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 Applied Scientist Senior Applied Scientist focused on retrieval technologies for Microsoft 365 Copilot, specifically Search, Chat, and Agent experiences. The role involves designing, experimenting with, and evaluating retrieval and ranking systems, including semantic, dense, sparse, and hybrid retrieval, RAG, and LLM-integrated architectures, to enhance grounding, relevance, and reasoning for millions of enterprise users. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and delivering AI/ML/LLM-based solutions for enterprise customers, involving prompt engineering, RAG, deployment, operation, evaluation, and monitoring of AI systems using cloud platforms. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It focuses on standard operating procedures, hardware maintenance, and supporting Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, focusing on hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Responsibilities include managing technician performance, monitoring KPIs and SLAs, providing training, and ensuring safety and operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, focusing on hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Responsibilities include managing technician performance, monitoring KPIs and SLAs, providing training, and ensuring safety and operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician (Shifts) This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring equipment performance, performing maintenance and repairs, responding to onsite incidents, and ensuring safety and security requirements are met. The role requires experience in mission-critical services and the ability to work shifts. | — | 0 |
| Senior Optical Packaging Engineer This role focuses on optical packaging engineering for AI infrastructure, bridging photonic devices, electronic ICs, and system-level integration. The engineer will design and develop packaging architectures for co-packaged optics, advanced packaging solutions, and optical assembly processes, working with R&D and Azure engineering teams to bring innovations from prototype to production. The role involves collaboration with industry partners and a multidisciplinary team. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer Field Service Engineer responsible for maintaining and ensuring the availability of critical environments within Microsoft's leased datacenters, focusing on mechanical and electrical equipment, operational efficiency, and safety compliance. | — | 0 |
| Security Solution Architecture Enterprise Identity Architect with deep expertise in IAM across complex, multitenant, and multiforest estates in the UK defence sector. The role will lead the unravelling of a complex identity landscape, establish a single authoritative master identity model spanning OFFICIAL to SECRET domains, and drive a secure, standards aligned roadmap built on Zero Trust and defence policy frameworks. | — | 0 |
| Microsoft Data Center Technician (DCT) Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft data centers, ensuring compliance with KPIs and SLAs. This role involves managing escalations, championing safety, and overseeing technician readiness and training within a large-scale cloud infrastructure environment. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Technician (DCT) Apprentice - Level 3 Apprentice role focused on learning and supporting the installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and decommissioning of data center infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager Lead the operational excellence of Microsoft datacenters, ensuring critical mechanical, electrical, and control systems deliver maximum availability and reliability. Build and develop high-performing teams, reduce high-impact incidents, and drive continuous improvement across safety, performance, and efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role is for an Industrial Control Systems Engineer responsible for maintaining and managing ICS systems within Microsoft's mission-critical datacentres. The engineer will focus on availability, data quality, security, and project management for these systems, which are crucial for powering Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |