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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| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robot Security & Safety) This role focuses on designing and implementing security and safety architectures for Microsoft's robotics platform, which includes AI models and agentic workflows. The primary goal is to ensure robots operate safely and securely in real-world environments, bridging cybersecurity, functional safety, and AI safety. The role involves developing threat models, safety analyses, monitoring systems, and incident response capabilities, with a strong emphasis on compliance with industry standards and responsible AI deployment. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Field Robotics) This role focuses on planning, executing, and analyzing field tests of robotic systems in real-world environments to ensure reliability and performance. It bridges lab development and production readiness by deploying robots, designing test protocols, collecting data, diagnosing issues, and collaborating with engineering teams for continuous improvement. The role is part of Microsoft Robotics within the Discovery and Quantum division, building a platform for physical intelligence that integrates humans, robots, and AI agents. |
| ShipAgent |
| 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers, emphasizing production-readiness, scalability, and customer success. The role involves designing and leading architecture for AI/ML workloads, integrating AI/ML solutions, and operating them in production, with a strong focus on security and enterprise standards. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Principal Applied Scientist This role focuses on building intelligence for the advertising marketplace, understanding user behavior, measuring impact, and optimizing outcomes. It involves developing large-scale learning systems for intent inference and causal effects from noisy data, influencing ranking, bidding, pricing, and budget allocation. The role requires defining and driving the scientific and technical strategy for data-driven attribution and causal measurement, establishing methodologies for incrementality estimation, counterfactual learning, and bias correction, and leading the production adoption of relevant frameworks. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in causal inference and a track record of delivering measurable business impact with ML systems. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role focused on developing AI and cloud-based solutions for enterprise customers, involving data acquisition, model development, evaluation, and deployment within a cross-functional team. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Industry Solutions Engineering Senior Data Scientist role focused on co-engineering AI-powered, cloud-based solutions with customers to solve complex business challenges. The role involves data acquisition, preparation, model development, evaluation, and deployment within a cross-functional team, contributing to reusable solution patterns. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions for customers. The role involves data acquisition, preparation, model development, evaluation, and deployment at scale, with a strong emphasis on customer-facing project delivery and innovation. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions for customers. This role involves data acquisition, model evaluation, developing operational models at scale, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers to solve complex business challenges. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Group Product Manager Principal Group Product Manager for Microsoft Security's Defender Experts (DEX) service, a premier Managed Detection & Response (MDR) offering. This role involves defining product strategy and roadmap, leading a team of Product Managers, and collaborating with researchers and engineering to integrate AI, particularly Generative AI, into security operations for enhanced threat detection and response. The focus is on delivering customer value through innovative, scalable security features and services within a regulated environment. | Ship | 7 |
| Group Product Manager-AI Skilling Group Product Manager responsible for setting the vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI-powered skilling experiences. This role involves partnering with Design and Engineering to ship LLM-powered features, defining success metrics, prioritizing investments, and driving adoption and retention of AI learning products. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center, focusing on AI-led voice capabilities. The role involves owning the strategy, vision, and roadmap for AI-powered voice experiences, including cloud telephony, IVR, real-time voice AI, and post-call analytics. It requires collaboration with various Microsoft teams, engagement with strategic customers, and driving go-to-market readiness. The role also involves mentoring other PMs and representing Microsoft externally in the CCaaS and contact center AI space. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist The Signals Modeling team builds core intelligence for predicting user interaction with ads, designing and training large-scale transformer models for ad ranking, pricing, and optimization. They own end-to-end ML systems, from data construction to deploying models that drive revenue and ROI in a massive ads ecosystem. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Director, AI Business Solutions Leader (Healthcare) Senior Director role focused on leading a team to drive AI adoption within healthcare environments, translating AI capabilities into scalable, real-world use cases and operationalized solutions. This involves people management, customer advocacy, and ensuring solutions align with business goals and company methodologies. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft's CoreAI division, focusing on building AI-powered developer tools and planet-scale platforms with enterprise trust, security, and reliability. The role involves designing, building, and operating core platform services for developers across the entire application lifecycle, including AI-native engineering practices and AI-enabled systems to improve various aspects of the software development lifecycle. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Consultant Apps - (AI + Full stack ) Senior Consultant role focused on designing and delivering end-to-end, industry-aligned, AI-powered cloud-native applications for enterprise customers. Combines full-stack engineering, applied AI, and Azure cloud expertise with a consulting mindset to drive business outcomes and digital transformation. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Software engineer Principal Software Engineer in the CoreAI organization at Microsoft, focusing on building and integrating Responsible AI services. The role involves developing customer-facing, high-performance, low-latency, and high-availability AI services, improving AI tools across the SDLC, and ensuring Responsible AI controls and engineering-health metrics are embedded. Responsibilities include coding, system design, driving engineering excellence, implementing AI features with guardrails, and ensuring reliability and supportability. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing AI-powered cloud solutions for customers. The role involves data acquisition, model evaluation, research, and strategy definition, with a strong emphasis on customer collaboration and delivering impactful, scalable solutions. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Bing Multimedia team, focusing on AI-powered visual discovery and multimodal experiences. The role involves designing and building large-scale AI systems, integrating LLMs and multimodal AI into production, and contributing to both backend services and user-facing components for Bing Image Search and other Microsoft AI products. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Principal Research Manager Principal Research Manager to lead AI research strategy and execution for Microsoft's Commercial Engineering & AI (CEAI) division, focusing on transforming commercial business with AI-native engineering and intelligent systems. The role involves managing a research team, driving AI UX innovation, and ensuring research directly informs product development and delivers measurable impact for users and the business. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal PM Manager--SOX ODSP Product Management Manager role focused on leading a team to define and drive the product roadmap for AI-powered collaboration experiences within the OneDrive and SharePoint organization. The role involves people leadership, product strategy, and cross-functional collaboration, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI/ML technologies like Microsoft Copilot and AI agents into enterprise content management and compliance workflows. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Finance Data & Experiences Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft focused on AI within the Finance Data & Experiences organization. The role involves leading architecture for complex AI-driven products, improving AI tools and practices in the SDLC, mentoring engineers, driving integration, ensuring security and compliance, and innovating automation for zero-touch deployments. The goal is to leverage AI for business excellence and customer satisfaction, with an emphasis on Responsible AI practices. | Ship | 7 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture, Data & AI - Melbourne Senior technical leader responsible for shaping enterprise customer modernization of data estates and unlocking production-scale AI transformation. Guides design and adoption of AI-ready data platforms for Generative AI, Copilot, and agent-based solutions, working at the intersection of data, AI, and cloud platforms to drive end-to-end transformation from foundational data architecture to production AI outcomes at scale. Acts as a thought partner and strategic advisor, influencing customer roadmaps, platform decisions, and Microsoft solution plays. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role within Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions with customers to address complex challenges. This role involves data acquisition, model development, evaluation, and strategy, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and customers. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions for customers. This role involves data acquisition, model evaluation, developing operational models at scale, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers to solve complex business challenges. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager- AI Integrity The Principal Product Manager will lead product strategy for AI Integrity Foundations, focusing on post-deployment safety, abuse monitoring, content authenticity, and incident response for frontier AI models and experiences. This role involves defining vision and roadmap for foundational integrity capabilities, improving abuse detection systems, owning incident response product capabilities, evolving provenance and content authenticity, and partnering with various teams to integrate AI integrity and security into Microsoft's ecosystem. The goal is to enable responsible deployment, regulatory compliance, and real-world abuse detection of AI systems and agents at scale, driving 0-to-1 product development and establishing key metrics for AI integrity posture. | ShipAgent | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 - 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |