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 250 active AI roles, down 17% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 343 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (19), Senior Software Engineer (19), Software Engineer II (8), Principal Applied Scientist (7), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (36%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (19%). 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 (308 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (8 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 227 new AI-related roles.
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| 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 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager (DIAM) This role manages a team of technicians responsible for inbound/outbound logistics, inventory audits, and data center regulatory compliance, including warranty processes and device destruction. It focuses on operational efficiency, stakeholder management, and team leadership within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, overseeing hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focus on technician performance, KPI/SLA monitoring, training, and ensuring compliance with policies and safety procedures. This role is critical for the infrastructure supporting Microsoft's cloud services. |
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| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers, ensuring service compliance, quality, and safety. This role involves coaching, performance management, and operational oversight of critical infrastructure supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Sr Commercial Executive This role is for a Sr Commercial Executive at Microsoft, responsible for designing and executing commercial strategies, leading negotiations, and driving revenue growth for Microsoft's offerings, including AI products like Copilot. The role requires strong sales, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with an emphasis on ensuring profitable and compliant deals. | — | 0 |
| Warranty Sourcing Program Manager This role is for a Warranty Sourcing Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain organization. The primary focus is on managing the sourcing and supply of hardware for data centers, including optimizing costs, managing warranty entitlements, and mitigating supply shortages. While the role mentions AI capabilities and infrastructure, the core responsibilities are in traditional supply chain management, sourcing, and program management, not in building or directly working with AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Ad SDK Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and optimizing SDKs for ad integration into partner applications. Requires strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills, understanding of browser internals, and experience with large-scale platforms and ad-serving technologies. The role involves designing, implementing, and debugging SDK components to ensure performance, security, and developer-friendliness. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect- Infrastructure & Cross Solutions -CTJ- Top Secret This role focuses on designing and deploying secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Cloud, specifically for the Defense Industrial Base. It involves cloud modernization, security, compliance with defense-grade standards (ITAR, DFARS, FedRAMP High), and driving Azure adoption. While AI technologies are mentioned as a tool, the core of the role is infrastructure architecture and deployment in a regulated, high-security environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - Substrate- CTJ- Secret (Cleared Environments) Seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers responsible for building and operating foundational cloud platform services (Substrate) that power critical Microsoft services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot. The role focuses on technical and organizational strategy, people leadership, and ensuring reliability, security, and compliance in highly regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations - Night Shift This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring safety and security, performing equipment maintenance, troubleshooting issues, documenting findings, and coordinating with vendors. The role requires adherence to strict procedures and regulations to ensure reliable operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Operations This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, enforcing safety and security requirements, and developing operating procedures. The role supports services like Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and Azure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Operations - Night Shift Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure, performing maintenance, troubleshooting equipment, enforcing safety and security requirements, and developing operating procedures. The role involves working night shifts and potentially business travel. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Development Manager - Windows + Devices This role is for a Senior Business Development Manager within Microsoft's Windows + Devices organization. The primary focus is on driving growth through strategic partnerships, corporate venture investments, and acquisitions. The role involves developing partnership strategies, structuring and negotiating agreements, and managing deals to enhance product value and unlock new business models, particularly in the context of AI-first experiences on Windows. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Microsoft Data Center Technician responsible for hardware staging, setup, deployment, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and decommissioning of equipment in a data center environment. The role involves following standard operating procedures, performing quality checks, and contributing to team collaboration and professional development within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - POLY Site Reliability Engineer for Azure Local services in sovereign clouds, focusing on dependability, customer support, and operational excellence. Responsibilities include maintaining service reliability, contributing to design and development by analyzing telemetry and suggesting improvements, and driving operational excellence through automation and AI/ML insights for performance and resource optimization. The role involves incident response, developing alerts, and maintaining telemetry pipelines. | — | 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 |
| Strategic Account Director Strategic Account Director at Microsoft, responsible for driving technology transformation and business outcomes in partnership with customers. This role involves leading sales teams, executing Go-to-Market strategies, and engaging with senior customer executives to promote Microsoft's product portfolio, including AI solutions, to achieve strategic goals and revenue growth. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager This role is for a Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft, focusing on helping Small Medium Enterprises and Channel partners leverage AI and cloud services for their business transformation. The role involves customer relationship management, strategic planning, program delivery, and orchestrating support resources to ensure customer success in their AI transformation journey. While the company and its customers are focused on AI transformation, the core craft of this role is customer success and account management, not building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Partnership Lead This role is a Strategic Partnership Lead at Microsoft, focusing on driving business impact and revenue growth with top customers. The role involves planning and presenting customer success visions, cross-organizational collaboration, developing workback plans, and increasing technical and industry acumen to deliver innovative ideas. It emphasizes achieving revenue and consumption targets, leveraging business insights, and delivering tangible solutions that solve for efficiencies, cost savings, and strong Microsoft partnerships. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in sales, business development, or IT consulting, with strong growth mindset, leadership, and credibility across all organizational levels. Knowledge of industry and ability to make confident recommendations at C-level is required, along with business fluency in English and Japanese. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineering- CTJ- Secret (Cleared Environments) This role is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Microsoft Substrate platform, which supports critical services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot. The SRE will focus on ensuring 24x7 service reliability, supporting and automating deployments, building scalable systems for monitoring and alerting, driving compliance and security, leading post-incident learning, collaborating across teams, and staying technically current. The role requires experience with regulated, sovereign, or compliance-sensitive environments and involves specific security clearance requirements for government cloud environments. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Architect This role oversees the architecture for a custom, multi-platform, multi-vendor systems integration program supporting public safety operations in NYC. The resource will manage a team of architects with expertise in various technology disciplines including SW AppDev, Data Platforms, Mobile, wireless, Security, and Cloud (Azure). | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - CTJ - Top Secret This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, focusing on Azure security services in sovereign clouds. The responsibilities include leading and coaching a high-performing team, planning and executing technical deliverables, and working with external partners and stakeholders. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience, and an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Preferred qualifications include a Master's Degree, people management experience, experience with large-scale cloud services, and security-related products. | — | 0 |
| Oportunidades de Jovem Aprendiz Data Center em Campinas This is a youth apprenticeship program focused on data center logistics and administrative tasks. It is designed for young individuals seeking their first work experience, with a focus on learning and development within Microsoft's data center operations. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineering- CTJ- Poly Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, focusing on Windows 365 Cloud PC/Azure Virtual Desktop. Responsibilities include incident response, troubleshooting, developing automation, and ensuring service reliability, security, and performance in highly regulated environments. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, and an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer 2 Software Engineer II role focused on building scalable, reliable, and secure engineering solutions for Microsoft's global commerce platform to meet regulatory, audit, and trust requirements, including SOX, privacy, identity, and AI governance. The role involves designing and implementing software services, building automation pipelines for compliance processes, and working on distributed systems at scale. | — | 0 |
| AI Business Solution Consultant This role is for a Principal Consultant focused on Microsoft 365 and Endpoint Management. The consultant will advise clients on cloud productivity, security, compliance, and endpoint management, designing and delivering modern workplace solutions. The role involves engaging with business and technology stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions and driving project delivery. | — | 0 |
| Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and deploying complex solutions for strategic customers, primarily leveraging existing offerings and reference architectures. The Solution Architect collaborates with account teams, project managers, and stakeholders to understand business challenges, define technical strategies, manage risks, and ensure successful implementation and transition to operations. The role involves significant documentation, communication, and governance to ensure solutions meet customer needs and business value. | — | 0 |
| Senior Communications Manager This role is for a Senior Communications Manager at Microsoft, focusing on building social media programs, scaling community engagement through the Windows Insider Program, and creating narratives for product makers. The role requires strategic thinking, operationalizing programs, and advising on community communications. | — | 0 |
| Sr Digital Solution Area Specialist - Security This role is for a Sr. Digital Solution Area Specialist focused on Security within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) division. The role involves building digital transformation security strategies with customers, collaborating with internal teams and partners to drive sales opportunities, and leveraging AI-powered tools and insights to achieve customer success and business growth. The position requires extensive experience in technology sales, understanding of security frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, and knowledge of XDR, SIEM, and Data Security technologies. | — | 0 |
| Lessor Relationship Manager This role focuses on managing relationships with lessors (third-party data center providers) to ensure the smooth operation and expansion of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. It involves analyzing lessor performance, identifying areas for improvement, developing and managing programs to enhance lessor performance, and acting as a liaison between lessors and internal subject matter experts. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and program management skills, with a focus on driving operational excellence and maintaining 100% uptime. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager - Principal Senior individual contributor responsible for driving customer outcomes, long-term value realization, and sustained consumption across a portfolio of complex and strategically important customers. Operates with high autonomy, requires strong executive engagement capability, and plays a critical role in shaping customer success strategy and execution. Supports Australia-based customers and is required to operate within the Australian timezone, maintaining Australian business hours. Based in Malaysia, only applicants with valid authorization to work in Malaysia are eligible. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. Responsibilities include performing maintenance, responding to incidents, monitoring equipment performance, and ensuring safety and security protocols are followed. The role requires shift work and the ability to pass security screenings. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Network Engineering This role is for a Cloud Network Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and operating Microsoft's corporate hybrid hosting infrastructures and enabling seamless connectivity and workload migrations to Azure. The engineer will troubleshoot network infrastructure, participate in on-call duties, perform root cause analysis for incidents, and ensure compliance against security objectives. Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices is required, along with experience in network routing protocols and overlay technologies. | — | 0 |
| Group Finance Manager, Supply Chain - Server Pricing This role is for a Group Finance Manager in Supply Chain at Microsoft, focusing on server component pricing. The responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of monthly rate card publication, pricing analytics, and financial governance. The role requires leading a finance team, modernizing pricing processes using automation and AI, and ensuring strong financial controls. It involves strategic leadership, advanced analytics, and business partnership with sourcing, supply chain, and operations leaders to drive cost efficiency and price accuracy. The candidate will also oversee the development of dashboards, automation, and standardized reporting for cost and spend visibility, and integrate complex data sets for actionable insights. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer- Fullstack This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Microsoft Fabric platform team, specifically the OneLake team. OneLake is a unified, logical data lake for Microsoft Fabric, acting as a central data repository. The role involves designing and implementing scalable backend services, driving end-to-end ownership, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. While the team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI and mentions AI-first development practices, the core responsibilities focus on data lake infrastructure, backend services, and data governance, rather than direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Finance Manager This role is a Finance Manager position at Microsoft, focusing on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for the commercial business within Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS). The responsibilities include driving revenue analysis, gathering deal insights and market share trends, collaborating across teams on commercial performance, supporting quarter-end deal execution, and contributing to ARR analytics. The role requires a Master's or Bachelor's degree in a related field with experience in financial analysis or accounting. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ- POLY Software Engineer II role focused on building and managing hyperscale infrastructure and capacity solutions across multiple clouds, supporting both public Azure and government clouds. The role involves full-stack, with an emphasis on backend development, to manage hardware lifecycle and ensure workloads can land on new capacity. It also includes AI-native development practices within the software development lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the operations and maintenance of critical environment systems within Microsoft's datacenters, ensuring the reliability and uptime of cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Construction Manager This role is for a Sr. Construction Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the delivery of datacenter capacity. The role involves overseeing project execution, managing vendors, driving risk mitigation, and ensuring safety, quality, sustainability, schedule, and budget requirements are met for large-scale construction projects. It requires leadership in cross-functional collaboration, technical oversight, and regulatory compliance. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage team Principal Software Engineer role on the Azure Storage team, focusing on distributed systems and massive scalability. The role involves driving the improvement of AI tools across the software development lifecycle, guiding customer/user requirements for complex scenarios, owning architecture, mentoring, debugging, code reviews, automating deployments, and enhancing security, privacy, and safety. It requires strong experience in distributed systems and cloud computing. | — | 0 |
| Principal Consultant, Infrastructure This role is for a Principal Consultant focused on delivering solutions and business outcomes using Microsoft Azure. The consultant will design, implement, and secure cloud solutions, modernize legacy applications, and migrate workloads. Expertise in Azure services, identity, and security is required, along with experience in infrastructure as code and DevOps. The role involves client-facing activities, mentoring, and driving solution success. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager - CoreAI Product Manager for GitHub as Microsoft's internal engineering platform, focusing on migration from Azure DevOps and operational excellence. This role involves hands-on configuration, strategy, and driving adoption for tens of thousands of developers within a hybrid GitHub/Azure DevOps model. | — | 0 |
| Industrial Controls System Engineer This role focuses on Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) within Microsoft's mission-critical datacenters. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining the availability, data quality, service, change management, reporting, and security of 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. While not directly AI-related, the role operates within the broader context of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure which powers AI services. | — | 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 escalate incidents as needed. The role also includes assisting peers, completing training, and contributing to a positive team environment. A background check and Malaysian citizenship verification are required. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory audits, deliveries, security escorts, and documentation of inbound/outbound shipments. It involves coordinating warranty claims, managing return merchandise authorizations (RMAs), maintaining inventory systems, tracking physical inventory, reconciling discrepancies, and performing data-bearing device destruction. The role requires adherence to SLAs and Microsoft policies, with a focus on inventory management principles and career advancement within cloud operations. | — | 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, SLA adherence, and ensuring compliance with policies and safety procedures. This role is crucial for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure operations. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product - Build Engineer This role is for a Build Engineer focused on designing and improving systems that transform source code into production-ready artifacts. It involves working on build systems, CI pipelines, and developer workflows to ensure fast, reliable, and reproducible builds. The role supports cross-platform builds, optimizes build performance, and integrates build pipelines with release and deployment systems. Responsibilities include designing artifact packaging, supporting release automation, and managing build metadata. The role also involves diagnosing and fixing build failures and maintaining build infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager to lead the modernization of the Windows print platform, focusing on a universal, secure, and seamless printing experience. The role involves owning the strategy, cross-functional execution, and end-to-end feature development for a driverless printing ecosystem and cloud services model. | — | 0 |
| Director Business Planning This role is for a Director of Business Planning within Microsoft's Commercial Strategy organization, focusing on pricing, packaging, licensing, channel, and monetization strategies for their commercial portfolio, particularly for Public Sector customers. The role involves developing data-driven business cases, influencing senior stakeholders, driving cross-functional alignment, and shaping go-to-market approaches for modern commerce platforms and partner strategies. It requires strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, and strong communication skills to influence and execute strategies. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Data Security This role focuses on driving customer security adoption on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms, specializing in Data Security, Cloud Security, Threat Protection, or Identity and Access Management. The Cloud Solution Architect will lead technical discussions, architect security solutions, and support customers in evaluating native security tools to improve their security posture and ensure "Secure by Design" principles. | — | 0 |
