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 |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on end-to-end delivery of strategic data science and AI solutions for enterprise clients. Responsibilities include understanding business needs, preparing data, building and deploying predictive and generative AI models, integrating AI applications, and communicating findings to stakeholders. The role emphasizes prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation strategies for LLMs and foundation models, with a strong focus on responsible AI principles and business impact. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Responsible AI (CoreAI) Principal Software Engineer focused on building and integrating Responsible AI services, ensuring high availability, scalability, and low latency for customer-facing AI applications within Microsoft's CoreAI organization. This role involves end-to-end ownership of the development lifecycle, evaluating architectures, and upholding software engineering best practices. |
| ShipEval Gate |
| 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Site Reliability Engineer (HPC) - MAI SuperIntelligence Team The role is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure for AI model training and inference. The engineer will ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of large-scale distributed AI systems, including GPU clusters, and will be involved in monitoring, automation, incident management, and security. | Serve | 7 |
| Data and AI Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and leading end-to-end enterprise data, GenAI, Copilot, and agentic AI architectures. The Solution Architect will translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and governed solutions, own data platform design for AI readiness, and define GenAI solution patterns including RAG and grounding strategies. They will also lead the architecture for Copilot and AI-augmented applications, integrating AI services into business workflows. | AgentData | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer within Microsoft's Office of the CTO (OCTO) to build AI-based systems that accelerate the deployment of OpenAI technology across Microsoft. This role involves collaborating with key technical teams at Microsoft and OpenAI to create the technical foundation for their partnership, focusing on building and shipping robust AI products, leading system design, and ensuring production reliability, observability, and security. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, HPC Operations Engineering Manager This role manages a team of Site Reliability Engineers responsible for the reliability and efficiency of large-scale distributed AI infrastructure, specifically for training, fine-tuning, and serving generative AI models. The focus is on leading operations, observability, automation, incident management, and security within hybrid cloud/on-prem CPU+GPU environments, collaborating closely with ML engineers and platform teams. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Responsible AI (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and iterating on Responsible AI tools and capabilities to enable developers to build and deploy AI responsibly at scale. It involves prototyping, applying subject-matter expertise, and collaborating across product groups to drive project and release plans. The role emphasizes working in fast-paced, experimental environments and taking ideas from ambiguity to production. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft responsible for end-to-end delivery of strategic data science projects, partnering with customers and internal teams to design and implement advanced analytics and AI solutions that create measurable business impact. This role involves leading teams, engaging with stakeholders, applying machine learning, and integrating data models into customer systems, with a focus on Responsible AI principles. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Software Engineering II and Senior Software Engineer (Multiple Positions) Teams Copilot Software Engineers (II and Senior) needed to lead engineering efforts for Teams Copilot, leveraging Generative AI, LLMs, and an AI stack to enhance collaboration and user experience. The role involves end-to-end ownership, prototyping, evaluating new AI features, and developing scalable, reliable services with a focus on live-site operations and data-driven decisions. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Principal Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for AI companions like Copilot, spanning multiple modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to create user experiences that redefine AI companionship. The role requires strong full-stack fundamentals and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Platform This role focuses on building and architecting distributed data platforms and pipelines that process massive datasets for AI models, including training, inference, and evaluation. It involves designing event-driven architectures, handling unstructured data, engineering feedback loops for AI, and optimizing compute for cost and performance. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Principal Backend Engineer, Copilot Memory and Personalization Backend Engineer role focused on building the data foundations for Copilot's memory and personalization features. This involves designing and operating large-scale data pipelines for signal ingestion, normalization, enrichment, aggregation, and memory generation, enabling downstream ML and product consumers. The role also involves technical leadership in data systems and influencing architecture. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling the inferencing cloud for Large Language Models and GenAI Services within Azure CoreAI Platform. The role involves designing, building, and operating large-scale engineering systems for AI models. | Serve | 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and optimizing Azure's High Performance Computing and AI Platform (HPC/AI) virtual machines. This involves deep technical work on hardware/software interactions, device virtualization, and performance analysis of GPU workloads for large-scale AI training and inference. The role contributes to the underlying platform software and its exposure as an Azure service, with opportunities to work on upper layers of Azure infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Systems and Tools Research Intern role focused on developing AI systems and tools, particularly developer tools for Microsoft's custom Maia AI hardware. This involves working on profilers, debuggers, performance analysis tools, and simulators to enable efficient execution of AI models on AI accelerators. The role collaborates with AI researchers, hardware teams, and AI compilers teams, and involves work on device firmware, host software, and integration with AI/ML frameworks. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role focuses on designing and developing next-generation networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The engineer will work on high-performance, low-latency, and low-jitter communication frameworks, optimizing scalability and reliability for distributed AI workloads. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and optimizing networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The role emphasizes high performance, low latency, and reliability for distributed AI workloads, working with AI accelerators and advanced networking technologies. | Serve | 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 |
| Engineering Lead - Extreme Retrieval Engineering Lead to build and own the software engineering platform for large-scale machine learning retrieval systems, including RAG for Copilots, web-scale search, and personalized recommendations. The role focuses on translating retrieval research into reusable, scalable systems, defining engineering standards, and integrating new methods. It involves cross-team technical leadership and improving developer/researcher experience. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer The role focuses on designing and building cutting-edge networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The goal is to enable breakthroughs in AI by delivering unmatched computational power, scalability, and reliability, with a focus on high performance, low latency, and minimal jitter for distributed AI workloads. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Infra - MAI Superintelligence Team The AI Data Infra team at Microsoft AI is responsible for building data infrastructure to help MAI teams to generate the biggest and best training dataset. This role focuses on designing and developing data pipelines for multimodal training data and owning critical data infrastructures like Spark, Ray, and Vector Databases. | Data | 7 |
| Senior & Principal Security Researcher Senior/Principal Security Researcher on the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage (GHOST) team. The role involves performing threat hunts, assisting with investigations, developing threat intelligence, and cultivating investigation best practices into Microsoft tooling and products. Researchers will support a global team to identify and catalog new attacker TTPs, victims, and deliver customer notifications to protect worldwide enterprise customers and empower customers to protect themselves via constantly improving Microsoft products. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer on the Path team at Microsoft, focusing on modernizing work management products (Project, Planner, To Do, Visio) with AI. The role involves pioneering LLMs and agentic frameworks to automate tasks and streamline workflows, contributing to the development of AI-powered productivity tools. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer (SuperIntelligence team) This role focuses on building and operating the core platform infrastructure for training, evaluating, and deploying large-scale AI models within Microsoft. It involves designing scalable services for cluster orchestration, job scheduling, data pipelines, and artifact management, with a strong emphasis on production operations, cloud platforms (Azure), and enhancing developer experience for AI research and engineering teams. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Copilot CLI Senior Software Engineer to build GitHub's coding agent CLI and the core agent loop powering agentic experiences across GitHub and Microsoft. The role focuses on turning AI systems into reliable developer tools, with an emphasis on agentic systems, tool design, agent loops, benchmarking, quality optimization, and high-performance terminal experiences. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health - MAI Superintelligence Team This role is focused on ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of Microsoft's large-scale AI training infrastructures, which involve tens of thousands of GPUs and advanced networking. The responsibilities include designing transport, fabric architecture, telemetry, observability, and automated troubleshooting for these clusters. The role also involves AI training and inference cluster bring-up, performance benchmarking, and root-cause analysis, with a goal of developing predictive health models and autonomous remediation systems. | Serve | 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 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) This role focuses on building large-scale Copilot memory and personalization systems using RAG, search, embeddings, retrieval, and ranking. The individual will be responsible for designing and implementing these systems, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring engineers. Experience with LLM applications and large-scale embedding/retrieval/ranking systems is required. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Manager, Copilot Memory and Personalization Engineering Manager for Copilot Memory and Personalization, focusing on building AI systems that remember, evolve, and personalize user experiences. The role involves leading a team of backend and ML engineers, contributing to codebase and infrastructure, and shipping AI-powered features for millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Copilot M365 Calendar Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building AI-powered scheduling systems by integrating backend services, LLMs, APIs, and Outlook services for Microsoft Calendar and Teams. The role involves developing agent-driven solutions to reduce cognitive load and empower users in the hybrid work era. | Agent | 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 |
| Research Intern - Human-AI Interaction Research and Design (Health AI) Research Intern position focused on Human-AI Interaction in Healthcare, applying AI/ML and user-centered design to develop novel solutions for precision medicine. The role involves foundational discovery research, building interactive prototypes, and exploring generative UI and multimodal AI with clinical data. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Platform Engineer This role focuses on engineering user-facing AI features for Microsoft's personal AI, Copilot. The engineer will own the development lifecycle from inception to delivery, build secure and performant AI platform services, and collaborate with researchers and other engineers to create next-generation AI products. The role emphasizes shipping high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code within a fast-paced product development cycle. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - AI and Systems Reliability - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on AI and Systems Reliability. The role involves defining a novel research agenda in areas like distributed systems, formal methods, ML for system reliability, and reliability of ML systems, with the goal of bringing formal rigor and reliability guarantees to AI-powered platforms. | Post-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product Engineer - Web This role focuses on building AI-powered web experiences for Microsoft Copilot, collaborating with researchers and product managers to deliver a world-class AI companion. The engineer will design and build efficient front-end systems and infrastructure for complex web applications, ensuring safety and reliability for millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI System Architecture Modeling and Performance Research Intern role focused on AI system architecture modeling and performance within Azure's hyperscale infrastructure. The intern will evaluate hardware/software co-design opportunities, optimize CPU, GPU, and networking infrastructure for AI accelerators, and develop methodologies for performance analysis and architectural idea evaluation. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Copilot Education Engineering Manager Lead a team of software engineers to develop and launch AI-powered features for educational technology products, focusing on consumer-facing applications like study modes and quiz generation. This role involves people management, technical leadership, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful AI solutions in the EdTech domain. | Ship | 7 |
| Research Intern - Office of the Chief Scientific Officer Research Intern position at Microsoft's Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, focusing on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible AI. The role involves collaborating with world-class researchers on complex challenges in diverse fields, including AI, biology, biomedicine, and the societal influences of AI. Interns will contribute to research and development strides, present findings, and potentially publish peer-reviewed work. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Hardware Research Intern role focused on AI Hardware, specifically on chip architectures for efficient AI serving and inference systems. The role involves research, analysis, documentation, and innovation in collaboration with researchers and engineers. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Frameworks (Network Systems and Tools) Research intern focused on next-generation AI systems, specifically exploring disaggregated inference, memory-architecture, and interconnect technologies for LLM serving, with a focus on request scheduling and KV caching optimizations. The role involves investigating and evaluating disaggregated KV cache architectures and building a P2P service KV cache sharing architecture. | Serve | 7 |
| Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure Technical Program Manager for AI Infrastructure at Microsoft AI, focusing on building and optimizing platforms for large-scale foundation model training, deployment, and serving. The role involves coordinating projects, collaborating with researchers and engineers, and driving progress in a 0->1 environment. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Infra - MAI Superintelligence Team The role focuses on building and maintaining data infrastructure for large-scale AI model training, specifically ingesting and processing enormous amounts of multimodal data (text, audio, images, video). This includes owning data pipelines, Spark, Ray, and Vector Databases, and partnering with pretraining and post-training teams to improve the data recipe for frontier models. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineering The Microsoft 365 Copilot Windows App team is building intelligent, multimodal AI experiences into Windows, enabling AI agents using MCP to redefine user interaction with devices and bring AI to billions. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent features leveraging voice, camera, and screen context, building and optimizing agentic workflows, and owning end-to-end AI capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Inclusive Futures Team Research Intern position at Microsoft Research's Inclusive Futures group, focusing on needs-focused research for underserved individuals. Requires a PhD student in a relevant STEM field with experience in HCI, AI, Accessibility, or related areas. The role involves conducting original research, collaborating with researchers, and potentially publishing findings. | Post-train | 7 |
| Research Intern - Technology for Religious Empowerment Research Intern position focusing on adapting and designing AI systems for religious communities, involving model evaluations, product design, and responsible AI practices. The role requires a PhD student in a STEM field with an interest in religion and experience with emerging technologies like Generative AI and Agentic Systems. | Post-trainAgent | 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 |
| Senior Researcher - Systems and Networking, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Systems and Networking at Microsoft Research, focusing on AI-driven methods for system innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing and implementing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. Requires a Doctorate and background in systems/networking with knowledge of ML systems, databases, and networking technologies, including Agent Systems and Vector Databases. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Cloud and AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Research, focusing on advancing AI infrastructure architecture and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, optimizing components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex real-world challenges at the intersection of AI, human interaction, and environmental context. | Pretrain | 7 |