practices for performance, reliability, and security. A key aspect is championing AI-assisted software development to accelerate innovation and improve code quality within the engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician (Nightshift) - CTJ - Poly This role involves performing data center operations, including preparing, installing, troubleshooting, and decommissioning IT equipment. It requires adherence to standard procedures, SLAs, and safety protocols within a U.S. Government Airgap team environment. The position also involves managing services, participating in training, and maintaining a strong client focus. | — | 0 |
| Category Manager Apprentice Category Manager Apprentice role within Microsoft's Consumer Sales Organisation in EMEA & UK/Ireland, focusing on Microsoft Surface Devices and Accessories. Responsibilities include supporting category plans, pricing, promotions, launch readiness, assortment management, and business reporting. This is an early career apprenticeship role. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Applications Architect Seeking a Principal Quantum Applications Architect to develop applications for fault-tolerant quantum computers, design algorithms, and work with hybrid quantum-classical workflows. Requires a doctorate or master's degree with significant experience in relevant fields and programming. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager, Content Monetization Product leader to own MSN monetization strategy, product development, and revenue performance, working across engineering, sales, leadership, and finance to ship products that grow the business while improving user experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer -Fullstack Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves contributing to core business intelligence investments, shaping semantic modeling, reporting, and end-to-end analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering scalable, user-centric features across web and service-side components, ensuring reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness, and participating in code reviews and bug triage. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with 4+ years of experience in full-stack development, including UI (TypeScript, Angular) and backend/distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Chief Risk Officer Microsoft is seeking a Chief Risk Officer for a newly created payments institution in Dublin, Ireland. This role will lead risk management for the licensed entity, design and implement a risk governance framework, and ensure risks are managed within the regulated business model. The CRO will oversee fraud risk, product risk, business continuity, operational controls, and outsourcing relationships, serving as a key leader on the regulated entity board's Risk Committee. | — | 0 |
| Customer Experience Engineer II This role is for a Customer Experience Engineer II focused on resolving critical escalations for Microsoft's top Security customers using Microsoft Entra. The engineer will act as a subject matter expert, collaborating with various teams to address technical issues, improve product design, and accelerate customer adoption. The role involves direct customer interaction, on-call rotation, and contributing to the technical growth of peers. | — | 0 |
