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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| Technical Program Manager- Advertising Measurement Lead execution for advertising measurement programs, translating product requirements into shipped outcomes across complex, data-intensive systems. Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure data quality and reliability for measurement features and platforms. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Dynamics 365 This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Business Applications, focusing on enabling low-code agility and AI transformation for customers. The role involves managing technical and business relationships, providing architectural guidance, and driving customer success with Microsoft's Business Applications. It requires expertise in Dynamics 365 or similar products and a customer-facing approach. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Azure Storage team, focusing on designing, developing, and operating scalable cloud services and frameworks for validation infrastructure and automation of Azure's distributed storage system. The role involves ensuring product quality, reliability, and performance for a hyperscale storage service. |
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| Xbox Communications Lead, APAC Seeking a Communications Lead for Xbox in the APAC region to shape the brand's presence and player growth. This role involves setting strategic communication direction, leading a distributed team and agency ecosystem, driving integrated storytelling across various channels, and managing reputational risk. The ideal candidate will have strong communication and critical thinking skills, experience in developing communications strategies, and a deep understanding of the APAC market. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive Account Executive responsible for driving revenue growth and customer relationships for Microsoft's cloud, AI, security, and digital transformation initiatives in Malaysia. This role involves end-to-end commercial relationship management, strategic account planning, pipeline creation, and deal closure, with a focus on accelerating AI adoption and navigating complex government and regulated customer environments. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role on the Fabric Data Movement team at Microsoft focuses on designing, building, and operating a next-generation service for transferring large volumes of data between systems with minimal latency. The role involves advanced data movement and replication scenarios, data-centric orchestration, and ensuring high-quality product delivery at a fast pace within the Azure Data ecosystem, which aims to be the data platform for the age of AI. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer The Senior Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team focuses on building and maintaining Microsoft's operational database systems, specifically within the SQL DB Hyperscale cloud database offering. Responsibilities include designing and developing complex features related to core database engine areas like logging, recovery, transactions, and database structures. The role also involves influencing product architecture, mentoring engineers, and participating in on-call rotations. While the team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI and the role mentions using AI for productivity, the core craft is traditional database engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and operating robust release infrastructure for Microsoft 365's Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3) platform. The role involves architecting standardized release infrastructure, defining release patterns, building automation and tooling for reliability and efficiency, and driving cross-organizational technical alignment. This is a platform engineering role within a large enterprise cloud services environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Strategy & Insights Manager This role is for a Senior Data Strategy & Insights Manager on the CMO Strategy team at Microsoft. The primary focus is on overseeing large-scale consumer data sets, managing an external data engineering partner, and providing rigorous analytical insights to inform strategic decisions for Microsoft's consumer business. The role involves data analysis, infrastructure oversight, partner management, and strategic business support. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineer - Azure Cloud (IaaS) - Global Client Delivery This role is a Technical Support Engineer for Azure Cloud (IaaS) within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. The primary focus is on resolving technical issues related to Azure IaaS products like Virtual Machines and Storage for Japanese business customers. Responsibilities include owning, troubleshooting, and resolving customer technical issues, collaborating with colleagues and subject matter experts, and escalating to Engineering when necessary. The role requires bilingual Japanese and English proficiency, experience with Azure or other cloud providers, and technical skills in system administration, scripting, virtualization, storage, and networking. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Infrastructure This role focuses on acting as the voice of the customer, translating their problems into industry solutions, and guiding them towards well-architected, AI-enabled, and cost-optimized solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will drive customer adoption, identify expansion opportunities, and collaborate across teams to ensure customer success and achieve business goals. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician (CET) responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters that support cloud services like Azure. The technician will monitor equipment performance, respond to incidents, perform maintenance, and ensure the safe and reliable operation of electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The role requires experience in mission-critical services environments and adherence to safety and operational procedures. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager Lead a team of Mechanical, Electrical and Control System professionals responsible for the day-to-day operations and maintenance of critical environment infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, ensuring maximum availability and operational efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, handling deliveries, coordinating with vendors, processing returns, and ensuring accurate documentation. It involves cycle audits, data corrections, and destruction of data-bearing devices, adhering to strict SLAs and policies. The position requires a High School Diploma and 6 months of relevant experience or equivalent. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role involves maintaining critical infrastructure within Microsoft's data centers, focusing on electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, and ensure operational reliability of the data center environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of datacenters that support Microsoft's cloud services. The role involves hands-on maintenance, incident response, equipment monitoring, and coordination with various stakeholders to ensure operational uptime and safety. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development but supports the infrastructure that hosts AI services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager - Newport 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 |
| Technical Support Engineer - Azure Cloud (IaaS) - Japanese Client Delivery Technical Support Engineer for Azure Cloud (IaaS) focusing on Japanese client delivery. Responsibilities include reviewing, investigating, and resolving technical issues, collaborating with internal teams, utilizing troubleshooting tools, and contributing to product improvement by identifying potential defects. The role also involves mentoring new engineers and developing training materials. Requires at least 4 years of IT experience, cloud service knowledge (Azure preferred), and expertise in Windows/Linux administration, scripting, containerization, networking, and storage. Business-level Japanese and reading comprehension of English technical documents are essential. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Intern This is an internship role for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft's Data Center Operations. The intern will assist with inventory management, supplier coordination for hardware returns, physical inventory tracking, and data destruction, ensuring compliance with SLAs and company policies. The role requires basic knowledge of logistics and supply chain principles and is for individuals currently studying towards a qualification in Warehousing, Logistics, or Supply Chain Management. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Intern This is an internship role for Data Center Technicians at Microsoft, focusing on the physical infrastructure and hardware maintenance of datacenters that power Microsoft's cloud services. The role involves supporting deployment, installation, replacement, and troubleshooting of datacenter hardware and cabling, as well as handling data-bearing devices and inventory management. It requires basic computer hardware knowledge and an interest in IT equipment, with preferred qualifications including relevant certifications and physical capability for datacenter work. Security screening is a requirement. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Intern This internship role focuses on supporting the infrastructure of Microsoft's global cloud services, including datacenters and critical systems like HVAC and electrical. The intern will perform operational tasks, learn system operation, monitor equipment, use CMMS, assist with incident response, and participate in maintenance activities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Sports Data Engineering team, focusing on building low-latency, high-availability data ingestion pipelines and services to support advanced sports experiences integrated across Microsoft products. Responsibilities include architectural guidance, code delivery, continuous improvement, cross-functional collaboration, issue resolution, and technology research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer and Principal Security Engineer (Multiple Positions) This role focuses on offensive security and security engineering for Microsoft Windows products. Responsibilities include security design reviews, code reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability research, and developing mitigations to enhance the security posture of OS platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with native code, penetration testing, and a strong understanding of OS security fundamentals. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II -Fullstack Software Engineer II - Fullstack role at Microsoft on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves building core BI investments, shaping the next generation of semantic modeling, reporting, and analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering user experiences and cloud services, writing code across web clients and service-side components, integrating with LLM-based agents, and ensuring implementation resiliency and security. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of experience in fullstack development, including UI and backend experience. | — | 0 |
| Compiler Software Engineer Experienced low-level engineer to lead the adoption and development of the Rust programming language for critical infrastructure at Microsoft, focusing on compiler back-ends, analysis tools, and systems programming. | — | 0 |
| Cybercrime investigator Investigate major cyber threats, including ransomware, malware, and online scams, by analyzing data sources, building threat-hunting tools, and collaborating with security engineers and legal teams to disrupt criminal actors and make the online ecosystem safer. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer-C++/STL/System Design Principal Software Engineer role focused on C++ and Windows application development, involving product vision, customer collaboration, and technical leadership for the Windows team's Shell and Services Experiences. | — | 0 |
| Snr Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, managing operational and risk situations, mentoring junior technicians, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires experience in specialized areas like electrical, mechanical, or HVAC systems and adherence to safety and security protocols. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Full Stack Software Engineer role focused on building and operating scalable systems for local search discovery across Microsoft experiences, improving quality, relevance, and trustworthiness. Collaborates with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to integrate data sources and enhance ranking. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Business Operations This role is focused on increasing operating rigor, speed, and organizational health within Copilot Engineering. The individual will manage the operating system for priority alignment, decision documentation, and predictable execution, especially during periods of change. They will serve as a trusted operating partner to the Copilot Engineering leadership team, connecting work across HR, recruiting, comms, events, and functional leaders to drive re-organizations, performance management, cultural improvements, and team communications. | — | 0 |
| Senior Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) Senior Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) at Microsoft, focused on helping strategic enterprise customers achieve business value and accelerate adoption of Microsoft's cloud platforms and services. This role involves relationship management, delivery orchestration, and ensuring customers realize the full potential of their technology investments. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Factory Manager This role is for a Sr. Factory Manager in Microsoft's Device group, responsible for implementing manufacturing strategies and driving the supply base towards Best-in-Class Manufacturing practices. The candidate will collaborate with contract manufacturers and internal teams, lead technical resources, oversee factory operations, manage new product supply, and oversee factory budgets and cost reduction strategies. Requires extensive experience in high-volume consumer electronics manufacturing and factory operations. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager (DIAM) - Osaka 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 and operational efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Sales Manager- Microsoft Advertising Sales Manager for Microsoft Advertising in Tokyo, responsible for driving revenue growth, managing a team of Account Executives and Account Managers, developing client and agency relationships, and understanding the Japanese advertising landscape. Requires extensive media sales experience and a proven track record in building and managing high-performing sales teams. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Product Engineer--Manufacturing This role focuses on manufacturing research and development for Microsoft's hardware devices and accessories, aiming to improve product quality, cost, and delivery. It involves close collaboration with contract manufacturers and internal teams, systematic reduction of quality excursions, and providing engineering support during mass production. The position requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills in areas like statistical process control, failure analysis, and design of experiments. | — | 0 |
| Security Sales Specialist This role is for a Security Sales Specialist at Microsoft, focusing on selling security solutions (XDR, zero trust, cloud security, data governance, compliance) to Small Medium Enterprises and Channel partners. The role involves customer engagements, partner orchestration, and strategy building, with an emphasis on consultative selling and technical expertise in security and compliance. While AI is mentioned as a tool to empower customers and the sales team, the core function of the role is sales and product specialization, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and enhancing scalable solutions for customer support experiences using Dynamics 365, AI, Copilot, and other Microsoft cloud services. The role involves end-to-end feature delivery, including architecture, development, deployment, and monitoring, with a focus on reliability and performance at scale. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Planner This role is for a Senior Business Planner in Microsoft's Business Planning organization, focusing on commercial portfolio strategies for Azure, M365, and Dynamics 365. The planner will define and lead strategic initiatives related to business models, competitiveness, and customer/partner experience, including pricing, packaging, licensing, channel, and monetization strategies. The role involves influencing stakeholders, building business cases, driving cross-functional alignment, and conducting research to inform strategy and roadmap planning. | — | 0 |
| Metro - Construction Contract Lead This role is for a Construction Contract Lead within Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) team, responsible for managing complex, large-scale datacenter construction projects. The role involves end-to-end contract management, from pre-award support to post-award execution and closeout, requiring strong commercial judgment and disciplined change control practices in a fast-paced construction environment. | — | 0 |
| Finance Manager, Consumer Products & Infrastructure Finance Manager for Microsoft's Consumer Products & Infrastructure team, focusing on cloud products. Responsibilities include establishing and maintaining KPIs for inventory and warehousing, translating strategy into finance rhythms, strengthening reporting accuracy and controls, and driving process improvements for automation and data quality. | — | 0 |
| Finance Manager, Revenue Cloud & AI Finance Manager role focused on revenue planning, business modeling, financial strategy, and partnerships for Microsoft's Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (C+AI) business, specifically Azure AI. The role involves leading revenue finance for strategic partnerships, developing reporting processes for product performance analytics, and managing close, forecast, and quarterly review cycles. It requires building financial models, influencing pricing and capacity planning, and ensuring compliance with company policies. | — | 0 |
| Business Program Manager This role is a Business Program Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, specifically in the Global Customer Success (GCS) team. The role focuses on driving operational excellence and execution across Microsoft's Unified and Consulting Services portfolio. It involves generating insights from data to support data-driven actions, partnering with various stakeholders, and influencing execution through process rigor and reporting. The role leverages standard tools and metrics to improve financial performance and business outcomes, with a focus on AI transformation for customers and AI motions within sales strategies. | — | 0 |
| Director, Business Planning This role is for a Director of Business Planning at Microsoft, focusing on shaping how the company monetizes its services and executes deals. The responsibilities include building business models, driving partner monetization strategy, creating data-driven insights, and managing the lifecycle of services. The role aims to influence senior leadership and drive strategic initiatives for growth, particularly in AI-driven experiences. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Azure Networking team, focusing on designing and building software-defined network infrastructure for hyperscale cloud computing, including next-generation networks for AI. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, design, implementation, and on-call support for system availability and performance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Storage (C/C++) Senior Software Engineer role focused on kernel engineering and enterprise customer reliability within the Windows Storage & File Systems team. Responsibilities include investigating and remediating security vulnerabilities and high-severity reliability issues across NTFS, ReFS, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), and the Windows storage driver stack. The role involves deep ownership of source code, cluster state machines, and file system on-disk structures to resolve complex customer escalations. | — | 0 |
| Sales Manager - Public Sector Sales Manager for Microsoft's Public Sector Enterprise Account Team in Taipei City, focused on partnering with customers to achieve strategic goals, drive transformation, and achieve business outcomes. The role involves leading a team of sellers, executing Go-to-Market strategy, leveraging the Microsoft product portfolio, and engaging with senior customer levels. Responsibilities include analyzing sales strategy, coaching teams, driving revenue and consumption growth, understanding AI transformation drivers for customers, and influencing cross-functional teams. The role requires people management, driving employee development, and managing performance. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer- Full stack Software Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves contributing to core BI investments, shaping the next generation of semantic modeling, reporting, and end-to-end analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering user experiences, writing secure and performant code across web clients and service-side components, ensuring implementation resiliency, and participating in code reviews. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of experience in full-stack development, including UI and backend experience. | — | 0 |
| Demand Planning Manager Demand Planning Manager for Microsoft Cloud Supply Chain, focusing on forecasting and demand planning for cloud services and hardware, including AI infrastructure. The role involves leading consensus demand planning, managing forecasts, analyzing trends, and partnering with Data Science and Data Engineering teams to improve forecasting models. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator at Microsoft supporting various leaders, focusing on calendar management, logistics, cross-functional collaboration, event coordination, project ownership, and resource management. The role requires strong organizational, communication, and judgment skills, with an emphasis on enabling team success and leadership within the business administrator community. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - .NET Engineering Software Engineer to join the team that powers how .NET ships to the world. You’ll help build and scale the infrastructure behind .NET releases—driving automation, reliability, and visibility across the release lifecycle. This role sits at the core of the .NET ecosystem, where engineering meets infrastructure. You’ll work on high-scale systems that manage release pipelines, dependency flows, and the automated synchronization of one of the largest monorepositories in the world: the .NET VMR. Experiment with emerging AI techniques and leverage AI-powered tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to accelerate engineering workflows and contribute to the development of AI-assisted features. | — | 0 |
