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.
Currently tracking 250 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.
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| Service Engineering IC3 This role is responsible for managing customer-facing communications during high-severity incidents within Microsoft Azure. The Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team within Azure EngOps focuses on operational excellence, quality, reliability, security, and customer trust. The role involves serving as the primary author and approver of customer communications, ensuring transparency and actionability, partnering with incident commanders, reviewing telemetry, participating in on-call rotations, contributing to Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs), and enhancing automation for service notifications. The ideal candidate has experience in cloud operations, technical communications, or incident response, with exceptional written communication skills and the ability to lead under pressure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager- Windows Gaming Product Manager for Windows Gaming, focusing on platform strategy, ecosystem influence, and ensuring a seamless gaming experience across various devices. The role involves defining long-term vision, owning the product roadmap, and collaborating across multiple Microsoft organizations to deliver high-performing, player-first experiences. |
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| Senior Software Engineer- Platform Security Senior Software Engineer role focused on platform security within the Microsoft Device Ecosystem and Platform (MDEP) team. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining AOSP security features, applications, and frameworks. Requires expertise in device integrity mechanisms, key attestation, and trusted applications within a TEE. Collaborates with various teams to ensure security, quality, and performance of the AOSP platform. | — | 0 |
| "Purview" Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Purview, focusing on data governance and security solutions. The role involves leading design and implementation of robust workflows, optimizing platform performance for large data volumes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires strong software engineering skills in cloud-native and distributed systems, with an emphasis on scalability, availability, and security. | — | 0 |
| Azure Solution Specialist Manager (Telecom & Global SI) This role is for a Solution Specialist Manager at Microsoft Azure, focusing on empowering customers in the telecommunication and global IT service provider sectors to leverage cloud adoption and AI innovation. The manager will lead a team to architect and deliver cutting-edge solutions, drive digital transformation, and build partnerships to improve customer business outcomes. Responsibilities include team leadership, strategic market insight, pipeline management, partner engagement, operational excellence, and championing compliance. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Systems Mechanical and Cryogenics Engineering Manager Lead the development and testing efforts of a diverse, multi-disciplinary team spanning internal and external partners for Quantum Systems. This role is responsible for driving robust engineering practices across design, validation, and data analysis while fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate combines strong technical leadership with a passion for mentoring and empowering others, managing experts in Mechanical Engineering, Cryogenic Engineering (including cryofridge system design), and Physics. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for the Edge Web Platform team, focusing on the Rendering team. The role involves developing and improving web platform features in the Chromium rendering pipeline, collaborating with engineers and program managers, partnering with standards and upstream communities (W3C, Chromium), and delivering web platform innovation. The goal is to shape how modern web content is rendered, animated, and interacted with across platforms, bridging the gap between native applications and the web, and contributing to the Chromium project. | — | 0 |
| Senior and Principal Technical Program Manager for Release, Compliance, Privacy - CoreAI (3 roles) This role is for a Senior/Principal Technical Program Manager focused on Release, Compliance, and Privacy for CoreAI products at Microsoft. The responsibilities include owning cross-functional programs, collaborating with engineering and legal teams, translating requirements into actionable plans, managing risks in regulated environments, and improving processes. Specific roles focus on Release Management, Compliance, or Privacy, involving orchestration of releases, operationalizing regulatory requirements, and ensuring privacy governance. | — | 0 |
| CE Field Service Engineer - Tokyo This role is for a CE Field Service Engineer in Tokyo, Japan, 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 safety and security policies. It involves managing day-to-day operations, supporting emergency preparedness, conducting audits, and fostering relationships with partners and engineering groups. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager (DIAM) Lead a team of technicians responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including logistics, audits, warranty processes, and device destruction, while ensuring regulatory compliance and driving operational efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Applied Science Intern Applied Science Intern position at Microsoft in London, England. | — | 0 |
| Applied Science Intern Applied Science Intern position at Microsoft in London, England. | — | 0 |
| Applied Sciences Internship Internship role at Microsoft in Zurich, focusing on Applied Sciences. The posting emphasizes Microsoft's commitment to equal opportunity employment and provides information on requesting accommodations. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer in Test Software Engineer in Test for Microsoft Azure Storage, focusing on building, improving, and supporting highly scalable, performant, reliable, secure, and available cloud storage services. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining automation frameworks, developing and executing performance tests, analyzing system bottlenecks, and troubleshooting defects in a hyperscale environment. | — | 0 |
| Account Manager Account Manager for Microsoft Advertising responsible for driving revenue, increasing customer satisfaction, developing strategic client relationships, and delivering customized digital advertising solutions. Focuses on performance solutions, data-driven optimizations, and campaign execution. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture - Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations to drive transformative cloud implementations for customers and partners in Japan. Focuses on solution design, integration, and ensuring customers derive value from Microsoft investments. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Security Research Group Research Intern position in Microsoft's Security Research Group focusing on building secure and trustworthy software and cloud services. The role involves exploring new ideas and approaches in areas like general software/systems security, confidential computing, formal verification, zero-knowledge proofs, intrusion detection, anomaly detection, and information flow control. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Error Correction Researcher Researcher focused on Quantum Error Correction for scalable quantum computing systems, collaborating with theorists and experimentalists to advance fault-tolerance strategies and quantum error correction codes. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Azure Storage team, focusing on distributed systems, massive scalability, and durability for foundational cloud storage services. The role involves defining technical direction, ensuring reliability, performance, and quality, and mentoring other engineers. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Engineer Microsoft Quantum is seeking Quantum Engineers to develop the world's first scalable quantum computing system. This role involves innovation from quantum device physics through scalable readout and control systems, aiming to solve currently unsolvable problems. The engineer will support design, implementation, and improvement of quantum devices by running experiments, simulations, and analyses, and will characterize devices, analyze data, and refine designs. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and adherence to engineering best practices are key. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Bayesian Methods in Geometric Computer Vision Research Intern position focusing on developing Bayesian methods for geometric computer vision, specifically for 2D and 3D point matching. Requires strong background in geometric computer vision, Bayesian statistical theory, and approximation algorithms. The role involves implementing algorithms and benchmarking results, with the goal of producing a high-quality technical report and potential publication. | — | 0 |
| Power Transmission System Expert This role focuses on managing energy and power transmission systems for Microsoft's global data center infrastructure, which supports the AI economy. The expert will build relationships with utilities and regulatory bodies to negotiate grid code requirements, influencing strategic decisions for data center growth and sustainability. The role requires expertise in grid codes, regulatory dynamics, and stakeholder management, with a strong emphasis on ensuring reliable and sustainable energy supply for AI infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Project Manager This role is responsible for managing compliance and audit projects for data centers that power Microsoft's cloud services. The Data Center Program Manager will ensure adherence to safety programs, operational efficiencies, and maintain auditable documentation. The role involves regular site inspections, developing corrective action plans, and managing environmental and business continuity plans. The position requires a strong understanding of compliance standards and the ability to work in a data center environment. | — | 0 |
| "Purview" Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Purview, focusing on data protection and governance solutions. The role involves leading design and implementation of robust workflows, optimizing platform performance for large data volumes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Emphasis on cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and security within a mature product offering. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager Seeking a Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager to oversee operations, maintenance, and safety of critical facility equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, generators) in Microsoft's global data centers. The role involves people management, incident response, and ensuring adherence to safety and business procedures. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Product Manager Senior Technical Product Manager for Azure's Cloud Services, focusing on cloud sovereignty, security, compliance, and operational resilience for public sector and regulated commercial customers. The role involves defining product strategy, maturing cloud architecture, and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and repeatable sovereign capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Construction Manager Senior Construction Manager responsible for the end-to-end EPC delivery of Microsoft data centres in EMEA, overseeing shell, MEP fitout, testing, and IT fitout. The role involves managing the full project lifecycle from due diligence to handover, including budget ownership, risk mitigation, and leading multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced, technical environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer (Multiple Positions) - Office Files and Identity Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer role on the Office Files and Identity (FIO) Team at Microsoft. This team drives collaboration, identity, and cloud file experiences for Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The role involves designing, architecting, and implementing features, performance improvements, and reliability enhancements for cloud file access and collaboration. A key aspect is enabling Copilot for Office through infrastructure and end-user features, using data to drive product decisions and improve customer satisfaction and cloud usage. The role requires strong coding skills in languages like C++, C#, or Java, and experience in building and shipping production-quality applications. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role is for an Industrial Control Systems Engineer responsible for maintaining and managing ICS systems within Microsoft's mission-critical datacentres. The engineer will focus on availability, data quality, security, and project management for these systems, which are crucial for powering Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - POLY Software Engineer II role focused on driving reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions across the C+E stack, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and supporting dedicated clouds by mitigating issues with sustainable solutions. The role involves developing scripts and automation to resolve complex problems, leveraging telemetry for operational improvement, and conducting root cause analyses. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of technical engineering experience, and an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Senior Hardware Engineer-Commissioning Manager HEL Senior Hardware Engineer-Commissioning Manager for Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) in the EMEA region, responsible for delivering core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. The role involves managing commissioning projects, ensuring compliance with standards, overseeing contracted agents, conducting site inspections, and reporting on progress, scope, schedule, and budget. | — | 0 |
| Reliability Engineering Manager- Commissioning Manager HEL This role is for a Commissioning Manager in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, responsible for delivering core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. The manager will oversee commissioning projects in the EMEA region, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, and budget, and adhere to Microsoft's standards. Responsibilities include managing commissioning agents, conducting site inspections, reporting on project progress, and refining commissioning strategies and procedures. The role requires technical engineering experience, preferably in data center operations or construction, and strong English communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Commissioning Manager This role is for a Commissioning Manager responsible for the end-to-end delivery of new data center capacity for Microsoft's Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) team. The manager will oversee program management and construction processes, manage workflow across project managers and virtual teams, and ensure data center construction programs are delivered on scope, schedule, and budget. The role involves site inspections, vendor management, and reporting on project progress, QA/QC, and commissioning metrics. It requires a strong background in technical engineering and experience in managing large-scale construction projects. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineer - Design for Test (DFT) This role is for a Senior Design for Test (DFT) Engineer responsible for ensuring testability, debug, and manufacturability of computer chips for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. The engineer will own DFT u-arch specification, provide test solutions, maintain DFT tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the silicon lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret Software Engineer II role focused on building and delivering cloud security solutions for government environments. Responsibilities include developing scalable and reliable services, improving engineering systems, automating features, and investigating/fixing production issues within a secure facility. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, 2+ years of engineering experience with coding, and an active TS/SCI clearance. | — | 0 |
| Azure Solution Specialist This role is a senior business leader within Microsoft's enterprise sales organization, focused on driving digital transformation for customers through Azure cloud computing. The specialist will lead virtual teams to develop and execute Azure migration and modernization strategies, build compelling business cases, and foster executive relationships to influence long-term customer strategy. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Quantum Error Correction Research intern position focused on quantum error correction and fault-tolerance for building scalable quantum computers. Involves developing codes, fault-tolerant operations, decoding algorithms, and theoretical/software tools. Requires a PhD in a related STEM field and experience in quantum error correction. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Product Marketing Manager | Security This role is for a Senior Product Marketing Manager focused on Microsoft's Cloud Security portfolio, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The individual will shape cross-portfolio marketing narratives, growth strategies, and go-to-market plans. Responsibilities include partnering with engineering on product strategy and roadmap, developing messaging and positioning, creating customer-centric content, and representing Microsoft Security to internal and external audiences. The role requires experience in security solutions and enterprise SaaS, with strong communication and collaboration skills. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II Site Reliability Engineer II for Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on managing and automating critical infrastructure for offensive security teams. Responsibilities include designing and implementing automation for attack infrastructure, isolated environments, and DevOps systems, while establishing security policies and monitoring. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer Electrical Engineer role focused on the design, testing, verification, and implementation of electrical engineering aspects for Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure. This role involves developing designs, creating documentation, selecting components, performing root cause analysis, and ensuring equipment efficiency and project implementation schedules are met. | — | 0 |
| AI Workforce Specialist - Education This role is for an AI Workforce Specialist in the education sector, focusing on driving digital transformation and AI penetration using Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Learning Accelerators. The role involves sales, account management, and strategic consultation with educational institutions, government bodies, and related organizations. It requires understanding customer needs, proposing solutions, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to achieve sales targets and drive adoption of Modern Work and AI solutions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Azure Storage focusing on the technical direction and delivery of features for a highly distributed storage system. Responsibilities include defining technical direction, delivering improvements and features, working with server technologies, and ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, and debuggability. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving design documents, creating and optimizing code, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), and monitoring system performance. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of experience in coding and 2+ years in file storage or distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering IC3 Software Engineering IC3 role within Microsoft's Customer Experiences (CXP) team, focusing on building software systems and applications for enhancements and new products. The role involves working on complex problems in a fast-paced environment, collaborating across teams, and contributing to Microsoft's Marketing and Sales Ecosystem. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, developing design documents, writing code, task breakdown and estimation, and monitoring system performance. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with proven coding experience in languages like C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft Azure Storage team, focusing on building a common platform for the Control Plane. The role involves leading technical direction, ensuring high quality, and working on challenges related to scale and reliability in distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician- Mechanical This role is for a Critical Environment Technician in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, responsible for maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure, including mechanical systems like HVAC, and responding to onsite incidents. The role requires experience in operating and troubleshooting these systems. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum System Architect Seeking a Principal Quantum System Architect to conceptualize, design, and evaluate quantum computing systems. Responsibilities include evaluating qubit technologies, constructing performance models, developing toolsets for modeling quantum components, and determining novel quantum applications. Requires experience in high-performance computing, quantum algorithms, or related fields. | — | 0 |
| AI Business Solution Specialist Manager Manage a team of AI Business Solution Specialists focused on driving customer business transformation through Microsoft's AI solutions. This role involves coaching the team to engage C-suite stakeholders, build sales pipeline, and close deals by articulating business value and industry-relevant insights. Responsibilities include territory planning, presentation coaching, leveraging partners, and driving sales execution excellence. Requires strong people management, technology sales experience, and understanding of SaaS solutions and industry-specific sales. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Lifecycle team responsible for managing Kubernetes nodes, ensuring support for the latest Kubernetes and Azure features, and integrating new advancements in container runtime and node features. The role will also enable access to AI hardware through AKS for customer training labs. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage Senior Software Engineer role on the Azure Storage team, focusing on building and managing persistent cloud storage services. The role involves designing, developing, and optimizing highly distributed systems for reliability, scalability, performance, and consistency. Responsibilities include collaborating on requirements, driving design documents, writing and optimizing code, and acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring and incident response. | — | 0 |
| DATACENTER INV & ASSET MANAGER Lead a team of Inventory & Asset Management technicians responsible for inbound/outbound logistics, inventory audits, and data center regulatory compliance. This role involves managing warranty processes, data bearing device destruction, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. The manager will also handle project plans, vendor relationships, and procurement requests, while promoting a positive team culture and ensuring safety compliance. | — | 0 |