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 24% 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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Scientist II This role focuses on building and evolving the core orchestration and intelligent systems that power Microsoft's enterprise Copilot, a large-scale AI assistant for Microsoft 365. The work involves advancing model training, developing model-driven features from concept to production, and enhancing the orchestrator for improved reasoning, speed, and multi-modal/agentic capabilities. The goal is to ship cutting-edge AI technology impacting hundreds of millions of users. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric, utilizing Apache Spark. The role involves implementing agentic workflows, scalable LLM-backed data features, and defining evaluation strategies for LLM features, while applying Responsible AI practices. |
| Agent |
| 8 |
| Software Engineering Manager Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building and scaling an agentic engineering platform for AI-powered developer productivity across Microsoft. The role involves managing engineers, setting team direction, fostering experimentation, and partnering with other teams to advance AI in developer workflows. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer II - AI Engineering / Python/DS Software Engineer II role focused on building LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric, utilizing Apache Spark. The role involves implementing agentic workflows, scalable LLM features, and robust data pipelines, with a strong emphasis on AI engineering, evaluation, and operationalization of LLM systems. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Full Stack (The Fabric Data Engineering Experience & Infrastructure) Software Engineer II role focused on building LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric. The role involves implementing agentic workflows, LLM-backed data features, and operationalizing AI/ML features, with a focus on full-stack development including React-based UX and backend services in .NET/Python. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric. The role involves implementing agentic workflows, scalable LLM-backed data features, and AI-assisted experiences to help data engineers. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of features, building frontend UX, developing full-stack capabilities, and contributing to AI-powered developer productivity tools within notebooks and data engineering environments. The role also involves operating and maintaining the built systems. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Power BI Core AI team at Microsoft. The role focuses on building AI-first capabilities to make enterprise data more accessible, governed, and useful for human users and AI agents. Responsibilities include AI-native development, writing secure and performant code for web clients and service-side components integrating with LLM-based agents, and driving product development and scaling. The role involves working across the full product stack to shape how AI transforms enterprise analytics at scale, including agentic AI experiences, benchmarking, and evals. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineering II- Full stack Full Stack Engineer to build LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric. The role involves implementing agentic workflows and scalable LLM-backed data features, focusing on AI Engineering and modern LLM-based systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building an agentic engineering platform for AI-powered productivity across Microsoft's codebases, involving AI models and orchestration frameworks. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building an agentic engineering platform for Microsoft developers, leveraging AI models and orchestration frameworks to enhance software engineering workflows like code refactoring and understanding. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying platform capabilities, applying AI-assisted development tools, and mentoring other engineers. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer The AI Engineer will help build LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Fabric Data Engineering, based on Apache Spark. This includes implementing agentic workflows and scalable LLM-backed data features like AI Functions integration, notebook copilots, and evaluation/telemetry. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Teams AI Platform team, focusing on building and operating high-scale backend services that enable AI agents to work seamlessly across Teams. The role involves designing and developing foundational infrastructure, collaborating with AI teams, and ensuring high standards of availability, reliability, and performance for features impacting millions of users. | AgentServe | 7 |