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 |
|---|---|---|
| Product Manager II- Responsible AI Product Manager for Responsible AI, focusing on defining and driving product requirements for capabilities that ensure safe, secure, and trustworthy AI systems. The role involves translating emerging AI risks into scalable product features, working across the AI development lifecycle, and engaging with enterprise customers to understand real-world risks and validate product direction. Success is measured by delivering adopted features that improve AI safety, security, or compliance outcomes. | AgentEval Gate | 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 |
| Principal Group Product Manager Principal Group Product Manager for OneDrive and SharePoint AI solutions team, shaping the vision and strategy for AI solutions built and customized on SharePoint. The role involves enabling AI solutions, delivering vertical AI value, and tailoring experiences for enterprise customers. It also includes leading a PM organization, fostering customer obsession and innovation, and driving integration with Copilot and Copilot Studio for agentic solutions. The role emphasizes accountability for growing AI usage, empowering customizers, and raising the bar on AI capability evals. | ShipAgent | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Applied Sciences PhD This role focuses on advancing the state-of-the-art in AI/ML research and driving innovation from theory into reality by blending research and development techniques. The individual will work on the design, development, execution, and implementation of technology research projects, with a focus on technology transfer into products and services. The role requires a PhD student in a related field and involves understanding research literature, preparing data for analysis, and contributing to patents and white papers. | Post-train | 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 Product Manager - DevOps AI - CoreAI Principal Product Manager for DevOps AI within CoreAI at Microsoft, focusing on leading platform investments to improve how engineers build, ship, and operate software using AI. The role emphasizes turning AI-assisted development into a trusted, end-to-end capability across the engineering lifecycle, ensuring AI workflows meet standards for security, reliability, compliance, and operational excellence. | 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 |
| Principal Product Manager, AI Multimodal Growth Product Manager role focused on the growth and deployment of AI multimodal models, working at the intersection of research and product growth to drive user adoption and revenue. Responsibilities include identifying growth opportunities, defining product deployments, owning KPIs, and collaborating with engineering, research, and marketing teams to execute go-to-market strategies. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Research Intern - Audio and Acoustics Research intern position focusing on generative audio, AI for audio, speech enhancement, spatial audio, and audio devices. The role involves working on well-defined projects, collaborating with researchers, and potentially publishing findings. Requires enrollment in a PhD program and experience in audio signal processing. AI/ML experience is strongly preferred. | Post-train | 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 |
| CTO, Enterprise ASEAN, Thailand CTO for Enterprise ASEAN, Thailand, focusing on designing and implementing Cloud + AI + Agentic technology roadmaps for enterprise customers. The role involves winning CXO mindshare, driving digital transformation, and creating thought leadership in areas like Generative AI and Agentic solutions. | Agent | 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 PM Manager This Principal PM Manager role at Microsoft AI focuses on managing a team to design, evaluate, and improve AI systems' interactions with tools, APIs, and users. The role involves prompt engineering, policy design, and safety, ensuring AI workflows are accurate, compliant, and user-friendly. Responsibilities include creating policies, designing/refining prompts, evaluating AI responses, and improving model quality and safety for Microsoft AI Monetization. | Post-trainAgent | 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 |
| Senior Product Manager - Foundry Inferencing & Training (CoreAI - multiple roles) Senior Product Manager for Microsoft's Foundry Inference & Training team, focusing on product strategy and execution for AI model platforms. The role involves owning product strategy for AI model training, inference, experimentation, and platform enablement, evolving model offerings, driving developer-facing experiences, and defining efficiency metrics. Collaboration with engineering, data science, finance, and go-to-market teams is key, with a focus on solutions for regulated environments. | Serve | 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 |
| Dynamics365 & Power Platform Agentic AI Consultant - CTJ - Top Secret Consultant role focused on designing, developing, and implementing Agentic AI solutions using Microsoft's Dynamics365 and Power Platform for US federal government clients. Requires a Top Secret security clearance and proficiency in generative AI, LLMs, and Agentic Frameworks. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft Copilot's animated AI companion, Mico. This role involves technical leadership for a consumer-facing AI product, focusing on architecture, scaling, and the integration of 3D rendering, LLMs, memory systems, and personalization across multiple platforms. Responsibilities include owning system architecture, LLM orchestration, memory systems, personalization frameworks, and ensuring performance, reliability, and observability for millions of users. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack AI Principal Software Engineer to lead end-to-end software development lifecycle for AI-infused applications, Agentic Solutions, and Copilots within Microsoft's Commercial Sales Experiences (CSX) organization. The role involves architecture, design, development, testing, and deployment, focusing on enhancing user experience and productivity with AI. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to design and build a Postgres-based database for modern, AI-native, agent-driven workloads within Microsoft Fabric. The role involves innovating on query planning, execution, and storage layers to support high-performance data access for next-generation applications, leveraging open storage formats and engines. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Smart Building & Workplace team responsible for designing, building, and shipping agentic employee experiences and full-stack platform features. The role involves working with Angular front-ends, .NET APIs, Azure Container Apps, and M365 Copilot extensibility to build intelligent agents that surface real-time building data, campus services, and personalized workplace insights through natural language. The role emphasizes shipping AI-powered products at enterprise scale and developing expertise in agentic AI and M365 Copilot extensibility. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer-Fullstack-CoreAI Principal Full Stack Software Engineer (UI Focused) for Microsoft Foundry Agents Platform team, building agent-building experiences and tools for developers and enterprises using LLMs and GenAI on Azure. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff -Platform Engineering Manager This role is for a Platform Engineering Manager at Microsoft, focusing on building and scaling the AI platform services that power Copilot, Microsoft's personal AI assistant. The role involves managing a team to develop APIs for finetuning, deployment, and core Copilot experiences, collaborating with AI researchers and product teams to bring AI products to life. The focus is on high-performance, secure, and scalable backend systems for consumer-facing AI products. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer & Machine Learning This role involves building AI-driven analytics for Microsoft's Copilot product, focusing on trend detection, cohort analysis, and drill-down workflows using large-scale multimodal data. The engineer will design and implement ML models and scalable data pipelines, ensuring compliance and security, and integrating insights into dashboards and APIs. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer Principal Machine Learning Engineer to work on data labeling and classification for large-scale multimodal Copilot data within Microsoft AI. The role involves prototyping and productionizing classification flows, operating prompted classifiers, and building secure data-labeling pipelines. Requires experience in data pipelines, data science, ML, and strong communication skills. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Software Engineer Machine Learning Engineer to build AI Insights, a Copilot analytics product. This role involves designing and implementing AI-driven trend detection, cohort analysis, and drill-down workflows that connect metrics to real user conversations using large-scale multimodal Copilot data. Responsibilities include building data pipelines, implementing ML models, developing secure workflows, and enabling drill-down capabilities linking quantitative metrics to qualitative evidence. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Engineer Microsoft AI is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to build mission-critical data pipelines for their Copilot systems. The role involves ingesting, processing, and publishing data streams to support AI model fine-tuning and introspection. The ideal candidate will have strong big data processing skills and experience with cloud infrastructure. | Data | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineering Manager - AI Insights Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead the development of AI Insights, a next-generation Copilot analytics product, focusing on AI-powered analytics for Copilot usage and quality metrics, trend detection, anomaly detection, and predictive insights. The role involves prototyping and productionizing ML models, ensuring data compliance, and integrating with existing platforms. | AgentData | 7 |
| ML - Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on building high-performance software for AI capabilities across Windows & Devices. The role involves architecting and building code for deploying ML models at scale, optimizing edge execution, and guiding system-level decisions for inference, memory, power, and security. It requires defining ML infrastructure strategy and has preferred experience in architecting ML inference pipelines for LLMs, local model integrations, and hardware-aware optimizations. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Group PM Manager Principal Group PM Manager to lead a team of Product Managers and own a critical product area within Dynamics 365 Customer Experience AI, focusing on AI-powered Contact Center and Customer Service solutions. The role involves strategy, execution, people management, and cross-team influence for AI-first, agentic, and autonomous products. | Agent | 7 |
