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.
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| Client Director - German Market - Microsoft Advertising Client Director for Microsoft Advertising in the German market, responsible for driving revenue and customer satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized digital advertising solutions. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Partnership Lead SPT - India DN This role is a Strategic Partnership Lead at Microsoft, focused on driving business impact and revenue growth with top customers. It involves planning customer success, cross-organizational collaboration, developing workback plans, building coalitions with senior leadership, and increasing technical and industry acumen to deliver innovative ideas. The role emphasizes business outcomes, revenue targets, and customer satisfaction through disciplined pipeline management and leveraging business insights. It requires experience in sales, business development, or enterprise IT consulting, with a strong growth mindset and the ability to lead, build trust, and make confident recommendations at the C-level. The role also involves understanding digital transformation drivers, articulating how Microsoft solutions (including AI and intelligent cloud) can accelerate customer outcomes, and orchestrating virtual selling teams to maximize revenue opportunities. |
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| Sr. Director Digital Sales Senior leadership role responsible for strategy and execution for a regional book of business, driving digital transformation for customers through Microsoft Cloud, including Azure, AI Workforce, Business Applications, and Security. Leads through managers, develops sales leaders, orchestrates a partner ecosystem, and influences senior internal and customer stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Director, Global SMB Strategy & Growth- Security Director, Global SMB Strategy & Growth for Security at Microsoft. This role focuses on leading strategy, execution, and field enablement for Small and Medium Business (SMB) customers in the context of AI, aiming to drive growth and success. It involves close collaboration with various internal teams to translate strategy into scalable execution and measurable business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| ATU Majors General Manager This role is for a Sales Manager (GM) for the Majors ATU in the Telco, Media, and Gaming Operating Unit at Microsoft. The primary focus is on driving customer engagement, revenue growth, and AI transformation across strategic Enterprise Commercial customers. The role involves leading and developing a sales team, building executive customer relationships, and orchestrating cross-functional teams to deliver solutions. It emphasizes sales strategy, growth acceleration, and ensuring customers realize value from technology investments, particularly in AI, cloud, data, and security. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft's Online Advertising team, focusing on building and scaling a next-generation e-commerce marketing platform. Responsibilities include feature development, architectural improvements, and cross-team collaboration. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field with 4+ years of experience, or equivalent experience. Experience with scalable backend services, distributed systems, and cloud platforms is preferred. The role is in Redmond, WA, with a salary range of $119,800 - $234,700 USD. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Business Strategy Manager - Security or Cloud & AI Platforms This role focuses on defining and accelerating partner go-to-market (GTM) strategy and execution for priority cloud solution areas, specifically within Microsoft Security or Fabric within Cloud & AI Platforms. The Business Strategy Manager will lead partner strategy, collaborate across various internal teams, and translate strategy into actionable plans. Responsibilities include assessing market opportunities, defining GTM requirements, leading partner planning, developing partner value propositions and messaging, designing GTM motions, creating field guidance, tracking business progress, and using data-driven analysis to improve strategy and execution. The role also involves establishing partner listening mechanisms to inform planning. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focused on collaborating with customers to develop cloud-based solutions using modern software engineering practices. The role involves working in a cross-functional team to build innovative solutions, contribute to open source, and empower customers. Requires deep experience in software engineering and cloud technologies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Microsoft Advertising's CRM team, focusing on building and customizing Dynamics 365 CRM solutions for advertisers. The role involves data integration, supporting AI-first initiatives and automation within CRM systems, and collaborating with various teams to align CRM capabilities with business goals. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of technical experience, or equivalent experience. Experience with cloud technologies (Azure) and large-scale systems is preferred. The role is in a mature AI company, but the core responsibilities are focused on CRM customization and integration, with AI being a supporting feature rather than the core craft. | — | 0 |
| Commissioning Manager This role is for a Commissioning Manager responsible for the end-to-end delivery of new data center capacity for Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) organization. The manager will oversee commissioning projects, manage contracted agents, ensure projects meet Microsoft's standards, and work with various stakeholders including architects, engineers, and operations teams to deliver data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior SoC Verification Engineer This role is for a Senior SoC Verification Engineer responsible for pre-silicon verification and post-silicon validation of custom IP components for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. The engineer will define and execute verification strategies, develop test benches, and collaborate with various teams. The role also involves supporting basic firmware development and silicon bring-up activities. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret Software Engineer II role focused on building and improving scalable and reliable cloud security services for government environments. Responsibilities include contributing to design, automation, and investigating/fixing production issues, with participation in an on-call rotation within a secure facility. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a major Frontier Security Engineering sub-organization, owning delivery, talent, and technical strategy at scale. The role involves setting the bar for how Microsoft's advanced security capabilities reach customers and flow back into the product, partnering with executive leadership, and driving the operating model's scale. Requires experience in security, cloud, or AI domains and managing managers. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Energy Marshall This role is responsible for overseeing and assuring compliance with Microsoft's Energy Isolation Program in critical environments, specifically within data centers. The Marshall will implement safety policies, establish Lockout Tag Out (LOTO) procedures, liaise with construction and engineering teams, and generate reports on program status. The role requires a degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with relevant experience, and the ability to meet security screening requirements. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator role supporting the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, focusing on calendar management, team support, travel, and event coordination to ensure smooth operations and effective execution of AI initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building, testing, deploying, and monitoring a large-scale, real-time advertising technology platform. The role involves leading cross-team engineering efforts, owning significant areas of the platform, and contributing to roadmap and architectural decisions. Responsibilities include designing and implementing scalable solutions, participating in planning sessions, producing prototypes, mentoring junior engineers, and supporting production issues. The platform operates under strict real-time constraints, handling billions of requests daily and generating terabytes of data. | — | 0 |
| Business Administrator The Business Administrator role at Microsoft supports executive leadership within the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on calendar management, cross-functional communication, event coordination, and resource management. The team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering data-first applications and driving a data culture. | — | 0 |
| Responsable Environnement Critique - Data Center - Critical Environment Technician Manager This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager at Microsoft, responsible for managing a team that ensures the operational integrity of data center infrastructure, including electrical and mechanical systems. The role involves people management, equipment maintenance, and responding to critical environment incidents. It is not directly related to AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Director of Communications This role is for a Director of Communications focused on external communications for Microsoft's AI models and research. The responsibilities include developing and executing communication strategies, partnering with GTM and marketing teams, building spokesperson benches, supporting senior leaders, and creating content for developer and research audiences. The role requires strong technical writing and experience launching new technologies, with a preference for experience with social media influencers. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The technician will perform maintenance, respond to incidents, monitor equipment performance, and ensure safety and security protocols are followed. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Firmware + Audio Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Surface Team, focusing on the audio subsystem for Windows-based devices. The role involves end-to-end ownership of audio delivery, from platform bring-up to driver ingestion, quality, and validation. Responsibilities include architecting solutions across hardware-firmware-driver-APO, leading bring-up and validation, developing drivers and APOs, root-cause analysis of audio issues, and integrating third-party audio processing pipelines. The role also involves mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with partners. While AI/ML features are mentioned as a collaboration point, the core of the role is traditional audio driver and subsystem development. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Microsoft is seeking a Logistics Technician for their Data Center Inventory & Asset team in Pune, MH, IN. The role involves performing cycle audits, managing deliveries, coordinating vendor escorts, documenting shipments, initiating warranty claims, and processing returns. The technician will also be involved in data bearing device destruction and maintaining inventory controls. This position offers opportunities for career development within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. | — | 0 |
| HR Service Lead This role focuses on the operational execution of HR policies and statutory requirements within specific markets. The HR Service Lead translates policy into day-to-day execution, manages issue resolution, ensures compliance, and contributes to operational analytics and continuous improvement. It involves coordinating with various internal teams and external vendors to ensure accurate and compliant HR operations. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer Electrical Engineer role focused on critical environments within Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, involving design, testing, verification, and project implementation of electrical systems for datacenters. The role emphasizes collaboration, adherence to procedures, and contributing to the development of robust and scalable infrastructure that supports Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Researcher Senior Threat Researcher for Microsoft's Defender Experts (DEX) Research team, focusing on AI-driven analytics and threat protection against advanced cyberattacks. The role involves researching emerging cloud threats, developing detection and response strategies using EDR and SIEM platforms (especially Microsoft Defender and Sentinel), and translating security data into actionable intelligence. The position requires extensive experience in cloud security, threat hunting, and mentoring other researchers, contributing to industry knowledge and Microsoft's security posture. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, overseeing hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focus on technician performance, task prioritization, KPI/SLA monitoring, and ensuring compliance with policies and safety procedures. This role supports critical Microsoft cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Technical Customer Success Account Manager This role is a Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) at Microsoft, focusing on helping strategic enterprise customers maximize the value of Microsoft's cloud products and services, including Azure, M365, and Data & AI solutions. The CSAM acts as the primary delivery lead, orchestrating post-sales delivery and support across the Microsoft and Partner ecosystem to achieve customer business outcomes. Responsibilities include customer relationship management, aligning customer objectives with Microsoft's portfolio, program management, and driving consumption and usage of Microsoft products. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining and optimizing the operations of leased data centers. The engineer will ensure the availability, efficiency, and safety of mechanical and electrical equipment, manage daily operations, oversee maintenance, and collaborate with partners to reduce incidents and improve performance. The role also involves compliance verification, reporting, and contributing to best practices within the data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Recruiter, Cloud + AI Recruiter for Microsoft's Cloud + AI Platforms division, focusing on hiring technical talent for engineering and product roles. The role involves partnering with leaders to identify, engage, and hire exceptional talent, developing sourcing strategies, and managing the hiring process. It requires understanding the competitive landscape and driving differentiated hiring strategies. | — | 0 |
| Site Logistics Engineer The Site Logistics Engineer supports data center construction projects by assisting with site logistics planning, coordination, and execution, ensuring materials, equipment, and workforce movement are organized. This role involves tracking progress, identifying coordination issues, and supporting daily site logistics activities in a fast-paced construction environment. The position is based in La Porte, Indiana, with relocation assistance provided. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Executive This role is for a Commercial Executive within Microsoft's US Telco, Media & Gaming (TMG+) organization. The primary focus is on achieving revenue targets by leading collaborations with sellers and business stakeholders, leveraging knowledge of customer business needs and AI transformation. The role involves managing internal teams, optimizing deal structures, and ensuring adherence to commercial solutions policy, including regulatory laws. It requires analyzing deals for risks, negotiating complex commercial terms, and creating commercial plans for major accounts to drive upselling and cross-selling opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Core Trust team building and operating foundational secrets and certificate infrastructure (Azure Key Vault, Microsoft PKI, Managed Identity) that protects millions of keys, secrets, and certificates across Azure, enabling customers and internal teams to build zero-trust architectures. The role focuses on security, identity, and platform, touching security compliance mandates, credential theft mitigation, and cryptographic underpinnings for regulated workloads. | — | 0 |
| Microsoft Data Center Project Manager This role is for a Microsoft Data Center Project Manager responsible for managing data center projects, troubleshooting service incidents, and ensuring service delivery objectives are met. The role involves collaboration across teams, adherence to safety policies, and participation in root cause analysis. It is part of the Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) group, which supports Microsoft's online services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator supporting a global team within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. Responsibilities include calendar management, travel coordination, expense reporting, event logistics, and supporting business operations. Requires strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work under pressure and maintain confidentiality. | — | 0 |
| Consulting Project Manager This role is a Consulting Project Manager within Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD). The primary responsibility is to manage the end-to-end delivery of complex consulting engagements, focusing on scope, schedule, risk, quality, and financial health. The role involves collaborating with sales, managing customer relationships, overseeing project metrics, managing risks and issues, ensuring deliverable quality, and driving project closure and business growth through client engagements. While the organization works with customers on their digital and AI transformation, this specific role is focused on project management and delivery, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Datacenter Design Manager Manage the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for datacenter construction and lease projects, overseeing the delivery of Microsoft's industry-leading datacenter designs from site due diligence through construction and turnover to operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician - Night Shift This role involves standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning IT datacenter technology and equipment. The Senior Data Center Technician will provide guidance to other technicians, ensure compliance with security and safety standards, and manage assigned tickets efficiently. The role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, including Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Office Data Loader team, responsible for building and maintaining a hyper-scale distributed data ingestion service for Office365. The service handles massive amounts of data daily and is critical for service quality, feature usage insights, bug troubleshooting, and empowering Machine Learning scenarios. A key focus is on ensuring data privacy and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer - CTJ - Poly Mechanical Engineer role within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, focusing on the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. Responsibilities include understanding datacenter design, managing mechanical and electrical systems, collaborating on new designs, and ensuring operational support for 24x7 operations. Requires a Master's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with relevant experience and a strong security clearance. | — | 0 |
| Commercial GTM Performance Lead This role focuses on driving business performance, program execution, and business strategy for commercial GTM performance within Microsoft's Windows Commercial Category. It involves owning business reviews, translating data into insights, managing investments, and crafting strategic narratives. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools, its core function is not AI/ML development but rather business and product performance management. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Enterprise Partner Business Strategy - ABS or CAIP This role is for a Senior Director of Enterprise Partner Business Strategy at Microsoft, focusing on AI Business Solutions (ABS) or Cloud & AI Partner priorities (CAIP). The position involves defining and executing worldwide partner growth strategies, expanding market opportunities, and driving customer value through enterprise partners. The role requires collaboration across sales, marketing, engineering, and partner organizations to achieve measurable business impact in the AI era. It is a leadership position focused on business strategy within a complex, matrixed organization, shaping the partner ecosystem strategy and creating scalable go-to-market motions. | — | 0 |
| Director of Marketing, Minecraft Entertainment & Experiences Director of Marketing for Minecraft's Entertainment & Experiences pillar, responsible for brand management, marketing strategy, and launch execution across films, series, theme parks, and location-based experiences. This role involves leading a team, managing external partners, and driving the growth of the connected Minecraft universe. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud services, including datacenters, mechanical systems, and backup electrical systems. The role involves supporting 24x7 operations, collaborating on mechanical designs, and ensuring safety and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Xbox Researcher Senior Xbox Researcher focused on generating consumer insights for game and entertainment experiences, using a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods. The role partners with design and development teams throughout the product lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers, ensuring service compliance, quality, and safety. This role involves managing technician performance, prioritizing tasks, and monitoring KPIs/SLAs to support Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Americas Sales Leader, Microsoft Elevate Sales leader for Microsoft Elevate, an AI-powered global sales team focused on customer success and partner ecosystem engagement. Responsible for strategic direction, driving alignment, and nurturing leaders to achieve segment business goals and cloud growth. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Silicon Sourcing This role is for a Senior Manager, Silicon Sourcing at Microsoft, focusing on the supply chain for cloud infrastructure, including AI hardware. The responsibilities include driving strategic negotiations with OSAT partners for silicon test services, developing should-cost models, securing test capacity, contributing to sourcing strategy, managing supplier relationships, ensuring supply continuity, and leading procurement of manufacturing test hardware. The role requires experience in procurement, supply chain, or engineering, with a preference for semiconductor sourcing and test operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager This role is for a Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Windows Consumer Mainstream segment, focusing on Everyday Productivity and Core Essentials. The individual will be responsible for the end-to-end business ownership, setting segment strategy, driving growth through data-driven go-to-market strategies, defining portfolio and demand strategies based on consumer insights and market trends, and leading cross-functional execution with partners to ensure the right products are delivered at the right value and time. The role involves influencing senior stakeholders and driving high-impact execution across the device lifecycle, including current market performance, retail readiness, and future roadmap decisions. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on leading global-scale security initiatives across cloud services. The primary responsibility is to ensure the resilience and compliance of Microsoft services, enabling customers to operate securely. The role involves defining strategy, aligning roadmaps, and delivering secure-by-design solutions in collaboration with engineering, security, services, and compliance teams. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Infra This role focuses on helping customers migrate, modernize, and secure their infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, specifically to lay the foundation for scalable, production-ready AI solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will deliver engagements focused on migration, modernization, operational excellence, and resilient architecture, ensuring readiness for AI workloads and accelerating adoption of Azure services. The role involves building trusted relationships with IT decision-makers, leading architectural design sessions, driving migration initiatives, and ensuring environments are optimized for AI use cases. | — | 0 |
