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 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 |