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 Technical Program Manager This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager within Microsoft's Audit, Risk, and Compliance (ARC) Group, focusing on the Reporting and Analytics team. The primary responsibility is to build and operate solutions supporting end-to-end processes, acting as connective tissue between ARC teams and external stakeholders through analytics and technology. The role involves developing and maintaining solutions on PowerPlatform, partnering with engineering for ETL, web/API development, and Azure resource management. A key aspect is building platforms and features, including agents, for ARC use. The ideal candidate is ambitious, detail-oriented, and a strong collaborator focused on driving impact. | — | 0 |
| Senior Corporate Strategy & Development Manager This role is within Microsoft's Corporate Strategy Team, advising the CEO and executive leadership on long-term strategic direction, growth, and decision-making across the company's portfolio. The role involves conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis on high-priority strategic issues, including M&A evaluation, market assessments, and new initiative ideation. It requires developing analytical rigor, spotting strategic opportunities, and communicating findings to senior executives. |
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| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on building the core authoring experience for app design and customization within the Power Platform. The role involves developing a modern, high-performance UI, advanced features like coauthoring and responsive layouts, and seamless integration with data sources. The engineer will write and maintain high-quality code, debug complex issues, optimize performance, and collaborate with designers and PMs. While the role mentions 'copilot integrations' and 'LLMs' as a plus, the core responsibilities are centered around UI development and platform integration, not direct AI/ML model building or research. | — | 0 |
| Corporate Counsel This role is for a Corporate Counsel focusing on subsidiary management within Microsoft's legal department. The responsibilities include providing legal advice on corporate governance, subsidiary structures, funding, and lifecycle activities. A key aspect is partnering with various internal teams and leveraging AI-enabled tools to improve legal work and efficiency. The role requires a Juris Doctor degree and active law license, with preferred experience in multinational companies and using AI in legal practice. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role manages a team of technicians responsible for the operation and maintenance of critical environment systems within Microsoft's data centers, ensuring the reliability and safety of the infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Windows team at Microsoft, focusing on building and shipping features for both current and next versions of Windows. The role involves designing, developing, and optimizing software at scale, collaborating with stakeholders, providing technical leadership, and mentoring other engineers. While the role mentions leveraging AI-powered tools for development, the core craft is software engineering for the Windows product, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, and monitor equipment performance. The role is focused on the physical operations and maintenance of datacenter facilities, not on AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II -Full Stack Software Engineer II role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves contributing to core business intelligence investments, shaping the next generation of semantic modeling, reporting, and end-to-end analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering user experiences and cloud services, ensuring implementation resiliency, security, and reliability, and participating in code reviews and bug triage. | — | 0 |
| Group Risk Manager, Business Risk & Insurance Microsoft's Business Risk & Insurance team seeks an experienced finance/insurance professional to analyze business risk, develop risk mitigation strategies, and manage insurance programs. This role involves collaborating with external brokers, overseeing contract reviews, and assessing program risks to ensure appropriate insurance placement. The position requires strong judgment, strategic planning, and the ability to quantify financial impacts of risks. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II- Front End Development This role is for a Software Engineer II on the Fabric Platform Shell team, focused on building a leading SaaS data development environment. The team's mission is to create a simple, functional, and extensible web experience for data ingestion, storage, processing, and analysis, aiming for a best-in-class DevOps experience. The role involves full-stack and backend development, collaborating with designers and product managers, and writing high-quality code. Key responsibilities include designing and building user experiences, collaborating on features, and ensuring engineering excellence through testing, automation, and adherence to security standards. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of experience in software engineering and 1+ year in web application development using frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Senior Technical Program Manager for Microsoft's Entra ID Identity Buildout team, focusing on strengthening engineering and financial efficiency, enabling expansion into new regions and sovereign clouds, and driving complex, cross-organizational programs related to identity management and security. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer in a data center, responsible for ensuring the availability and operational efficiency of mechanical and electrical equipment, managing maintenance, and adhering to safety and compliance policies. The role involves overseeing day-to-day operations, reducing incidents, supporting emergency response plans, and coordinating audits within leased data centers. It also includes fostering strong relationships with partners and sharing best practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Manager This role supports the CEO office for Microsoft AI, specifically for the Microsoft Copilot team. The Business Manager will manage procurement, vendor selection, contract negotiation, headcount, organizational operations, financial planning, budget management, and business operations to enable leaders to focus on building products. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - Red Team This role manages a team of software engineers and analysts to build tooling that leverages a security graph to discover and quantify security risks. The team will model lateral movement paths, use graph and data to uncover security antipatterns, and communicate findings to stakeholders. The role is within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on cybersecurity and risk analysis. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - C++ This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on building and evolving a large-scale client platform for remote computing experiences. While the role emphasizes leveraging AI-powered development tools and AI-assisted workflows to improve engineering practices, the core product is not an AI system itself, but rather a client platform for remote desktop access. The role involves leading architecture, design, and development of these client applications, driving innovation in cloud-connected desktop experiences, and establishing best practices for performance, reliability, and security. A key aspect is championing AI-assisted software development to accelerate innovation and improve code quality within the engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager, Content Monetization Product leader to own MSN monetization strategy, product development, and revenue performance, working across engineering, sales, leadership, and finance to ship products that grow the business while improving user experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer -Fullstack Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves contributing to core business intelligence investments, shaping semantic modeling, reporting, and end-to-end analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering scalable, user-centric features across web and service-side components, ensuring reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness, and participating in code reviews and bug triage. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with 4+ years of experience in full-stack development, including UI (TypeScript, Angular) and backend/distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Customer Experience Engineer II This role is for a Customer Experience Engineer II focused on resolving critical escalations for Microsoft's top Security customers using Microsoft Entra. The engineer will act as a subject matter expert, collaborating with various teams to address technical issues, improve product design, and accelerate customer adoption. The role involves direct customer interaction, on-call rotation, and contributing to the technical growth of peers. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager- Advertising Measurement Lead execution for advertising measurement programs, translating product requirements into shipped outcomes across complex, data-intensive systems. Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure data quality and reliability for measurement features and platforms. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and operating robust release infrastructure for Microsoft 365's Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3) platform. The role involves architecting standardized release infrastructure, defining release patterns, building automation and tooling for reliability and efficiency, and driving cross-organizational technical alignment. This is a platform engineering role within a large enterprise cloud services environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Strategy & Insights Manager This role is for a Senior Data Strategy & Insights Manager on the CMO Strategy team at Microsoft. The primary focus is on overseeing large-scale consumer data sets, managing an external data engineering partner, and providing rigorous analytical insights to inform strategic decisions for Microsoft's consumer business. The role involves data analysis, infrastructure oversight, partner management, and strategic business support. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II -Fullstack Software Engineer II - Fullstack role at Microsoft on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The role involves building core BI investments, shaping the next generation of semantic modeling, reporting, and analytics authoring. Responsibilities include delivering user experiences and cloud services, writing code across web clients and service-side components, integrating with LLM-based agents, and ensuring implementation resiliency and security. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of experience in fullstack development, including UI and backend experience. | — | 0 |
| Metro - Construction Contract Lead This role is for a Construction Contract Lead within Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) team, responsible for managing complex, large-scale datacenter construction projects. The role involves end-to-end contract management, from pre-award support to post-award execution and closeout, requiring strong commercial judgment and disciplined change control practices in a fast-paced construction environment. | — | 0 |
| Finance Manager, Consumer Products & Infrastructure Finance Manager for Microsoft's Consumer Products & Infrastructure team, focusing on cloud products. Responsibilities include establishing and maintaining KPIs for inventory and warehousing, translating strategy into finance rhythms, strengthening reporting accuracy and controls, and driving process improvements for automation and data quality. | — | 0 |
| Demand Planning Manager Demand Planning Manager for Microsoft Cloud Supply Chain, focusing on forecasting and demand planning for cloud services and hardware, including AI infrastructure. The role involves leading consensus demand planning, managing forecasts, analyzing trends, and partnering with Data Science and Data Engineering teams to improve forecasting models. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator at Microsoft supporting various leaders, focusing on calendar management, logistics, cross-functional collaboration, event coordination, project ownership, and resource management. The role requires strong organizational, communication, and judgment skills, with an emphasis on enabling team success and leadership within the business administrator community. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Network Engineer Senior Software Engineer focused on designing, implementing, and managing Azure network infrastructure, including network security, automation, incident response, and performance optimization. Requires experience with Azure networking components and network security. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering II - CTJ - Poly Software Engineer II role focused on Microsoft 365 government cloud service offerings, emphasizing large-scale distributed systems, reliability, security, and performance for critical government customers. The role involves designing, developing, and improving cloud technologies and application architecture. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Applied Power Systems Analysis Research Intern role focused on applied studies of power system behavior under extreme conditions, analyzing system responses, assessing operational risk, and studying the impact of external drivers on grid reliability using existing models. This is an application-focused role involving simulations and data analysis. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II -CTJ - Poly Software Engineer II role focused on building secure, scalable, and reliable multi-tenant services within Microsoft Security, supporting live services in air-gapped Azure regions and contributing to new service development. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field with 2+ years of experience and a U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Principal Site Reliability Engineering Manager- CTJ- Secret (Cleared Environments) Principal SRE Manager for foundational cloud platform powering M365 Copilot and Exchange Online in highly regulated environments. Focus on operational excellence, reliability, security, and compliance through strong software engineering fundamentals and team leadership. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing, building, and operating scalable, reliable, cloud-native backend services and microservices for Microsoft's cloud platforms and product experiences. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent experience. Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern cloud technologies is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - C++ Principal Software Engineer role focused on networking components within Windows Servicing and Delivery. Responsibilities include technical leadership, architecture, design, implementation, security, reliability, performance, and mentoring for complex networking systems like TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and VPNs. Requires strong C++ or similar language skills, networking fundamentals, and security engineering experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Senior Product Marketing Manager role within Microsoft's AI Business Solutions team, focusing on translating data and marketing technology into actionable insights for sellers, partners, and business leaders. The role involves cross-functional collaboration with Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Engineering to improve go-to-market execution through data-driven insights and decision-making. | — | 0 |
| Energy Resource Manager This role focuses on managing IT allocation and optimizing space, power, cooling, and network resources within data centers to reduce stranded capacity. It involves collaborating with engineering teams, managing IT infrastructure, and leading projects to improve Infrastructure Utilization Effectiveness and Power Harvesting. | — | 0 |
| Principal Electrical Engineer, Instrument Development Seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and deployment of special-purpose instrumentation for quantum computing hardware characterization, readout, and control. This role involves mixed-signal electronics, low-noise measurement, timing, high-speed data conversion, and system integration in lab and cryogenic environments. Responsibilities include leading instrument development from concept to deployment, architecting precision electronics, defining timing and synchronization, driving validation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role also involves defining and maintaining shared reference and validation platforms and managing vendor engagement. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) Engineering & Architecture Group (EAG). This global team supports complex customer engagements, driving early-stage deliveries, enhancing technical capabilities, and developing innovative solutions. The role involves understanding user requirements, designing and architecting products/solutions, writing extensible and maintainable code, implementing solutions, and ensuring live service reliability and supportability. While AI is mentioned in the context of customer solutions and technical/AI leadership, the core responsibilities focus on general software engineering, architecture, coding, and support within a consulting/delivery framework. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly Software Engineer II in Microsoft’s Sovereign Cloud Security team responsible for designing, delivering, and securing cloud-scale software for highly regulated and mission-critical environments. Focuses on reliability, compliance, and security for internal and customer-facing cloud offerings. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves the physical installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of data center IT hardware, including servers, network devices, and related infrastructure. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, safety protocols, and security policies to ensure the reliable and secure operation of the data center environment, supporting services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Warranty Sourcing Program Manager This role is for a Warranty Sourcing Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain organization. The primary focus is on managing the sourcing and supply of hardware for data centers, including optimizing costs, managing warranty entitlements, and mitigating supply shortages. While the role mentions AI capabilities and infrastructure, the core responsibilities are in traditional supply chain management, sourcing, and program management, not in building or directly working with AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineering- CTJ- Secret (Cleared Environments) This role is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Microsoft Substrate platform, which supports critical services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot. The SRE will focus on ensuring 24x7 service reliability, supporting and automating deployments, building scalable systems for monitoring and alerting, driving compliance and security, leading post-incident learning, collaborating across teams, and staying technically current. The role requires experience with regulated, sovereign, or compliance-sensitive environments and involves specific security clearance requirements for government cloud environments. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineering- CTJ- Poly Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, focusing on Windows 365 Cloud PC/Azure Virtual Desktop. Responsibilities include incident response, troubleshooting, developing automation, and ensuring service reliability, security, and performance in highly regulated environments. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, and an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Sr Digital Solution Area Specialist - Security This role is for a Sr. Digital Solution Area Specialist focused on Security within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) division. The role involves building digital transformation security strategies with customers, collaborating with internal teams and partners to drive sales opportunities, and leveraging AI-powered tools and insights to achieve customer success and business growth. The position requires extensive experience in technology sales, understanding of security frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, and knowledge of XDR, SIEM, and Data Security technologies. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Construction Manager This role is for a Sr. Construction Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the delivery of datacenter capacity. The role involves overseeing project execution, managing vendors, driving risk mitigation, and ensuring safety, quality, sustainability, schedule, and budget requirements are met for large-scale construction projects. It requires leadership in cross-functional collaboration, technical oversight, and regulatory compliance. | — | 0 |
| Director Business Planning This role is for a Director of Business Planning within Microsoft's Commercial Strategy organization, focusing on pricing, packaging, licensing, channel, and monetization strategies for their commercial portfolio, particularly for Public Sector customers. The role involves developing data-driven business cases, influencing senior stakeholders, driving cross-functional alignment, and shaping go-to-market approaches for modern commerce platforms and partner strategies. It requires strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, and strong communication skills to influence and execute strategies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in the Windows Enterprise and Security team, focusing on designing and shipping security and enterprise features for the Windows ecosystem. The role involves building foundational security and management features, ensuring secure-by-design principles, and collaborating with partner teams for end-to-end execution. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the CloudMine team, responsible for maintaining and evolving the data mining framework and pipelines that support engineering initiatives across Microsoft. This role involves architecting scalable data pipelines, curating datasets, developing data collectors, and ensuring the security, reliability, and compliance of the data platform. Requires versatility in software and data engineering, with a focus on data quality and large-scale data systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Physical Design Engineer Microsoft is seeking a Senior Physical Design Engineer to join their Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) team. This role is responsible for the end-to-end physical design implementation of state-of-the-art computer chips, specifically mentioning Azure Cobalt. The engineer will coordinate with various teams, influence design tools and methodologies, and optimize designs for power, performance, and area. The role requires experience in synthesis, RTL/DFT feedback, timing constraints, and RTL to GDS implementation, with a focus on production flagship projects. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on optimizing the performance of Microsoft Edge, a user-facing product. The engineer will lead architectural evolution, drive data-informed improvements, modernize legacy code, and scale impact through performance tooling and AI-assisted diagnostics to ensure a fast, responsive, and reliable user experience. | — | 0 |
| Chief Nursing Services Leader This role is for a Chief Nursing Services Leader who will bring deep clinical expertise in nursing workflows to help customers prepare for and adopt AI solutions. The role combines clinical leadership and customer experience, ensuring product strategy and customer success teams are grounded in real-world clinical practices. Responsibilities include thought leadership, collaboration with partners and commercial teams, identifying customer KPIs, providing subject matter expertise during product development, building trust with healthcare systems, representing customer success in best practices, partnering with product management, and furthering transformation strategies. | — | 0 |
