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 |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Researcher: Machine Learning Senior Researcher focused on foundational machine learning research, emphasizing efficiency, intelligence, and alignment, with a strong publication record and collaboration across disciplines. The role involves spearheading research initiatives, translating theoretical concepts into tangible solutions, and mentoring interns. | Pretrain | 9 |
| 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 - 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 training frontier multimodal AI foundation models at scale, pushing boundaries of performance and deployment. Involves algorithm development, model architecture design, experimentation, data innovation, and improving training/deployment efficiency. | Pretrain | 9 |