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.
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| Sales Leader - Canada Sales Leader for Microsoft Advertising's Performance Solutions in Canada, responsible for driving revenue growth, managing a team of Account Executives/Managers, developing sales strategies, and fostering client relationships. Requires significant sales and leadership experience in digital media and advertising. | — | 0 |
| Technical Customer Success Account Manager This role is a Technical Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft, focused on helping enterprise customers achieve business value from Microsoft's cloud products and services. The role involves relationship management, delivery orchestration, and driving adoption and usage of Microsoft solutions. It requires strong technical understanding of cloud platforms and program management skills, with a focus on customer success and business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Sales Strategy Enablement Apprentice This is an apprenticeship role focused on supporting commercial deal development by collaborating with customers and internal teams to create value-driven proposals. The role involves coordinating stakeholders, aligning account plans, and structuring scalable deals, while ensuring compliance with policies and regulations. It is for candidates graduating in 2026 with no prior full-time employment. |
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| Senior Azure Technical Marketer and Demo Lead This role is for a Senior Azure Technical Marketer and Demo Lead responsible for developing the Azure demo platform and building a Demo Center of Excellence (COE). The role involves partnering with various Azure teams (Developer Tools, AI, Data, Infrastructure, Security) and marketing partners to create integrated product stories and technical narratives for customer scenarios, executive briefings, and field enablement. Success is measured by the adoption of demo assets and the ability to translate technical capabilities into clear customer narratives. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Hardware Systems) This role focuses on the hardware systems for Microsoft Robotics, supporting the design, integration, testing, and maintenance of robotic hardware platforms. The engineer will work with commercial and customized robotic platforms, sensors, compute modules, and networking equipment to ensure robots are reliable for software development, AI model evaluation, and field deployment. The role requires mechanical aptitude, electrical systems knowledge, networking depth, and systems integration skills. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Admin Executive Business Administrator to support the Engineering Director of Evaluations, Response Quality, and Safety, who is dedicated to ensuring the quality, reliability, and safety of Microsoft’s AI copilot experiences. This role requires managing complex administrative tasks, including calendar management, travel, expenses, and team logistics, in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Security Engineer Principal Security Engineer role focused on protecting Microsoft's critical cloud services by reducing systemic security risk in identity, tenant governance, and core infrastructure trust boundaries. The role involves designing enforceable security architectures, defining scalable policies and guardrails, partnering with engineering teams, and establishing proof mechanisms for continuous control effectiveness. | — | 0 |
| Principal Security Engineering Manager Lead a team responsible for improving the security posture of production tenant environments through strong operational governance, risk reduction programs, and platform investments. This role focuses on building a disciplined execution engine, driving measurable improvements in isolation and application hygiene, and strengthening incident readiness and compliance-driven cloud buildouts within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Poly Site Reliability Engineer for M365 sovereign cloud operations, focusing on building tools and systems for faster, smarter, and more reliable service delivery and maintenance. The role involves writing code for operational challenges, internal platforms, automation, and agentic workflows, while ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence for government and sovereign cloud customers. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. This role focuses on partnering with customers to design and deliver cloud-based solutions using modern software engineering practices. The engineer will work in a cross-functional team, contribute to open-source projects, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams to solve customer challenges. The role emphasizes deep experience in software engineering and cloud technologies, with a focus on building broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Manager- CTJ - Poly Lead a mixed organization of Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers responsible for building and operating IC3 services across highly regulated and enterprise-critical environments. This role requires strong technical depth, operational judgment, and people leadership, with the ability to scale impact through others while remaining deeply connected to engineering fundamentals and service health. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Engineer This role is for a Principal Product Engineer focused on semiconductor IC development, manufacturing, fabrication, testing, and packaging. The responsibilities include driving pre-Si readiness for tests and features, optimizing ATE test programs, managing fuse requirements, and leading cross-functional teams. The candidate should have strong knowledge of ATE test program development, DFT, silicon fabrication, and product quality & reliability. Experience in high-performance computing, AI, GPUs, or CPUs is beneficial, but the core function is in hardware engineering and manufacturing, not AI model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer- GitHub India Principal Software Engineer role focused on driving system architecture, inspiring and coaching engineering teams, and delivering innovative solutions for GitHub's Developer Experience (DX) team. The role emphasizes building and tuning scalable, high-performance systems, optimizing high-throughput services, and leading technical strategy and performance optimization across teams. | — | 0 |
| Fabric Interconnect Design Verification Engineer This role is for a Fabric Interconnect Design Verification Engineer. The primary responsibilities include owning verification of complex flows, developing UVM-based verification environments, and applying random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques. A key aspect of the role involves applying generative AI solutions to verification work, with preferred qualifications including experience with AI in daily tasks. The role requires a Master's or Bachelor's degree in a relevant field with a specified number of years of experience in pre-silicon subsystem or IP verification. Security screening and export control compliance are also required. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manufacturing Product Engineer Senior Manufacturing Product Engineer for Microsoft's Surface and Xbox hardware operations. The role focuses on ensuring product quality and manufacturing execution throughout the product lifecycle, involving technical understanding of design, test, assembly, and operation. Responsibilities include identifying and mitigating manufacturing risks during NPI, driving fault isolation and failure analysis, developing corrective actions, collaborating with data system partners for quality control, creating product training, developing debugging tools, resolving technical challenges in refurbishment, monitoring quality metrics, and leading cross-functional teams for continuous improvement. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and 5+ years of experience in technical engineering, manufacturing, or operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Manager This role is for a Senior Business Manager within Microsoft Business Operations (MBO), focusing on strategic planning, business performance, Rhythm of Business (ROB), and operational/financial excellence for a global team. The role requires influencing leadership, driving initiatives, and possessing strong business, process, and financial acumen. Key responsibilities include strategic planning, ROB design, program management, performance management, financial planning, data analysis, executive communication, stakeholder management, change management, process design, and enabling AI transformation. | — | 0 |
| Digital Account Executive (Swedish Speaker) Digital Account Executive for the Swedish Market at Microsoft, focusing on empowering Small, Medium, and Corporate (SMC) clients through Microsoft's cloud solutions and driving their digital transformation journey. The role involves managing a portfolio of accounts, identifying opportunities, orchestrating virtual teams, and collaborating internally and externally to achieve revenue targets and drive adoption of Microsoft products. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Intern This internship focuses on data center technician roles, involving the installation, diagnosis, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of network, storage, and server equipment. The intern will learn data center policies, procedures, and safety protocols, contributing to the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft who will define and deliver a cross-division technical solution and program to improve product launch processes and customer experience. The role involves shaping strategy, translating business and technical needs into requirements, and orchestrating delivery across engineering, operations, and business stakeholders. It requires establishing program roadmaps, managing dependencies, leading execution from concept to launch, and using data to guide decisions and ensure quality outcomes. The role emphasizes partnering across divisions, influencing senior leaders, and delivering measurable impact at company scale. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Systems Architect Seeking a Principal Quantum Systems Architect to define the architecture of scalable classical control and readout systems for large-scale quantum computing. This role focuses on system design at the quantum-classical interface, including compute platforms, communication fabrics, synchronization, and signal-processing frameworks. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves developing an understanding of standard processes for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning IT datacenter equipment under guidance. The technician will learn about infrastructure, security, and data management procedures within Microsoft's global data center operations, supporting services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Ops Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including equipment maintenance, safety compliance, and incident response. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Defender, focusing on building and delivering cloud security solutions within US Government clouds. The role involves ensuring 24x7 service reliability, automating deployments, building scalable systems for monitoring and alerting, driving compliance and security, leading post-incident learning, and collaborating across teams to maintain high uptime and performance for critical services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer - Cryo-CMOS Analog Circuit Design Seeking a Senior Quantum Engineer specializing in Cryo-CMOS Analog Circuit Design to develop control systems for quantum computing platforms. Responsibilities include designing, simulating, and validating high-performance CMOS circuits for cryogenic environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to system architecture and technical publications. | — | 0 |
| Finance Director, Data Center Investments and Deals Finance Director role focused on data center investments and deals, involving financial analysis, deal structuring, and portfolio strategy for Microsoft's cloud expansion. Requires leading a team and providing executive decision support. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer -CTJ- Poly Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Specialized Clouds Power Platform team, focusing on building, deploying, and operating Power Automate services in Air-Gapped and Sovereign Cloud environments. The role involves live-site ownership, incident response, service reliability, engineering system design, deployment automation, and product/feature support, with a strong emphasis on security, compliance, and operational excellence in regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager This is a Principal Group Engineering Manager role at GitHub (Microsoft) focused on leading software engineering teams, defining feature requirements, driving architecture, and ensuring operational excellence. The role involves people management, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and driving the delivery of production software. AI/ML is not the core focus of this role. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Intern Internship role for a Critical Environment Technician at Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on supporting cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include operational tasks, learning system operations, monitoring equipment, using CMMS, assisting with emergency response, and documenting activities. Requires a High School Diploma and basic knowledge of electrical/mechanical systems, with preferred qualifications in Facilities Management or engineering. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and managing Microsoft's online identity providers for Azure, Office, Xbox, and Windows. The role involves leading the architecture, design, and implementation of extremely high scale, throughput, durability, and low latency services, with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and continuous improvement of live site operations. This is a core engineering role within the Identity engineering team. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Analog Mixed-Signal Verification Engineer This role is for a Senior Quantum Analog Mixed-Signal Verification Engineer at Microsoft Quantum. The primary focus is on developing quantum computing platforms by integrating high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum information technology. The engineer will be responsible for creating and defining system-wide Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) models, simulation environments, and test plans for SoC and IP blocks, and coordinating with various teams to ensure high-quality design for scalable quantum systems. The role involves working with AI tools to drive innovation and efficiency, but the core craft is in quantum hardware and mixed-signal verification, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Principal Global Solution Architect - Security This role is for a Principal Global Solution Architect focused on Security within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary responsibility is to support customers in enhancing their security posture using Microsoft's security solutions. This involves providing thought leadership, influencing product roadmaps, developing intellectual property, evaluating customer security environments, and removing technical blockers in their security journey. The role requires deep technical knowledge of cloud security domains and hands-on experience with Microsoft Security products like SIEM, XDR, Data Security, Endpoint Security, Cloud Security, and Identity. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Analog Layout Engineer Senior Quantum Analog Layout Engineer responsible for designing and delivering Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and analog circuitry for Microsoft's quantum computer. This role involves schematic-to-GDS layouts, coordinating junior team members and vendors, and utilizing EDA tools. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Design Verification Engineer Principal Quantum Design Verification Engineer at Microsoft Quantum, focusing on developing verification infrastructure for quantum SoC and IP blocks. Responsibilities include defining pre-silicon simulation and post-silicon validation plans, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and managing verification environments. The role requires expertise in hardware design and verification, with a focus on ensuring high-quality designs for scalable quantum systems. | — | 0 |
| Technology Consultant M365 - CTJ -POLY This role focuses on pre-sales support and business development for Microsoft technologies, including cloud solutions and security. The Technology Consultant collaborates with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements, shape deals, and provide technical input for proposals and Statements of Work (SOW). They also act as an ambassador for intellectual property (IP) and identify opportunities to expand technology adoption. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineering Planning Coordinator - Quantum Systems Integration This role is for a Senior Engineering Planning Coordinator within Microsoft Quantum, focusing on leading Quantum Systems Engineering programs. The position involves end-to-end execution across complex, multidisciplinary engineering efforts at the intersection of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum information technology. The coordinator will translate system architectures into executable plans, manage schedules, and drive cross-functional alignment for quantum computing systems integration, including qubit technologies, cryogenic infrastructure, control and readout, fabrication, packaging, and software integration. | — | 0 |
| Networking Technology Consultant-CTJ-TS/SCI This role is for a Networking Technology Consultant who participates in the pre-sale process, scopes projects, understands customer needs, communicates business value, implements mitigations for risks, manages schedules, and oversees implementation aspects. The role also involves acting as an ambassador for intellectual property, assisting in its creation, and identifying opportunities to expand the adoption of cloud and Microsoft technologies. It requires learning new technologies, adhering to security standards, and developing technical solutions with a security-first mindset. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Service Engineer- CTJ- Poly This role focuses on operating and improving Microsoft 365 services within sovereign cloud environments, emphasizing availability, compliance, and security. Responsibilities include incident response, monitoring telemetry, implementing scalable solutions, and collaborating across teams to ensure service health and customer satisfaction. The role supports the delivery of M365 services, including CoPilot, in highly regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Technicien principal en environnement critique opérationnel/Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician (CET) in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, responsible for maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, safety enforcement, and developing operational procedures. The role supports Microsoft's cloud services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the design, testing, and implementation of infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. The engineer will be responsible for creating robust and scalable designs, developing verification plans, managing project schedules, and ensuring the reliability and safety of hardware features. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, evaluating technical trade-offs, and documenting complex technical details. It is part of the Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, which manages a global portfolio of datacenters. | — | 0 |
| Technicien principal de l'environnement critique (CET)/Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security. The role supports core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician - CTJ - Top Secret This role is for a Critical Environment Technician on the U.S. Government Airgap team at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's dedicated online services supporting the U.S. Government. The technician will perform operations, inspections, and maintenance on critical environment equipment like HVAC and electrical systems, respond to incidents, and ensure adherence to safety, security, and operational procedures in a high-security, high-compliance datacenter environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Critical Environment Technician in a U.S. Government Airgap datacenter. Responsibilities include operating and maintaining critical facility equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, controls, generators), responding to incidents, performing maintenance, and ensuring adherence to strict security and compliance procedures in a high-security environment. Requires a High School Diploma/GED and experience in mission-critical services or specialized fields, along with a Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Senior Global Solution Architect - Security This role is for a Senior Global Solution Architect focused on Security within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary focus is on supporting customers in enhancing their security posture using Microsoft's security solutions and cloud-native approaches. Responsibilities include developing security plans and strategies, proposing and demonstrating solutions, acting as a subject matter expert, and identifying technical blockers to accelerate customer adoption. The role involves close collaboration with field teams and Engineering to remove technical impediments in the customer's security journey. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Partner Practice Building & IP Development This role focuses on IP governance and skilling for partners within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization, specifically related to Azure, ABS, and Security. The IP Governance Lead CSA maps existing skilling and IP to partner maturity frameworks, identifies gaps, and works with teams to develop new IP and skilling. The role also involves creating roadmap updates, developing playbooks, and advising partners on maturity. A key aspect is developing 'Agentic experiences' to close partner maturity gaps and tracking key performance indicators related to IP and skilling development and delivery. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Researcher This role focuses on advanced threat research within Microsoft's Defender Experts (DEX) Research team, utilizing AI-driven analytics to protect customers from cyberattacks. The Senior Threat Researcher will lead research on emerging endpoint, identity, and cloud-based threats, develop detection and response strategies using EDR and SIEM platforms (especially Microsoft Defender and Sentinel), and translate raw security data into actionable intelligence. The role involves collaboration with security teams, mentoring other researchers, and contributing to industry knowledge through publications and threat modeling, all within complex, multi-cloud environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Industrial Security Consultant - CTJ - Poly Seeking an experienced Sr Industrial Security Specialist/COMSEC Officer to join Microsoft's National Security Team in Reston, VA. The role involves managing National Industrial Security Programs in accordance with CFR 32 Part 117 and Intelligence Community guidelines, ensuring compliance with various regulations, conducting training, investigating security violations, and maintaining accreditations. Requires an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI access based on an SSBI with Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator supporting the Microsoft Quantum executive office with high-level administrative responsibilities, including calendar and travel management, and special assignments. The role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment. While the role is in an AI-first environment and mentions leveraging AI tools for efficiency, the core responsibilities are administrative. | — | 0 |
| Consulting Project Manager - CTJ - Poly Consulting Project Manager for Microsoft Federal, focusing on customer engagement, project delivery, compliance, and business growth within the US Government sector. This role involves managing project lifecycles, stakeholder communications, financial health, and identifying opportunities for increased cloud consumption and business expansion. | — | 0 |
| Finance Manager - Core FP&A This role is for a Finance Manager focused on Core FP&A within Microsoft's Technical Finance Team. The position involves consolidating financial insights, partnering with various business teams, and supporting leadership decision-making. The role aims to develop CFO-level skills and contribute to company-wide financial strategy. | — | 0 |
| Senior Electrical Engineer - Planning & Coordination Senior Electrical Engineer - Planning & Coordination role at Microsoft Quantum Hardware, focusing on leading PCB supplier engagements, process development, coordinating hardware teams, and overseeing program schedules and budgets for quantum computing systems. The role involves partnering with multidisciplinary teams and suppliers to deliver high-quality hardware. | — | 0 |