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.
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| Technical Solution Management Specialist - AI Evaluation, Research, and Technical Architecture Func. This role focuses on establishing and operating an AI Innovation Lab within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary responsibility is to research, validate, and evaluate early-stage AI opportunities (pre 0-to-1) before they are handed off for prototyping or product engagement. This involves defining research frameworks, building evaluation approaches for various AI workloads, developing automated testing, and creating reference architectures. The role acts as a bridge between business strategy, research, and technical execution, ensuring AI innovations are rigorously tested and aligned with Responsible AI standards. | Eval GateData | 8 |
| Senior Researcher - AI & Society - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on the intersection of AI systems and society, with an emphasis on sociotechnical approaches to AI evaluation, responsible AI in industry, and AI safety. The role involves interdisciplinary research, collaboration with industry teams, and a strong publication record. |
| Eval Gate |
| 8 |
| Research Intern - AI Evaluation and Alignment Research Intern role focused on advancing the quality, reliability, and evaluation of LLM-based systems by exploring new ML methods for AI assessment and alignment. Responsibilities include co-developing research projects, implementing ML approaches (training/fine-tuning), and developing evaluation frameworks. Requires PhD enrollment in a technical field and hands-on LLM experience. | Eval GatePost-train | 8 |
| Research Intern - STAC, NYC (Sociotechnical Alignment Center) Research Intern position at Microsoft's Sociotechnical Alignment Center (STAC) focusing on evaluating AI systems, particularly generative ones. The role involves applying measurement theory from social sciences and statistics to assess risks, capabilities, and performance. Collaboration with Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) researchers is expected. The internship emphasizes theoretical and methodological approaches to advance AI system evaluation. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Research Intern - Inference Economics and Human Agency Research intern to conduct empirical research on how human oversight shapes the economic return of AI-assisted work. This includes designing controlled experiments, developing session-level evaluation frameworks that link inference cost to output quality and human effort, and analyzing how interface design choices affect user confidence, reliance, and decision quality during AI-assisted tasks. The role involves collaboration with the MADE team and preparing a submission-ready research manuscript. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Principal Researcher - AI & Society - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on the intersection of AI and society, with an emphasis on sociotechnical approaches to AI evaluation, measurement, and responsible AI in industry. The role involves interdisciplinary research, collaboration with engineering and policy teams, and a strong publication record. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| PostDoc Researcher-FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI-Microsoft Research Postdoctoral Researcher position at Microsoft Research NYC focusing on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE). The role involves pursuing an independent research agenda, collaborating with researchers, and contributing to ongoing projects related to the social implications of machine learning and AI. Research areas include AI evaluation, responsible AI in industry, AI law and policy, transparency, human-AI interaction, and various social impacts of AI. | Eval Gate | 7 |