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.
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| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and optimizing Ad SDKs for partner applications and platforms, with a strong emphasis on browser-based solutions using JavaScript and TypeScript. The role involves designing, implementing, and debugging SDK components, ensuring performance, security, and developer-friendliness across diverse environments. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enforcing safety and security requirements. The role involves developing operational procedures and ensuring the reliable operation of datacenter systems. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager The Principal Software Engineering Manager will lead a team focused on delivering seamless and timely Windows updates, managing complex challenges in the Windows operating system, and building mission-critical services and infrastructure. The role involves designing highly scalable distributed systems using Azure Cloud Services to support web services, workflows, and data pipelines, and providing web interfaces, API platforms, and tools. |
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| Senior Security Research - MSTIC Threat Intelligence This role is for a Senior Security Research position focused on threat intelligence within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization. The primary responsibility is to track and analyze sophisticated threat actors, translate intelligence into actionable outcomes to improve Microsoft's security products and defenses, and collaborate with internal and external teams to protect Microsoft assets and customer environments. The role requires deep technical expertise and analytic tradecraft for end-to-end investigations, detection, hunting, and disruption efforts. | — | 0 |
| Principal Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Secret Principal Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Substrate, a foundational cloud platform powering critical services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot. The role focuses on setting technical and operational direction for reliability, influencing architecture, strategy, and engineering practices across teams, especially in regulated environments. Responsibilities include defining reliability strategy, leading incident response, architecting automation and observability solutions, and driving architectural decisions for reliability, security, and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator supporting the Corporate Vice President of Security for AI (SAI) at Microsoft. Responsibilities include complex calendar management, travel coordination, operational support, budget oversight, and event planning. The role requires strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills to ensure the CVP and the organization operate efficiently. | — | 0 |
| Senior Cryogenic Engineer This role is for a Senior Cryogenic Engineer at Microsoft Quantum, focused on leading the upgrade, maintenance, and lifecycle management of dilution refrigerators and cryogenic systems. The engineer will ensure system reliability, drive upgrade programs, and support quantum hardware integration, acting as a technical lead and operational owner across multiple laboratories. The role requires deep hands-on expertise with cryogenic systems and troubleshooting in complex experimental environments. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for innovation and efficiency, its core function is in cryogenic engineering for quantum hardware, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Engineer - Readout This role focuses on designing and testing the readout system for topological quantum computing. It involves leading the design of scalable readout circuitry, interfacing with other teams for co-design, documenting work, analyzing results, and building tools for quantum research. The position emphasizes engineering best practices and safety standards within a multidisciplinary team. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for managing and maintaining large-scale mission-critical electrical systems within datacenters. The role involves ensuring the design, installation, operation, and performance of electrical infrastructure, supporting 24x7 operations, and implementing safety and maintenance procedures. | — | 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 |
| Surface Commercial Finance Manager Finance Manager for Surface Commercial Sales, focusing on revenue, market share, and investment ROI. This role involves financial modeling, forecasting, P&L management, and partnering with Sales & Marketing to drive financial results and optimize investments for the Surface product line. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Secret This role is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who will own the reliability and operational outcomes for specific components or services within the Microsoft Substrate platform. The platform powers critical services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot, operating at a global scale and in highly-regulated environments. Responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving production issues, designing and implementing automation, and collaborating with engineering teams to ensure reliability and operability. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with large-scale cloud or distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer Microsoft is seeking a Data Center Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer to design, test, and implement critical infrastructure for their cloud services. This role involves creating robust and scalable designs, developing verification plans, managing project schedules, and documenting complex technical details. The engineer will also analyze data, identify root causes of problems, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the reliability and efficiency of data center operations. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Intern This is an internship role for Data Center Technicians at Microsoft, focusing on the physical infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. The intern will assist experienced technicians in installing, troubleshooting, and decommissioning server, storage, and network equipment, while adhering to strict safety and operational guidelines. The role involves learning data center processes, managing support tickets, and participating in daily operations and training. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Intern Internship role focused on supporting IT infrastructure within Microsoft's data centers, involving hardware installation, troubleshooting, and adherence to operational procedures and safety protocols. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Engineer This role focuses on guiding process integration decisions and fabrication flows for quantum computing systems using theoretical insights and atomistic simulations. The engineer will own the simulation roadmap, build models for validation and optimization, partner with fabrication and characterization teams, and architect scalable workflows for high-throughput studies on HPC. The role involves technical leadership, setting direction, and influencing cross-organizationally, with the goal of accelerating the development of scalable quantum computers. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Architect The Principal Software Engineer - Architect will be responsible for architecting and developing an authorization platform for Microsoft Identity & Network Access (IDNA). This role focuses on building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems for security and authorization, ensuring resilience and broad applicability across Microsoft and customer environments. The position requires strong software engineering practices, system design, and a focus on customer needs within a regulated security context. | — | 0 |
| Senior Video Editor Senior Video Editor for Microsoft's Consumer Marketing Organization (CMO) Social Marketing team, focusing on creating long-form YouTube content. The role involves editing, refining pacing, and elevating creative standards, with an emphasis on storytelling and audience growth. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Advanced Characterization Engineer Microsoft Quantum is seeking a Principal Quantum Advanced Characterization Engineer to lead and execute nanoscale characterization of quantum materials and heterostructures using techniques like STM/STS, APT, and TEM. The role involves defining characterization strategy, executing experiments, and providing feedback to impact qubit performance and device design. It also includes developing pipelines for data acquisition and analysis, potentially using AI-enabled methods. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Materials MBE Engineer This role focuses on developing and optimizing MBE growth processes for semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures for quantum computing. It involves advanced heterostructure growth, materials-device feedback, tooling and diagnostics, cross-functional collaboration, and applying AI/ML tools to improve experiment planning and analysis. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Integration Manager Lead the process integration and experimental coordination across quantum materials, fabrication, and device development for Microsoft Quantum. Define and own the end-to-end integration strategy, build and lead a team, and drive execution across cross-functional efforts to deliver improvements in qubit performance and manufacturability. This role will also drive the adoption of AI/automation to accelerate process optimization and data analysis. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Measurement Engineer This role focuses on leading the measurement strategy for quantum materials and device platforms within Microsoft Quantum. It involves defining and leading cryogenic electrical characterization, developing novel measurement techniques, driving large-scale experimental campaigns, and translating data into actionable insights for qubit performance and system scalability. The role requires technical leadership and collaboration across various scientific and engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Technical Program Manager - Opportunity Analytics This role focuses on analyzing monetization performance and identifying growth opportunities within the Microsoft Advertising platform by working with large datasets. The TPM will develop strategies to translate marketplace trends into actionable advertiser growth opportunities, collaborate with stakeholders on sales initiatives, and measure program impact. The role requires deep knowledge of the global advertising space, strong analytical skills for complex business questions, and excellent communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Customer Experience Engineer II, M365 This role focuses on customer experience engineering for Microsoft 365 services, including Copilot. The engineer will work with strategic customers to ensure they realize value from M365 products, provide technical support, and act as a liaison between customers and M365 service teams to drive product improvements. The role involves deep technical understanding of M365 services and a focus on customer satisfaction and adoption. | — | 0 |
| Senior Treasury Manager Senior Treasury Manager at Microsoft responsible for managing and protecting financial assets, supporting global cash flows, overseeing bank accounts, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The role involves maintaining banking infrastructure, managing systems and processes, leading projects, and partnering with external banking institutions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer The Azure Data engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on the next generation of their platform and control plane infrastructure. This role involves designing and implementing complex, large-scale distributed systems for messaging and real-time analytics services, focusing on scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. The engineer will own end-to-end delivery of key system components and contribute to strategic scenarios within Microsoft Fabric, enabling seamless ingestion and transformation of streaming data. | — | 0 |
| CE Field Service Engineer This role is for a CE Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in leased datacenters. The focus is on ensuring critical environment availability, managing day-to-day operations, and adhering to safety and security policies. The role involves working with various teams and partners to maintain optimal operational efficiency and deliver on cost/energy initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team responsible for delivering a planet-scaled, business-critical, and secure-by-default service for Entra Identity provisioning and Governance products. The focus is on managing engineers, collaborating across divisions and with industry partners to build identity products for cloud and hybrid environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Firmware Development Engineer Senior Firmware Development Engineer for Microsoft's Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team, focusing on developing firmware for next-generation AI and compute silicon for Azure Infrastructure. The role involves developing test applications, workload profiling tools, and post-silicon tests for hardware systems, with collaboration across various engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Applications Architect - Cryptography This role focuses on developing quantum algorithms for cryptography and simulation, designing quantum cryptographic schemes, and optimizing quantum system architectures. It involves mathematical research and experimentation for new quantum algorithms, with a focus on fault-tolerant quantum computers and hybrid quantum-classical workflows. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the design, testing, and implementation of electrical systems within datacenters. The engineer will work on developing designs, creating documentation, performing tests, and ensuring project schedules are met, contributing to the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Sourcing Engineer - Strategic Sourcing Team This role is for a Principal Sourcing Engineer focused on driving the Silicon strategy and performance for Xbox and Surface Hardware. Responsibilities include negotiating commercial agreements, optimizing collaboration, developing long-term strategy, managing contracting activities, analyzing the supply chain for risks, and managing supplier relationships. The role requires experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, or engineering, with a preference for experience in the semiconductor and silicon space within consumer electronics. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Partner Practice Development This role focuses on building and developing Customer Success Practices (CSP) within partner organizations, aiming to deliver measurable outcomes across various Microsoft practices like Support, Azure, ABS, and Security. The Cloud Solution Architect will be responsible for end-to-end development of practice builders, including reporting, capability assessments, action planning, and execution. The role involves developing requirements for standard reports, building assessment questionnaires, creating action planning playbooks, and managing the logging of commitments. It also includes identifying business and technical IP aligned with solution area priorities, developing targeted skilling and solutions for partners, and managing the delivery of various enablement collateral. A key aspect is building 'Agentic' delivery experiences to reduce delivery costs and identifying ROI KPIs. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Windows Strategy and Planning Senior Finance Manager for Windows Strategy and Planning at Microsoft, focusing on driving long-term strategy, product roadmaps, go-to-market plans, and monetization strategies for Windows and Surface. This role involves cross-functional collaboration with engineering, finance, marketing, and business planning teams to evaluate product initiatives, create growth frameworks, and ensure alignment. Key responsibilities include analyzing Windows Ecosystem data, long-range planning, evaluating initiative performance, consolidating financial reporting, and driving process improvements. The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, business acumen, and the ability to navigate ambiguous challenges in a fast-paced technology environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Business Strategy Manager This role is a Principal Business Strategy Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain organization, focusing on enabling the hardware infrastructure for Cloud and AI growth. The role involves establishing business partner relationships, communicating insights to senior leadership, engaging with external industry figures, developing market perspectives, contributing to portfolio strategy, problem-solving, and leading research and analysis projects. While the role operates within an organization that supports AI infrastructure, the core responsibilities are in business strategy, supply chain, and market analysis, not in the direct development or deployment of AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Sr. Software Engineer on the Microsoft Defender team, focusing on building and delivering scalable, reliable cloud security solutions for government environments. The role involves service development, engineering systems improvement, automation, and incident investigation, with a strong emphasis on security clearance requirements. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly Software Engineer II role focused on building and deploying scalable, highly reliable cloud security services within Microsoft Defender. The role involves improving engineering systems, investigating and fixing production issues, and participating in an on-call rotation. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field with 2+ years of experience, and a Top Secret clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret Site Reliability Engineer II for Microsoft Defender, focusing on building and delivering cloud solutions for US Government clouds. Responsibilities include live site operations, incident response, automation, compliance, and collaboration with engineering teams to ensure stability and performance of security products in highly sensitive environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer This role focuses on designing and testing the readout system for topological qubits within Microsoft Quantum. It involves component, subsystem, and system-level engineering, interfacing with other teams, documenting work, and applying engineering best practices. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for innovation and working in an "AI-first" environment, the core craft is quantum engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer and Principal Security Engineer (Multiple Positions)- Windows Security This role focuses on offensive security and security engineering for Microsoft Windows products and devices. Responsibilities include security design reviews, code reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability research, and developing mitigations to enhance the security posture of OS platforms. The role requires hands-on experience with native code, OS security fundamentals, and a passion for customer safety. | — | 0 |
| Principal Signal and Power Integrity Engineer This role focuses on Signal and Power Integrity (SIPI) for compute and AI SoCs and platforms, ensuring end-to-end power delivery from silicon to the cloud. The engineer will design, model, and simulate power delivery solutions for data center processors and platforms, working closely with various architecture and engineering teams. The role also involves driving future power delivery solutions for chiplet architectures and advanced packaging. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on building and maintaining services for access control, authentication, authorization, and secret management within Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. The role involves designing and developing large-scale full-stack solutions, adhering to modern engineering practices, and ensuring secure and compliant access to cloud resources. | — | 0 |
| Principal Service Engineering Manager Principal Service Engineering Manager to lead the MSD M365 MultiTenant US engineering team, responsible for operating, securing, and improving Microsoft 365 multitenant services at scale. The role involves leading a team of service engineers, defining technical priorities, and driving operational excellence in complex, business-critical services, partnering with global teams and product engineering. | — | 0 |
| Service Engineer II Service Engineer II role focused on administration, configuration, governance, and operation of Microsoft Fabric and Power Platform within internal Microsoft tenants. Responsibilities include defining baselines, driving automation and policy as code, monitoring service health, triaging incidents, and interfacing with product teams. Requires experience in service engineering, operating production services at scale, and multitenant operations. | — | 0 |
| Audience Growth & Social Media Producer This role produces and creates native social content for MSN social channels, aiming to drive audiences to MSN content and CoPilot. It involves editing and creating video and graphics, developing social publishing strategies, and experimenting with content formats and trends. | — | 0 |
| Senior Audience Growth & Creative Lead This role focuses on audience growth and creative strategy for MSN and MAI content, leveraging social media, SEO, and newsletters to drive top-of-funnel engagement. It requires strong editorial judgment, creative thinking, and an understanding of social media trends and engagement data. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Senior Technical Program Manager to drive tenant onboarding of Microsoft 365 services within Microsoft's internal IT organization. This role involves creating clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, partnering across engineering teams, and delivering on time and with quality in high-stakes scenarios with conflicting requirements. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Customer Experience Innovation This role is for a Senior Finance Manager focused on Customer Experience Innovation within Microsoft's Global Treasury department. The primary responsibilities involve leading cross-company projects to improve the order-to-cash cycle, driving innovative solutions, and partnering with various teams (Sales, Operations, Engineering, Customer Support) to enhance customer and partner experiences. The role requires strong financial analysis, process improvement, and project management skills, with a focus on policy, process, and technology changes to support Microsoft's digital transformation journey. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager, Sovereign & Regulated Cloud This role leads the strategy and execution of a unified sovereignty approach across Microsoft Security, focusing on data residency, isolation models, and cross-service data flows in regulated cloud environments like EU Sovereign Cloud and government clouds (e.g., FedRAMP High). It involves driving alignment across engineering, Azure, and compliance teams to ensure services operate consistently, securely, and at scale in highly regulated markets. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Edge Web Platform team, focusing on core web platform technologies like DOM and HTML, advancing performance and user experience, and driving web standards. This role involves deep systems thinking in browser architecture and end-to-end ownership of features. | — | 0 |