Microsoft has 521 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, representing 37% of the total, followed by application and serving infrastructure. Engineering is the most frequent function, with a significant number of openings, and the United States is the primary hiring country. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, model serving, and LLM observability, suggesting a focus on operationalizing AI models. Over the last 30 days, Microsoft has added 280 new AI roles, a 157% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 343 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (19), Senior Software Engineer (19), Software Engineer II (8), Principal Applied Scientist (7), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (36%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Microsoft is hiring AI talent in: United States (308 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (8 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 227 new AI-related roles.
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| Senior Optical Packaging Engineer This role focuses on optical packaging engineering for AI infrastructure, bridging photonic devices, electronic ICs, and system-level integration. The engineer will design and develop packaging architectures for co-packaged optics, advanced packaging solutions, and optical assembly processes, working with R&D and Azure engineering teams to bring innovations from prototype to production. The role involves collaboration with industry partners and a multidisciplinary team. | — | 0 |
| Solution Engineering - Security This role is a senior technical sales leader focused on Microsoft's security solutions, including Defender for XDR and Sentinel. The primary responsibility is to act as a trusted customer advisor, driving technical wins in the sales process by understanding customer security challenges, demonstrating Microsoft solutions, and developing strategies to improve their security posture. The role involves leading a virtual team, engaging with customers and partners, and ensuring technical success for security opportunities within a fast-paced sales environment. | — |
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| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer Field Service Engineer responsible for maintaining and ensuring the availability of critical environments within Microsoft's leased datacenters, focusing on mechanical and electrical equipment, operational efficiency, and safety compliance. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations - Night Shift This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring safety and security, performing equipment maintenance, troubleshooting issues, documenting findings, and coordinating with vendors. The role focuses on the operational reliability and safety of datacenter facilities. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations - Day Shift This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring safety and security, performing equipment maintenance and troubleshooting, documenting issues, and coordinating with vendors. The role focuses on the operational reliability and safety of datacenter facilities. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Partner Practice Building & IP Development This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on partner practice building and IP development within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary focus is on supporting customers through their solution journey, guiding them on envisioning, design, and deployment, and creating scalable customer-facing services. While the role mentions accelerating AI transformation for customers, the core responsibilities are centered around cloud solution architecture, technical expertise in multi-workload integration, and developing repeatable services for partners, rather than direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and maintaining mission-critical operational database systems (Azure SQL Database). The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining services for secure and resilient platform control and data plane operations, managing massive-scale operations, and ensuring high standards of quality and reliability for enterprise-class relational database engines in a cloud-enabled environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II _ Azure Fleet Resource Lifecycle Management Software Engineer II role focused on building and operating foundational infrastructure for Microsoft Azure, managing data center hardware, power, and network capacity to provide globally available cloud resources. The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and operability, with responsibilities including owning software components, using telemetry for improvements, leading incident retrospectives, conducting code reviews, designing secure and scalable solutions, driving automation, and participating in on-call rotations. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Construction Project Manager This role is for a Datacenter Construction Project Manager at Microsoft. The primary focus is on driving campus-based delivery solutions, reviewing engineering documentation, overseeing procurement, managing budgets, and ensuring adherence to safety and regulatory requirements. The role involves making data-based decisions, collaborating with internal teams and external vendors, and managing project progress regarding scope, schedule, standards, and budget. It requires a strong understanding of construction project management principles and risk mitigation within a regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning of equipment in a data center environment. The technician will follow standard procedures, contribute to issue resolution, participate in safety briefings, and ensure compliance with security and data management policies. The role requires fluency in French and English and may involve on-call support. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Program Manager Senior Security Program Manager to lead end-to-end security assurance efforts including security compliance, risk assessment, and supporting vulnerability research and security tooling efforts across Windows. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and optimizing Ad SDKs for partner applications and platforms, with a strong emphasis on browser-based solutions using JavaScript and TypeScript. The role involves designing, implementing, and debugging SDK components, ensuring performance, security, and developer-friendliness across diverse environments. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, including monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enforcing safety and security requirements. The role involves developing operational procedures and ensuring the reliable operation of datacenter systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior / Principal Quantum Error Correction Engineer Seeking Senior/Principal Quantum Error Correction Software Engineers to design and develop infrastructure for evaluating fault-tolerance strategies in quantum computing systems. The role involves advancing quantum error correction codes and empowering research for scalable quantum computers, requiring collaboration with theorists and experimentalists. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager The Principal Software Engineering Manager will lead a team focused on delivering seamless and timely Windows updates, managing complex challenges in the Windows operating system, and building mission-critical services and infrastructure. The role involves designing highly scalable distributed systems using Azure Cloud Services to support web services, workflows, and data pipelines, and providing web interfaces, API platforms, and tools. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager Seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager for the Microsoft Azure Storage team to lead engineers in improving service quality, chaos engineering, resiliency, and validation infrastructure. The role involves leading the disciplined use of AI tools across the SDLC and integrating Responsible AI practices. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Microsoft is seeking a Logistics Technician to manage inventory, deliveries, and returns within their data centers. This role involves cycle audits, coordinating with suppliers for warranty claims, documenting shipments, and ensuring accurate inventory tracking. The technician will also be responsible for the destruction of data-bearing devices and adhering to security and data management policies. A high school diploma and 6 months of relevant experience are required, with preferred experience in IT logistics and warehouse operations. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Microsoft Data Center Technician responsible for preparing, installing, troubleshooting, and decommissioning equipment in data centers. This role involves following standard procedures, adhering to security and data management protocols, and contributing to team efforts to ensure the smooth operation of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Principal Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Secret Principal Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Substrate, a foundational cloud platform powering critical services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot. The role focuses on setting technical and operational direction for reliability, influencing architecture, strategy, and engineering practices across teams, especially in regulated environments. Responsibilities include defining reliability strategy, leading incident response, architecting automation and observability solutions, and driving architectural decisions for reliability, security, and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Cryogenic Engineer This role is for a Senior Cryogenic Engineer at Microsoft Quantum, focused on leading the upgrade, maintenance, and lifecycle management of dilution refrigerators and cryogenic systems. The engineer will ensure system reliability, drive upgrade programs, and support quantum hardware integration, acting as a technical lead and operational owner across multiple laboratories. The role requires deep hands-on expertise with cryogenic systems and troubleshooting in complex experimental environments. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for innovation and efficiency, its core function is in cryogenic engineering for quantum hardware, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Engineer - Readout This role focuses on designing and testing the readout system for topological quantum computing. It involves leading the design of scalable readout circuitry, interfacing with other teams for co-design, documenting work, analyzing results, and building tools for quantum research. The position emphasizes engineering best practices and safety standards within a multidisciplinary team. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for managing and maintaining large-scale mission-critical electrical systems within datacenters. The role involves ensuring the design, installation, operation, and performance of electrical infrastructure, supporting 24x7 operations, and implementing safety and maintenance procedures. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - Full Stack Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric OneLake & ISVs team, responsible for building and maintaining the data platform for the age of AI. This role focuses on designing and developing robust, low-latency solutions for partner integration, leveraging modern AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot. The engineer will take end-to-end ownership of services, including design, development, observability, quality, testing, and production readiness, while collaborating with internal and external teams. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Secret This role is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who will own the reliability and operational outcomes for specific components or services within the Microsoft Substrate platform. The platform powers critical services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot, operating at a global scale and in highly-regulated environments. Responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving production issues, designing and implementing automation, and collaborating with engineering teams to ensure reliability and operability. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with large-scale cloud or distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer Microsoft is seeking a Data Center Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer to design, test, and implement critical infrastructure for their cloud services. This role involves creating robust and scalable designs, developing verification plans, managing project schedules, and documenting complex technical details. The engineer will also analyze data, identify root causes of problems, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the reliability and efficiency of data center operations. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on designing and delivering cloud-based solutions for strategic customers. This role involves collaborative development, contributing to open-source projects, and working with various technologies to solve complex business problems. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician (Shifts) This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring and maintaining equipment like HVAC, generators, and electrical systems, responding to incidents, performing maintenance, and ensuring safety and security protocols are followed. The role requires shift work and the ability to work between multiple sites. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer This role is for a Mechanical Engineer within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, responsible for the core infrastructure and foundational technologies powering Microsoft's cloud services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. The engineer will work on the design, operation, and maintenance of mechanical systems in datacenters, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of critical infrastructure that supports millions of customers worldwide. The role involves collaborating with IT and Critical Environments teams, managing mechanical designs from conception to construction, and overseeing maintenance procedures for cooling and electrical systems. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Intern This is an internship role for Data Center Technicians at Microsoft, focusing on the physical infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. The intern will assist experienced technicians in installing, troubleshooting, and decommissioning server, storage, and network equipment, while adhering to strict safety and operational guidelines. The role involves learning data center processes, managing support tickets, and participating in daily operations and training. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Intern Internship role focused on supporting IT infrastructure within Microsoft's data centers, involving hardware installation, troubleshooting, and adherence to operational procedures and safety protocols. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Engineer This role focuses on guiding process integration decisions and fabrication flows for quantum computing systems using theoretical insights and atomistic simulations. The engineer will own the simulation roadmap, build models for validation and optimization, partner with fabrication and characterization teams, and architect scalable workflows for high-throughput studies on HPC. The role involves technical leadership, setting direction, and influencing cross-organizationally, with the goal of accelerating the development of scalable quantum computers. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Architect The Principal Software Engineer - Architect will be responsible for architecting and developing an authorization platform for Microsoft Identity & Network Access (IDNA). This role focuses on building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems for security and authorization, ensuring resilience and broad applicability across Microsoft and customer environments. The position requires strong software engineering practices, system design, and a focus on customer needs within a regulated security context. | — | 0 |
| Senior Video Editor Senior Video Editor for Microsoft's Consumer Marketing Organization (CMO) Social Marketing team, focusing on creating long-form YouTube content. The role involves editing, refining pacing, and elevating creative standards, with an emphasis on storytelling and audience growth. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Advanced Characterization Engineer Microsoft Quantum is seeking a Principal Quantum Advanced Characterization Engineer to lead and execute nanoscale characterization of quantum materials and heterostructures using techniques like STM/STS, APT, and TEM. The role involves defining characterization strategy, executing experiments, and providing feedback to impact qubit performance and device design. It also includes developing pipelines for data acquisition and analysis, potentially using AI-enabled methods. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Integration Manager Lead the process integration and experimental coordination across quantum materials, fabrication, and device development for Microsoft Quantum. Define and own the end-to-end integration strategy, build and lead a team, and drive execution across cross-functional efforts to deliver improvements in qubit performance and manufacturability. This role will also drive the adoption of AI/automation to accelerate process optimization and data analysis. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Measurement Engineer This role focuses on leading the measurement strategy for quantum materials and device platforms within Microsoft Quantum. It involves defining and leading cryogenic electrical characterization, developing novel measurement techniques, driving large-scale experimental campaigns, and translating data into actionable insights for qubit performance and system scalability. The role requires technical leadership and collaboration across various scientific and engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Customer Experience Engineer II, M365 This role focuses on customer experience engineering for Microsoft 365 services, including Copilot. The engineer will work with strategic customers to ensure they realize value from M365 products, provide technical support, and act as a liaison between customers and M365 service teams to drive product improvements. The role involves deep technical understanding of M365 services and a focus on customer satisfaction and adoption. | — | 0 |
| Senior Treasury Manager Senior Treasury Manager at Microsoft responsible for managing and protecting financial assets, supporting global cash flows, overseeing bank accounts, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The role involves maintaining banking infrastructure, managing systems and processes, leading projects, and partnering with external banking institutions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer The Azure Data engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on the next generation of their platform and control plane infrastructure. This role involves designing and implementing complex, large-scale distributed systems for messaging and real-time analytics services, focusing on scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. The engineer will own end-to-end delivery of key system components and contribute to strategic scenarios within Microsoft Fabric, enabling seamless ingestion and transformation of streaming data. | — | 0 |
| CE Field Service Engineer This role is for a CE Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in leased datacenters. The focus is on ensuring critical environment availability, managing day-to-day operations, and adhering to safety and security policies. The role involves working with various teams and partners to maintain optimal operational efficiency and deliver on cost/energy initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer -.NET Libraries Software Engineer role focused on designing and building high-performance .NET libraries for various platforms. The role involves contributing to core .NET libraries, improving performance, scalability, and developer experience. It also emphasizes leveraging AI-assisted development workflows to enhance productivity and code quality, and collaborating with the global developer community. | — | 0 |
| Senior Azure Cloud Customer Experience Engineer - Japanese Speaking Senior Azure Cloud Customer Experience Engineer responsible for customer support and issue resolution on Azure, acting as a liaison between customers and the Azure engineering team. Requires technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and customer advocacy to enhance the Azure support experience. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team responsible for delivering a planet-scaled, business-critical, and secure-by-default service for Entra Identity provisioning and Governance products. The focus is on managing engineers, collaborating across divisions and with industry partners to build identity products for cloud and hybrid environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Firmware Development Engineer Senior Firmware Development Engineer for Microsoft's Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team, focusing on developing firmware for next-generation AI and compute silicon for Azure Infrastructure. The role involves developing test applications, workload profiling tools, and post-silicon tests for hardware systems, with collaboration across various engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the design, testing, and implementation of electrical systems within datacenters. The engineer will work on developing designs, creating documentation, performing tests, and ensuring project schedules are met, contributing to the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Sourcing Engineer - Strategic Sourcing Team This role is for a Principal Sourcing Engineer focused on driving the Silicon strategy and performance for Xbox and Surface Hardware. Responsibilities include negotiating commercial agreements, optimizing collaboration, developing long-term strategy, managing contracting activities, analyzing the supply chain for risks, and managing supplier relationships. The role requires experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, or engineering, with a preference for experience in the semiconductor and silicon space within consumer electronics. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager This role manages operations for Microsoft's critical datacenter environments, ensuring the availability and efficiency of core infrastructure powering cloud services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. It involves leading a team of technical professionals, overseeing maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment, and driving safety, security, and cost-efficiency initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Intern Intern role focused on maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, involving electrical systems, equipment monitoring, maintenance, and incident response. The role emphasizes learning and hands-on experience in a critical environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Engineer This role is for a Senior Product Engineer focused on the manufacturing and silicon aspects of Microsoft's cloud hardware infrastructure, including Azure Cobalt chips. The engineer will drive alignment across design, test, packaging, and manufacturing teams, manage yield ramps, lead problem-solving for complex issues, and leverage data analytics for decision-making to ensure high quality and cost efficiency in hardware production. While the role is within a team supporting AI missions and mentions AI-driven manufacturing systems as a preferred qualification, the core responsibilities are in traditional silicon manufacturing and product engineering, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Chief Information Officer Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a newly created electronic money institution in Dublin, Ireland. This role is responsible for the IT strategy, governance, and security operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and secure service delivery. The CIO will oversee IT policies, risk management, business continuity, and alignment with industry standards, collaborating with engineering and product teams to deliver compliant and scalable financial products. Key responsibilities include managing vendor relationships, outsourcing oversight, and fostering in-house competencies. The role requires deep subject matter expertise and a focus on protecting merchants, supporting business growth, and meeting financial objectives within a regulated environment. | — | 0 |