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 Product Manager - CoreAI Product Manager for CoreAI at Microsoft, focusing on policy enforcement, compliance automation, and AI-driven engineering automation within Microsoft's internal engineering systems. The role involves driving product strategy for platforms that deliver organizational policy controls, event-driven governance workflows, and intelligent automation, with a specific emphasis on integrating multi-agent systems and agentic workflows into engineering platform capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Search Architect This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on defining and driving the architectural direction for Windows Search and related semantic systems, including indexing, retrieval, ranking, and AI-powered experiences. The role involves leading cross-team technical efforts, ensuring system reliability and quality, and anticipating future needs for agentic and AI-driven Search. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for the Windows Platform & Developer Experience team, focusing on shaping platform primitives, APIs, and tooling for intelligent, agent-driven experiences. The role involves defining product vision for user signals on Windows, driving strategy for capturing and surfacing user context to power Copilot and AI agents, and influencing on-device model usage on Copilot+ PCs. This includes managing the product lifecycle from definition to launch, driving cross-org adoption, and navigating the intersection of AI and the OS. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Microsoft 365 Copilot Cloud Solution Architect focused on AI solutions, primarily Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Copilot Chat, to drive customer AI transformation. The role involves understanding business requirements, designing and implementing AI agent solutions, providing technical support, and maximizing business value and ROI for enterprise clients. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Consultant - Full Stack Apps A2 Senior Consultant role focused on designing, developing, and deploying AI-powered full-stack applications on Microsoft Azure. Requires strong full-stack engineering skills combined with applied AI capabilities, particularly in LLM and agentic AI solutions using frameworks like Semantic Kernel, LangChain, and RAG patterns. The role involves technical leadership, customer engagements, and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives and Responsible AI principles. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager - AI Security (CoreAI) This role focuses on defining and building the security foundation for AI systems, particularly agentic systems, within enterprise applications. The Principal Product Manager will lead product efforts to detect, prevent, and govern AI security risks, integrating these capabilities with Microsoft's broader security stack. The role is at the intersection of AI systems, cybersecurity, and enterprise cloud infrastructure, driving 0-to-1 product development for AI security. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI This Principal Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Playwright team focuses on integrating AI-native and agentic capabilities into test automation. The engineer will design and implement systems enabling autonomous agents to reason about, generate, and validate software behavior, advancing Playwright's runtime, infrastructure, and tooling. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development and intelligent automation within the modern developer workflow. | Agent | 7 |
| Director, MAVS Technology & Product This Director role focuses on leveraging AI and AI-enabled tools to accelerate technical due diligence, product integration, and decision-making for Microsoft's strategic deals (acquisitions, divestitures, data/IP transactions). The role involves leading cross-functional teams, assessing technical risks (including AI/ML, security, privacy, compliance), developing integration plans, and driving innovation in AI-first workflows to improve efficiency and decision quality in a rapidly evolving AI market. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Security Engineer Senior Security Engineer focused on identity security, translating threats into AI-first engineering requirements, analyzing advanced attacks using large-scale telemetry, designing detections, and building automation for investigation and response within Microsoft Security's Identity Security Breach Response Squad. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Teams AI Platform team, focusing on building and operating high-scale backend services that enable AI agents to work seamlessly across Teams. The role involves designing and developing foundational infrastructure, collaborating with AI teams, and ensuring high standards of availability, reliability, and performance for features impacting millions of users. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior AI Development Consultant - AI/Agent Development (Japan) Seeking a Senior AI Development Consultant to lead AI/agent development for enterprise clients using Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI. Responsibilities include architectural design, technical implementation, custom agent development, data and AI foundation building with Microsoft Fabric, and RAG architecture implementation. The role involves end-to-end project delivery and technical support for client workstyle transformation. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer (AI) - Planner Senior Software Engineer on the Path team, focused on modernizing work management with AI by pioneering LLMs and advanced Agentic frameworks. The role involves using AI agents to automate tasks and create intelligent assistants to streamline workflows. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager - Visual Studio Copilot Product Manager for Visual Studio Copilot, focusing on AI-powered developer experiences within the IDE. The role involves defining product strategy, roadmaps, and end-to-end workflows for chat, code completions, and agentic capabilities, requiring close collaboration with engineering, design, research, and data science teams. The goal is to enhance developer productivity while ensuring quality, control, and trust, with a strong emphasis on enterprise readiness and competitive differentiation. | Agent | 7 |
| Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Applications Solution Engineer focused on helping enterprise customers adopt and integrate Microsoft's Cloud & AI Applications, including AI Foundry and Azure AI. The role involves driving technical sales, leading hands-on engagements (PoCs, hackathons), co-designing secure and scalable AI architectures, and resolving technical blockers. Expertise in Agentic AI frameworks, Responsible AI, and cloud-native development is required to accelerate AI application development and deployment. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Senior Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for Microsoft Copilot, aiming to create revolutionary AI-powered experiences across modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with applied AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to millions of users, defining the future of human-AI interaction. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on end-to-end delivery of strategic data science and AI solutions for enterprise clients. Responsibilities include understanding business needs, preparing data, building and deploying predictive and generative AI models, integrating AI applications, and communicating findings to stakeholders. The role emphasizes prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation strategies for LLMs and foundation models, with a strong focus on responsible AI principles and business impact. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Data and AI Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and leading end-to-end enterprise data, GenAI, Copilot, and agentic AI architectures. The Solution Architect will translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and governed solutions, own data platform design for AI readiness, and define GenAI solution patterns including RAG and grounding strategies. They will also lead the architecture for Copilot and AI-augmented applications, integrating AI services into business workflows. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software Engineering II and Senior Software Engineer (Multiple Positions) Teams Copilot Software Engineers (II and Senior) needed to lead engineering efforts for Teams Copilot, leveraging Generative AI, LLMs, and an AI stack to enhance collaboration and user experience. The role involves end-to-end ownership, prototyping, evaluating new AI features, and developing scalable, reliable services with a focus on live-site operations and data-driven decisions. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Principal Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for AI companions like Copilot, spanning multiple modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to create user experiences that redefine AI companionship. The role requires strong full-stack fundamentals and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Engineering Lead - Extreme Retrieval Engineering Lead to build and own the software engineering platform for large-scale machine learning retrieval systems, including RAG for Copilots, web-scale search, and personalized recommendations. The role focuses on translating retrieval research into reusable, scalable systems, defining engineering standards, and integrating new methods. It involves cross-team technical leadership and improving developer/researcher experience. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior & Principal Security Researcher Senior/Principal Security Researcher on the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage (GHOST) team. The role involves performing threat hunts, assisting with investigations, developing threat intelligence, and cultivating investigation best practices into Microsoft tooling and products. Researchers will support a global team to identify and catalog new attacker TTPs, victims, and deliver customer notifications to protect worldwide enterprise customers and empower customers to protect themselves via constantly improving Microsoft products. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer on the Path team at Microsoft, focusing on modernizing work management products (Project, Planner, To Do, Visio) with AI. The role involves pioneering LLMs and agentic frameworks to automate tasks and streamline workflows, contributing to the development of AI-powered productivity tools. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Copilot CLI Senior Software Engineer to build GitHub's coding agent CLI and the core agent loop powering agentic experiences across GitHub and Microsoft. The role focuses on turning AI systems into reliable developer tools, with an emphasis on agentic systems, tool design, agent loops, benchmarking, quality optimization, and high-performance terminal experiences. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) This role focuses on building large-scale Copilot memory and personalization systems using RAG, search, embeddings, retrieval, and ranking. The individual will be responsible for designing and implementing these systems, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring engineers. Experience with LLM applications and large-scale embedding/retrieval/ranking systems is required. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Copilot M365 Calendar Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building AI-powered scheduling systems by integrating backend services, LLMs, APIs, and Outlook services for Microsoft Calendar and Teams. The role involves developing agent-driven solutions to reduce cognitive load and empower users in the hybrid work era. | Agent | 7 |
| Research Intern - Human-AI Interaction Research and Design (Health AI) Research Intern position focused on Human-AI Interaction in Healthcare, applying AI/ML and user-centered design to develop novel solutions for precision medicine. The role involves foundational discovery research, building interactive prototypes, and exploring generative UI and multimodal AI with clinical data. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineering The Microsoft 365 Copilot Windows App team is building intelligent, multimodal AI experiences into Windows, enabling AI agents using MCP to redefine user interaction with devices and bring AI to billions. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent features leveraging voice, camera, and screen context, building and optimizing agentic workflows, and owning end-to-end AI capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Research Intern - Reliability of Cloud and AI Systems Research intern role focused on applying LLM and Agentic technology to improve the reliability of large-scale cloud and AI systems. The role involves analyzing production data, designing and building novel tools for monitoring and troubleshooting, and validating solutions on real Microsoft services. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - CoreAI Software Engineer II - CoreAI role focused on developing connectors and enriching ingested content with AI/ML capabilities for Azure AI Search, aiming to make it the knowledge and memory layer for Agentic applications. This involves generating vector embeddings, transforming data, and advancing multi-modal search. | AgentData | 7 |