Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft has 521 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, representing 37% of the total, followed by application and serving infrastructure. Engineering is the most frequent function, with a significant number of openings, and the United States is the primary hiring country. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, model serving, and LLM observability, suggesting a focus on operationalizing AI models. Over the last 30 days, Microsoft has added 280 new AI roles, a 157% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Microsoft currently has 343 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (19), Senior Software Engineer (19), Software Engineer II (8), Principal Applied Scientist (7), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (36%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Microsoft is hiring AI talent in: United States (308 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (8 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 227 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff, Principal Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for AI companions like Copilot, spanning multiple modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to create user experiences that redefine AI companionship. The role requires strong full-stack fundamentals and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling the inferencing cloud for Large Language Models and GenAI Services within Azure CoreAI Platform. The role involves designing, building, and operating large-scale engineering systems for AI models. | Serve |
| 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and optimizing Azure's High Performance Computing and AI Platform (HPC/AI) virtual machines. This involves deep technical work on hardware/software interactions, device virtualization, and performance analysis of GPU workloads for large-scale AI training and inference. The role contributes to the underlying platform software and its exposure as an Azure service, with opportunities to work on upper layers of Azure infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |
| Engineering Lead - Extreme Retrieval Engineering Lead to build and own the software engineering platform for large-scale machine learning retrieval systems, including RAG for Copilots, web-scale search, and personalized recommendations. The role focuses on translating retrieval research into reusable, scalable systems, defining engineering standards, and integrating new methods. It involves cross-team technical leadership and improving developer/researcher experience. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer The role focuses on designing and building cutting-edge networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The goal is to enable breakthroughs in AI by delivering unmatched computational power, scalability, and reliability, with a focus on high performance, low latency, and minimal jitter for distributed AI workloads. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior & Principal Security Researcher Senior/Principal Security Researcher on the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage (GHOST) team. The role involves performing threat hunts, assisting with investigations, developing threat intelligence, and cultivating investigation best practices into Microsoft tooling and products. Researchers will support a global team to identify and catalog new attacker TTPs, victims, and deliver customer notifications to protect worldwide enterprise customers and empower customers to protect themselves via constantly improving Microsoft products. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Copilot M365 Calendar Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building AI-powered scheduling systems by integrating backend services, LLMs, APIs, and Outlook services for Microsoft Calendar and Teams. The role involves developing agent-driven solutions to reduce cognitive load and empower users in the hybrid work era. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Platform Engineer This role focuses on engineering user-facing AI features for Microsoft's personal AI, Copilot. The engineer will own the development lifecycle from inception to delivery, build secure and performant AI platform services, and collaborate with researchers and other engineers to create next-generation AI products. The role emphasizes shipping high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code within a fast-paced product development cycle. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product Engineer - Web This role focuses on building AI-powered web experiences for Microsoft Copilot, collaborating with researchers and product managers to deliver a world-class AI companion. The engineer will design and build efficient front-end systems and infrastructure for complex web applications, ensuring safety and reliability for millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Infra - MAI Superintelligence Team The role focuses on building and maintaining data infrastructure for large-scale AI model training, specifically ingesting and processing enormous amounts of multimodal data (text, audio, images, video). This includes owning data pipelines, Spark, Ray, and Vector Databases, and partnering with pretraining and post-training teams to improve the data recipe for frontier models. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineering The Microsoft 365 Copilot Windows App team is building intelligent, multimodal AI experiences into Windows, enabling AI agents using MCP to redefine user interaction with devices and bring AI to billions. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent features leveraging voice, camera, and screen context, building and optimizing agentic workflows, and owning end-to-end AI capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Digital Solution Engineer - D365 CE This role is for a Digital Solution Engineer focused on AI-powered business applications, specifically Dynamics 365 Sales & Service. The engineer will lead AI transformation engagements, own technical win strategies, design solutions, deliver demonstrations, and engage with C-suite executives and technical decision-makers. The role involves showcasing Microsoft's AI capabilities in D365 solutions, addressing technical blockers like AI compliance and security, and leveraging the partner ecosystem. The primary focus is on selling and implementing AI-driven business processes for the SME-C segment. | — | 5 |
| (Senior) Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within Microsoft's CoreAI division. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation to accelerate product learning and drive progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will build and maintain services that allow teams to evaluate, refine, and safely deploy AI innovations. While the role uses AI tools and supports AI product development, the core craft is building the experimentation infrastructure, not directly shipping AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| Principal/Senior Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Principal/Senior Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform within Microsoft's CoreAI division. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation to accelerate product learning and drive progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will own and drive the development of critical components, design and build services for engineers and scientists to measure impact and validate hypotheses, and contribute to building systems at scale. The role emphasizes driving technical excellence in distributed systems, mentoring engineers, and building reliable infrastructure that accelerates AI progress. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Observability Software Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Data team, focusing on the Observability Platform. The role involves designing, developing, and operating large-scale telemetry ingestion pipelines that handle massive data volumes (Exabytes daily) and trillions of signals. Responsibilities include building APIs, integrating ML-based anomaly detection, ensuring reliability and scalability, and participating in on-call rotations. The platform underpins observability across Azure, Office, Windows, and Xbox. | Serve | 5 |
| Sr. Cloud Solution Architect - AI & Apps This role is for a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect focused on helping customers deploy AI-powered applications at scale on Azure. The architect will lead technical engagements across design, build, and operations, focusing on Azure AI, App Services, GitHub, and data platforms. Responsibilities include designing scalable solutions, leading POCs/MVPs, ensuring production readiness, and contributing to reusable IP. The role requires deep technical expertise in Azure and AI services, customer-facing experience, and the ability to drive adoption and deliver successful deployments. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Github Copilot API Senior Software Engineer on the Copilot API team at GitHub, focusing on building and maintaining scalable, reliable backend services and APIs that power GitHub Copilot features and integrations. The role involves designing, developing, and operating distributed systems with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and operational excellence. | Serve | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Security This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on AI security within Microsoft's Customer Experience & Success team. The architect will act as a trusted advisor to customers, designing security architectures for AI workloads and data across the Microsoft cloud, focusing on identity, data protection, cloud posture, and secure app development. Key responsibilities include guiding customers on Zero Trust principles, assessing AI security risks like data leakage and prompt injection, and mapping mitigations to Microsoft capabilities. The role requires hands-on experience with security controls and enterprise security platforms, with a strong foundation in core security areas and an interest in AI/GenAI security. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for the Edge browser engineering system team, focusing on building AI-first engineering workflows to streamline development and ensure timely, automatic releases. The role involves using AI tools across the SDLC, reviewing AI-generated changes, and contributing to code quality, design, and engineering excellence with a focus on AI integration. | — | 5 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager - Microsoft Entra Principal Group Engineering Manager for Microsoft Entra, focusing on hyperscale platform challenges, availability of mission-critical services, and engineering systems for software serving over 1 billion people. The role involves leading managers and senior engineers to improve safe operation of hyperscale fleets using AI-driven operations for incident triage and resolution, correlating change logs with incident impact, architecting control planes with AI/telemetry for safe changes, and building runtimes for auto-triage and auto-mitigation of incidents. | Serve | 5 |
| Data and AI Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and leading end-to-end enterprise data, GenAI, Copilot, and agentic AI architectures. The Solution Architect translates business outcomes into scalable, secure, and governed solutions, owns data platform design for AI readiness, leads data migration and modernization, architects cross-cloud data integration, defines GenAI solution patterns (prompt orchestration, RAG, embeddings), and leads architecture for Copilot and AI-augmented applications, including agentic AI architectures. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Ads Data Platform Team at Microsoft AI. The team builds data platforms that process trillions of ad-serving events daily, supporting business analytics, machine learning models, and real-time reporting. The role involves designing and operating high-scale systems, building data applications, and working with distributed systems and big data technologies. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on building and scaling backend services for Microsoft AI Search Places, which uses geospatial knowledge and AI for location search. The role involves applying ML solutions to geospatial problems and experimenting with LLMs to improve system quality and efficiency. | Serve | 5 |
| Solution Architect- AI Solution Architect role focused on designing and deploying AI-driven architectures for enterprise customers, leveraging Microsoft Cloud and AI technologies. The role involves understanding customer technical environments, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring the successful implementation of solutions. | — | 5 |
| Entry Level Cloud Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and building AI and Agentic solutions for customers using Microsoft's AI platforms like Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI. The Cloud Solution Architect will work on technical engagements, POCs, and MVPs to accelerate adoption and deliver repeatable AI solutions, acting as a bridge between customer needs and Microsoft's AI offerings. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer - System Characterization This role focuses on characterizing and validating cryogenic control hardware for quantum computing systems, bridging cryogenic electronics and quantum device measurements. While the role mentions using AI tools and building AI agents/copilots to assist with tasks, the core function is in quantum engineering and system characterization, not directly shipping AI models or core AI systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Business Intelligence Engineer - Agentic Development This role focuses on building and maintaining an internal analytics and reporting platform using Microsoft Fabric, with a strong emphasis on leveraging agentic experiences and AI to drive automation and efficiency. The engineer will create reports, dashboards, and web apps, implement semantic models, and translate business needs into data solutions, while also influencing platform evolution. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Quantum focused on building a quantum software stack, SDKs, APIs, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The role involves applying software engineering and LLM best practices to create experiences for quantum algorithm developers and researchers, contributing to external-facing products for quantum computing. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Security Engineer - Getting Customers Ready for AI Senior Security Engineer focused on building and operationalizing security-first systems for safe and scalable AI adoption. The role involves designing and building end-to-end security systems to detect, prioritize, and respond to risks in AI-enabled environments, bridging traditional security with AI-native threat models. Responsibilities include developing detection pipelines, correlation engines, automated response workflows, and security platforms for AI systems, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Data Engineer II - Getting Customers Ready for AI The Data Engineer II role focuses on building the data foundations for AI-native security systems. This involves designing and developing scalable data platforms, pipelines, and telemetry systems to transform raw security and operational data into high-quality datasets for analytics and AI-driven insights. The role supports downstream AI models, RAG pipelines, and model training/evaluation workflows, requiring collaboration with AI engineers and data scientists. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Solution Engineering - PwD Opportunities Solution Engineer role focused on connecting Microsoft AI solutions (Copilot, Azure AI, Fabric) to customer business outcomes, supporting technical wins, simplifying architectures, and building customer confidence through engagements and prototyping. The role is part of an 'Ability Hiring Event' for candidates with disabilities. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Entry Level Entry-level Cloud Solution Architect role focused on designing and building AI and Agentic solutions for customers using Microsoft's AI platform (Copilot, Azure AI, etc.). The role involves technical engagements, accelerating adoption, and delivering repeatable solutions. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Search Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver platform-level search and AI Platform capabilities for Windows. The role involves building the next-generation search that powers File Explorer, Universal Search, Copilot, and future LLM integrations, as well as the Windows AI Platform for developers. Responsibilities include designing and implementing core search components, driving technical deep-dives, owning end-to-end feature delivery, building observability infrastructure, and championing AI-assisted engineering practices. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Copilot Solution Engineer focused on driving adoption of Microsoft's AI-powered Copilot and Agent solutions, partnering with customers to design and implement architectures, and accelerating their AI transformation journey. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Security Analyst This role involves leading deep-dive investigations into complex, high-severity security incidents, including root cause analysis, threat actor attribution, and impact assessment. The analyst will proactively hunt for threats across cloud and identity telemetry, operationalize threat intelligence, and drive cross-team response efforts. A key aspect is translating findings into durable security improvements and leveraging AI/Copilot technologies to enhance investigation speed and effectiveness. The role also involves mentoring peers and contributing to documented investigation standards. | — | 5 |
| Data Engineer II Data Engineer II role focused on building and maintaining ETL pipelines, data-sharing frameworks, and governance systems. Contributes to AI-ready pipelines for intelligent systems and designs/operates services exposing datasets as data products, with a focus on low-latency consumption for Microsoft engineering teams. Also involved in reporting and analytics. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Principal Sourcing Engineer This role focuses on leading the sourcing strategy for critical memory and storage technologies that support hyperscale cloud and AI platforms. The engineer will influence platform architectures, manage long-range supply and capacity, and act as the commercial interface with suppliers. The role involves identifying and mitigating risks while scaling supplier ecosystems for rapid platform growth. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of distributed data infrastructure, APIs, and personalization pipelines that drive Copilot's intelligence. The role focuses on building systems that power adaptive, context-aware experiences across Microsoft AI, making Copilot responsive to user preferences and workflows while ensuring privacy, security, performance, and scale. | Ship | 5 |
| Technical Support Advisor This role is a Technical Support Advisor for Microsoft's Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization. The primary focus is on ensuring the technical readiness and process compliance of frontline support staff. While the role involves leveraging AI technology to help customers and prevent future problems, the core responsibilities are centered around support, troubleshooting, and readiness, rather than directly building or researching AI models. The role aims to drive delivery excellence and superior customer outcomes by providing in-depth technical expertise and mentoring support staff. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Microsoft Shopping team, focusing on developing and optimizing distributed services and performance-optimized systems for AI/LLM-powered shopping experiences across Bing, MSN, and Edge. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving design, writing and optimizing code, and staying updated on new trends to improve product availability, reliability, and performance. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer - M365 Copilot Software Engineer role focused on the development and release of web client/services for Microsoft Copilot, enhancing customer experiences. The role involves designing resilient, scalable systems powered by AI infrastructure and fostering a data-driven approach. It requires experience building applications and services with AI infrastructure, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and performance. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team focused on securing non-human communication and authenticating billions of transactions per hour. The team builds and operates services that power Azure infrastructure, customer workloads, and AI agents, with a strong emphasis on security, resilience, and reliability. The manager will lead, grow, and coach engineers, set technical and product direction, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous growth, particularly in AI-first engineering practices. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Data Scientist This role is for a Principal Data Scientist on the Microsoft AI (MAI) team, focusing on business analytics for MSN and Copilot Discover. The role involves analyzing user engagement, content, advertising, and monetization to drive business insights and strategy. A key responsibility is leveraging AI/ML to enhance these processes, build forecasting models, and support AI-powered consumer experiences. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior System Software Engineer - WSD Senior Software Engineer on the Update Platform team responsible for delivering Windows software updates. The role involves designing and implementing features for update discovery, installation, and lifecycle, with a focus on integrating ML/AI models and preparing for Agentic AI and AI Orchestration. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer The role focuses on building and scaling backend services and data pipelines that power device and security intelligence within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The core responsibility is to transform fragmented signals into a consistent, reliable data foundation that supports downstream systems, customers, and AI-driven capabilities. This involves designing, building, and scaling these systems, defining data models and pipelines, and contributing to architectural decisions for correctness, scalability, and durability. | Data | 5 |
| Data Engineer Data Engineer role focused on formulating business problems, exploring and analyzing data, and designing/testing predictive and forecasting models. The role will identify opportunities for machine learning and predictive analysis, and communicate insights to influence data-driven decisions. This role is within Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) at Microsoft, supporting IT operations processes and standards for global datacenters. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Bing Multimedia team, focusing on building and evolving large-scale offline infrastructure for image and video search. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable platforms that process vast amounts of data, with a strong emphasis on engineering metrics like latency, cost, availability, and quality. The team leverages state-of-the-art ML models and AI-assisted engineering practices to deliver world-class visual search experiences. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Engineering This role is for a Senior Software Engineer focused on building AI-infused enterprise applications, Agentic Solutions, and Copilots within Microsoft's Commercial Sales Experiences (CSX) team. The engineer will lead the full software development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment, emphasizing engineering best practices, scalability, and security. The role involves leveraging AI technologies and Azure PaaS services to enhance user experience and productivity, contributing to Microsoft's Cloud and AI strategy. | ShipAgent | 5 |
| Senior Security Research- Microsoft Security Senior Security Researcher focused on detecting and autonomously protecting against sophisticated enterprise identity-based attacks using Generative AI tooling. The role involves end-to-end research projects, data analysis, threat hypothesis, and crafting detection logic. | Agent | 5 |
| Copilot Cloud Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and delivering cloud and AI application solutions for enterprise customers using Microsoft Azure. The Solution Architect will guide customers in integrating AI capabilities, enabling AI-powered scenarios, and accelerating business outcomes through scalable and secure cloud solutions. The role involves architecting solutions, driving AI innovation, and supporting AI use cases like personalization and automation. | Agent | 5 |
