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 |
|---|---|---|
| Data Scientist II Data Scientist II at Microsoft Security's Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) team, focusing on building AI/ML algorithms for detecting sophisticated cloud-based attacks, anomalies, compromises, and cyber-attacks using Gen AI and graph-based systems. The role involves extensive data analysis, feature engineering with PySpark, and collaboration with researchers and product teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft's Core AI division, specifically on the Agentic Core Services Team. The team builds the cloud-native, distributed platform for developing, executing, and managing agentic applications at scale. The role involves leading and developing a team of engineers, driving strategic clarity, fostering engineering alignment, delivering cohesive end-to-end experiences, building foundational capabilities, championing customer-centric development, and leading live site excellence for large-scale distributed systems. The focus is on enabling developers to build intelligent, autonomous, and enterprise-grade AI agents, integrating multi-modal capabilities into agentic applications. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role focuses on building the cloud-native, distributed platform for developing, executing, and managing agentic AI applications at scale. It involves defining the future of software development by shaping how developers interact with the platform, including programming models, user experiences, and a managed runtime for orchestrating agent-based AI applications with enterprise-grade guarantees. The role will collaborate with AI research teams and integrate multi-modal capabilities into agentic applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Quantum Simulation Engineer Develop and refine advanced simulation methods for quantum computing, with a focus on building AI agents/copilots to assist with various aspects of experiment setup, log triage, measurement reporting, protocol templating, and knowledge retrieval. The role aims to use AI to accelerate the development of quantum computers. | Agent | 7 |
| 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 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack - ML Efficiency & Observability - MAI Superintelligence Team Full Stack Engineer on the MAI Superintelligence Team focused on ML Efficiency & Observability, building capacity management portals and visibility into model performance for ML researchers and executives. The role involves designing and developing features for user interfaces, integrating with backend APIs for training frameworks, and contributing to internal tooling and infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal AI Network Architect This role focuses on the network architecture for AI accelerator platforms, specifically for high bandwidth and low latency networks critical for AI GPU clusters. The Principal AI Network Architect will evaluate, design, and optimize the network stack from hardware to software kernels, influencing Azure product roadmaps and working with state-of-the-art networking labs. The role requires deep expertise in networking technologies and familiarity with AI model execution pipelines. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Principal Engineering Manager Seeking an experienced engineering leader to build, scale, and run a high-performing engineering organization responsible for Copilot AI Evaluation. This role involves setting technical and organizational strategy for LLM evaluation, partnering with senior leadership, and owning the delivery of evaluation platforms and novel techniques to measure and improve Copilot quality at scale. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager - CoreAI Product Manager for CoreAI at Microsoft, focusing on policy enforcement, compliance automation, and AI-driven engineering automation within Microsoft's internal engineering systems. The role involves driving product strategy for platforms that deliver organizational policy controls, event-driven governance workflows, and intelligent automation, with a specific emphasis on integrating multi-agent systems and agentic workflows into engineering platform capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Applied Scientist The role focuses on developing and improving machine learning models for Bing's multimedia search relevance, aiming to deliver the best image and video content to users. This involves working with computer vision, NLP, deep learning, and information retrieval to enhance ranking, understand queries, and process big data. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager within Microsoft's AI Platform organization, specifically on the AI Foundry OSS Model Customization Team. The team focuses on enabling data scientists and developers to build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models, with a specialization in customizing open-source models. The manager will lead and develop a team of engineers, focusing on scalable services, customer needs, and career development, while collaborating with external partners and internal Microsoft teams. A strong background in Generative AI, ML, deep learning, NLP, transformer models, and cloud platforms is required. | Post-train | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on improving the efficiency, scalability, reliability, and cost of the core infrastructure powering Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences. The role involves acting as a coach, guiding technical design, driving performance optimizations in collaboration with research teams, and ensuring the health and availability of live services. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Project Manager Principal Project Manager accountable for leading complex, high-impact Cloud, Data, AI, and Security transformation programs for strategic enterprise customers. This role focuses on AI-first delivery models including Generative AI, Azure AI, and Copilot-enabled solutions, moving them from PoC to production-grade enterprise deployments. The role requires strong technical depth, customer trust, and execution in AI, with responsibilities spanning delivery leadership, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and contributing to AI delivery standards. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to advance ad-serving infrastructure, focusing on performance, efficiency, and scalability of next-gen model serving and inference platforms for Ads. Designs and optimizes high-performance serving systems and GPU inference frameworks for deep learning and LLM workloads. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Search Architect This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on defining and driving the architectural direction for Windows Search and related semantic systems, including indexing, retrieval, ranking, and AI-powered experiences. The role involves leading cross-team technical efforts, ensuring system reliability and quality, and anticipating future needs for agentic and AI-driven Search. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for the Windows Platform & Developer Experience team, focusing on shaping platform primitives, APIs, and tooling for intelligent, agent-driven experiences. The role involves defining product vision for user signals on Windows, driving strategy for capturing and surfacing user context to power Copilot and AI agents, and influencing on-device model usage on Copilot+ PCs. This includes managing the product lifecycle from definition to launch, driving cross-org adoption, and navigating the intersection of AI and the OS. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist The Data & Applied Sciences team for Microsoft Teams is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to leverage ML/AI for decision-making and product performance enhancement, with a focus on Recommendation Engine solutions. Responsibilities include building models, featurization pipelines, measuring impact, running experiments, prototyping new algorithms, and working on end-to-end solutions including data pipelines and deployments. | ShipData | 7 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Microsoft 365 Copilot Cloud Solution Architect focused on AI solutions, primarily Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Copilot Chat, to drive customer AI transformation. The role involves understanding business requirements, designing and implementing AI agent solutions, providing technical support, and maximizing business value and ROI for enterprise clients. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Consultant - Full Stack Apps A2 Senior Consultant role focused on designing, developing, and deploying AI-powered full-stack applications on Microsoft Azure. Requires strong full-stack engineering skills combined with applied AI capabilities, particularly in LLM and agentic AI solutions using frameworks like Semantic Kernel, LangChain, and RAG patterns. The role involves technical leadership, customer engagements, and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives and Responsible AI principles. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Principal Engineering Manager Lead and grow a team building and operating world-class research compute infrastructure, including large-scale GPU clusters and agentic development tools, for Microsoft Research globally. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager - AI Security (CoreAI) This role focuses on defining and building the security foundation for AI systems, particularly agentic systems, within enterprise applications. The Principal Product Manager will lead product efforts to detect, prevent, and govern AI security risks, integrating these capabilities with Microsoft's broader security stack. The role is at the intersection of AI systems, cybersecurity, and enterprise cloud infrastructure, driving 0-to-1 product development for AI security. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI This Principal Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Playwright team focuses on integrating AI-native and agentic capabilities into test automation. The engineer will design and implement systems enabling autonomous agents to reason about, generate, and validate software behavior, advancing Playwright's runtime, infrastructure, and tooling. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development and intelligent automation within the modern developer workflow. | Agent | 7 |
| Director, MAVS Technology & Product This Director role focuses on leveraging AI and AI-enabled tools to accelerate technical due diligence, product integration, and decision-making for Microsoft's strategic deals (acquisitions, divestitures, data/IP transactions). The role involves leading cross-functional teams, assessing technical risks (including AI/ML, security, privacy, compliance), developing integration plans, and driving innovation in AI-first workflows to improve efficiency and decision quality in a rapidly evolving AI market. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer--Backend--Microsoft Copilot Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Copilot's backend platform, focusing on scaling AI services, integrating AI models, and providing tools for engineers. Requires strong backend and cloud infrastructure experience. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager/Architect - Foundry Inference Platform (CoreAI) The Principal Product Manager/Architect will define and guide the technical architecture of Microsoft Foundry, an AI inferencing platform focused on reliability, scalability, and efficiency for large-scale GPU fleets. The role involves setting product direction for reliability, GPU fleet efficiency, capacity management, and engaging with strategic customers. Success metrics include platform reliability, GPU utilization, and customer outcomes. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI Model Inference & Serving Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling the AI data-plane for LLM inferencing across Microsoft and Azure. The role involves designing, coding, and shipping core serving systems, smart routing, and request distribution for a wide range of LLMs, aiming for reliability, efficiency, and ultra-low latency. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Security Engineer Senior Security Engineer focused on identity security, translating threats into AI-first engineering requirements, analyzing advanced attacks using large-scale telemetry, designing detections, and building automation for investigation and response within Microsoft Security's Identity Security Breach Response Squad. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering--Backend--Microsoft Copilot This role focuses on building and scaling the backend platform for Microsoft Copilot, integrating with AI models and empowering Copilot teams. The engineer will design, develop, and maintain performant and secure AI Platform services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance. The role requires experience with public cloud infrastructure, containerization, and production software development. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role focused on applying advanced analytics and data science to solve complex business problems for Microsoft's strategic customers. The role involves shaping data science strategy, defining reusable patterns, and leading technical direction across engagements, with a strong emphasis on business understanding, data preparation, modeling, and evaluation in a customer-facing consulting and engineering context. | Ship | 7 |
| MTS - Platform Engineering Manager This role is for a Platform Engineering Manager at Microsoft AI, focusing on building and scaling the AI platform services that power Copilot. The role involves managing a team to develop secure, performant APIs for finetuning and deploying core AI experiences, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring high-quality code delivery in a fast-paced consumer-facing environment. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Engineering Manager - Microsoft AI - Copilot This role is for a Data Engineering Manager within Microsoft AI's Copilot team. The primary responsibility is to build and manage scalable data pipelines that ingest, process, and publish data streams for AI use cases, specifically for fine-tuning models and improving human-AI interactions. The role involves managing a team of data engineers and ensuring operational excellence for the data platform. | Data | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI This role focuses on building and operating the foundational GPU accelerated infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference across Azure. It involves designing systems for GPU management, scheduling, isolation, and sharing, as well as optimizing performance, reliability, and utilization of GPU fleets. The role also requires driving end-to-end platform features, including observability and diagnostics, and influencing platform architecture. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Teams AI Platform team, focusing on building and operating high-scale backend services that enable AI agents to work seamlessly across Teams. The role involves designing and developing foundational infrastructure, collaborating with AI teams, and ensuring high standards of availability, reliability, and performance for features impacting millions of users. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer--Infra-Microsoft Copilot The role focuses on building and scaling the backend platform for Microsoft Copilot, including integrations with AI models and tools for engineering teams. The engineer will design, develop, and maintain performant and secure AI Platform services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance. This involves working with public cloud infrastructure, containerization technologies, and production software release. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior AI Development Consultant - AI/Agent Development (Japan) Seeking a Senior AI Development Consultant to lead AI/agent development for enterprise clients using Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI. Responsibilities include architectural design, technical implementation, custom agent development, data and AI foundation building with Microsoft Fabric, and RAG architecture implementation. The role involves end-to-end project delivery and technical support for client workstyle transformation. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Azure AI Foundry and Azure ML, shaping strategy for AI/ML and GenAI platforms including training, deployment, monitoring, and governance. Focuses on developer-centric AI platforms enabling organizations to build, deploy, and operate AI systems at scale. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Copilot AI Evaluation Engineering Manager Lead a team of engineers to build and manage LLM evaluation solutions for Microsoft Copilot, focusing on quality, reliability, and scalability. This role involves designing evaluation platforms and techniques to measure and improve the performance of AI companions. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI Senior Software Engineer to join the Evaluation platform team within Core AI, focusing on building core services for large-scale agent observability and optimizing AI agent performance. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Product Manager II - Foundry Model Inference (CoreAI) Product Manager II for Microsoft Foundry, focusing on the AI-first application stack, model serving platform, and generative AI development. The role involves defining product offerings, identifying quality improvement opportunities, tracking metrics, and collaborating with engineering and go-to-market teams to deliver integrated solutions for customers, including those in highly regulated industries. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer (AI) - Planner Senior Software Engineer on the Path team, focused on modernizing work management with AI by pioneering LLMs and advanced Agentic frameworks. The role involves using AI agents to automate tasks and create intelligent assistants to streamline workflows. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack Engineering Manager Engineering Manager for Microsoft AI's Copilot product, focusing on full-stack development, team leadership, and shipping AI-powered experiences. The role involves hands-on coding, architectural guidance, and working across data sampling, collection, processing, analysis, and insights stages of the evaluation platform. Prompt engineering and extensive use of AI tools are also key aspects. | ShipData | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager - Visual Studio Copilot Product Manager for Visual Studio Copilot, focusing on AI-powered developer experiences within the IDE. The role involves defining product strategy, roadmaps, and end-to-end workflows for chat, code completions, and agentic capabilities, requiring close collaboration with engineering, design, research, and data science teams. The goal is to enhance developer productivity while ensuring quality, control, and trust, with a strong emphasis on enterprise readiness and competitive differentiation. | Agent | 7 |
| Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Applications Solution Engineer focused on helping enterprise customers adopt and integrate Microsoft's Cloud & AI Applications, including AI Foundry and Azure AI. The role involves driving technical sales, leading hands-on engagements (PoCs, hackathons), co-designing secure and scalable AI architectures, and resolving technical blockers. Expertise in Agentic AI frameworks, Responsible AI, and cloud-native development is required to accelerate AI application development and deployment. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Researcher - Systems & Networking - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher in Systems and Networking with a focus on AI-driven methods for systems innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research focused on advancing cloud and AI infrastructure architecture, and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, designing and optimizing hardware components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate intelligent systems across computing layers. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Sciences INTERN Research intern to conduct research and lead collaborations on incorporating AI capabilities into Azure SQL Database platform. Focus on advancing state-of-the-art in machine intelligence and machine learning applications, implementing prototypes, and developing solutions for large-scale problems. Experience with LLMs and ML techniques is preferred. | Post-trainServe | 7 |
| Firmware Engineer Firmware Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and debugging firmware for Azure's custom AI accelerator silicon. This involves working across silicon, hardware, and software teams to enable advanced AI workloads and support data center deployment. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Applied Scientist, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI The Principal Applied Scientist will work on Microsoft's Experimentation Platform (ExP) within CoreAI, focusing on enabling high-scale online experimentation for AI-driven applications. This role involves advancing experimentation methodology and agent evaluations, collaborating with various engineering and science teams, and translating applied research into production features for a large-scale platform. The goal is to accelerate product learning and drive progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem by providing robust experimentation capabilities. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Senior Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for Microsoft Copilot, aiming to create revolutionary AI-powered experiences across modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with applied AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to millions of users, defining the future of human-AI interaction. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager Product Manager for Microsoft AI, focusing on building AI-powered consumer products and services that leverage advertising and new business models. The role involves understanding user needs, defining product requirements, managing end-to-end product development, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-first products. | Ship | 7 |