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 |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer - Github Copilot API Senior Software Engineer on the Copilot API team at GitHub, focusing on building and maintaining scalable, reliable backend services and APIs that power GitHub Copilot features and integrations. The role involves designing, developing, and operating distributed systems with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and operational excellence. | Serve | 5 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager - Microsoft Entra Principal Group Engineering Manager for Microsoft Entra, focusing on hyperscale platform challenges, availability of mission-critical services, and engineering systems for software serving over 1 billion people. The role involves leading managers and senior engineers to improve safe operation of hyperscale fleets using AI-driven operations for incident triage and resolution, correlating change logs with incident impact, architecting control planes with AI/telemetry for safe changes, and building runtimes for auto-triage and auto-mitigation of incidents. |
| Serve |
| 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on modernizing a global messaging platform for Microsoft 365, integrating AI across the software development lifecycle and ensuring responsible AI practices. The role involves leading architecture, design, and implementation of cloud-native capabilities, partnering with various teams, and driving live-site engineering for a large-scale distributed service. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering - DevDiv Core AI Software Engineer in Microsoft's DevDiv division focused on integrating AI into developer tools to enhance productivity. The role involves designing and developing software components, leveraging AI technologies like GitHub Copilot and LLM-based code tools, dogfooding internal AI tools, and researching/experimenting with AI techniques to improve engineering workflows. | Ship | 5 |
| Commercial Executive Commercial Executive role focused on designing and executing customer commercial strategies and negotiations, ensuring deals are compliant and profitable. The role involves identifying business opportunities related to AI, optimizing deal customization, and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve revenue targets. It requires expertise in commercial licensing, contracting, risk assessment, and adherence to policies and legal standards. | — | 0 |
| People Operations Sr. HR Advisor - Offboarding EMEA This role is for a Senior HR Service Advisor focused on offboarding processes in EMEA for Microsoft. It involves managing complex cases, ensuring compliance with local regulations, coordinating with stakeholders, and driving process improvements. While the role mentions leveraging AI and digital tools, its core function is HR operations and employee lifecycle management, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| HR Service Lead Advisor - Time & Leave This role is for a HR Service Lead Advisor focused on Time & Leave processes in the EMEA region. The primary responsibilities include executing HR transactions, managing complex employee cases, providing consultation, and ensuring compliance with local legislation and Microsoft policies. The role also involves identifying opportunities for automation and AI support to improve operational efficiency and scalability, collaborating with stakeholders, and maintaining process documentation. While the role mentions leveraging AI solutions and identifying areas for AI support, the core function is HR service delivery and process management, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| HR Generalist This role is for an HR Generalist at Microsoft, focusing on partnering with leadership and employees to deliver HR services in the Czechia and Slovakia region. Responsibilities include HR community leadership, governance, employee experience, project execution, statutory compliance, external impact, and crisis management. Requires experience in Czechia & Slovakia HR policies, labor law, and union negotiations, with fluency in Czech and English. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer -.NET Libraries Software Engineer role focused on designing and building high-performance .NET libraries for various platforms. The role involves contributing to core .NET libraries, improving performance, scalability, and developer experience. It also emphasizes leveraging AI-assisted development workflows to enhance productivity and code quality, and collaborating with the global developer community. | — | 0 |
| Principal SWE Manager - Platform Seeking a Principal Software Engineer Manager to lead a team responsible for the runtime policy scenarios across multiple products within Microsoft 365's Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud. This role involves managing engineers, fostering career development, and ensuring the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems that handle billions of requests daily. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - GitHub Actions Principal Software Engineer for GitHub Actions, focusing on architecting and delivering high-performance CI/CD systems for millions of developers. The role involves technical leadership, system design, security, and operational excellence for a massive-scale automation platform. | — | 0 |
| Compiler Software Engineer Experienced low-level engineer to lead the adoption and development of the Rust programming language for critical infrastructure at Microsoft, focusing on compiler back-ends, analysis tools, and systems programming. | — | 0 |