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 224 active AI roles, down 17% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 313 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (18), Senior Software Engineer (17), Software Engineer II (6), Principal Applied Scientist (5), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (39%), application (22%), serving infrastructure (18%). 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 (271 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (10 roles), United Kingdom (8 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 245 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer The Principal Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team focuses on building and optimizing big data analytics services, specifically within the Microsoft Fabric Spark team. The role involves pushing the frontiers of analytics performance and scale by working with open-source technologies like Spark, Gluten, Velox, and Delta, as well as proprietary Microsoft services. The goal is to improve onboarding and tuning of workloads, requiring an AI-forward approach to deliver impact at Azure scale. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, and operating data services, mentoring engineers, and participating in live site operations. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric Data & Telemetry team, responsible for building and maintaining telemetry instrumentation services and pipelines, developing tools for metadata management, and creating job monitoring and notification services for data pipelines. The role focuses on providing high-quality data for running the service and business, supporting pillars like live-site monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics for product development, and ensuring customers have data for their own observability needs. The team applies classic cloud and software engineering practices alongside big data-engineering and analytical practices. |
| Data |
| 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Microsoft Advertising Senior Data Scientist role within Microsoft Advertising focused on defining and delivering metrics, experimental design, and product iteration to improve user and business value. The role involves partnering with engineering and product teams to solve complex data science problems and influence product improvements through data-driven insights and workflows. | — | 5 |
| Principal Architect-UI Platforms This role focuses on evolving the Windows UI platform (WinUI) to be AI-native, enabling AI agents to author, refactor, and optimize UI code. It involves designing semantic models, stable abstractions, and predictable composition patterns for AI consumption, as well as facilitating migration and adoption through AI-assisted tooling. The goal is to create a declarative, dynamic UI foundation that supports personalization and agent-driven mutation, making it easier for web and SwiftUI developers to adopt and future-proofing for AI-generated code. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within Microsoft's CoreAI division. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation for AI systems and product features, accelerating product learning and driving progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will lead architecture and development of this critical infrastructure, focusing on systems that help teams ship better AI experiences faster through rigorous experimentation and responsible AI practices. | ShipEval Gate | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Browser Platform Senior Software Engineer to join the on-device ML team for the Edge browser. The role involves delivering on-device ML capabilities via web APIs, integrating models and runtimes into Edge, developing evaluation pipelines and datasets, and contributing to the Chromium project. The focus is on shipping AI-powered features to end-users. | ShipData | 5 |
| Senior Researcher - Research in Software Engineering - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on advancing software engineering through rigorous research, integrating AI and agent technologies into programming languages, testing, and automated reasoning. The role involves driving high-impact research, developing new ideas, building state-of-the-art systems, and preparing technical papers and presentations. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Computer Aided Design Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating components for analog electronic devices, specifically within the Microsoft Quantum team. The engineer will define design approaches, technical specifications, and test requirements, leveraging industry-standard electronic design automation and electromagnetic simulation toolsets. A key aspect involves developing and refining process-design-kit (PDK) requirements for superconducting circuit technologies and collaborating with various teams to codesign for performance, scalability, and reliability. The role also includes leading the design and layout of superconducting cryogenic control and readout circuits and establishing physical-design, layout, and verification workflows. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools to accelerate discovery and drive innovation, the core craft is hardware engineering for quantum computing, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and scaling AI-powered growth systems for Microsoft's core AI products like GitHub Copilot and VS Code. The engineer will design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments, improve A/B testing frameworks, and use data to drive decisions, aiming to accelerate user adoption and engagement with AI features. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Microsoft Azure Data engineering team, focusing on designing and building internal tools, engineering systems, and automation capabilities to enhance the quality and reliability of Power BI Desktop and Service. The role involves end-to-end tool development, including architecture, backend services, dashboards, telemetry integration, and AI-powered workflows, with a focus on integrating GenAI into developer workflows and modernizing engineering processes. | Data | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) Principal Software Engineer focused on building AI-first growth and experimentation systems for Microsoft's CoreAI organization, which powers products like GitHub Copilot. The role involves architecting and implementing foundational engineering systems for measuring, experimenting with, and scaling AI experiences across Microsoft products, with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence, reliability, and driving measurable business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Data & Analytics - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on building and owning end-to-end technical vision and execution for infrastructure analytics within Microsoft AI. The primary responsibility is to turn raw telemetry into trusted insights on utilization, capacity, readiness, and efficiency, supporting leadership in making informed investment and planning decisions at scale. The role involves designing and building scalable data pipelines, defining core metrics, architecting self-service dashboards and APIs, and ensuring data quality and governance. | — | 5 |
| "Purview" Software Engineer Software Engineer for Microsoft Purview, focusing on data protection and governance solutions. The role involves using AI tools within the SDLC, contributing to architecture, and developing automation for production and deployment. It emphasizes cost-optimization and resource utilization for services. | — | 5 |
| Senior Researcher - Data Systems - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Data Systems at Microsoft Research focusing on query execution, data storage, resource management, data discovery, and data preparation. Special interest in leveraging AI/ML for data management challenges. Past research has influenced products like SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Requires a Doctorate or equivalent experience and a track record of research accomplishments, including major conference publications. | Data | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Azure HPC/AI team focusing on networking for large-scale AI training supercomputers. The role involves working with AI compute product managers, AI model developers, and datacenter experts to ensure operational uptime and workload throughput for AI supercomputers. The goal is to support the training of advanced AI models for consumer and enterprise services. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Microsoft Azure High Performance Computing & AI Engineering team, responsible for managing the core platform and fleet of AI High Performance Computing products. The role involves designing and developing capabilities to monitor and operate supercomputers at scale, diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale systems, and creating data pipelines for telemetry and alerts. While the role supports AI customers and uses AI HPC products, the core craft is infrastructure engineering and operations, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Principal Consultant A2 - Apps This Principal Consultant role focuses on leading the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, with a strong emphasis on embedding AI-first principles and leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot across the software development lifecycle. The role involves architectural ownership, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes within an enterprise context. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building next-generation networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The role involves developing high-performance, low-latency, and reliable networking capabilities to support distributed AI workloads, working at the intersection of AI and high-performance computing. | Serve | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product - Backend Engineer Backend engineer for Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, focusing on building APIs for mobile apps, optimizing user growth, engagement, and retention. Collaborates with various teams to deliver scalable infrastructure and impactful results in a fast-paced consumer product environment. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of large-scale AI training infrastructures, specifically GPU clusters. It involves designing and developing hardware health monitoring and diagnostic frameworks, building predictive analytics pipelines using telemetry data, and leading incident triage for hardware anomalies. The goal is to drive automation in health management and partner with cross-functional teams to improve hardware design for reliability. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Security Researchers Senior Security Researcher role focused on researching emerging attack vectors, analyzing detection/prevention gaps, and designing/developing solutions. The role involves guiding the design of AI-based solutions for security problems and has a preferred qualification in AI workflows or generative AI/LLM frameworks. The primary focus is on building security solutions, with AI being a tool to achieve that. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Quantum Architect This role is for a Principal Quantum Architect focused on the readout and control layer of a topological quantum system. The role involves translating system requirements into subsystem requirements, analyzing performance and scaling, and using modern AI tools for architectural validation and rapid prototyping. The primary focus is on building and scaling quantum computing platforms, with AI tools being used as a supporting technology. | — | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and securing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution (Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop). The role involves modernizing authentication, establishing secure practices, and adopting phishing-resistant credentials. While the role mentions using AI tools in the SDLC and GenAI approaches, the core product is VDI, not an AI model or agent. | — | 2 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Security This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Security, focusing on Microsoft's Purview Data Security, Sentinel, and Defender XDR solutions. The primary responsibility is to drive customer security transformation by owning the technical relationship, providing architecture design, implementation guidance, and ensuring operational health. The role involves working with enterprise-level customers on the bleeding edge of Microsoft's security solutions, leveraging foundational AI and security expertise to deliver end-to-end security outcomes. | — | 1 |
| Technical Program Manager II - Security Platforms & Operational Readiness This role is for a Technical Program Manager II focused on the strategic launch and operational readiness of security platforms within Azure and Microsoft Security solutions. The TPM will drive cross-organizational security initiatives, manage requirements, dependencies, and risks, and partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure successful launches and Day-0 readiness. The role involves defining program strategy, managing stakeholders, providing technical oversight, ensuring program governance, and coordinating readiness assets. Experience with data-driven or AI-enabled approaches for operational analytics or security workflows is preferred, and the role requires U.S. citizenship due to government security requirements. | — | 1 |
| Senior Azure Customer Engineer (ACE) This role is for a Senior Azure Customer Engineer focused on supporting strategic customers in sovereign and regulated environments. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, owning end-to-end support experiences, resolving complex issues, driving proactive improvements, and influencing Azure engineering teams. It emphasizes an AI-first, engineering-led approach leveraging automation and intelligence for detection, diagnosis, and resolution to ensure reliability, compliance, and resiliency at scale. | — | 1 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Collections Manager This role is for a Senior Finance Manager, Collections Manager at Microsoft. The primary focus is on maximizing protection of Accounts Receivable (AR), accelerating cash flow, and optimizing collections performance. The role involves managing collections for an assigned portfolio, providing support and direction, and utilizing AI to drive improvements. It also includes participation in AI projects to enable business processes and managing vendor relationships. The position requires strong leadership principles, collaboration, and adherence to Microsoft's policies and ethical standards. Experience with AI toolsets is preferred. | — | 1 |
| Senior Tooling PM Senior Program Manager for incentive compensation tooling, focusing on modernization, scalability, and user-centricity. The role involves defining product strategy, driving execution, and improving system effectiveness through automation and AI. Key responsibilities include owning tooling as a product, driving end-to-end execution, improving system effectiveness, making data-informed decisions, partnering across teams, ensuring governance, and identifying AI opportunities to reduce manual effort and accelerate decision-making. | — | 1 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager - Business Operations Program Manager for Business Operations within Microsoft's Critical Environment team, focusing on financial controllership, contract management, spend management, and cost savings for datacenters. This role supports the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Security Cloud Solution Architect- CTJ - Poly Security Cloud Solution Architect with a focus on Identity and Access Management (IAM) to drive customer transformation on the Microsoft Cloud platform. This role is responsible for leading Identity engagements, owning the technical relationship with customers, and delivering secure Identity architectures that enable Zero Trust and mission success for the U.S. Federal Government. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Executive Microsoft is seeking a Commercial Executive for their Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) team in LATAM. This role focuses on commercial strategy, negotiation, and deal structuring for AI-powered sales, leveraging Microsoft's cloud solutions and partner ecosystem. The executive will lead complex deal-making, manage licensing agreements, advise customers and partners, and drive revenue growth within the SMB segment, operating in a partner-driven ecosystem with a strong emphasis on policy and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer II role on the Azure PostgreSQL team, focusing on building and operating a globally distributed, fully managed PostgreSQL service. The team's mission is to build the data platform for AI, powering data-first applications and driving a data culture. Responsibilities include designing, producing, and delivering software to improve service reliability, scalability, performance, security, and efficiency, as well as contributing to production support and code reviews. | — | 0 |
| Assistant General Counsel, Grid Compliance This role is for an Assistant General Counsel focused on grid compliance for datacenters, which support AI tools like Copilot. The role involves defining compliance programs, coordinating legal support for electricity infrastructure, and advising senior management on legal matters related to datacenter development and operations. It requires extensive experience in electricity transactions and regulations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role focuses on automating Azure datacenter processes for server decommissioning and workload migration, aiming to improve efficiency and reduce costs. It involves large-scale orchestration and collaboration with various teams to streamline workflows and ensure the health and modernization of Azure's global server fleet. | — | 0 |
| Business Admin This role provides administrative support to leaders within Microsoft, focusing on tasks such as calendar management, meeting logistics, cross-functional collaboration, event coordination, resource management, and onboarding support. The position requires strong organizational and communication skills, sound judgment, and discretion in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Business Administrator Microsoft is seeking Business Administrators to support various leaders across the company. The successful candidate thrives working both independently and collaboratively, brings proven organizational and communication skills, and can effectively manage multiple workstreams in a fast‑paced, evolving environment. This role requires sound judgment, discretion, attention to detail, and a commitment to enabling team success. This role will serve as a leader within the business administrator community, actively support org-wide initiatives, and provide backup support as needed. A team‑first mindset and willingness to step in where required are essential. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Admin This role is an Executive Business Administrator at Microsoft, supporting senior leaders. It involves calendar management, meeting logistics, cross-functional collaboration, event coordination, project ownership, and resource management. The role emphasizes organizational skills, discretion, communication, and enabling team success within a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager - Server Demand Planning This role is for a Senior Finance Manager focused on Server Demand Planning within Microsoft's Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Finance team. The primary responsibilities include matching server demand to supply, analyzing fleet utilization, and identifying optimization opportunities to ensure cloud services meet forecast accuracy, revenue, and margin growth targets. The role involves strategic alignment, capacity shaping, and financial analysis for strategic projects, partnering closely with Azure Engineering and other finance teams. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician (Nightshift) This role involves staging, setting up, deploying, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It requires adherence to standard operating procedures, security protocols, and safety guidelines. The technician will work night shifts and may provide guidance to peers, contributing to the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Business Process Pre-sales Solution Engineer This role is a Business Process Pre-sales Solution Engineer at Microsoft. The primary focus is on identifying and engaging technical decision-makers, shaping sales strategies, and driving complex technical wins by leveraging deep technical, domain, and industry expertise. The role involves building customer credibility, applying competitive insights, designing solutions, and collaborating with the partner ecosystem to drive customer success and influence Microsoft's sales and product strategy. It also includes acting as a technical thought leader and strategic advisor. | — | 0 |
| Integration and Technical Infrastructure Manager This role manages the planning, coordination, and delivery of technical infrastructure integration within data center construction projects. It involves managing scope, schedules, risks, and stakeholders across various internal and external teams to ensure facilities are ready for operational use. The position requires strong project management and communication skills, with experience in complex construction and technical environments being highly desirable. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager This role is for a Customer Success Account Management (CSAM) Manager at Microsoft, responsible for leading a team of CSAMs to drive customer success and adoption of Microsoft's products and services. The role involves people management, customer relationship management, strategic planning, and ensuring customers achieve their business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Construction Project Manager This role manages the planning, coordination, and delivery of technical infrastructure integration within data center construction projects. It involves managing scope, schedules, risks, and stakeholders across various internal and external teams to ensure facilities are ready for operational use. The position requires strong project management skills and experience in complex construction and technical environments. | — | 0 |
| HR Manager- Data Center Operations (Onsite, Elk Grove Village or Hoffman Estates, IL locations) This role is for an HR Manager focused on Data Center Operations, supporting a large workforce in a technical environment. Responsibilities include labor relations, employee engagement, HR community leadership, project management, crisis management, and ensuring operational compliance with labor laws and regulations. The role requires strong partnership with leadership and employees in a 24/7 operational setting. | — | 0 |
| Integration and Technical Infrastructure Manager This role leads the planning, coordination, and delivery of technical infrastructure integration within data center construction projects. It involves managing scope, schedules, risks, and stakeholders across internal teams, construction partners, and vendors to prepare facilities for operational use. The position requires strong project management and communication skills, with experience in complex construction and technical environments being highly desirable. | — | 0 |
| Director of Communications, Global Strategy & Operations This role is for a Director of Communications, Global Strategy & Operations within the SME&C Global Strategy & Operations (GS&O) Executive Office at Microsoft. The primary focus is on shaping and driving the mid- and long-term strategic narrative and building an integrated communication strategy. The role translates business strategy into clear narratives, ensures consistency across communications, and orchestrates efforts across various teams. While the company operates in the AI space and mentions AI in qualifications, this specific role is not directly involved in building or shipping AI/ML products or models. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Manage a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers. Focus on technician performance, task prioritization, KPI monitoring, and ensuring compliance with policies and safety procedures. This role involves leadership, coaching, and ensuring the operational efficiency and quality of data center services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician (Nightshift) This role involves standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacing, and/or decommissioning equipment in a data center. It requires a holistic understanding of network and server equipment functions and interactions, with the ability to provide input for process improvements. The role also emphasizes safety, security, and collaboration within a team environment, operating on a nightshift schedule. | — | 0 |
| Data Center IT Program Manager This role is for a Data Center IT Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on troubleshooting service incidents, managing projects, and ensuring service delivery objectives are met within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. The role involves adhering to safety policies, participating in root cause analysis, and collaborating across teams to share best practices. It is part of the Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, which supports services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Sales Director, Account Team Unit, Cdn Public Sector and Western Canada Sales Director role focused on leading and developing sales teams to drive digital transformation for corporate customers, leveraging AI-powered solutions and Microsoft's partner ecosystem. The role involves talent acquisition, coaching sales teams, managing customer relationships, and driving revenue growth within the Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) segment, with a focus on Public Sector and Western Canada. | — | 0 |
