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.
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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principle Security Researcher This Principal Security Researcher role focuses on advancing vulnerability research using AI/ML. The role involves developing AI-powered systems for automated bug discovery, validation, and exploit generation, translating research into practical security solutions across Microsoft's products and the open-source ecosystem. It requires deep systems expertise combined with AI/ML application to security problems. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Security Researcher Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft focusing on AI-driven vulnerability discovery and exploitation. The role involves developing AI-powered systems for automated bug finding, validation, and exploit generation, translating research into practical security solutions across Microsoft products and the open-source ecosystem. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - AI Frameworks This role manages a team focused on optimizing the AI software serving stack, including runtimes, libraries, and APIs, for large-scale model training and inference. The team benchmarks and optimizes LLMs across various hardware, aiming to improve performance, reduce hardware footprint, and enhance Azure's capex efficiency. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-infused enterprise applications, Agentic Solutions, and Copilots within Microsoft's Commercial Sales Experiences (CSX) team. The role involves leading the full software development lifecycle, from design to deployment, with an emphasis on leveraging AI technologies and Azure services to enhance user experience and productivity. The position requires strong technical leadership, solution design, mentorship, and collaboration skills, with a focus on building high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - Search The Principal Software Engineering Manager will lead a team of 7-10 engineers responsible for the Windows Search Platform, evolving it into an AI-native infrastructure layer. This includes enabling Copilot, LLM integrations, and agentic discovery patterns, as well as developing the Windows AI Platform for developers. The role involves owning technical direction, driving cross-functional partnerships, establishing release discipline and observability, and mentoring the engineering team. Experience with AI/ML integration in systems software, LLM consumption, and embedding-based retrieval is preferred. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Consultant - Data & AI Senior Consultant role focused on designing and delivering AI-powered data solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role involves leading technical delivery, defining technology strategy, and implementing solutions with an AI-first mindset, acting as a hands-on contributor and potentially leading engineering teams. Emphasizes cloud-native architectures, data engineering principles, and rapid prototyping for production-ready AI solutions. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Science: Internship opportunities This is an internship opportunity for a Research Scientist focused on conducting research and leading collaborations to advance the state-of-the-art in computer science and engineering, with a focus on machine intelligence and machine learning applications. The role involves analyzing algorithms, implementing prototypes, and developing solutions for large-scale problems, contributing to academic knowledge and potentially influencing future product development. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on building high-impact AI solutions, specifically agentic AI at scale, for strategic customers on the Azure platform. This involves developing complex systems from ideation to production, identifying and building reusable solution patterns, and staying current with the latest advancements in agentic AI. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design and implement large-scale, high-performance distributed systems for AI model serving. This role involves optimizing inference performance, managing complex infrastructure, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of AI services. | Serve | 7 |
| Sr. Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist for Windows at Microsoft Hyderabad. Focuses on using advanced analytics, modeling, and data science to inform decision-making, optimize product performance, and maximize business impact for Windows products. Key responsibilities include improving search relevance, fine-tuning foundational models, driving growth through predictive insights, and leading initiatives in evaluation, corpus creation, metric design, and dataset development for diverse modalities. The role involves analyzing data, designing experiments, and deriving insights to influence product development and business strategy. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Lead Solution Engineer - Agentic CRM (AI Agents × Copilot × Dynamics365 Sales & Service | Enterprise Lead Solution Engineer for Agentic CRM, focusing on proposing and closing deals for next-generation business platforms combining Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents. The role involves designing and proposing business transformation scenarios using AI, leading pre-sales activities, and collaborating with sales, partners, and global teams to drive large-scale strategic projects for enterprise clients. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Cloud Solution Architect Senior Cloud Solution Architect for Azure AI platform, focused on enabling customers to achieve outcomes with Microsoft technology. This role involves accelerating customer adoption by building Generative AI solutions, resolving blockers for AI Factory projects, and providing technical feedback to Engineering. The architect will lead technical conversations, design AI solutions aligned with business needs, and drive consumption growth. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager - M365 Messaging Principal Product Manager for the Microsoft 365 Messaging team, focusing on the conversation store platform that powers Copilot across Microsoft 365. The role involves owning the strategy and roadmap for how Copilot and agents persist, load, and reason over conversations, including notifications and tasks. It requires driving convergence towards a unified schema, championing enterprise trust, and ensuring operational health for a large-scale distributed system at the center of Microsoft's AI strategy. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on building foundational capabilities for software supply chain protection within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The role involves analyzing large volumes of code, understanding its behavior, tracing provenance, and developing new security primitives for threat detection and prevention, including AI-assisted methods. This is a greenfield effort with deep integration into Microsoft's ecosystem and open-source platforms. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager Principal Group Engineering Manager for Microsoft Defender's real-time protection services, leading a global team to build and scale AI-driven detection capabilities, modernize the protection stack, and unify threat intelligence. The role focuses on operating always-on, low-latency cloud services powered by hundreds of ML models at planetary scale. | ServeData | 7 |
| Principal Technical Program Management Specialist This role translates early-stage AI research from Microsoft Research and applied R&D into shippable cloud AI capabilities. The Principal Technical Program Manager will shape technical concepts into product roadmaps, drive execution with Azure engineering teams, and manage external suppliers. The role involves defining success criteria, technical bars, and launch criteria for moving research prototypes to general availability, and managing program structure, roadmap, schedule, and governance for multi-team efforts. It also involves closing the loop from production back to research by validating use cases and bringing customer feedback to shape future investments. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions for customers. The role involves data acquisition, modeling, evaluation, and customer-facing project delivery to solve complex business challenges. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Windows Search Platform, focusing on AI integration, extensibility, and user experience to redefine content discovery across Windows surfaces, including Copilots and Agents. The role involves defining roadmaps, translating customer needs into platform features, influencing technical strategy, and defining success metrics for AI/ML-powered personalization. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - Finance Data & Experiences Principal Technical Program Manager to lead an AI-first transformation of the Finance Data & Insights portfolio, shaping product strategy and experience across data platforms, AI agents, dashboards, and analytical tools. The role involves integrating Microsoft technologies like Copilot and Fabric into business solutions, driving end-to-end delivery of scalable, AI-powered experiences, and partnering with engineering and product teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Architect Principal Software Engineering Architect for Azure Resource Graph team to lead expansion into next-generation big data and LLM/agentic platform services. Focus on designing scalable architectures for distributed systems integrating ML and intelligent agents, defining strategy for LLM/agentic services, and guiding engineering teams in building high-performance services. | Agent | 7 |
| Power Platform/Copilot Solution Engineer Pre-sales engineer for Power Platform, focusing on Copilot Studio and M365 Copilot. Responsibilities include understanding customer business challenges, proposing Power Platform solutions from a technical perspective, collaborating with sales and partners, leading technical engagements like demonstrations and proof-of-concept sessions, and driving AI transformation with Copilot and Agents. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Solution Engineer - Agentic ERP (AI Agents × Copilot × Dynamics 365 F&SC (ERP) | Enterprise) Lead Solution Engineer for Agentic ERP, combining Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents to redefine business processes and create next-generation enterprise solutions. Focuses on pre-sales leadership, solution design, and driving business transformation for large enterprises. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to build unified infrastructure for multimodal feature extraction from meetings (audio, video, screen shares) to derive semantic meaning, supporting real-time and deferred processing for AI-driven workflows and agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot and other services. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Architect - AI Business Solutions This role focuses on architecting and designing AI-powered business solutions, primarily leveraging Microsoft technologies like Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and Azure. The architect will engage with clients to understand their business and technical requirements, assess their AI readiness, and propose end-to-end solutions. Key responsibilities include designing scalable agentic systems, ensuring secure data access, managing agent orchestration, and guiding clients through the adoption and implementation of these AI solutions. The role also involves acting as a trusted advisor, contributing to practice development, and mentoring technical talent. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Manager Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a team building web-scale platforms and SOTA models for semantic understanding of multi-modal documents, powering AI solutions across Bing Search, AI Grounding, and Microsoft AI training scenarios for over 1 billion users. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Lead Technical Program Manager - Windows Agentic Platform Security The Principal Lead Technical Program Manager will drive the product roadmap for security within the Windows agentic platform, focusing on AI-powered security experiences and their extensions across the broader Windows application platform. This role involves strategic leadership, technical depth, and people management to define vision, build team capability, and scale execution for platform-level identity, containment, governance, and recovery experiences for AI agents. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for AI-powered skilling experiences, defining vision, roadmap, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver learning outcomes. Focus on shipping LLM-powered features like recommendations, coaching, and assessments, and bringing generative AI to production. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager The Principal Product Manager will lead the strategy, design, development, and operation of Windows Supportability Intelligence dashboards, data pipelines, and AI agents. The role focuses on identifying Windows components that generate escalations, surfacing actionable recommendations, and alerting engineering leadership through AI-powered analysis of product telemetry and case patterns. The goal is to improve product quality and customer satisfaction by detecting and resolving issues faster. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - FDE Senior Data Scientist role focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers, developing statistical techniques for data analysis, and building scalable operational models. The role involves data acquisition, preparation, model evaluation tied to business outcomes, and staying current with industry trends. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Identity Software Engineer role focused on building and deploying machine learning models and platforms for fraud detection and identity protection on Microsoft platforms. The role involves developing detections and blocking mechanisms against large-scale attacks, utilizing threat intelligence, and ensuring real-time protection for billions of users. It requires strong software engineering skills, experience with ML platforms, and a focus on quality, performance, and scalability. | ServeData | 7 |
| Principal, Data Science & Analytics Microsoft AI (MAI) is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead ecosystem data science, own cross-product measurement strategy, and partner across product and business teams. The role involves developing data strategies, applying advanced analytics (ML, statistical modeling, data mining, experimentation) to large datasets, designing and executing experiments, and operationalizing ML models to optimize MAI-level outcomes across a consumer AI ecosystem. | Ship | 7 |
| NPI Program Manager This role focuses on building AI-powered workflows and data systems to enhance the productivity of NPI Program Managers within Microsoft. The core responsibility is to design and deploy tools, structured data sources, and agentic AI solutions to improve risk foresight and pattern recognition in hardware program management. It involves owning the data model, delivering tooling for risk surfacing, and architecting LLM-based and agentic workflows for status synthesis and reporting. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and architecting an agentic bidding platform for digital advertising, leveraging AI, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems to optimize bids in real-time auctions. The role involves developing AI agents that monitor, reason, and adapt autonomously, optimizing advertiser ROI and driving significant revenue. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Project Manager This role is for a Senior Project Manager within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Delivery organization, focusing on managing the delivery of AI-enabled, data-driven solutions for strategic customers. The role requires orchestrating multidisciplinary teams, managing executive stakeholders, and ensuring successful project execution across scope, cost, schedule, and quality, with a strong emphasis on AI concepts and cloud platforms. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing, building, and scaling AI-powered solutions for legal workflows and agentic experiences within enterprise systems, leveraging Azure AI and Copilot technologies. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer/ Principal Software Engineer - Copilot CLI Senior/Principal Software Engineer to build a coding agent CLI and core agent loop for terminal experiences across GitHub and Microsoft. Focus on turning AI systems into reliable developer tools, with strengths in agentic systems, tool design, evaluation, and high-performance terminal UIs. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on developing and deploying AI/ML models for enterprise customers, involving data acquisition, model evaluation, and operationalization at scale. The role emphasizes customer collaboration and building impactful solution patterns. | Post-train | 7 |
| Product Manager, AI Product Manager to build a platform providing LLMs with up-to-date web information, reducing hallucinations and increasing user confidence. This role will drive feature development, onboard partners, and support strategic relationships, focusing on APIs for the Agentic Web. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with enterprise customers. The role involves building reliable systems, production-ready services, and translating business needs into technical solutions using modern engineering practices and cloud AI platforms. Experience with AI/ML/LLM solutions, prompt engineering, RAG, and operating AI systems in production is required. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on the security and privacy backbone of Microsoft's Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3). The role involves setting technical strategy and architecture for AI-driven, agentic security tooling, including vulnerability detection, posture assessment, and remediation. It also requires defining and enforcing quality gates, exercising compliance judgment across various standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, etc.), and driving partner alignment. The position emphasizes applying AI/ML pragmatically to reduce false positives and improve remediation throughput, establishing evaluation and safety patterns, and leading incident response. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Applied Threat Intelligence Analysts This role involves using AI, specifically building agents and pipelines, to enhance threat intelligence analysis and delivery for Microsoft Security customers. The focus is on understanding the threat landscape, tracking threat actors, and translating findings into actionable intelligence at machine speed. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Manager, CoreAI This role leads the AI Foundry Agents Platform, focusing on enabling developers to build and deploy complex agents with multi-agent orchestration, tool use, and production deployment capabilities at enterprise scale. The role involves managing and coaching engineers, driving strategic clarity, fostering engineering alignment, delivering end-to-end experiences, building foundational capabilities, championing customer-centric development, and ensuring live site excellence for large-scale distributed systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Graph/Entity Systems - Microsoft AI Search Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered systems for entity extraction, enrichment, and understanding from large-scale content sources using machine learning and LLM techniques within Microsoft AI Search. The role involves designing and developing systems for entity resolution, quality improvement, and processing large volumes of data, collaborating with scientists and product teams to bring AI capabilities into production. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager to define the next generation of engineering systems for Microsoft's Chromium-based products (Edge, WebView2, Copilot app), focusing on AI-driven application workflows and AI-assisted coding to improve developer productivity and innovation at scale. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Lead This role leads the technical vision and architecture for RAMP, Microsoft's internal AI-powered workforce resource management platform. It involves architecting a scalable system that integrates data, AI, and workflows for talent planning, moving towards agentic and autonomous planning. The role requires expertise in system architecture, data platforms, and distributed systems, with a focus on enabling AI/ML capabilities like forecasting and anomaly detection, while ensuring enterprise-grade security and compliance. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software Engineer 2 Software Engineer 2 to join the Microsoft Discovery team, working on an AI-driven platform that uses AI agents and high-performance computing to accelerate scientific research and development. The role involves architecting and building scalable, distributed systems, driving features from ideation to rollout, and improving engineering velocity through AI-enabled process enhancements. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer The AI Core Infrastructure team is responsible for building and managing large-scale GPU management infrastructure and inference/training platforms for Microsoft's AI workloads. This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on fleet management, designing and developing core AI infrastructure services, and managing GPU clusters for LLM training and inference. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Principal Software Engineer - Windows Copilot This role focuses on building the full stack for Copilot experiences on Windows, from data and models to user experiences and quality feedback loops. The engineer will work on agentic workflows, distributed systems, and AI to create next-generation AI-assisted computing experiences, shipping consumer-scale services. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Software Systems) This role focuses on the reliability, observability, and operational health of a production robotics platform that integrates humans, robots, and AI agents. It involves designing and operating observability infrastructure, incident response, deployment pipelines, secure cloud-to-edge communication, and capacity planning for robotics workloads. The role requires a strong background in SRE and systems engineering for both cloud and edge components. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Software Systems) Microsoft Robotics is building a platform for physical intelligence, an integrated robotics software and AI platform that enables humans, robots, and AI agents to collaborate. This role focuses on designing and building core infrastructure components like SDKs, cloud services, edge runtimes, and agent orchestration layers. The position involves architecting platform extensibility, building production-grade data infrastructure for the robotics lifecycle, owning cross-cutting concerns like security and performance, and driving the developer experience. Collaboration with autonomy, simulation, and evaluation teams is key to meeting ML training and evaluation requirements. | AgentData | 7 |
