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Microsoft

Microsoft

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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.

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Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).

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Frequently asked questions

  • What AI roles is Microsoft hiring for?

    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.

  • What stage of AI development does Microsoft focus on?

    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.

  • Where is Microsoft hiring AI talent?

    Microsoft is hiring AI talent in: United States (308 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (8 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).

  • What skills does Microsoft look for in AI roles?

    Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.

  • How many AI roles has Microsoft posted recently?

    In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 227 new AI-related roles.

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AI Product Management, Copilot
The Senior AI Product Manager will drive Copilot model capabilities such as tool-use to ensure that the language models that power Microsoft Copilot deliver high quality responses to our users whilst being grounded, reliable, and cost-efficient. This role works at the nexus of product and research, driving execution in partnership with engineers, language engineers, data scientists and researchers. Responsibilities include developing LLM platform strategy, prototyping approaches, identifying and prioritizing issues impacting quality/factuality/safety, defining and building evaluations, defining and deploying experiments for tool use, and partnering with teams to scale tool building and resolve dependencies.
AgentEval GateProductMountain View, CA +2Apr 288
Senior Product Manager - Agentic Platform
Product Manager for Microsoft's Agentic Engineering platform, focusing on building and scaling AI-powered developer tools and experiences for thousands of Microsoft engineers. The role involves defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the core orchestration layer, developer tools, plugin marketplace, and enterprise governance, with a strong emphasis on hands-on use of AI tools and driving adoption.
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Security Research Intern - AI Focus
AI Security Research Intern focused on developing autonomous systems to detect and disrupt cyber attacks in near real-time, leveraging LLMs and agentic frameworks.
AgentResearchHerzliya, Tel Aviv District, ILApr 288
Applied Scientist II
Applied Scientist II role at Microsoft focusing on integrating AI research into productivity products like M365 Copilot. The role involves defining and leading research projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the scientific community through publications. Research areas include reinforcement learning, agentic systems, multimodal modeling, post-training techniques, and LLM applications.
Post-trainAgentResearchUnited StatesApr 278
Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Engineer
Applied AI Engineer role focused on building and shipping LLM-powered assistant features, agentic behaviors, and retrieval pipelines. Responsibilities include prompt architecture, orchestration logic, evaluation frameworks, hillclimbing for performance improvement, and developing internal tooling for experimentation and debugging. The role also involves integrating LLMs with product surfaces and building lightweight ML components for enhanced assistant intelligence. Requires experience in production-level code/models and working in fast-moving AI teams with a startup-like energy.
AgentEval GateEngineeringMountain View, CA +2Apr 278
Principal Applied Scientist
Principal Applied Scientist role at Microsoft AI Web Data team, focusing on building the data foundation for Bing and Microsoft AI experiences. This involves large-scale grounding, LLM training, and end-to-end processing of web content. The role translates research into production, advancing state-of-the-art modeling and deploying algorithms to improve system performance and accuracy.
Post-trainPretrainResearchRedmond, WA +1Apr 248
Senior Software Engineer - Responsible AI (CoreAI)
Senior Software Engineer focused on building Responsible AI services, including identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring AI risks across various content types. The role involves designing and developing large-scale distributed cloud services with a focus on safety, governance, inference, evaluation, and multimodal safety infrastructure.
Eval GateAgentEngineeringMountain View, CA +2Apr 248
Software Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building and scaling an agentic engineering platform for AI-powered developer productivity across Microsoft. The role involves managing engineers, setting team direction, fostering experimentation, and partnering with other teams to advance AI in developer workflows.
AgentEngineeringVancouver, BC +1Apr 238
Principal Software Engineer (AI / Agentic Developer Productivity)
The Principal Software Engineer will build and own the agentic engineering platform used across Microsoft, orchestrating AI models to enhance developer productivity. This role involves designing, implementing, and shipping features for the platform, advocating for best practices in agentic development, and mentoring other engineers. The focus is on creating the core agentic platform and experiences, with a tight feedback loop from internal developer customers.
AgentEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Apr 238
Senior Software Engineer (AI / Agentic Developer Productivity)
Senior Software Engineer to build and own the agentic AI platform for developer productivity at Microsoft scale, orchestrating AI models and experiences for thousands of developers.
AgentEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Apr 238
Senior Researcher - Efficient AI
Senior Researcher focused on advancing efficiency across the AI stack for generative AI serving systems, spanning models, ML frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and hardware. The role involves algorithmic and systems optimization for latency, throughput, and cost, with a strong emphasis on driving research ideas through prototyping, validation, and production deployment.
ServePost-trainResearchBengaluru, KA, INApr 238
Snr Applied Scientist
Lead the science behind Copilot Discover's ranking and content-quality stack, combining LLMs, multimodal models, and large-scale recommender systems to drive measurable gains in engagement, satisfaction, and trust. This role involves setting technical direction, mentoring scientists, and partnering with engineering, PM, UXR, and policy to ship end-to-end outcomes.
ShipEval GateEngineeringEgyptApr 228
Research Intern - Computer Vision and Deep Learning
Research intern position focused on computer vision and deep learning to improve user understanding of devices and environments. Involves analyzing multimodal sensor data and human-object interactions to enhance human-computer interactions, with opportunities to advance the state of the art.
DataResearchRedmond, WA +1Apr 218
Principal Product Manager - Microsoft AI and Copilot
Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Copilot's Identity & Expression layer, focusing on how AI agents communicate intent, reasoning, and trust. This role involves defining strategy, owning a reference implementation (Mico), translating AI capabilities into enterprise value, establishing trust models, and leading AI evaluation for expressive and agentic experiences, using Japan as a pilot market.
AgentEval GateProductTokyo, Tokyo, JapanApr 208
Customer Experience Program Manager
This role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying end-to-end AI/ML solutions for enterprise customers using Python and Azure AI services. It involves building AI models and agents, working with data pipelines, and engaging directly with customers to solve business challenges.
AgentPost-trainEngineeringSingaporeApr 198
Principal Product Management
Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Edge, focusing on defining and executing an AI-native product strategy to enhance user experience and collapse the distance between user intent and accomplishment. The role involves inventing new AI-driven features, translating frontier AI capabilities into customer-facing products, and driving product strategy from research to shipped product.
ShipProductRedmond, WA +1Apr 178
Senior Director, Design - Model Experience
Seeking a Design leader to own the end-to-end design quality of AI model personality, tone, and user-facing experiences. This player-coach role involves hands-on IC work (80%) and coaching a small team (20%) of model and UX designers. Responsibilities include defining the creative vision, shaping model personality, driving UX for product surfaces, and building evaluation systems for design quality. The role requires a strong design craft, intuition for language and personality, and the ability to ship regularly.
Post-trainShipProductRedmond, WA +2Apr 178
Senior Research Software Engineer
Senior Research Software Engineer on the Agentic Experiences team at Microsoft Research. The role involves designing and building software using AI tools and agentic workflows across the SDLC, from prototypes to scalable products. Responsibilities include coding, design, engineering excellence, cross-project collaboration, and technical leadership, with a focus on AI-native development and agentic experiences.
AgentShipEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Apr 168
Principal AI Software Architect
Principal AI Software Architect role focused on enabling and optimizing machine learning model training workflows on custom hardware (MAIA accelerators). Requires expertise in PyTorch, Triton/CUDA, and understanding of accelerator architecture for efficient deployment of large models.
DataEngineeringRedmond, WA +2Apr 168
Principal Software Engineer
Principal Software Engineer focused on optimizing GPU inference for large-scale deep learning models (LLMs/SLMs) within Microsoft's AI-native monetization platform, serving ads, shopping, and Copilot.
ServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Apr 158
Principal Product Manager - Foundry Inferencing & Training (CoreAI - multiple roles)
Product Manager for Microsoft Foundry's AI Models & Training organization, focusing on platforms and infrastructure for training, evaluating, launching, and operating AI models at scale. The role involves defining product strategy and roadmaps for model training, inference, experimentation, and platform enablement, driving initiatives across the AI model lifecycle, and enabling internal teams and customers to access and adopt models. Requires strong technical fluency, ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, and experience with AI/ML platforms and infrastructure.
ServePost-trainProductRedmond, WA +4Apr 158
Principal Research Software Engineer
Principal Research Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and direct technical contribution on the AI Agentic Core Team. The mission is to accelerate the path from research to product by building AI-driven systems, workflows, and platforms that help researchers and product teams move faster from exploration to real-world impact. This role involves collaborating with engineers, researchers, and product teams to build high-impact systems spanning early-stage prototypes through production-ready tools, services, and experiences, while modernizing how software is designed, built, evaluated, and shipped. The role requires designing, developing, and shipping systems that transition MSR concepts into production-quality tools, services, and product capabilities, owning the end-to-end engineering lifecycle. It also involves defining and implementing AI-driven processes that accelerate research-to-product pipelines using LLMs, agentic workflows, and modern developer tooling, including designing and integrating agentic AI frameworks and LLM-based pipelines, developing tool-use and function-calling architectures, and applying prompt design, RAG, and evaluation frameworks. Contributions to model experimentation and fine-tuning are also part of the role.
AgentServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Apr 148
Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI
Principal Engineer on the AI Core Infrastructure team, responsible for large-scale GPU management infrastructure and inference/training platforms powering Microsoft's AI workloads. The role involves setting roadmaps, designing backend services, and providing insights for customers to monitor, troubleshoot, and scale AI training workloads on supercomputers. Focus on ML infrastructure, distributed systems, and observability.
ServePost-trainEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Apr 148
Principal Software Engineering - AI Frameworks
Principal Software Engineer on the AI Frameworks team at Microsoft, focusing on developing and optimizing software for running AI models across diverse hardware platforms. This includes working on ONNX, ONNX Runtime for high-performance inferencing and training acceleration, and Foundry Local for on-device inference.
ServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +3Apr 148
Principal Product Designer, AI Experiences
Product Designer for Microsoft's Superintelligence Team, focusing on end-to-end UX for AI product surfaces like MM Labs and Playground. This role leverages AI-native tools and agentic coding workflows to rapidly prototype and ship UI, bridging the gap between design and engineering. The designer will collaborate with researchers and model designers, contribute to design systems, and use data to inform decisions, with a high bar for visual craft and interaction quality.
ShipProductLondon, United Kingdom +1Apr 148
Principal Software Engineer
Principal Software Engineer role focused on building and supporting large-scale GPU management infrastructure and inference/training platforms for AI workloads at Microsoft. The role involves architecting, designing, and developing core AI infrastructure services and compute, storage, and networking subsystems for LLM training, customization, and inference.
ServePost-trainEngineeringBengaluru, KA, IN +1Apr 88
Senior Software Engineer, CoreAI Workload Engines
Senior Software Engineer focused on building and optimizing foundational inference engines and APIs for large-scale AI inference across Azure. The role involves improving latency, throughput, availability, and cost for LLMs, working with OpenAI and open-source models, and developing experimentation capabilities for safe and rapid iteration.
ServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +2Apr 78
Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI Workload Engines
Principal Software Engineer focused on building and optimizing foundational inference engines and APIs for large-scale AI inference across Azure. The role involves driving production-grade serving improvements for OpenAI and open-source LLMs, focusing on latency, throughput, availability, and cost efficiency. Responsibilities include making hands-on engine changes, building experimentation capabilities, and designing inference serving architectures to support multitenant AI systems at global scale.
ServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +2Apr 78
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for Microsoft Teams Calling, Meeting & Devices group to deliver next-generation innovations using foundation models, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering. The role involves developing and deploying conversational and language understanding models at scale, creating ML pipelines, and collaborating with research and AI groups to build AI innovations in products and services.
AgentPost-trainEngineeringCzech RepublicMar 318
Principal Applied Scientist - CoreAI
The Principal Applied Scientist will develop machine learning techniques for safety, alignment, and trustworthy AI, collaborating across teams to build and maintain responsible AI systems from development to production. This role focuses on the application and improvement of AI models, particularly large language models, within Microsoft's CoreAI organization.
Post-trainResearchRedmond, WA +4Mar 308
Member of Technical Staff, AI Platform Engineer - Response Quality
The AI Platform Engineer role focuses on building and improving systems within the response quality stack for AI products at Microsoft. This includes data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, RAG, and inference serving. The role involves designing and operating a data flywheel to collect production signals for model improvements, identifying and fixing quality degradation, shipping production retrieval systems, and collaborating with researchers and cross-functional teams to translate quality insights into shipped improvements. The position requires production code ownership end-to-end and emphasizes rapid iteration and deployment.
AgentServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Mar 278
Member of Technical Staff, Senior Applied AI Engineer
Senior Applied AI Engineer role focused on building and shipping LLM-powered assistant features and agentic systems. Responsibilities include designing and developing conversational flows, retrieval pipelines, and multimodal interactions using prompt architectures and orchestration logic. The role also involves building evaluation frameworks, running hillclimbing loops for continuous improvement, and developing internal tools for experimentation and debugging. Integration with product surfaces and building lightweight ML components are key. The team operates with startup energy in a fast-moving AI environment.
AgentEval GateEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Mar 268
Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI Model Inference & Serving
Principal 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.
ServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +2Mar 238
Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI
This role focuses on building and optimizing high-performance runtime systems for large-scale LLM inferencing, specifically for OpenAI chat and multimodal AI models. The engineer will be responsible for systems-level optimization, microservice design, and ensuring the latency, throughput, cost, and reliability of AI inference pipelines.
ServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Mar 238
Member of Technical Staff, AI Systems Engineer - Microsoft Superintelligence
The role focuses on integrating custom AI silicon with AI inference frameworks like SGLang, optimizing LLM inference performance, and developing custom operators. It involves working with hardware accelerators and potentially non-CUDA ecosystems, aiming to improve AI workload efficiency.
ServeEngineeringZürich, ZH, SwitzerlandMar 238
Principal Applied Science Manager
This role is for a Principal Applied Science Manager at Microsoft Bing's RAI Defensives team. The primary focus is on managing a team to research and ship state-of-the-art Deep Learning (DL) based NLP models for web-scale services, specifically for detecting harmful queries and content to ensure customer safety and a positive user experience. The role involves people management, technical leadership, and delivering reliable, scalable distributed services.
ShipEngineeringHyderabad, TS, INMar 138
Member of Technical Staff, Senior Applied AI Engineer, Image Generation
Senior Applied AI Engineer focused on building and shipping image generation capabilities for AI assistants and productivity tools. This role involves model development, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment, with a strong emphasis on integrating LLMs and delivering customer-facing features.
ShipPost-trainEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Mar 128
MTS - AI Platform Engineer
This role focuses on building and optimizing AI Agents with world-class orchestration and inference layers. The engineer will develop secure and performant AI Platform services that power products like Copilot, working collaboratively with researchers and other engineers to create next-generation AI products and services. The emphasis is on shipping high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code within a fast-paced development cycle.
AgentEngineeringRedmond, WA +2Mar 128
Applied Engineer II
Applied Engineer II role focused on developing and integrating AI technologies, including foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG, and multi-agent architectures. The role involves fine-tuning models, evaluating behavior, building prototypes, and deploying solutions into production, with a strong emphasis on responsible AI and ethical considerations.
AgentPost-trainEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Mar 118
Principal Technical Program Manager - Applied Science
Principal Technical Program Manager for the OneDrive and SharePoint Applied Science team, focusing on driving high-ambition applied research in areas like agentic AI, retrieval, and content understanding to reshape knowledge management within Microsoft 365. The role involves shaping strategy, managing complex science-heavy initiatives, and ensuring scientific advancements translate into product and platform impact, with a focus on enabling invention at scale and influencing organizational direction.
AgentEval GateProductRedmond, WA +1Mar 68
Research Intern - AI Safety and Security
Research intern position focused on LLM safety and security, involving research into protecting LLMs from malicious inputs and using LLMs for computer security. The role involves collaboration with researchers and contributing to research publications.
Post-trainAgentResearchRedmond, WA +1Mar 58
Member of Technical Staff - Prompt Engineer
This role focuses on prompt engineering for an AI companion, aiming to create empathetic and collaborative user experiences. Responsibilities include designing prompting techniques, establishing frameworks for social and ethical navigation, and creating evaluations for AI behavior. The role requires experience with chain-of-thought prompting, scaled implementation of prompted systems, and evaluation design.
AgentEngineeringMountain View, CA +1Mar 38
MTS - Platform Engineer (Tools)
The role focuses on designing and optimizing AI Agents and their orchestration layers for Copilot and other AI-powered experiences. It involves building robust systems for multi-model/multi-service workflows, pushing inference performance for low-latency execution, and enabling agents to securely and efficiently call APIs and services. The ideal candidate has backend or ML systems expertise at the intersection of product and inference, building scalable and reliable AI platforms.
AgentServeEngineeringRedmond, WA +1Mar 38
Senior Applied Scientist
Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in NLP, deep learning, and Ads recommender systems to design and implement ML models for relevance systems across Microsoft Ads and Shopping (Bing, Copilot). The role focuses on enhancing ad relevance and optimizing user experiences, operating end-to-end for ads and shopping products.
ShipEngineeringRedmond, WA +2Feb 268
Principal Product Manager
Principal Product Manager for Search & AI team, focusing on next-generation agentic AI products. The role involves defining vision and execution for generative experiences across search, chat, and other agentic applications, empowering users to accomplish complex tasks. Responsibilities include roadmap definition, turning model capabilities into product features, working with cross-functional teams, and using evaluation methods for product quality and safety. The role emphasizes driving DAU growth through product strategy, distribution tactics, and partnerships.
AgentProductHyderabad, TS, IN +1Feb 248
Senior Researcher - Machine Learning - Microsoft Research
Senior Researcher in Machine Learning within Microsoft Research's Health Futures organization, focusing on advancing AI for biomedicine and life sciences discovery. The role involves designing, implementing, and evaluating novel AI methodologies, including post-training, inference-time optimization, and interpretability techniques.
Post-trainServeResearchRedmond, WA +1Feb 248
Senior Applied AI Engineer
Senior Applied AI Engineer for the Customer Service Applications Team, focusing on developing and integrating AI technologies, including foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG, graphs, and multi-agent architectures, into Microsoft products. The role involves fine-tuning models, evaluating their behavior, building prototypes, contributing to production deployment, and translating research into scalable, impactful solutions. Emphasis on responsible AI practices and leveraging AI for real-world customer service outcomes.
AgentPost-trainEngineeringMountain View, CA +2Feb 178
Member of Technical Staff, High Performance Computing Engineer - MAI SuperIntelligence Team
This role focuses on building and scaling the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure required for training frontier AI models and powering AI products like Copilot. The engineer will design, operate, and maintain large-scale HPC environments, including schedulers, GPU compute, storage, and networking. Responsibilities include developing automation, supporting researchers and engineers, and troubleshooting cluster issues. The role requires experience with on-premise or cloud HPC clusters, high-scale training clusters, and public cloud infrastructure.
DataEngineeringUnited StatesFeb 118
Research Intern - AI Safety & Reliability for LLM Systems
Research intern to study LLM-based assistants' behavior with incomplete information, focusing on uncertainty awareness, responsible reasoning, and robustness for enterprise AI systems.
AgentResearchRedmond, WA +1Feb 108
Applied Researcher 2/ Senior Applied Researcher
Applied Researcher role focused on post-training code specific models and agentic research for developer tools like Github Copilot. The role involves building and managing ML experiments, creating datasets, and collaborating with product teams to apply and advance LLM approaches for software engineering, including RAG and evaluation, with opportunities to ship AI advancements to millions of developers.
Post-trainAgentResearchRedmond, WA +1Feb 108