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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| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory and asset management, including cycle audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation. It involves physical inventory tracking, data bearing device destruction, and ensuring accuracy in inventory systems. The role requires on-site presence and may involve travel between sites. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for cycle audits, managing incoming/outgoing deliveries, coordinating vendor access, documenting shipments, and handling warranty claims and data-bearing device destruction. It focuses on inventory management and operational efficiency within an IT infrastructure environment. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer Electrical Engineer role focused on the design, testing, and verification of electrical systems for Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure, supporting services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. The role involves developing designs, creating documentation, implementing solutions, and ensuring quality metrics for hardware components within a critical environment. |
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| Mechanical Engineer Mechanical Engineer role focused on the design, operation, and maintenance of mechanical infrastructure within Microsoft's global datacenters, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of core cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Energy Marshall This role is for a Critical Environment Energy Marshall at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing and assuring compliance with the Energy Isolation Program in their datacenters. The role involves implementing safety policies, establishing LOTO procedures, liaising with construction teams, and acting as a subject matter expert in energy isolation incident investigations. It requires a degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with relevant experience, and the ability to meet security screening requirements. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer This role is for an Electrical Engineer focused on the design, testing, and implementation of electrical systems for Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure. The engineer will work on developing designs, creating documentation, selecting components, executing test plans, and ensuring the performance and reliability of hardware. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Engineer This role is for a Digital Solution Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on engaging with customer technical decision makers to drive technical wins. The role involves leveraging customer context, portfolio expertise, and deep technical knowledge to build credibility, represent the customer to product teams, and contribute to strategy development. Responsibilities include capturing competitive intelligence, providing technical input, and ensuring consistency in engagements. The role also involves presenting architecture patterns, customizing demonstration assets, and engaging in partner sell-with scenarios. The engineer will coach sales teams on digital transformation and build readiness plans. This is not an AI-focused role, but rather a technical sales and consulting position within an enterprise context. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Sr. Software Engineer on the Microsoft Defender team, focusing on building and delivering scalable, reliable cloud security solutions for government environments. The role involves service development, engineering systems improvement, automation, and incident investigation, with a strong emphasis on security clearance requirements. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly Software Engineer II role focused on building and deploying scalable, highly reliable cloud security services within Microsoft Defender. The role involves improving engineering systems, investigating and fixing production issues, and participating in an on-call rotation. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field with 2+ years of experience, and a Top Secret clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret Site Reliability Engineer II for Microsoft Defender, focusing on building and delivering cloud solutions for US Government clouds. Responsibilities include live site operations, incident response, automation, compliance, and collaboration with engineering teams to ensure stability and performance of security products in highly sensitive environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer This role focuses on designing and testing the readout system for topological qubits within Microsoft Quantum. It involves component, subsystem, and system-level engineering, interfacing with other teams, documenting work, and applying engineering best practices. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for innovation and working in an "AI-first" environment, the core craft is quantum engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer and Principal Security Engineer (Multiple Positions)- Windows Security This role focuses on offensive security and security engineering for Microsoft Windows products and devices. Responsibilities include security design reviews, code reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability research, and developing mitigations to enhance the security posture of OS platforms. The role requires hands-on experience with native code, OS security fundamentals, and a passion for customer safety. | — | 0 |
| Principal Signal and Power Integrity Engineer This role focuses on Signal and Power Integrity (SIPI) for compute and AI SoCs and platforms, ensuring end-to-end power delivery from silicon to the cloud. The engineer will design, model, and simulate power delivery solutions for data center processors and platforms, working closely with various architecture and engineering teams. The role also involves driving future power delivery solutions for chiplet architectures and advanced packaging. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on building and maintaining services for access control, authentication, authorization, and secret management within Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. The role involves designing and developing large-scale full-stack solutions, adhering to modern engineering practices, and ensuring secure and compliant access to cloud resources. | — | 0 |
| Principal Service Engineering Manager Principal Service Engineering Manager to lead the MSD M365 MultiTenant US engineering team, responsible for operating, securing, and improving Microsoft 365 multitenant services at scale. The role involves leading a team of service engineers, defining technical priorities, and driving operational excellence in complex, business-critical services, partnering with global teams and product engineering. | — | 0 |
| Service Engineer II Service Engineer II role focused on administration, configuration, governance, and operation of Microsoft Fabric and Power Platform within internal Microsoft tenants. Responsibilities include defining baselines, driving automation and policy as code, monitoring service health, triaging incidents, and interfacing with product teams. Requires experience in service engineering, operating production services at scale, and multitenant operations. | — | 0 |
| Construction Project Manager This role is responsible for driving the delivery of metro-based/campus construction projects, ensuring they are executed safely, on time, and within budget. It involves reviewing engineering designs, site, and building plans to support data-driven decisions and successful project outcomes. The role works closely with project teams, contractors, and stakeholders to coordinate execution, manage procurement activities, and track progress across scope, schedule, and budget. It also plays a key part in risk management, vendor oversight, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards, acting as a safety leader across all project activities. Additionally, the role contributes technical expertise during project meetings, collaborates with internal teams and contractors, and uses metrics, dashboards, and reporting to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement in project delivery. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture - Infra This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Azure Infrastructure, enabling customers to achieve their outcomes by leveraging Microsoft's technology. The role involves developing customer relationships, providing technical expertise on Azure Infrastructure services for AI solutions, and guiding customers in architecting and deploying cloud infrastructure solutions in Azure to be AI Ready. The focus is on ensuring customers can operate AI solutions at scale by applying best practices and frameworks like CAF and WAF. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Senior Technical Program Manager to drive tenant onboarding of Microsoft 365 services within Microsoft's internal IT organization. This role involves creating clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, partnering across engineering teams, and delivering on time and with quality in high-stakes scenarios with conflicting requirements. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Edge Web Platform team, focusing on core web platform technologies like DOM and HTML, advancing performance and user experience, and driving web standards. This role involves deep systems thinking in browser architecture and end-to-end ownership of features. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Advisor This role is a Technical Support Advisor at Microsoft, focusing on providing technical readiness and process compliance for frontline support staff. While the company leverages AI in its support operations, this specific role is not directly involved in building or developing AI models or systems. The primary focus is on ensuring the effectiveness of the support team and improving support processes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Logistics Technician This role is for a Senior Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center. The primary responsibilities include prioritizing and assigning ticketed work, providing guidance on logistics tasks, ensuring inventory accuracy, and coordinating with external stakeholders. The role focuses on standard processes and procedures for Inventory & Asset Management (IAM) within an IT environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, managing operational and safety situations, performing maintenance on critical equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, generators), responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires experience in mission-critical services and the ability to work shifts. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters, ensuring the operational integrity of cloud services. Responsibilities include equipment maintenance, incident response, and adherence to safety and operational procedures. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Hardware Systems) This role focuses on the hardware systems for Microsoft Robotics, supporting the design, integration, testing, and maintenance of robotic hardware platforms. The engineer will work with commercial and customized robotic platforms, sensors, compute modules, and networking equipment to ensure robots are reliable for software development, AI model evaluation, and field deployment. The role requires mechanical aptitude, electrical systems knowledge, networking depth, and systems integration skills. | — | 0 |
| Principal SWE Manager - Platform Seeking a Principal Software Engineer Manager to lead a team responsible for the runtime policy scenarios across multiple products within Microsoft 365's Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud. This role involves managing engineers, fostering career development, and ensuring the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems that handle billions of requests daily. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - GitHub Actions Principal Software Engineer for GitHub Actions, focusing on architecting and delivering high-performance CI/CD systems for millions of developers. The role involves technical leadership, system design, security, and operational excellence for a massive-scale automation platform. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineering Manager This role is for a Senior Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers to resolve complex customer technical issues. The role involves people management, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback, and establishing business integration strategies for effective collaboration. While the company leverages AI technology and aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers, the core function of this role is managing technical support operations and customer relationships, not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Security Solution Architecture Enterprise Identity Architect with deep expertise in IAM across complex, multitenant, and multiforest estates in the UK defence sector. The role will lead the unravelling of a complex identity landscape, establish a single authoritative master identity model spanning OFFICIAL to SECRET domains, and drive a secure, standards aligned roadmap built on Zero Trust and defence policy frameworks. | — | 0 |
| Senior Physical Design Engineer Senior Physical Design Engineer for Microsoft's Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering team, focusing on the design, development, manufacturing, and packaging of state-of-the-art computer chips for Azure. The role involves owning and driving floorplanning, synthesis, place and route, and signoff for Mixed-Signal IPs, with a focus on optimizing power, area, and timing. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Admin Executive Business Administrator to support the Engineering Director of Evaluations, Response Quality, and Safety, who is dedicated to ensuring the quality, reliability, and safety of Microsoft’s AI copilot experiences. This role requires managing complex administrative tasks, including calendar management, travel, expenses, and team logistics, in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technicians Manager (On-Site) Manages a team of Critical Environment Technicians responsible for the operations, maintenance, and safety of data center facilities, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. Focuses on people management, equipment operations, system maintenance, and fostering a strong safety culture. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Operations This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure, including monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security requirements are met. The role involves developing operating procedures and supporting cloud operations for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Security Engineer Principal Security Engineer role focused on protecting Microsoft's critical cloud services by reducing systemic security risk in identity, tenant governance, and core infrastructure trust boundaries. The role involves designing enforceable security architectures, defining scalable policies and guardrails, partnering with engineering teams, and establishing proof mechanisms for continuous control effectiveness. | — | 0 |
| Principal Security Engineering Manager Lead a team responsible for improving the security posture of production tenant environments through strong operational governance, risk reduction programs, and platform investments. This role focuses on building a disciplined execution engine, driving measurable improvements in isolation and application hygiene, and strengthening incident readiness and compliance-driven cloud buildouts within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Poly Site Reliability Engineer for M365 sovereign cloud operations, focusing on building tools and systems for faster, smarter, and more reliable service delivery and maintenance. The role involves writing code for operational challenges, internal platforms, automation, and agentic workflows, while ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence for government and sovereign cloud customers. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft. This role focuses on partnering with customers to design and deliver cloud-based solutions using modern software engineering practices. The engineer will work in a cross-functional team, contribute to open-source projects, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams to solve customer challenges. The role emphasizes deep experience in software engineering and cloud technologies, with a focus on building broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Manager- CTJ - Poly Lead a mixed organization of Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers responsible for building and operating IC3 services across highly regulated and enterprise-critical environments. This role requires strong technical depth, operational judgment, and people leadership, with the ability to scale impact through others while remaining deeply connected to engineering fundamentals and service health. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Engineer This role is for a Principal Product Engineer focused on semiconductor IC development, manufacturing, fabrication, testing, and packaging. The responsibilities include driving pre-Si readiness for tests and features, optimizing ATE test programs, managing fuse requirements, and leading cross-functional teams. The candidate should have strong knowledge of ATE test program development, DFT, silicon fabrication, and product quality & reliability. Experience in high-performance computing, AI, GPUs, or CPUs is beneficial, but the core function is in hardware engineering and manufacturing, not AI model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| IMDA-CLT Program: Solution Engineering INTERN Internship program focused on solution engineering, involving customer engagement, product expertise development, and technical wins, with a focus on building awareness of product strategy and partners. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer- GitHub India Principal Software Engineer role focused on driving system architecture, inspiring and coaching engineering teams, and delivering innovative solutions for GitHub's Developer Experience (DX) team. The role emphasizes building and tuning scalable, high-performance systems, optimizing high-throughput services, and leading technical strategy and performance optimization across teams. | — | 0 |
| Fabric Interconnect Design Verification Engineer This role is for a Fabric Interconnect Design Verification Engineer. The primary responsibilities include owning verification of complex flows, developing UVM-based verification environments, and applying random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques. A key aspect of the role involves applying generative AI solutions to verification work, with preferred qualifications including experience with AI in daily tasks. The role requires a Master's or Bachelor's degree in a relevant field with a specified number of years of experience in pre-silicon subsystem or IP verification. Security screening and export control compliance are also required. | — | 0 |
| Microsoft Data Center Technician (DCT) Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft data centers, ensuring compliance with KPIs and SLAs. This role involves managing escalations, championing safety, and overseeing technician readiness and training within a large-scale cloud infrastructure environment. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Technician (DCT) Apprentice - Level 3 Apprentice role focused on learning and supporting the installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and decommissioning of data center infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manufacturing Product Engineer Senior Manufacturing Product Engineer for Microsoft's Surface and Xbox hardware operations. The role focuses on ensuring product quality and manufacturing execution throughout the product lifecycle, involving technical understanding of design, test, assembly, and operation. Responsibilities include identifying and mitigating manufacturing risks during NPI, driving fault isolation and failure analysis, developing corrective actions, collaborating with data system partners for quality control, creating product training, developing debugging tools, resolving technical challenges in refurbishment, monitoring quality metrics, and leading cross-functional teams for continuous improvement. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and 5+ years of experience in technical engineering, manufacturing, or operations. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager responsible for the operational excellence of mechanical and electrical infrastructure in datacenters, ensuring service continuity, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement in safety, reliability, and efficiency. The role involves overseeing daily operations, maintenance, and driving safety and compliance within a datacenter environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician This role is for a Senior Data Center Technician responsible for the preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of network and server equipment within Microsoft's global data centers. The role involves providing guidance to other technicians, ensuring quality execution, and maintaining awareness of performance indicators and safety protocols. It is a hands-on technical role focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, managing operational and safety situations, mentoring junior technicians, performing maintenance on critical environment equipment (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, controls), responding to onsite incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires a strong understanding of mission-critical services and specialized experience in areas like mechanical or electrical fields. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technicians Intern This internship focuses on data center technician roles, involving the installation, diagnosis, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of network, storage, and server equipment. The intern will learn data center policies, procedures, and safety protocols, contributing to the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Microsoft Data Center Technician (DCT) role focused on the physical infrastructure of data centers, including equipment installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning. The role involves following standard procedures, adhering to security and data management policies, and contributing to team efforts. It is an entry-level position with opportunities for training and career growth within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. | — | 0 |