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 |
|---|---|---|
| Research Intern - Microsoft Teams (PhD) Research intern role at Microsoft Teams focusing on AI-driven innovation in collaboration and communication technologies. Projects may involve AI agents, conversation intelligence, meeting efficiency, and user experience, with a strong emphasis on privacy, security, and accessibility. The role involves applying research methods to real-world challenges in digital collaboration. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Principal Applied Scientist This role focuses on building and improving AI agent platforms, specifically the Agent Performance team within Azure AI Platform. The core responsibility is to integrate scientific advancements, particularly RL techniques like RLHF, into production-ready features for AI agents. The role involves monitoring, evaluating, optimizing, and enabling self-improvement of these agents, bridging the gap between research and product. |
| AgentPost-train |
| 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer This role involves partnering directly with customers to translate real-world problems into production-grade AI solutions using cutting-edge AI innovation. The Forward Deployed Engineer will design, develop, and deploy sophisticated AI-powered systems at scale, engineer data pipelines, build custom applications, and deploy scalable workflows. The role also involves monitoring, refining, and driving adoption of built solutions, and sharing field insights to influence AI platform direction. Requires a strong balance of AI understanding and practical software engineering experience, with a focus on generative AI and ML/LLM-based solutions in production. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior/Principal Software Engineer Senior/Principal Software Engineer role focused on building and improving intelligent systems, specifically agents and evaluation frameworks, within the Microsoft Security organization. The role involves leading complex technical problem-solving, partnering with customers, translating customer needs into scalable product capabilities, and driving experimentation and learning loops for product improvement. Emphasis on end-to-end ownership, engineering standards, and mentorship. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on applying machine learning and AI agents to sales compensation and incentive plans. The role involves designing, developing, and implementing ML solutions, building data pipelines, and leveraging Microsoft's AI/ML stack to drive insights and improve sales operations. The position requires strong business acumen in sales compensation and the ability to translate business context into analytical frameworks. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Researcher, Office Product Group Principal Researcher role within the Office Product Group at Microsoft, focusing on advancing AI-powered experiences embedded in Microsoft 365 applications. The role involves designing, developing, evaluating, and deploying AI systems that can reason and act across tools and documents, with a strong emphasis on scaling these capabilities to a large user base. Key responsibilities include developing frameworks for AI component coordination, improving code generation, implementing fine-tuning and post-training for LLMs, designing evaluation strategies for real-world workflows, and collaborating to translate research into production-ready features. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to join the Microsoft Discovery team, working on an AI-driven platform that transforms the scientific research process using AI agents and high-performance computing. The role involves designing and building scalable, distributed systems, driving features from ideation to rollout, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering velocity with AI-enabled enhancements. Collaboration with Microsoft Research and platform teams is key, along with applying site-reliability engineering practices. | Agent | 7 |
| Solution Architecture -- Copilot Solution Architect role focused on designing and deploying solutions leveraging Microsoft technologies, particularly Copilot and Agentic solutions. The role involves gathering client requirements, architecting solutions, building technical capabilities, and supporting pre-sales and implementation. It emphasizes deep product knowledge in Business Applications, Modern Work, Copilot, and Agentic solutions, with a focus on AI applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing cloud-based solutions for customers by leveraging modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. The role involves collaborating with customers and internal teams to build innovative solutions, with a specific emphasis on deploying, integrating, and operating AI/ML/LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, RAG, and model evaluation. | Agent | 7 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer This role focuses on developing user-facing Generative AI features and building AI agent platforms, requiring a blend of AI knowledge and software development expertise to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions for enterprise clients. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Gen AI & Agents Software Engineer II role focused on building and maintaining enterprise AI agent systems for security customers. This involves designing, developing, and integrating AI agents with enterprise platforms, ensuring data privacy, compliance, and responsible AI practices, and supporting agent operations in production. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and delivering AI/ML/LLM-based solutions for enterprise customers, involving prompt engineering, RAG, deployment, operation, evaluation, and monitoring of AI systems using cloud platforms. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role focuses on building a new platform for AI agents that can act as teammates in enterprise environments. The agents will handle multi-step tasks, operate across contexts, retain memory, and manage novel problems with minimal supervision. The role involves distributed systems, applied AI, and user experience, with a focus on defining agent operation and scaling the architecture. | Agent | 7 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Microsoft 365 Copilot Cloud Solution Architect focused on AI solutions, specifically Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Copilot Chat, to help customers with their AI transformation. The role involves understanding business requirements, designing and implementing AI agent solutions, and providing technical support to customers, aiming to maximize business value and ROI. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist - Computer Vision for Quantum Senior Applied Scientist role focused on building and scaling analytical pipelines and AI/ML models for experimental microscopy imaging and characterization data in the quantum computing domain. The role involves developing agentic workflows, image analysis algorithms, and ensuring the robustness and reliability of production-grade analysis systems to provide actionable insights for engineering teams. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building the cloud-native, distributed platform for agentic AI applications at scale. The role involves defining the future of software development, shaping developer interaction with the platform, and designing a managed, distributed runtime for orchestrating agent-based AI applications. It requires integrating multi-modal capabilities into agentic applications and working with AI/ML infrastructure. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer 2 Software Engineer role focused on building full-stack solutions with a strong emphasis on next-generation AI skills, including multi-agent frameworks, RAG, and LLM integration. The role involves designing and implementing APIs, front-end components, back-end services, and cloud deployments, with a requirement for hands-on experience in Generative AI and Agentic AI applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager Product Manager for Microsoft's Azure Data team, focusing on the IQ Team's Ontology & Semantic Layer. This role will build the operational brain for organizations to run their agents by providing a semantic backbone that gives AI agents context for reasoning about business. The goal is to bridge raw data and business meaning to enable AI agents to understand data's meaning, powering grounded, trustworthy, and actionable intelligence at scale. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Solution Architect Senior Solution Architect for Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) Canada, focusing on architecting and delivering AI-powered enterprise solutions using emerging Microsoft platform capabilities. The role involves leading technical teams, driving AI-first delivery practices, and ensuring engineering-grade rigor in solution design and implementation at enterprise scale. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - AI Engineering / Python/DS Software Engineer II role focused on building LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric, utilizing Apache Spark. The role involves implementing agentic workflows, scalable LLM features, and robust data pipelines, with a strong emphasis on AI engineering, evaluation, and operationalization of LLM systems. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Full Stack (The Fabric Data Engineering Experience & Infrastructure) Software Engineer II role focused on building LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric. The role involves implementing agentic workflows, LLM-backed data features, and operationalizing AI/ML features, with a focus on full-stack development including React-based UX and backend services in .NET/Python. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer II to build key features across the Copilot stack in Bing, spanning backend services, LLM prompting, and cross-surface UI experiences. The role involves creating AI-powered experiences for real-world decision-making, integrating Search, Maps, and Copilot. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineering IC3 Software Engineer role focused on designing and building AI-native systems and agentic workflows within Microsoft's commercial sales ecosystem. The role involves understanding business processes, prototyping, shipping scalable features, and integrating systems to create AI-powered workflows, with a strong emphasis on proficiency in AI-native development using agent harnesses and LLMs. | Agent | 7 |
| PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENG MGR The Principal Software Engineering Manager will lead a team focused on AI-powered developer productivity tooling and agentic systems. This role involves managing engineers, setting team direction, fostering experimentation with AI approaches, and championing the use of AI in daily workflows. The manager will also be responsible for career development, cross-team partnerships, and recruiting. | Agent | 7 |
| Solution Engineer - Copilot Solution Engineer focused on driving adoption of Microsoft's AI-powered Copilot and agent-based platforms, designing and delivering solutions for customers to transform productivity and business processes, moving them from experimentation to scaled, production-ready AI adoption. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist (Bing Places) Senior Applied Scientist on the Bing Places team, responsible for designing, building, and shipping advanced AI and ML solutions including LLMs, RAG, learning-to-ranking, and entity understanding for local search experiences. The role involves end-to-end ownership from problem formulation and data analysis to model development, experimentation, production deployment, and live flighting, collaborating with engineering and product partners. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Commercial Engineering & AI (CEAI) at Microsoft, focusing on transforming the support ecosystem into an AI-first, agent-powered model. The role involves owning and delivering AI-powered support experiences and agent-based workflows to improve customer outcomes and operational efficiency at global scale. Responsibilities include defining product vision, leading design and delivery of AI-powered experiences, driving product execution, and using data and experimentation for continuous improvement. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr. Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and integrating cutting-edge AI into Microsoft products and services within the Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) group. The role involves applied research, ML engineering, and product innovation, with a focus on shipping reliable, production-grade AI systems from model development to deployment. Responsibilities include backend system design, end-to-end ownership, data and platform infrastructure, performance optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Manager II - Microsoft Foundry Product Manager II for Microsoft Foundry, focusing on building and scaling an AI-first application stack, including agent runtimes, orchestration, and a model serving platform. The role involves defining product offerings, identifying opportunities for team velocity, tracking metrics, managing dependencies, and communicating with executives. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II for Microsoft's Business & Industry Copilots group, specifically on the Copilot Studio AI Orchestration team. This role focuses on leveraging and optimizing generative AI models for agent actions, decisions, and responses within conversational and autonomous agents. The team powers millions of agents daily and integrates with various Microsoft products. | Agent | 7 |
| Principle Security Researcher This Principal Security Researcher role focuses on advancing vulnerability research using AI/ML. The role involves developing AI-powered systems for automated bug discovery, validation, and exploit generation, translating research into practical security solutions across Microsoft's products and the open-source ecosystem. It requires deep systems expertise combined with AI/ML application to security problems. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Security Researcher Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft focusing on AI-driven vulnerability discovery and exploitation. The role involves developing AI-powered systems for automated bug finding, validation, and exploit generation, translating research into practical security solutions across Microsoft products and the open-source ecosystem. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-infused enterprise applications, Agentic Solutions, and Copilots within Microsoft's Commercial Sales Experiences (CSX) team. The role involves leading the full software development lifecycle, from design to deployment, with an emphasis on leveraging AI technologies and Azure services to enhance user experience and productivity. The position requires strong technical leadership, solution design, mentorship, and collaboration skills, with a focus on building high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - Search The Principal Software Engineering Manager will lead a team of 7-10 engineers responsible for the Windows Search Platform, evolving it into an AI-native infrastructure layer. This includes enabling Copilot, LLM integrations, and agentic discovery patterns, as well as developing the Windows AI Platform for developers. The role involves owning technical direction, driving cross-functional partnerships, establishing release discipline and observability, and mentoring the engineering team. Experience with AI/ML integration in systems software, LLM consumption, and embedding-based retrieval is preferred. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on building high-impact AI solutions, specifically agentic AI at scale, for strategic customers on the Azure platform. This involves developing complex systems from ideation to production, identifying and building reusable solution patterns, and staying current with the latest advancements in agentic AI. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Solution Engineer - Agentic CRM (AI Agents × Copilot × Dynamics365 Sales & Service | Enterprise Lead Solution Engineer for Agentic CRM, focusing on proposing and closing deals for next-generation business platforms combining Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents. The role involves designing and proposing business transformation scenarios using AI, leading pre-sales activities, and collaborating with sales, partners, and global teams to drive large-scale strategic projects for enterprise clients. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Cloud Solution Architect Senior Cloud Solution Architect for Azure AI platform, focused on enabling customers to achieve outcomes with Microsoft technology. This role involves accelerating customer adoption by building Generative AI solutions, resolving blockers for AI Factory projects, and providing technical feedback to Engineering. The architect will lead technical conversations, design AI solutions aligned with business needs, and drive consumption growth. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager - M365 Messaging Principal Product Manager for the Microsoft 365 Messaging team, focusing on the conversation store platform that powers Copilot across Microsoft 365. The role involves owning the strategy and roadmap for how Copilot and agents persist, load, and reason over conversations, including notifications and tasks. It requires driving convergence towards a unified schema, championing enterprise trust, and ensuring operational health for a large-scale distributed system at the center of Microsoft's AI strategy. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on building foundational capabilities for software supply chain protection within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The role involves analyzing large volumes of code, understanding its behavior, tracing provenance, and developing new security primitives for threat detection and prevention, including AI-assisted methods. This is a greenfield effort with deep integration into Microsoft's ecosystem and open-source platforms. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - Finance Data & Experiences Principal Technical Program Manager to lead an AI-first transformation of the Finance Data & Insights portfolio, shaping product strategy and experience across data platforms, AI agents, dashboards, and analytical tools. The role involves integrating Microsoft technologies like Copilot and Fabric into business solutions, driving end-to-end delivery of scalable, AI-powered experiences, and partnering with engineering and product teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Architect Principal Software Engineering Architect for Azure Resource Graph team to lead expansion into next-generation big data and LLM/agentic platform services. Focus on designing scalable architectures for distributed systems integrating ML and intelligent agents, defining strategy for LLM/agentic services, and guiding engineering teams in building high-performance services. | Agent | 7 |
| Power Platform/Copilot Solution Engineer Pre-sales engineer for Power Platform, focusing on Copilot Studio and M365 Copilot. Responsibilities include understanding customer business challenges, proposing Power Platform solutions from a technical perspective, collaborating with sales and partners, leading technical engagements like demonstrations and proof-of-concept sessions, and driving AI transformation with Copilot and Agents. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Solution Engineer - Agentic ERP (AI Agents × Copilot × Dynamics 365 F&SC (ERP) | Enterprise) Lead Solution Engineer for Agentic ERP, combining Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents to redefine business processes and create next-generation enterprise solutions. Focuses on pre-sales leadership, solution design, and driving business transformation for large enterprises. | Agent | 7 |
| Architect - AI Business Solutions This role focuses on architecting and designing AI-powered business solutions, primarily leveraging Microsoft technologies like Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and Azure. The architect will engage with clients to understand their business and technical requirements, assess their AI readiness, and propose end-to-end solutions. Key responsibilities include designing scalable agentic systems, ensuring secure data access, managing agent orchestration, and guiding clients through the adoption and implementation of these AI solutions. The role also involves acting as a trusted advisor, contributing to practice development, and mentoring technical talent. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Lead Technical Program Manager - Windows Agentic Platform Security The Principal Lead Technical Program Manager will drive the product roadmap for security within the Windows agentic platform, focusing on AI-powered security experiences and their extensions across the broader Windows application platform. This role involves strategic leadership, technical depth, and people management to define vision, build team capability, and scale execution for platform-level identity, containment, governance, and recovery experiences for AI agents. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager The Principal Product Manager will lead the strategy, design, development, and operation of Windows Supportability Intelligence dashboards, data pipelines, and AI agents. The role focuses on identifying Windows components that generate escalations, surfacing actionable recommendations, and alerting engineering leadership through AI-powered analysis of product telemetry and case patterns. The goal is to improve product quality and customer satisfaction by detecting and resolving issues faster. | Agent | 7 |
| NPI Program Manager This role focuses on building AI-powered workflows and data systems to enhance the productivity of NPI Program Managers within Microsoft. The core responsibility is to design and deploy tools, structured data sources, and agentic AI solutions to improve risk foresight and pattern recognition in hardware program management. It involves owning the data model, delivering tooling for risk surfacing, and architecting LLM-based and agentic workflows for status synthesis and reporting. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and architecting an agentic bidding platform for digital advertising, leveraging AI, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems to optimize bids in real-time auctions. The role involves developing AI agents that monitor, reason, and adapt autonomously, optimizing advertiser ROI and driving significant revenue. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing, building, and scaling AI-powered solutions for legal workflows and agentic experiences within enterprise systems, leveraging Azure AI and Copilot technologies. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer/ Principal Software Engineer - Copilot CLI Senior/Principal Software Engineer to build a coding agent CLI and core agent loop for terminal experiences across GitHub and Microsoft. Focus on turning AI systems into reliable developer tools, with strengths in agentic systems, tool design, evaluation, and high-performance terminal UIs. | Agent | 7 |