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 Consultant, AI Business Solutions Senior Consultant, AI Business Solutions at Microsoft, focusing on co-engineering GenAI and agentic solutions for customers on Microsoft platforms. The role involves translating ambiguous business needs into working prototypes and production-ready solutions, with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery, risk mitigation, and evaluation of AI outputs. Requires strong engineering and consulting skills to deliver measurable business outcomes. | Agent | 7 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role focused on building and deploying AI-powered solutions for customers, working at the intersection of advanced AI technology and real-world business impact. Responsibilities include engineering data pipelines, building custom applications, deploying scalable workflows, and monitoring/refining solutions. Requires practical experience with AI/LLMs in production and leveraging generative AI. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on integrating AI capabilities into traditional computer systems and products across Microsoft's Experiences & Devices division. The role involves formulating design patterns, creating prototypes, architecting solutions, and delivering AI-enabled experiences, with a focus on agent-based systems and AI integration into agent workflows. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager Product Manager for the IQ Team (Ontology & Semantic Layer) within Azure Data, focusing on building the semantic backbone that gives AI agents context to reason about business. The role involves defining and delivering the semantic layer vision for Fabric, driving AI-native scenarios by grounding agents in live business operations, and leading end-to-end product strategy and execution for AI solutions on the Fabric platform. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building an agentic engineering platform for AI-powered productivity across Microsoft's codebases, involving AI models and orchestration frameworks. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building an agentic engineering platform for Microsoft developers, leveraging AI models and orchestration frameworks to enhance software engineering workflows like code refactoring and understanding. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying platform capabilities, applying AI-assisted development tools, and mentoring other engineers. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on building a new AI agent platform for enterprise use within Microsoft Copilot Studio. The role involves designing and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable platform capabilities for autonomous agents that can perform multi-step work, operate across contexts, and integrate with Microsoft 365 and Power Platform tools. The position is at the intersection of distributed systems, applied AI, and user experience, requiring leadership in system design, technical execution, and championing engineering excellence. | Agent | 7 |
| Applied Scientist II (Bing Places) Applied Scientist II role on the Bing Places team, focusing on building and shipping AI/ML solutions for local search experiences. The role involves end-to-end work from problem formulation to production deployment, with a focus on LLMs, RAG, learning-to-ranking, and entity understanding. Collaboration with engineering and product partners is key, with opportunities for publications and patents. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist (Bing Places) Senior Applied Scientist role focused on leveraging LLMs, SLMs, and RAG models to improve the Bing Places platform. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying AI solutions, creating data pipelines, and staying updated on AI/ML research. Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and mentoring junior members are key aspects. | Agent | 7 |
| Security Solution Architect AI & Cybersecurity Solution Architect responsible for leading AI security pre-sales for complex AI and cybersecurity solutions on Microsoft Cloud, translating client requirements into custom security architectures, and acting as a trusted advisor to CISOs and Chief AI Officers. | Agent | 7 |
| Azure Apps & AI Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) This role is for an Azure Apps & AI Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focused on Federal Government and Defence customers in highly regulated environments. The primary responsibility is to design, enable, and scale modern cloud applications and secure AI solutions on Azure, helping customers move from AI pilots to production and drive Azure consumption and innovation. | AgentShip | 7 |
| Principal Architect - Apps & AI Principal Architect role focused on leading enterprise-scale AI adoption and delivery, embedding AI-native principles, and driving intelligent automation and agentic workflows. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, shaping technical strategies, and ensuring engineering excellence and compliance in regulated environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Consultant - (AI , Full stack development ) Senior Consultant role focused on designing, developing, and delivering end-to-end, AI-powered, cloud-native applications for enterprise customers. The role requires strong full-stack engineering expertise combined with applied AI capabilities, particularly in LLM and agentic AI solutions, RAG patterns, and Responsible AI principles, with a focus on customer value and technical leadership. | Agent | 7 |
| Dynamics 365 Sales & Service Solution Engineer Pre-sales Solution Engineer for Dynamics 365 Sales & Service, focusing on AI agent capabilities and customer experience transformation. Responsibilities include leading technical engagements, demonstrations, PoCs, and collaborating with sales and partners to propose Microsoft's AI solutions, particularly Dynamics 365 and Copilot Studio, to enterprise clients. The role involves understanding business challenges and showcasing how AI can solve them, while also providing feedback to product teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer The AI Engineer will help build LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Fabric Data Engineering, based on Apache Spark. This includes implementing agentic workflows and scalable LLM-backed data features like AI Functions integration, notebook copilots, and evaluation/telemetry. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered, full-stack cybersecurity capabilities for enterprise customers. The role involves designing and implementing scalable cloud services, LLM-based agentic workflows, and integrating AI for threat detection and response. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on building AI-powered, full-stack capabilities for cybersecurity threat detection and investigation using LLMs, agentic workflows, and cloud services on Azure. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating backend services and APIs, owning features end-to-end, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Emphasis on Responsible AI and leveraging AI tooling for development efficiency. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered tooling and test infrastructure for Azure Data integration products. The role involves using LLMs for test suite generation, identifying coverage gaps, detecting flaky tests, and prioritizing regression risks. It also includes building agents for automated diagnostics, log analysis, incident triage, and developing proactive observability with intelligent alerting. The engineer will also create AI-powered diagnostic tools for support and collaborate on automated incident response. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Copilot Experiences team, focusing on building reliable, performant, and intelligent user experiences for Copilot. The role involves frontend systems, distributed services, and telemetry, with responsibilities spanning client, service, and data layers, including improving reliability and latency of Copilot interactions. It also includes building telemetry pipelines, designing session-level event models, and architecting large-scale, low-latency systems. Experience with AI/agent-based systems in production, observability, evaluation, and conversational interfaces is preferred. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Security Research Intern Security Research Intern role focused on analyzing real-world nation state attacks to develop autonomous detection and disruption logic using AI-assisted tooling and agentic flows. The role involves investigating threats, reasoning over large-scale datasets, and contributing to the implementation of automated capabilities to protect users. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building the foundational cloud-native, distributed platform for developing, executing, and managing agentic AI applications at scale. The role involves defining the future of software development, shaping developer interaction with the platform, and integrating multi-modal AI capabilities into agentic applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager Seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive the design, development, and deployment of generative AI-powered contact center solutions for Dynamics 365. This role involves working directly with top customers on pre-sales and deployment, building solutions hands-on, educating on best practices, and influencing the product roadmap. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Consumer Marketing Senior Data Scientist role focused on consumer marketing personalization and decision science. Responsibilities include defining technical strategy for causal modeling and experimentation, architecting production-grade personalization models, leading ML efforts from framing to deployment, and guiding LLM engineering direction. The role emphasizes collaboration, technical leadership, and driving measurable business outcomes. | AgentData | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Copilot Studio Knowledge team, focusing on improving the accuracy, performance, and scalability of Copilot Studio's generative AI capabilities. The role involves defining architecture, building features, mentoring engineers, and engaging with customers to resolve issues and drive product improvements. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Manager II- Responsible AI Product Manager for Responsible AI, focusing on defining and driving product requirements for capabilities that ensure safe, secure, and trustworthy AI systems. The role involves translating emerging AI risks into scalable product features, working across the AI development lifecycle, and engaging with enterprise customers to understand real-world risks and validate product direction. Success is measured by delivering adopted features that improve AI safety, security, or compliance outcomes. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Copilot Strategic Solution Engineer (Enterprise Commercial) This role focuses on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers by leading technical engagements, designing secure and scalable architectures for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio & Agents, and related AI solutions. The Solution Engineer acts as a trusted advisor, guiding customers through secure, compliant, and value-driven implementations, and collaborating with sales, customer success, and engineering teams to accelerate adoption. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II to build and operate AI Agents as Service for cloud operations, focusing on agent capabilities, orchestration, evaluation, safety, and reliability in production environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to build and operate AI Agents as Service for cloud operations, focusing on agent capabilities, orchestration, evaluation, safety, and reliability in production environments. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Principal Program Manager Principal Program Manager for Strategic Innovation within Microsoft Security Office of the CTO, focusing on identifying, shaping, and driving portfolio-level security incubations for Security for AI and GenAI-driven defense. The role involves translating emerging AI-driven risks into executable strategies and roadmaps, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and engaging with Fortune 500 CISOs. | Agent | 7 |
| Techno Functional Consultant - ABS This role focuses on designing, building, and implementing AI-powered solutions using Microsoft's ecosystem, including Dynamics 365, Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform. The consultant will act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, leading engagements and delivering end-to-end solutions that involve custom AI agents, orchestration, and integration with business processes. The role requires hands-on development, extending Copilot and Power Platform with custom APIs and Azure components, and delivering low-code/no-code solutions with enterprise-grade security. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Windows team, focusing on creating personalized consumer experiences across Xbox, M365, and devices. The role involves leading teams, driving AI adoption, building ML models, and leveraging LLM usage patterns and agentic frameworks for personalization and service health. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to drive the development of next-generation systems for Microsoft Start, focusing on backend services, LLM applications, evaluation frameworks, and prompt engineering to create intelligent user experiences. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| AI Software Engineer AI Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered testing capabilities for Visual Studio and .NET CLI. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent agents for test case suggestion, code analysis, and test maintenance, as well as developing benchmarking frameworks to evaluate AI models for coding tasks. The technology stack includes C# and Azure, leveraging LLMs. | Agent | 7 |
| CTO, Enterprise ASEAN, Thailand CTO for Enterprise ASEAN, Thailand, focusing on designing and implementing Cloud + AI + Agentic technology roadmaps for enterprise customers. The role involves winning CXO mindshare, driving digital transformation, and creating thought leadership in areas like Generative AI and Agentic solutions. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to drive the architectural transformation of Conditional Access into a universal policy engine for users, workloads, and AI agents. This role will own the technical vision for scaling Conditional Access to meet the next generation of identity, including autonomous agents, continuous authorization, data-plane enforcement, and policy portability. The role involves defining architecture, owning technical strategy for the evaluation engine, designing next-generation policy models, leading CA-for-Agents vision, architecting agent identity evaluation, driving cross-org technical alignment, and influencing roadmaps for agent governance. It also includes setting standards for safe rollout, driving testability, and mentoring engineers. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on defining and leading the technical direction for next-generation intelligent, large-scale content platforms. The role involves shaping multi-year technical strategy, driving architectural coherence, and building foundational platforms for multiple product surfaces. Responsibilities include designing distributed backend systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and data platforms at global scale, with a focus on availability, latency, security, and cost efficiency. A key aspect is guiding the integration of LLM-powered capabilities into production systems, defining patterns for retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and responsible AI, ensuring these are deeply embedded, reliable, and scalable. The role requires exceptional technical judgment, operating in ambiguous spaces, and influencing across teams and organizations, working closely with engineering leaders, product leaders, and applied scientists. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Sr Cloud Solution Architect This role is for a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect focused on the Azure AI platform within Microsoft's Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization. The primary responsibility is to enable customers to achieve business outcomes by leveraging Microsoft's AI and ML technologies, specifically by building Generative AI solutions and resolving customer blockers within the 'AI Factory'. The role involves technical leadership, driving customer adoption, providing feedback to engineering, and increasing technical expertise within the field teams. It emphasizes a hands-on approach to designing, building, and troubleshooting AI solutions for customers. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior + Principal Software Engineers- Front End Applied AI for Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) Senior and Principal Software Engineers are needed to build AI-driven security product experiences for Microsoft Threat Protection. This role involves designing and developing full-stack solutions that integrate large language models, multimodal models, and frontier AI capabilities into user-facing applications for threat detection, triage, investigation, and incident response. The focus is on creating AI-native workflows and intuitive interfaces that reduce defender toil and enable new security capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II-Foundry Agent Platform Team Software Engineer II role on the Foundry Agent Platform team at Microsoft, focusing on building foundational AI capabilities for Azure customers. This includes agent distribution, data layers, discovery/search features, billing, and authoring agents. The role involves designing, building, and operating production software, applying AI-assisted techniques, and working with distributed systems and cloud services. | Agent | 7 |
| Dynamics365 & Power Platform Agentic AI Consultant - CTJ - Top Secret Consultant role focused on designing, developing, and implementing Agentic AI solutions using Microsoft's Dynamics365 and Power Platform for US federal government clients. Requires a Top Secret security clearance and proficiency in generative AI, LLMs, and Agentic Frameworks. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Smart Building & Workplace team responsible for designing, building, and shipping agentic employee experiences and full-stack platform features. The role involves working with Angular front-ends, .NET APIs, Azure Container Apps, and M365 Copilot extensibility to build intelligent agents that surface real-time building data, campus services, and personalized workplace insights through natural language. The role emphasizes shipping AI-powered products at enterprise scale and developing expertise in agentic AI and M365 Copilot extensibility. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer-Fullstack-CoreAI Principal Full Stack Software Engineer (UI Focused) for Microsoft Foundry Agents Platform team, building agent-building experiences and tools for developers and enterprises using LLMs and GenAI on Azure. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer & Machine Learning This role involves building AI-driven analytics for Microsoft's Copilot product, focusing on trend detection, cohort analysis, and drill-down workflows using large-scale multimodal data. The engineer will design and implement ML models and scalable data pipelines, ensuring compliance and security, and integrating insights into dashboards and APIs. | Agent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Software Engineer Machine Learning Engineer to build AI Insights, a Copilot analytics product. This role involves designing and implementing AI-driven trend detection, cohort analysis, and drill-down workflows that connect metrics to real user conversations using large-scale multimodal Copilot data. Responsibilities include building data pipelines, implementing ML models, developing secure workflows, and enabling drill-down capabilities linking quantitative metrics to qualitative evidence. | Agent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineering Manager - AI Insights Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead the development of AI Insights, a next-generation Copilot analytics product, focusing on AI-powered analytics for Copilot usage and quality metrics, trend detection, anomaly detection, and predictive insights. The role involves prototyping and productionizing ML models, ensuring data compliance, and integrating with existing platforms. | AgentData | 7 |
| Principal Group PM Manager Principal Group PM Manager to lead a team of Product Managers and own a critical product area within Dynamics 365 Customer Experience AI, focusing on AI-powered Contact Center and Customer Service solutions. The role involves strategy, execution, people management, and cross-team influence for AI-first, agentic, and autonomous products. | Agent | 7 |
| Data Scientist II Data Scientist II at Microsoft Security's Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) team, focusing on building AI/ML algorithms for detecting sophisticated cloud-based attacks, anomalies, compromises, and cyber-attacks using Gen AI and graph-based systems. The role involves extensive data analysis, feature engineering with PySpark, and collaboration with researchers and product teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft's Core AI division, specifically on the Agentic Core Services Team. The team builds the cloud-native, distributed platform for developing, executing, and managing agentic applications at scale. The role involves leading and developing a team of engineers, driving strategic clarity, fostering engineering alignment, delivering cohesive end-to-end experiences, building foundational capabilities, championing customer-centric development, and leading live site excellence for large-scale distributed systems. The focus is on enabling developers to build intelligent, autonomous, and enterprise-grade AI agents, integrating multi-modal capabilities into agentic applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role focuses on building the cloud-native, distributed platform for developing, executing, and managing agentic AI applications at scale. It involves defining the future of software development by shaping how developers interact with the platform, including programming models, user experiences, and a managed runtime for orchestrating agent-based AI applications with enterprise-grade guarantees. The role will collaborate with AI research teams and integrate multi-modal capabilities into agentic applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Quantum Simulation Engineer Develop and refine advanced simulation methods for quantum computing, with a focus on building AI agents/copilots to assist with various aspects of experiment setup, log triage, measurement reporting, protocol templating, and knowledge retrieval. The role aims to use AI to accelerate the development of quantum computers. | Agent | 7 |