Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on building a new AI agent platform for enterprise use within Microsoft Copilot Studio. The role involves designing and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable platform capabilities for autonomous agents that can perform multi-step work, operate across contexts, and integrate with Microsoft 365 and Power Platform tools. The position is at the intersection of distributed systems, applied AI, and user experience, requiring leadership in system design, technical execution, and championing engineering excellence. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Applied Scientist II (Bing Places) Applied Scientist II role on the Bing Places team, focusing on building and shipping AI/ML solutions for local search experiences. The role involves end-to-end work from problem formulation to production deployment, with a focus on LLMs, RAG, learning-to-ranking, and entity understanding. Collaboration with engineering and product partners is key, with opportunities for publications and patents. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist (Bing Places) Senior Applied Scientist role focused on leveraging LLMs, SLMs, and RAG models to improve the Bing Places platform. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying AI solutions, creating data pipelines, and staying updated on AI/ML research. Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and mentoring junior members are key aspects. | Agent | 7 |
| Security Solution Architect AI & Cybersecurity Solution Architect responsible for leading AI security pre-sales for complex AI and cybersecurity solutions on Microsoft Cloud, translating client requirements into custom security architectures, and acting as a trusted advisor to CISOs and Chief AI Officers. | Agent | 7 |
| Azure Apps & AI Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) This role is for an Azure Apps & AI Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focused on Federal Government and Defence customers in highly regulated environments. The primary responsibility is to design, enable, and scale modern cloud applications and secure AI solutions on Azure, helping customers move from AI pilots to production and drive Azure consumption and innovation. | AgentShip | 7 |
| Applied Data Scientist II This role focuses on developing and operationalizing machine learning models for threat detection within Microsoft's security ecosystem. It involves building supervised and unsupervised models, applying graph-focused ML techniques, and analyzing large security datasets. The role also includes data engineering for feature pipelines and running experiments to improve detection quality, with a strong emphasis on translating research into production-ready solutions. | Post-trainData | 7 |
| Principal Architect - Apps & AI Principal Architect role focused on leading enterprise-scale AI adoption and delivery, embedding AI-native principles, and driving intelligent automation and agentic workflows. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, shaping technical strategies, and ensuring engineering excellence and compliance in regulated environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Finance Data & Experiences Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft focused on AI within the Finance Data & Experiences organization. The role involves leading architecture for complex AI-driven products, improving AI tools and practices in the SDLC, mentoring engineers, driving integration, ensuring security and compliance, and innovating automation for zero-touch deployments. The goal is to leverage AI for business excellence and customer satisfaction, with an emphasis on Responsible AI practices. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Security Researcher Senior Security Researcher role focused on threat hunting within Microsoft Defender Experts. The role involves exploring large datasets to detect advanced attack techniques, generating custom alerts, collaborating with data science and threat research teams, and building hunting tools and automations. Requires a strong background in cybersecurity, data analysis, and potentially machine learning, with a focus on enterprise security and threat intelligence. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Performance Senior Software Engineer focused on optimizing the inference performance of large language models (LLMs) like those from OpenAI, running on various hardware including GPUs and custom Microsoft silicon. The role involves benchmarking, debugging, and optimizing performance to enable efficient deployment at scale for major Microsoft products and Azure services. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Consultant - (AI , Full stack development ) Senior Consultant role focused on designing, developing, and delivering end-to-end, AI-powered, cloud-native applications for enterprise customers. The role requires strong full-stack engineering expertise combined with applied AI capabilities, particularly in LLM and agentic AI solutions, RAG patterns, and Responsible AI principles, with a focus on customer value and technical leadership. | Agent | 7 |
| Dynamics 365 Sales & Service Solution Engineer Pre-sales Solution Engineer for Dynamics 365 Sales & Service, focusing on AI agent capabilities and customer experience transformation. Responsibilities include leading technical engagements, demonstrations, PoCs, and collaborating with sales and partners to propose Microsoft's AI solutions, particularly Dynamics 365 and Copilot Studio, to enterprise clients. The role involves understanding business challenges and showcasing how AI can solve them, while also providing feedback to product teams. | 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 focused on building AI-powered, full-stack cybersecurity capabilities for enterprise customers. The role involves designing and implementing scalable cloud services, LLM-based agentic workflows, and integrating AI for threat detection and response. | Agent | 7 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture, Data & AI - Melbourne Senior technical leader responsible for shaping enterprise customer modernization of data estates and unlocking production-scale AI transformation. Guides design and adoption of AI-ready data platforms for Generative AI, Copilot, and agent-based solutions, working at the intersection of data, AI, and cloud platforms to drive end-to-end transformation from foundational data architecture to production AI outcomes at scale. Acts as a thought partner and strategic advisor, influencing customer roadmaps, platform decisions, and Microsoft solution plays. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on building AI-powered, full-stack capabilities for cybersecurity threat detection and investigation using LLMs, agentic workflows, and cloud services on Azure. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating backend services and APIs, owning features end-to-end, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Emphasis on Responsible AI and leveraging AI tooling for development efficiency. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered tooling and test infrastructure for Azure Data integration products. The role involves using LLMs for test suite generation, identifying coverage gaps, detecting flaky tests, and prioritizing regression risks. It also includes building agents for automated diagnostics, log analysis, incident triage, and developing proactive observability with intelligent alerting. The engineer will also create AI-powered diagnostic tools for support and collaborate on automated incident response. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Copilot Experiences team, focusing on building reliable, performant, and intelligent user experiences for Copilot. The role involves frontend systems, distributed services, and telemetry, with responsibilities spanning client, service, and data layers, including improving reliability and latency of Copilot interactions. It also includes building telemetry pipelines, designing session-level event models, and architecting large-scale, low-latency systems. Experience with AI/agent-based systems in production, observability, evaluation, and conversational interfaces is preferred. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building the foundational cloud-native, distributed platform for developing, executing, and managing agentic AI applications at scale. The role involves defining the future of software development, shaping developer interaction with the platform, and integrating multi-modal AI capabilities into agentic applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role within Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions with customers to address complex challenges. This role involves data acquisition, model development, evaluation, and strategy, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and customers. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions for customers. This role involves data acquisition, model evaluation, developing operational models at scale, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers to solve complex business challenges. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Consumer Marketing Senior Data Scientist role focused on consumer marketing personalization and decision science. Responsibilities include defining technical strategy for causal modeling and experimentation, architecting production-grade personalization models, leading ML efforts from framing to deployment, and guiding LLM engineering direction. The role emphasizes collaboration, technical leadership, and driving measurable business outcomes. | AgentData | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Copilot Studio Knowledge team, focusing on improving the accuracy, performance, and scalability of Copilot Studio's generative AI capabilities. The role involves defining architecture, building features, mentoring engineers, and engaging with customers to resolve issues and drive product improvements. | Agent | 7 |
| Copilot Strategic Solution Engineer (Enterprise Commercial) This role focuses on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers by leading technical engagements, designing secure and scalable architectures for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio & Agents, and related AI solutions. The Solution Engineer acts as a trusted advisor, guiding customers through secure, compliant, and value-driven implementations, and collaborating with sales, customer success, and engineering teams to accelerate adoption. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft AI's Copilot Discover team, focusing on backend platform for agentic vertical content generation, AI model serving, data ingestion, caching, and serving. Powers content across Microsoft products for over 1B customers. Requires strong distributed systems, cloud storage, and data processing experience. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered operational excellence for Azure Reliability. The role involves developing evaluation loops, generalizing ML solutions into frameworks, operationalizing prompted classifiers at scale, and ensuring responsible AI practices. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Principal Silicon Performance Architect This role focuses on optimizing the performance of AI inference workloads by exploring micro-architectural innovations and validating end-to-end performance. The Principal Silicon Performance Architect will own performance modeling, analysis, and simulation infrastructure, working closely with chip, system, and software architects to drive data-backed design decisions for improved throughput, latency, and efficiency. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Performance Tooling Senior Software Engineer focused on performance tooling for AI frameworks, enabling large-scale training and inference of LLMs on various hardware. The role involves benchmarking, debugging, profiling, and optimizing performance for models like OpenAI's LLMs, aiming to reduce deployment time and hardware footprint. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Azure Translator & Language AI Team Senior Software Engineer to work on Azure Translator and Language AI services, focusing on building and scaling large-scale AI systems for natural language processing. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II to build and operate AI Agents as Service for cloud operations, focusing on agent capabilities, orchestration, evaluation, safety, and reliability in production environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to build and operate AI Agents as Service for cloud operations, focusing on agent capabilities, orchestration, evaluation, safety, and reliability in production environments. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Techno Functional Consultant - ABS This role focuses on designing, building, and implementing AI-powered solutions using Microsoft's ecosystem, including Dynamics 365, Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform. The consultant will act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, leading engagements and delivering end-to-end solutions that involve custom AI agents, orchestration, and integration with business processes. The role requires hands-on development, extending Copilot and Power Platform with custom APIs and Azure components, and delivering low-code/no-code solutions with enterprise-grade security. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Windows team, focusing on creating personalized consumer experiences across Xbox, M365, and devices. The role involves leading teams, driving AI adoption, building ML models, and leveraging LLM usage patterns and agentic frameworks for personalization and service health. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Engineering Manager - Copilot Applications Engineering Manager for Copilot Applications at Microsoft, focusing on building and leading a team to ship AI-powered experiences that integrate modalities (text, voice, vision, action) and shape human-AI interaction for millions of users. The role involves hands-on contributions, architectural guidance, and driving implementation of features and systems within a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Applied Scientist - Auction & Bidding The role focuses on optimizing ad performance through algorithm development, machine learning, and experimental analysis within Microsoft Advertising's Ads Monetization Algo team. It involves designing and implementing bidding strategies, auction mechanisms, and automation algorithms for advertisers, directly impacting significant revenue. The role requires a strong background in quantitative fields and experience in developing and deploying live production systems. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to drive the development of next-generation systems for Microsoft Start, focusing on backend services, LLM applications, evaluation frameworks, and prompt engineering to create intelligent user experiences. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Windows Ecosystem & Commercial Engagements (WECE) team. The manager will lead a team of engineers to build features into Windows, leveraging AI-assisted engineering. The role requires experience in managing engineering teams and shipping LLM-based systems to production, with a focus on delivering value to hundreds of millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Microsoft's CoreAI organization, focusing on building and integrating Responsible AI services. The role involves end-to-end ownership of AI services, ensuring they are customer-facing, high-performance, low-latency, and highly available, while adhering to Responsible AI principles. This includes AI-native development, coding, design, engineering excellence, implementation, reliability, and understanding user requirements. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer The Azure AI Inferencing team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture and design of a large-scale, high-throughput, low-latency model-serving platform for Azure OpenAI generative models, supporting billions of requests daily. The role involves end-to-end ownership of solution quality, cross-team collaboration, incident response, and championing security, privacy, and Responsible AI. | Serve | 7 |
| AI Software Engineer AI Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered testing capabilities for Visual Studio and .NET CLI. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent agents for test case suggestion, code analysis, and test maintenance, as well as developing benchmarking frameworks to evaluate AI models for coding tasks. The technology stack includes C# and Azure, leveraging LLMs. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI Principal Software Engineer to build and scale the core serving systems, request routing, and distribution for all LLMs across Microsoft and Azure customers. The role focuses on delivering inference capabilities reliably, efficiently, and with ultra-low latency for a wide range of AI-powered product experiences. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to drive the architectural transformation of Conditional Access into a universal policy engine for users, workloads, and AI agents. This role will own the technical vision for scaling Conditional Access to meet the next generation of identity, including autonomous agents, continuous authorization, data-plane enforcement, and policy portability. The role involves defining architecture, owning technical strategy for the evaluation engine, designing next-generation policy models, leading CA-for-Agents vision, architecting agent identity evaluation, driving cross-org technical alignment, and influencing roadmaps for agent governance. It also includes setting standards for safe rollout, driving testability, and mentoring engineers. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Software Engineer II- (GCC‑High/DoD)- CTJ- Secret Backend Software Engineer II for Microsoft Viva Insights (Copilot Analytics), which empowers organizations by providing AI-powered insights to understand and accelerate Copilot and Agent adoption. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems using generative AI and ML techniques, with a focus on government cloud environments (GCC-High/DoD). Responsibilities include building and managing Azure infrastructure, collaborating across disciplines, and ensuring service reliability through strong engineering practices and observability. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on defining and leading the technical direction for next-generation intelligent, large-scale content platforms. The role involves shaping multi-year technical strategy, driving architectural coherence, and building foundational platforms for multiple product surfaces. Responsibilities include designing distributed backend systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and data platforms at global scale, with a focus on availability, latency, security, and cost efficiency. A key aspect is guiding the integration of LLM-powered capabilities into production systems, defining patterns for retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and responsible AI, ensuring these are deeply embedded, reliable, and scalable. The role requires exceptional technical judgment, operating in ambiguous spaces, and influencing across teams and organizations, working closely with engineering leaders, product leaders, and applied scientists. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Sr Cloud Solution Architect This role is for a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect focused on the Azure AI platform within Microsoft's Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization. The primary responsibility is to enable customers to achieve business outcomes by leveraging Microsoft's AI and ML technologies, specifically by building Generative AI solutions and resolving customer blockers within the 'AI Factory'. The role involves technical leadership, driving customer adoption, providing feedback to engineering, and increasing technical expertise within the field teams. It emphasizes a hands-on approach to designing, building, and troubleshooting AI solutions for customers. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior + Principal Software Engineers- Front End Applied AI for Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) Senior and Principal Software Engineers are needed to build AI-driven security product experiences for Microsoft Threat Protection. This role involves designing and developing full-stack solutions that integrate large language models, multimodal models, and frontier AI capabilities into user-facing applications for threat detection, triage, investigation, and incident response. The focus is on creating AI-native workflows and intuitive interfaces that reduce defender toil and enable new security capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II-Foundry Agent Platform Team Software Engineer II role on the Foundry Agent Platform team at Microsoft, focusing on building foundational AI capabilities for Azure customers. This includes agent distribution, data layers, discovery/search features, billing, and authoring agents. The role involves designing, building, and operating production software, applying AI-assisted techniques, and working with distributed systems and cloud services. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role at Microsoft AI's Copilot Discover Engineering Team, focusing on the technical direction and long-range architecture of Copilot Discover. The role involves designing and driving systems for AI-forward discovery experiences, including content ingestion, enrichment, ranking, personalization, and serving across multiple surfaces. It emphasizes end-to-end responsibility, influencing platform direction, and ensuring system robustness, scalability, and privacy. The position requires shaping the adoption of AI/ML techniques and serving as a cross-organizational technical leader. | ShipServe | 7 |
