Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Researcher - Artificial Specialized Intelligence - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher in Artificial Specialized Intelligence focusing on developing cutting-edge large foundation models and post-training techniques for specific domains and scenarios. The role involves integrating AI systems, developing research prototypes, and publishing findings in top-tier venues. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Artificial Specialized Intelligence, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Artificial Specialized Intelligence focusing on developing cutting-edge large foundation models and post-training techniques for specific domains and scenarios. The role involves conducting research, collaborating with cross-functional teams, developing prototypes, and publishing findings. |
| Post-trainPretrain |
| 9 |
| Research Intern - Artificial Intelligence Research Intern position at Microsoft Research focusing on artificial intelligence projects including multimodality, world models, LLMs, and computer vision. The role involves conducting research, developing novel methodologies, and disseminating findings through publications. Requires enrollment in a master's or PhD program. | Pretrain | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Principal Researcher - Systems & Networking - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher in Systems and Networking with a focus on AI-driven methods for systems innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research focused on advancing cloud and AI infrastructure architecture, and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, designing and optimizing hardware components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate intelligent systems across computing layers. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Systems and Networking, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Systems and Networking at Microsoft Research, focusing on AI-driven methods for system innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing and implementing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. Requires a Doctorate and background in systems/networking with knowledge of ML systems, databases, and networking technologies, including Agent Systems and Vector Databases. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Cloud and AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Research, focusing on advancing AI infrastructure architecture and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, optimizing components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex real-world challenges at the intersection of AI, human interaction, and environmental context. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Technical Consultant This role focuses on understanding customer requirements and mapping them to Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions, specifically Azure AI, Copilot Agents, application development, and data modernization. It involves supporting pre-sales, shaping proposals, identifying risks, communicating solution value, and accelerating the adoption of Microsoft technologies in agent-based solution scenarios. | Agent | 5 |
| Account Technology Strategist - Federal Government This role is for an Account Technology Strategist focused on the federal government sector in Canada. The primary responsibility is to act as a trusted technical and strategic advisor, helping government customers adopt and leverage Microsoft's AI technologies and drive digital transformation. The role involves understanding customer business outcomes, building relationships with technology executives, and developing technology roadmaps. While the role involves discussing and promoting AI solutions, the core function is sales and strategic advisory, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Directeur - AI Workforce, Secteur Public Canada/ Manager - AI Workforce, Public Sector Canada Lead a national team of AI Workforce specialists to drive enterprise workforce transformation across Canada’s Public Sector, focusing on Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI Workforce solutions. Accountable for building pipeline, winning strategic opportunities, and scaling adoption to ensure customers realize measurable productivity gains, efficiency, and business value. | Ship | 5 |
| Enterprise Account Executive Enterprise Account Executive role focused on driving AI transformation and business outcomes for enterprise customers by selling Microsoft's AI, Copilot, and Security solutions. This role involves building senior-level relationships, developing account strategies, identifying new opportunities, and collaborating with internal cross-functional teams to deliver value and drive revenue growth. | — | 5 |
| Organizational Change Management Architect and Sales Lead This role focuses on organizational change management and sales leadership to help clients adopt Microsoft's AI and cloud solutions, driving business transformation and measurable outcomes. It involves designing and selling consulting services, leading delivery engagements, and ensuring clients achieve business value and competitive advantage through AI. | — | 5 |
| Principle Azure Data Solution Engineer This role is for an Azure Data Solution Engineer focused on designing and delivering modern, governed data platforms using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and Azure SQL. The engineer will partner with customers to modernize their analytics and data estates, enabling them to adopt AI-ready Azure data solutions. The role involves guiding organizations through data platform modernization, designing and optimizing AI-ready analytics solutions, and translating technical capabilities into business outcomes. It emphasizes collaboration, technical sales, and deep expertise in Azure Data services to support AI workloads. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, specifically within the Core AI group of the Power BI organization. The role focuses on building and operating agentic workflows and modern data applications to enable next-generation data visualization and analytics, powering AI-first data apps and decision intelligence. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Power BI Core AI team, focusing on building agentic creator workflows and AI-first data applications to enhance data visualization and analytics. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer The Principal Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team focuses on building and optimizing big data analytics services, specifically within the Microsoft Fabric Spark team. The role involves pushing the frontiers of analytics performance and scale by working with open-source technologies like Spark, Gluten, Velox, and Delta, as well as proprietary Microsoft services. The goal is to improve onboarding and tuning of workloads, requiring an AI-forward approach to deliver impact at Azure scale. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, and operating data services, mentoring engineers, and participating in live site operations. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric Data & Telemetry team, responsible for building and maintaining telemetry instrumentation services and pipelines, developing tools for metadata management, and creating job monitoring and notification services for data pipelines. The role focuses on providing high-quality data for running the service and business, supporting pillars like live-site monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics for product development, and ensuring customers have data for their own observability needs. The team applies classic cloud and software engineering practices alongside big data-engineering and analytical practices. | Data | 5 |
| Responsable Environnement Critique - Data Center - Critical Environment Technician Manager This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager at Microsoft, responsible for managing a team that ensures the operational integrity of data center infrastructure, including electrical and mechanical systems. The role involves people management, equipment maintenance, and responding to critical environment incidents. It is not directly related to AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Cloud & AI Digital Solution Area Specialist This role is a sales and account management position focused on helping mid-market customers adopt Microsoft's AI, data, and cloud solutions. The specialist will drive strategic customer conversations, advance opportunities, and achieve revenue targets by connecting Cloud & AI solutions to customer business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - Full Stack Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric OneLake & ISVs team, responsible for building and maintaining the data platform for the age of AI. This role focuses on designing and developing robust, low-latency solutions for partner integration, leveraging modern AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot. The engineer will take end-to-end ownership of services, including design, development, observability, quality, testing, and production readiness, while collaborating with internal and external teams. | — | 0 |
| Technicien principal en environnement critique opérationnel/Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician (CET) in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, responsible for maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, safety enforcement, and developing operational procedures. The role supports Microsoft's cloud services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Technicien principal de l'environnement critique (CET)/Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security. The role supports core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II -Full Stack Software Engineer II role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves contributing to core business intelligence investments, shaping the next generation of semantic modeling, reporting, and end-to-end analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering user experiences and cloud services, ensuring implementation resiliency, security, and reliability, and participating in code reviews and bug triage. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II- Front End Development This role is for a Software Engineer II on the Fabric Platform Shell team, focused on building a leading SaaS data development environment. The team's mission is to create a simple, functional, and extensible web experience for data ingestion, storage, processing, and analysis, aiming for a best-in-class DevOps experience. The role involves full-stack and backend development, collaborating with designers and product managers, and writing high-quality code. Key responsibilities include designing and building user experiences, collaborating on features, and ensuring engineering excellence through testing, automation, and adherence to security standards. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of experience in software engineering and 1+ year in web application development using frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer -Fullstack Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves contributing to core business intelligence investments, shaping semantic modeling, reporting, and end-to-end analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering scalable, user-centric features across web and service-side components, ensuring reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness, and participating in code reviews and bug triage. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with 4+ years of experience in full-stack development, including UI (TypeScript, Angular) and backend/distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and operating robust release infrastructure for Microsoft 365's Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3) platform. The role involves architecting standardized release infrastructure, defining release patterns, building automation and tooling for reliability and efficiency, and driving cross-organizational technical alignment. This is a platform engineering role within a large enterprise cloud services environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II -Fullstack Software Engineer II - Fullstack role at Microsoft on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves building core BI investments, shaping the next generation of semantic modeling, reporting, and analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering user experiences and cloud services, writing code across web clients and service-side components, integrating with LLM-based agents, and ensuring implementation resiliency and security. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of experience in fullstack development, including UI and backend experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer -Front End Development Senior Software Engineer focused on front-end development for a SaaS data development environment. The role involves architecting and designing scalable web experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-quality code, test coverage, and engineering excellence. The focus is on building a unified and extensible web studio for data analytics, impacting usability and functionality. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - Distributed Systems Software Engineer II role focused on building and maintaining distributed systems for Azure Data's messaging and real-time intelligence team. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating core components of large-scale distributed systems that power Azure messaging services, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and low latency. The team also supports strategic scenarios within Microsoft Fabric for streaming data ingestion and transformation. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - Full Stack Software Engineer II - Full Stack role at Microsoft, focusing on building customer-facing web experiences for the Microsoft Fabric platform, specifically within the Real-Time Intelligence team. The role involves prototyping and developing a new UX platform for interfacing with streaming data, aiming to address high-profile customer pain points and contribute to a core piece of the UX plane. The position requires experience with data platforms and front-end technologies, with a strong emphasis on delivering polished components and iterating based on feedback. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Fabric Capacities, a unified data platform for the age of AI. The role involves defining and executing the vision for Fabric Capacities, which provide computing power for data modeling, warehousing, BI, and machine learning, enabling business users and data scientists. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and operating a next-generation service for transferring large volumes of data from various source systems to Microsoft Fabric with minimal latency. The role involves designing, building, and optimizing advanced data movement and replication scenarios within the Azure Data integration team. | — | 0 |
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