Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft has 521 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, representing 37% of the total, followed by application and serving infrastructure. Engineering is the most frequent function, with a significant number of openings, and the United States is the primary hiring country. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, model serving, and LLM observability, suggesting a focus on operationalizing AI models. Over the last 30 days, Microsoft has added 280 new AI roles, a 157% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Microsoft currently has 343 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (19), Senior Software Engineer (19), Software Engineer II (8), Principal Applied Scientist (7), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (36%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Microsoft is hiring AI talent in: United States (308 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (8 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 227 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research focused on advancing cloud and AI infrastructure architecture, and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, designing and optimizing hardware components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate intelligent systems across computing layers. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Sciences INTERN Research intern to conduct research and lead collaborations on incorporating AI capabilities into Azure SQL Database platform. Focus on advancing state-of-the-art in machine intelligence and machine learning applications, implementing prototypes, and developing solutions for large-scale problems. Experience with LLMs and ML techniques is preferred. | Post-train |
| 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Senior Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for Microsoft Copilot, aiming to create revolutionary AI-powered experiences across modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with applied AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to millions of users, defining the future of human-AI interaction. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Responsible AI (CoreAI) Principal Software Engineer focused on building and integrating Responsible AI services, ensuring high availability, scalability, and low latency for customer-facing AI applications within Microsoft's CoreAI organization. This role involves end-to-end ownership of the development lifecycle, evaluating architectures, and upholding software engineering best practices. | ShipEval Gate | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Site Reliability Engineer (HPC) - MAI SuperIntelligence Team The role is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure for AI model training and inference. The engineer will ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of large-scale distributed AI systems, including GPU clusters, and will be involved in monitoring, automation, incident management, and security. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer within Microsoft's Office of the CTO (OCTO) to build AI-based systems that accelerate the deployment of OpenAI technology across Microsoft. This role involves collaborating with key technical teams at Microsoft and OpenAI to create the technical foundation for their partnership, focusing on building and shipping robust AI products, leading system design, and ensuring production reliability, observability, and security. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, HPC Operations Engineering Manager This role manages a team of Site Reliability Engineers responsible for the reliability and efficiency of large-scale distributed AI infrastructure, specifically for training, fine-tuning, and serving generative AI models. The focus is on leading operations, observability, automation, incident management, and security within hybrid cloud/on-prem CPU+GPU environments, collaborating closely with ML engineers and platform teams. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Responsible AI (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and iterating on Responsible AI tools and capabilities to enable developers to build and deploy AI responsibly at scale. It involves prototyping, applying subject-matter expertise, and collaborating across product groups to drive project and release plans. The role emphasizes working in fast-paced, experimental environments and taking ideas from ambiguity to production. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft responsible for end-to-end delivery of strategic data science projects, partnering with customers and internal teams to design and implement advanced analytics and AI solutions that create measurable business impact. This role involves leading teams, engaging with stakeholders, applying machine learning, and integrating data models into customer systems, with a focus on Responsible AI principles. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Principal Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for AI companions like Copilot, spanning multiple modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to create user experiences that redefine AI companionship. The role requires strong full-stack fundamentals and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling the inferencing cloud for Large Language Models and GenAI Services within Azure CoreAI Platform. The role involves designing, building, and operating large-scale engineering systems for AI models. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Security - Microsoft Research This role focuses on researching and developing next-generation intrusion detection systems by leveraging large-scale security event logs and applying advanced data processing and machine learning techniques. The goal is to achieve accurate and rapid detection of sophisticated attacks. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and optimizing Azure's High Performance Computing and AI Platform (HPC/AI) virtual machines. This involves deep technical work on hardware/software interactions, device virtualization, and performance analysis of GPU workloads for large-scale AI training and inference. The role contributes to the underlying platform software and its exposure as an Azure service, with opportunities to work on upper layers of Azure infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |
| Engineering Lead - Extreme Retrieval Engineering Lead to build and own the software engineering platform for large-scale machine learning retrieval systems, including RAG for Copilots, web-scale search, and personalized recommendations. The role focuses on translating retrieval research into reusable, scalable systems, defining engineering standards, and integrating new methods. It involves cross-team technical leadership and improving developer/researcher experience. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer The role focuses on designing and building cutting-edge networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The goal is to enable breakthroughs in AI by delivering unmatched computational power, scalability, and reliability, with a focus on high performance, low latency, and minimal jitter for distributed AI workloads. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior & Principal Security Researcher Senior/Principal Security Researcher on the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage (GHOST) team. The role involves performing threat hunts, assisting with investigations, developing threat intelligence, and cultivating investigation best practices into Microsoft tooling and products. Researchers will support a global team to identify and catalog new attacker TTPs, victims, and deliver customer notifications to protect worldwide enterprise customers and empower customers to protect themselves via constantly improving Microsoft products. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Copilot M365 Calendar Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building AI-powered scheduling systems by integrating backend services, LLMs, APIs, and Outlook services for Microsoft Calendar and Teams. The role involves developing agent-driven solutions to reduce cognitive load and empower users in the hybrid work era. | Agent | 7 |
| Research Intern - Human-AI Interaction Research and Design (Health AI) Research Intern position focused on Human-AI Interaction in Healthcare, applying AI/ML and user-centered design to develop novel solutions for precision medicine. The role involves foundational discovery research, building interactive prototypes, and exploring generative UI and multimodal AI with clinical data. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Platform Engineer This role focuses on engineering user-facing AI features for Microsoft's personal AI, Copilot. The engineer will own the development lifecycle from inception to delivery, build secure and performant AI platform services, and collaborate with researchers and other engineers to create next-generation AI products. The role emphasizes shipping high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code within a fast-paced product development cycle. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - AI and Systems Reliability - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on AI and Systems Reliability. The role involves defining a novel research agenda in areas like distributed systems, formal methods, ML for system reliability, and reliability of ML systems, with the goal of bringing formal rigor and reliability guarantees to AI-powered platforms. | Post-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product Engineer - Web This role focuses on building AI-powered web experiences for Microsoft Copilot, collaborating with researchers and product managers to deliver a world-class AI companion. The engineer will design and build efficient front-end systems and infrastructure for complex web applications, ensuring safety and reliability for millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Research Intern - Office of the Chief Scientific Officer Research Intern position at Microsoft's Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, focusing on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible AI. The role involves collaborating with world-class researchers on complex challenges in diverse fields, including AI, biology, biomedicine, and the societal influences of AI. Interns will contribute to research and development strides, present findings, and potentially publish peer-reviewed work. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Infra - MAI Superintelligence Team The role focuses on building and maintaining data infrastructure for large-scale AI model training, specifically ingesting and processing enormous amounts of multimodal data (text, audio, images, video). This includes owning data pipelines, Spark, Ray, and Vector Databases, and partnering with pretraining and post-training teams to improve the data recipe for frontier models. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineering The Microsoft 365 Copilot Windows App team is building intelligent, multimodal AI experiences into Windows, enabling AI agents using MCP to redefine user interaction with devices and bring AI to billions. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent features leveraging voice, camera, and screen context, building and optimizing agentic workflows, and owning end-to-end AI capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Inclusive Futures Team Research Intern position at Microsoft Research's Inclusive Futures group, focusing on needs-focused research for underserved individuals. Requires a PhD student in a relevant STEM field with experience in HCI, AI, Accessibility, or related areas. The role involves conducting original research, collaborating with researchers, and potentially publishing findings. | Post-train | 7 |
| Research Intern - Technology for Religious Empowerment Research Intern position focusing on adapting and designing AI systems for religious communities, involving model evaluations, product design, and responsible AI practices. The role requires a PhD student in a STEM field with an interest in religion and experience with emerging technologies like Generative AI and Agentic Systems. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Systems and Networking, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Systems and Networking at Microsoft Research, focusing on AI-driven methods for system innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing and implementing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. Requires a Doctorate and background in systems/networking with knowledge of ML systems, databases, and networking technologies, including Agent Systems and Vector Databases. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Cloud and AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Research, focusing on advancing AI infrastructure architecture and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, optimizing components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex real-world challenges at the intersection of AI, human interaction, and environmental context. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Hardware Research Intern role focused on AI Hardware, specifically researching chip architectures for efficient AI serving and inference systems. Collaborates with researchers to increase performance and efficiency of cutting-edge inference systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Azure Research - Systems Research Intern role focused on next-generation cloud and AI systems, with a focus on improving efficiency, reliability, and usability of Microsoft's online services and datacenters. Projects include efficient GPU/LLM deployments, AIOps, and serverless computing. The role involves research, prototyping, evaluation, and potential publication. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Gray Systems Lab (GSL) Research intern role focusing on machine learning for systems, reinforcement learning, natural language-to-query, and agentic workflows within Azure Data's Gray Systems Lab. The internship involves research and development for databases, big-data, and cloud systems, with potential impact on production systems and publications. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Software-Hardware Co-design Research intern role focused on pioneering technologies for AI/ML workloads, specifically improving efficiency, security, and robustness of GPU memory systems, agentic AI systems, and software architecture for hardware accelerators. The role involves fast-paced execution, implementation, and evaluation on Azure platforms, with a focus on systems and AI. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Reliability of Cloud and AI Systems Research intern role focused on applying LLM and Agentic technology to improve the reliability of large-scale cloud and AI systems. The role involves analyzing production data, designing and building novel tools for monitoring and troubleshooting, and validating solutions on real Microsoft services. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Research Intern - RiSE group Research Intern role in the RiSE group focusing on ML Systems, AI workloads, agentic workflows, and ML models for software engineering tasks. Requires PhD program enrollment and expertise in related STEM fields, with preferred qualifications in ML systems, AI, and software engineering. | Data | 7 |
| Data Science INTERN Internship role focused on applying machine learning, statistics, and data exploration techniques to solve problems and improve products, with a focus on generating business impact and customer insights. The role involves formulating approaches, interpreting results, and collaborating with stakeholders. | Data | 5 |
| Director, Global SMB Strategy & Growth- AI Business Solutions Director role focused on global SMB strategy and growth for AI Business Solutions, involving strategy, execution, and field enablement to help SMB customers leverage AI. The role partners with various internal teams to translate strategy into scalable execution and drive measurable business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Director, Global SMB Strategy & Growth- Cloud & AI Platforms Director, Global SMB Strategy & Growth for Cloud & AI Platforms (CAIP) at Microsoft. This role focuses on leading strategy, execution, and field enablement to help SMB customers leverage AI. It involves shaping growth strategies, translating priorities into scalable execution, and equipping field teams and partners. The role requires close collaboration with various internal teams to drive business outcomes and market share. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager, Bing Places - Microsoft AI Search The Principal Product Manager will define the roadmap for AI experiences in Search, focusing on how AI can improve the Search experience and enable users to make decisions and complete journeys. This role is central to transforming traditional search into intelligent systems. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager Principal Technical Program Manager to drive high-impact engineering projects with customers and partners, transforming their missions using AI and other cloud-based solutions and services. This role involves defining customer scenarios, orchestrating engineering approaches, and developing end-to-end user stories, fulfilling the Product Owner role within a cross-functional team. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Microsoft's Core Authentication Platform, focusing on securing authentication for users and AI agents in an evolving threat landscape. The role involves defining product strategy and roadmap, partnering with engineering, and engaging with customers to advance Microsoft's Zero Trust vision in the context of AI adoption. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager, Bing Places - Microsoft AI Search Principal Product Manager for Microsoft AI Search, focusing on Bing Places. This role involves defining the future of AI-powered search journeys, leading product strategy, and translating AI capabilities (LLMs, grounding, retrieval) into user value for discovering and evaluating information about the physical world. The position requires people management experience and operates in a highly matrixed environment. | — | 5 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialists, Cloud & AI This role is a sales specialist focused on driving customer adoption of Microsoft's Cloud & AI solutions, particularly in the mid-market segment. The specialist will act as a trusted advisor, guiding customers through their AI journey, modernizing infrastructure, and accelerating innovation with AI capabilities. Responsibilities include leading customer engagements, managing sales pipeline, orchestrating cross-functional teams, and accelerating customer decisions through business cases and ROI analysis. The role requires strong sales and technical consultative skills, with a focus on achieving Cloud & AI revenue targets. | — | 5 |
| (Senior) Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within Microsoft's CoreAI division. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation to accelerate product learning and drive progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will build and maintain services that allow teams to evaluate, refine, and safely deploy AI innovations. While the role uses AI tools and supports AI product development, the core craft is building the experimentation infrastructure, not directly shipping AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Principal/Senior Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Principal/Senior Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform within Microsoft's CoreAI division. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation to accelerate product learning and drive progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will own and drive the development of critical components, design and build services for engineers and scientists to measure impact and validate hypotheses, and contribute to building systems at scale. The role emphasizes driving technical excellence in distributed systems, mentoring engineers, and building reliable infrastructure that accelerates AI progress. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Security, focusing on leading end-to-end product strategy for AI-powered security solutions, partnering across teams, and driving product development from concept to launch. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Design Manager This role is for a Principal Product Design Manager at Microsoft's Commercial Engineering & AI (CEAI) division. The manager will lead a team of product designers to shape tools for Microsoft's commercial business, focusing on AI-native engineering practices and leveraging AI tools to accelerate design processes. The role involves strategic guidance, team development, end-to-end design lifecycle management, and collaboration with engineering. | — | 5 |
| Director of Product Management- MDE Director of Product Management for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), a critical component of Microsoft's security portfolio. This role involves owning the product strategy, roadmap, customer relationships, and competitive narrative for MDE, a leading endpoint protection solution. The Director will lead a global PM organization, drive execution with engineering and research teams, and ensure seamless integration with other Microsoft security offerings. The role requires deep understanding of endpoint security, the modern threat landscape, and the ability to engage with senior technical and business stakeholders. | — | 5 |
| Sr Digital Solution Area Specialists - Azure This role focuses on driving customer success by selling Microsoft Azure cloud and AI technologies. The specialist will engage with customers to understand their challenges and position Azure services for digital transformation, requiring a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and sales engagement to boost Azure adoption. | — | 5 |
| Senior Sales Excellence Manager This role focuses on driving sales excellence and business insights for Microsoft's Cloud & AI Platforms (Azure) within the Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) segment. The Senior Sales Excellence Manager will partner with sales leadership to accelerate solution area growth, manage pipeline health, and implement sales strategies to drive customer AI transformation and revenue realization. The role requires experience in sales operations, data-driven decision making, and stakeholder management, with a focus on achieving business outcomes in a mature AI product environment. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager Product Manager for Microsoft's Trust and Secure Services (TSS) team, focusing on features that protect Microsoft's products and services throughout the digital supply chain. The role involves identifying product opportunities, leveraging AI for customer needs analysis, defining features and requirements, using data-driven insights for product improvement, and evangelizing features. While the role uses AI tools and influences data product features, it does not directly build or ship AI models. | — | 5 |