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 |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Applied Scientist This role focuses on building the data foundation for Bing and Microsoft AI, involving large-scale grounding and LLM training. The Principal Applied Scientist will translate research into production, developing and deploying algorithms and solutions to improve system performance, quality, data management, and accuracy. The role emphasizes developing deep expertise, partnering with stakeholders, mentoring junior talent, and collaborating across teams to shape the future of AI. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| AI for Science Postdoctoral Researcher - Biomolecular AI & Experimental Data Integration Postdoctoral Researcher focused on integrating experimental biological data with machine learning models for biomolecular simulation and drug discovery. The role involves designing and scaling experimental datasets, developing methods to connect ML models with experimental observables, and creating closed-loop workflows between models and experiments. |
| Data |
| 8 |
| Research Intern - Computer Vision and Deep Learning Research intern position focused on computer vision and deep learning to improve user understanding of devices and environments. Involves analyzing multimodal sensor data and human-object interactions to enhance human-computer interactions, with opportunities to advance the state of the art. | Data | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Research Engineer - MAI Superintelligence Team Seeking Data Research Engineers to join the Multimodal team, focusing on designing and curating high-quality datasets for next-generation foundation models across vision, language, and audio. The role involves developing data collection strategies, improving dataset quality, analyzing data-driven model behaviors, and building tools for dataset auditing, all within the context of responsible AI practices. | Data | 8 |
| Research Intern - ML and Computational Biology for the Immune System Research Intern position at Microsoft Health Futures focusing on applying ML and statistical modeling to understand the human immune system for precision medicine. The role involves building large-scale models of immune responses and immune cells, integrating techniques like representation learning, causal inference, and generative modeling with biological insights. | Data | 8 |
| Applied Sciences INTERN Internship role focused on analyzing and improving advanced algorithms, implementing AI prototypes, and preparing data for machine learning purposes. The role involves working with large-scale datasets and contributing to the creation of intelligent solutions. | Data | 7 |
| Research Intern - Intelligent Quantum Systems Architecture Research Intern role focused on exploring the intersection of quantum applications and quantum system architecture using AI-driven methods and machine learning for advanced resource estimation. The goal is to co-design more efficient quantum systems aligned with real-world application workloads, from application intent to hardware realization. | Data | 7 |
| PHD Research Sciences INTERN PhD Intern role focused on applying advanced machine learning concepts and data analysis to real-world problems, developing prototypes, and contributing to research in machine intelligence. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Security - Microsoft Research This role focuses on researching and developing next-generation intrusion detection systems by leveraging large-scale security event logs and applying advanced data processing and machine learning techniques. The goal is to achieve accurate and rapid detection of sophisticated attacks. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Research Intern - Multi-Modal Sensing & Secure AI Devices Research intern to work on multi-modal sensing, device security, and authentication, with opportunities to influence next-generation device design. The role involves prototyping on mobile OS, Android development, and performing preliminary user evaluations. Familiarity with speech interfaces to agents and LLMs is a plus. | DataAgent | 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 |
| Research Intern - Medical Image Reconstruction Research Intern position focused on applying AI to enhance medical image reconstruction techniques for MRI and CT scanners, aiming to improve image acquisition speed and diagnostic quality. The role involves working at the intersection of MRI physics, signal processing, image reconstruction, and AI within the Microsoft Health Futures team. | Data | 7 |
| Research Intern - RiSE group Research Intern role in the RiSE group focusing on ML Systems, AI workloads, agentic workflows, and ML models for software engineering tasks. Requires PhD program enrollment and expertise in related STEM fields, with preferred qualifications in ML systems, AI, and software engineering. | Data | 7 |