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 |
|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff, High Performance Computing Engineer - MAI SuperIntelligence Team This role focuses on building and scaling the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure required for training frontier AI models and powering AI products like Copilot. The engineer will design, operate, and maintain large-scale HPC environments, including schedulers and core domains like GPU compute, storage, and networking. Responsibilities include developing automation tools, supporting researchers and engineers, and troubleshooting cluster issues to ensure efficient job scheduling and performance. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff -Member of Technical Staff - Pretraining Text Data Seeking engineers and researchers to join the Pretraining Text Data team to build the next generation of foundation large language models. The role focuses on designing and curating high-quality datasets, developing novel data collection strategies, improving dataset quality and integrity, understanding data-driven model behaviors, training models on data impact, and aligning datasets with ethical and societal values. This is a cross-disciplinary, high-impact role at the intersection of data and innovation. |
| Data |
| 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Software Co-Design AI HPC Systems - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on the co-design and productionization of next-generation AI systems at datacenter scale, optimizing performance, efficiency, and cost across hardware and software. It involves analyzing workloads, driving architectural decisions, optimizing distributed systems for training and inference, and influencing AI hardware design. The role also includes performance modeling, prototyping, and mentoring. | ServePretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Pretraining - MAI Superintelligence Team Microsoft AI is seeking individuals to train the world's most capable AI frontier models, focusing on scale, performance, and product deployment. The role involves developing algorithms, model architectures, and data mixtures for large-scale training, driving implementations, conducting experiments, and collaborating with infrastructure, data, post-training, and multimodality teams. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Multimodal - MAI Superintelligence Team Research role focused on developing and training world-class multimodal AI frontier models, pushing boundaries of scale and performance. Involves algorithm development, model architecture design, experimentation, data innovation, and improving training/deployment efficiency. Collaborates with infrastructure, data engineering, pre-training, post-training, and product feedback teams. Requires strong publication track record and expertise in multimodal research. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Post-Training - MAI Superintelligence Team Post-Training - Develops and ships post-training methods for large language models (LLMs) used in Microsoft Copilot, focusing on data collection, evaluation, finetuning algorithms, and prototyping new capabilities. Collaborates with pretraining and product platform teams to deploy models and improve them based on user feedback. | Post-train | 9 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on building and deploying AI systems at scale for enterprise clients, involving the full ML lifecycle from data analysis and experimentation to production-ready pipelines and scalable infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on MLOps practices. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Audio) This role focuses on building and optimizing training data pipelines and evaluation frameworks for audio models, with a secondary focus on model tuning and deployment. The engineer will be responsible for data sourcing, cleaning, labeling, QA, versioning, and lineage, as well as developing evaluation frameworks and driving continuous quality improvements. They will also optimize training and inference performance for latency, throughput, cost, and reliability. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Systems Engineer - Microsoft Superintelligence The role focuses on integrating custom AI silicon with AI inference frameworks like SGLang, optimizing LLM inference performance, and developing custom operators. It involves working with hardware accelerators and potentially non-CUDA ecosystems, aiming to improve AI workload efficiency. | Serve | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Networking - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on designing, scaling, and optimizing high-performance networks for AI training and inference clusters. The engineer will work on the end-to-end networking architecture, from link-layer to fabric-wide systems, connecting thousands of GPUs. Responsibilities include benchmarking, profiling, debugging, and tuning AI workloads, engineering ultra-low-latency networks, and designing congestion-free transport mechanisms. The goal is to build networking systems that directly accelerate Microsoft's frontier AI models and support the development of advanced AI systems. | Serve | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing cloud-based solutions for customers by leveraging modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. The role involves collaborating with customers and internal teams to build innovative solutions, with a specific emphasis on deploying, integrating, and operating AI/ML/LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, RAG, and model evaluation. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Program Manager Principal Program Manager for Strategic Innovation within Microsoft Security Office of the CTO, focusing on identifying, shaping, and driving portfolio-level security incubations for Security for AI and GenAI-driven defense. The role involves translating emerging AI-driven risks into executable strategies and roadmaps, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and engaging with Fortune 500 CISOs. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health - MAI Superintelligence Team This role is focused on ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of Microsoft's large-scale AI training infrastructures, which involve tens of thousands of GPUs and advanced networking. The responsibilities include designing transport, fabric architecture, telemetry, observability, and automated troubleshooting for these clusters. The role also involves AI training and inference cluster bring-up, performance benchmarking, and root-cause analysis, with a goal of developing predictive health models and autonomous remediation systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Data Research Engineer - MAI Superintelligence Team Seeking Data Research Engineers to join the Multimodal team, focusing on building next-generation foundation models. The role involves exploring, designing, and building high-quality multimodal datasets (vision, language, audio) for training and evaluation, collaborating with scientists and engineers, and developing scalable data pipelines. Responsibilities include data analysis, quality assessment, building tools for auditing, and ensuring datasets meet responsible AI practices. | Data | 7 |