Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 17% 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.
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| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator for a Frontier Marketing organization, providing administrative and operational support to General Managers. Responsibilities include calendar management, stakeholder engagement, operational excellence, cross-functional collaboration, travel management, event planning, and resource oversight. Requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to anticipate needs in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Training Manager Microsoft is seeking a Training Manager for their Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) Learning team. The role involves managing a team of trainers, establishing technical training delivery, conducting workforce training needs analysis, and managing procedural change management activities for datacenters. The manager will partner with site managers and trainers to address operational risks and training gaps, encourage innovation in training topics, and ensure training content and delivery meet learning expectations for availability, safety, and throughput goals. The position requires a Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience, and the ability to pass a Microsoft Cloud Background Check. |
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| Sr Technology Consultant-CTJ-Poly This role is for a Sr. Technology Consultant focused on helping customers adopt and optimize Microsoft technology solutions, including cloud and security. The consultant will engage with customers to understand requirements, communicate business value, identify risks, and collaborate with internal teams to shape deals and drive adoption. The role emphasizes leveraging existing intellectual property and providing feedback for continuous improvement. | — | 0 |
| Construction Project Management This role is for a Construction Project Manager responsible for overseeing the planning, compliance, and progress of Early Works General Contractors for datacenter construction projects. The role involves directing day-to-day field activities, managing vendor relationships, driving risk mitigation, and ensuring on-time delivery of complex global construction projects. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Management This role is a Senior Support Escalation Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization, specifically in the Customer Service & Support (CSS) division. The primary focus is on managing escalated customer and partner issues, ensuring timely resolution, and improving the overall support experience. While the role operates within a company that heavily utilizes AI technology and aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers, the core responsibilities of this specific position are centered around customer issue management, process improvement, and relationship building, rather than direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves developing an understanding of standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacing, and/or decommissioning equipment in a data center environment, under the guidance of more experienced colleagues. It focuses on core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to lead architecture and technical strategy for Azure Key Management and HSM platform capabilities, focusing on scalable, secure, and reliable services, including advancing post-quantum cryptography readiness for regulated and mission-critical workloads. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Design Specialist This role is for a Principal Product Design Specialist on the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. The role involves working directly with customers to leverage the latest technologies, jointly develop code for cloud-based solutions, and build innovative solutions. The specialist will define product needs based on user insights, create design concepts, and optimize user experience. Collaboration with cross-functional teams (engineers, TPMs, data scientists) and customers is key. The role also involves contributing to open source and solving business problems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly Senior Software Engineer to support a portfolio of products within the Azure cloud, involving the complete end-to-end lifecycles of product development and operations. The role requires independent use of AI tools and practices within the SDLC, code reviews, debugging, incident retrospectives, and leading by example in producing high-quality code. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of experience and an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Ops Technician This role involves maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on equipment maintenance, safety procedures, and operational monitoring. It is not directly AI/ML related. | — | 0 |
| Senior Sales Excellence Manager This role is for a Senior Sales Excellence Manager at Microsoft, focusing on AI Business Solutions and Security. The primary responsibility is to drive sales execution, pipeline management, and transformation within the SME&C segment. The role requires experience in sales operations, using data for business outcomes, and managing stakeholder relationships. While the role is within the AI domain, it is not directly involved in building or researching AI models, but rather in the sales and operational aspects of AI business solutions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician This role involves performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of network and server equipment in a data center environment. It requires providing guidance to other technicians, ensuring quality execution, and maintaining awareness of KPIs. The role is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, supporting core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, and monitor equipment performance. | — | 0 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager Lead a team responsible for foundational systems and services that power GitHub’s internal engineering and development workflows, focusing on improving how GitHub engineering teams build, test, and ship software across the company. This includes CI/CD platforms, developer tooling, virtualized infrastructure, and paved paths. The role involves people leadership, technical depth, and operational ownership impacting daily developer experience and product quality for millions. | — | 0 |
| Microsoft AI - Executive Assistant Executive Assistant role supporting the VP of Engineering in the Copilot Division at Microsoft AI. Responsibilities include managing calendars, coordinating meetings and travel, facilitating communication, supporting business rhythms, and assisting with business operations and resource planning. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Director - AI & Cloud Margins This role is for a Senior Finance Director focused on the product margins of Microsoft's cloud and AI products. The responsibilities include owning gross margins, delivering analytics, partnering with engineering on financial targets, leading demand planning for AI and cloud workloads, and supporting senior executives. While the role interacts with AI and cloud products, the core function is finance and margin management, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Engineer Senior Data Engineer for the Product Engineering Partnership pillar, focusing on telemetry, instrumentation, semantic modeling, experimentation, feedback pipelines, catalog management, external reporting, and analytics for Global Skilling products. This role involves technical leadership, owning telemetry contracts, building the experimentation data backbone, and ensuring insights flow back to product teams. | — | 0 |
| Revenue Strategy Senior Manager / Director This role focuses on Revenue Strategy within Microsoft's Engineering, Enablement & Operations (EE&O) team, aiming to improve commercial business operations, planning, and sales execution. It involves cross-functional leadership, strategic planning, market analysis, and driving transformation initiatives to accelerate revenue. The role is primarily focused on the business and operational aspects of selling products, rather than the direct development or deployment of AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Sr. Software Engineer on the Microsoft Defender engineering team, focusing on building and delivering cloud security solutions for government environments. The role involves DevOps responsibilities, ensuring service stability, performance, and scalability in complex cloud infrastructures. It requires strong collaboration skills and participation in an on-call rotation within a secure facility. | — | 0 |
| Senior Accounting Manager- Lease Accounting This role is for a Senior Accounting Manager focused on Lease Accounting within Microsoft's Corporate Accounting organization. The primary responsibilities include reviewing lease contracts, preparing accounting records, drafting financial statement disclosures, and supporting audits for the worldwide office portfolio. The role also involves contributing to process improvement efforts by identifying and evaluating AI and technology solutions to automate or enhance internal processes, and performing gap analysis for SOX compliance. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Data Center, focusing on inventory management, delivery coordination, security escorts, and documentation of inbound/outbound shipments. It involves adhering to safety protocols, managing tactical shifts, handling customer service aspects of inventory, and managing warranty processes and data-bearing device destruction. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Manager- Windows Serving & Delivery Principal Software Engineering Manager for Windows Serving & Delivery team, focusing on leading engineers to improve the reliability, performance, and customer experience of Windows client, Windows Update, and Windows reliability for commercial and enterprise customers. Responsibilities include people leadership, technical direction, operational quality, and coordinating responses to live-site issues. | — | 0 |
| Demand Planner - Network Hardware This role is for a Demand Planner focused on Network Hardware for Microsoft's Cloud business, which includes AI infrastructure. The planner will own long-range demand planning, develop forecasting models, synthesize demand signals, and partner with various teams to ensure capacity and readiness. While the role supports AI infrastructure, it is not directly involved in building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager This role manages a team responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including inbound/outbound logistics, audits, warranty processes, and data bearing device destruction. It emphasizes leadership, operational efficiency, and stakeholder management within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer responsible for managing and maintaining electrical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. The engineer will act as a technical expert, oversee operations, work with commissioning teams, and ensure safety and compliance. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of experience or equivalent. | — | 0 |
| Sales Strategy Enablement Lead This role is for a Sales Strategy Enablement Lead within Microsoft's Engineering, Enablement & Operations team. The primary focus is on driving strategic and operational work to improve commercial business processes, including planning, compensation, performance insights, and sales tools. The role involves managing end-to-end planning processes, maintaining documented procedures, monitoring process health, identifying risks, and streamlining operations. It requires engagement with cross-functional stakeholders, defining roles and governance, and developing landing plans with communications and enablement materials. The required qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in a related field, with experience in business consulting, sales operations, or sales planning. Preferred qualifications include attention to detail, strong communication skills, experience with end-users, and familiarity with Microsoft's sales operations processes. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the electrical infrastructure of datacenters that power Microsoft's cloud services. The engineer will be involved in design, testing, verification, and implementation of electrical systems within these critical environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Windows and Devices Investments Senior Finance Manager for Windows and Devices Investments at Microsoft, focusing on investment planning, channel incentives, and strategy. The role involves partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Data Science teams to drive financial performance and strategy in the evolving PC market, especially with the advent of AI PCs and NPUs. Requires strong analytical skills, business acumen, and the ability to influence business partners. Experience with financial systems, modeling, and leveraging AI workflows for investment insights is beneficial. | — | 0 |
| Senior Supply Chain Planning This role is for a Senior Supply Chain Planner within Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain organization. The primary focus is on managing supply chain operations, supplier relationships, and leading process improvement initiatives, including those related to AI. The role involves end-to-end supply planning, risk mitigation, and cross-functional execution to ensure the reliable delivery of hardware infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud and AI services. While AI is mentioned as an area for improvement and a component of the services supported, the core function of the role is supply chain management, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager This role leads end-to-end digital strategy for the Windows Commercial portfolio, focusing on web, social, blogs, and integrated campaigns. It involves translating portfolio priorities into orchestrated, performance-driven campaigns, shaping customer discovery and engagement, and driving clarity across cross-functional teams. The role requires leading integrated, cross-channel campaigns, including those focused on AI and agents, ensuring a cohesive story across all customer touchpoints. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in Microsoft's data centers. It focuses on core infrastructure operations and standard procedures, with opportunities for skill development and career growth within cloud operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Package & Motherboard Engineer Seeking a Senior Quantum Package & Motherboard Engineer to adapt industry-standard packaging and motherboard design processes for cryogenic/quantum devices, collaborating with a global team to assemble and scale complex quantum hardware. This role involves designing PCB layouts, simulating components, owning the signaling chain from room temperature to cryogenic temperatures, and improving electrical and PCB development processes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Video Producer Senior Video Producer for Microsoft's Consumer Marketing Organization, responsible for the full production process of longform video content, from concept to publishing. The role involves evolving and scaling video formats, translating complex technical topics into engaging stories, and optimizing content using performance insights and audience data for YouTube channels. | — | 0 |
| Director, Payment Strategy & Partnerships Lead the global payments vision for Microsoft Treasury, defining and executing a multi-year strategy to drive revenue growth, optimize performance, reduce fraud, and build partnerships across the global payments landscape. This role requires expertise in payments, strategic foresight, operational rigor, and the ability to influence executive and technical audiences, working closely with product, engineering, commerce risk, and external financial services partners. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer to build and improve detection, OS event monitoring, telemetry, and reporting in the on-device agent for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) on macOS. This role involves developing native components to detect and respond to endpoint threats, focusing on reliability, performance, and operational health within the macOS security model. | — | 0 |
| Consulting Project Management-CTJ-Top Secret/SCI Seeking a Consulting Project Manager to engage with customer stakeholders, manage IT support services, and ensure project compliance. Responsibilities include driving project initiation, developing project management plans, monitoring risks and budgets, and maintaining customer satisfaction. This role requires adherence to contract requirements and building trusted relationships. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security requirements are met. The role involves working with facility equipment like HVAC and mechanical systems, using a CMMS, and following operating procedures. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer - Red Team Senior Security Engineer for Microsoft's Red Team (MRT) focused on identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in Azure and other Microsoft services. The role involves emulating advanced persistent threats, leading operations, advocating for security changes, analyzing data, prototyping tools, and collaborating with Blue Teams to improve defenses. | — | 0 |
| Lease Commissioning Manager Manages the end-to-end delivery of new data center capacity for Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) organization, focusing on the commissioning process for lease projects in the Chicago, IL region. Responsibilities include managing commissioning agents, ensuring compliance with Microsoft standards, overseeing construction site inspections, and reporting on project progress, scope, schedule, and budget. | — | 0 |
| Lease Commissioning Manager Microsoft is seeking a Lease Commissioning Manager to oversee the end-to-end delivery of new data center capacity. This role involves managing commissioning projects in the Abilene, TX region, ensuring compliance with Microsoft's standards, and coordinating with various internal and external teams including architects, engineers, construction managers, and operations. The manager will be responsible for scope, schedule, and budget, driving best practices, and reporting on project progress. | — | 0 |
| M12 Associate This role is for an Associate at Microsoft's corporate venture capital arm (M12), focusing on early-stage investments in AI and other tech sectors. The responsibilities include market research, deal sourcing, due diligence, supporting investment processes, and assisting portfolio companies. The role requires experience in venture investing, investment banking, or consulting, with a strong understanding of financial analysis and market trends. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Manager This role is for a Senior Business Manager within Microsoft's Commercial Cloud & AI Marketing team. The focus is on establishing and operating a new team chartered to transform marketing strategies and operations, particularly for frontier AI initiatives. Responsibilities include driving business operations, managing budgets and resources, leading executive communications, supporting the leadership team, and managing special projects. The role requires strong business acumen, strategic planning, and operational execution skills in a dynamic environment. | — | 0 |
| Solution Engineering - Security This role is a senior technical sales leader focused on Microsoft's security solutions, including Defender for XDR and Sentinel. The primary responsibility is to act as a trusted customer advisor, driving technical wins in the sales process by understanding customer security challenges, demonstrating Microsoft solutions, and developing strategies to improve their security posture. The role involves leading a virtual team, engaging with customers and partners, and ensuring technical success for security opportunities within a fast-paced sales environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Process Excellence & Transformation - Treasury This role focuses on process excellence and transformation within global Treasury operations, driving continuous improvement and AI-enabled initiatives. It involves end-to-end process design, standardization, and identifying opportunities for operational improvements, automation, and digital solutions. The role partners with Product and Engineering teams to deliver intelligent workflows and scalable capabilities, aiming to improve efficiency, quality, and accuracy. Key responsibilities include defining and managing KPIs, reducing manual work, and using data for decision-making. While AI is mentioned as a tool for transformation, the core function is finance process management, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Art Director, Interactive Senior Art Director, Interactive for Microsoft Consumer Marketing to shape next-gen consumer storytelling across Windows, Surface, Microsoft 365, Copilot, and future consumer-facing experiences. Requires a portfolio of conceptual, award-winning work for major brands, with expertise in brand storytelling, visual communication, and interactive creative. The role involves leading the development of creative ideas and visual systems across digital channels, translating strategy into compelling platforms and campaigns, and designing immersive digital experiences. Collaboration with Engineering, Product Marketing, and agency teams is key. The role also involves leveraging emerging technologies and AI tools to accelerate ideation and production. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive Senior Account Executive at Microsoft responsible for leading enterprise customers in their AI Transformation journey, focusing on Cloud & AI, Copilot, and Security to drive revenue growth and achieve business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Partner Practice Building & IP Development This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on partner practice building and IP development within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary focus is on supporting customers through their solution journey, guiding them on envisioning, design, and deployment, and creating scalable customer-facing services. While the role mentions accelerating AI transformation for customers, the core responsibilities are centered around cloud solution architecture, technical expertise in multi-workload integration, and developing repeatable services for partners, rather than direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and maintaining mission-critical operational database systems (Azure SQL Database). The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining services for secure and resilient platform control and data plane operations, managing massive-scale operations, and ensuring high standards of quality and reliability for enterprise-class relational database engines in a cloud-enabled environment. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Surface Lead This role leads the strategy and execution for Microsoft Surface devices in the commercial market, focusing on enterprise, corporate, higher education, and SMB customers. The lead will shape how Surface captures the AI PC opportunity by translating silicon innovation, AI experiences, and Windows manageability into go-to-market motions that drive share and revenue growth. Responsibilities include GTM strategy, sales enablement, field readiness, GTM planning, executive influence, and team leadership, ensuring Surface is positioned as a flagship manifestation of Microsoft's Trust and AI leadership. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Program Manager Senior Security Program Manager to lead end-to-end security assurance efforts including security compliance, risk assessment, and supporting vulnerability research and security tooling efforts across Windows. | — | 0 |
