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 |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer- CTJ - Poly Senior Software Engineer to deliver secure, scalable, and mission critical AI infrastructure for Microsoft’s sensitive cloud environments, focusing on foundational services for Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft Foundry. The role involves building and operating AI native full stack systems, leveraging modern tooling and AI systems to accelerate development and enhance product quality within air gapped, sovereign, and commercial clouds. | Serve | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Backend Engineer Backend Engineer for Microsoft Copilot, focusing on building and scaling the core backend platform including Orchestrator, Inference, and APIs to power AI-driven consumer experiences. The role involves developing secure, performant APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and shipping high-quality code in a fast-paced environment. | Serve |
| 5 |
| MTS - Site Reliability Engineer This role is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on ensuring the reliability, availability, and efficiency of large-scale distributed AI infrastructure. The SRE will work with ML researchers, data engineers, and product developers to operate platforms for training, fine-tuning, and serving generative AI models. Key responsibilities include maintaining uptime, designing observability systems, optimizing performance, building automation for deployments and incident response, and ensuring security and compliance in hybrid cloud/on-prem CPU+GPU environments. The role requires strong experience in SRE/DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, public cloud platforms, monitoring tools, and programming languages like Python or Go, with a preference for experience with large-scale GPU clusters and HPC. | Serve | 5 |
| Network Engineer II This role focuses on designing, building, and managing cutting-edge networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The Network Engineer will ensure high performance, low latency, and minimal jitter for distributed AI workloads, working with diverse network architectures and processor/accelerator technologies to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end solution with a focus on performance, scalability, and observability. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer The Principal Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team focuses on building and optimizing big data analytics services, specifically within the Microsoft Fabric Spark team. The role involves pushing the frontiers of analytics performance and scale by working with open-source technologies like Spark, Gluten, Velox, and Delta, as well as proprietary Microsoft services. The goal is to improve onboarding and tuning of workloads, requiring an AI-forward approach to deliver impact at Azure scale. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, and operating data services, mentoring engineers, and participating in live site operations. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric Data & Telemetry team, responsible for building and maintaining telemetry instrumentation services and pipelines, developing tools for metadata management, and creating job monitoring and notification services for data pipelines. The role focuses on providing high-quality data for running the service and business, supporting pillars like live-site monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics for product development, and ensuring customers have data for their own observability needs. The team applies classic cloud and software engineering practices alongside big data-engineering and analytical practices. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Microsoft Advertising Senior Data Scientist role within Microsoft Advertising focused on defining and delivering metrics, experimental design, and product iteration to improve user and business value. The role involves partnering with engineering and product teams to solve complex data science problems and influence product improvements through data-driven insights and workflows. | — | 5 |
| Principal Architect-UI Platforms This role focuses on evolving the Windows UI platform (WinUI) to be AI-native, enabling AI agents to author, refactor, and optimize UI code. It involves designing semantic models, stable abstractions, and predictable composition patterns for AI consumption, as well as facilitating migration and adoption through AI-assisted tooling. The goal is to create a declarative, dynamic UI foundation that supports personalization and agent-driven mutation, making it easier for web and SwiftUI developers to adopt and future-proofing for AI-generated code. | Agent | 5 |
| (Senior) Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI The role is for a Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within CoreAI at Microsoft. This platform enables high-scale online experimentation for AI systems and product features, helping teams ship better AI experiences faster. The engineer will design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable services and features for this platform, contributing to its operational excellence and supporting AI innovation across Microsoft. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within Microsoft's CoreAI division. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation for AI systems and product features, accelerating product learning and driving progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will lead architecture and development of this critical infrastructure, focusing on systems that help teams ship better AI experiences faster through rigorous experimentation and responsible AI practices. | ShipEval Gate | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Browser Platform Senior Software Engineer to join the on-device ML team for the Edge browser. The role involves delivering on-device ML capabilities via web APIs, integrating models and runtimes into Edge, developing evaluation pipelines and datasets, and contributing to the Chromium project. The focus is on shipping AI-powered features to end-users. | ShipData | 5 |
| Principal Computer Aided Design Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating components for analog electronic devices, specifically within the Microsoft Quantum team. The engineer will define design approaches, technical specifications, and test requirements, leveraging industry-standard electronic design automation and electromagnetic simulation toolsets. A key aspect involves developing and refining process-design-kit (PDK) requirements for superconducting circuit technologies and collaborating with various teams to codesign for performance, scalability, and reliability. The role also includes leading the design and layout of superconducting cryogenic control and readout circuits and establishing physical-design, layout, and verification workflows. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools to accelerate discovery and drive innovation, the core craft is hardware engineering for quantum computing, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and scaling AI-powered growth systems for Microsoft's core AI products like GitHub Copilot and VS Code. The engineer will design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments, improve A/B testing frameworks, and use data to drive decisions, aiming to accelerate user adoption and engagement with AI features. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Microsoft Azure Data engineering team, focusing on designing and building internal tools, engineering systems, and automation capabilities to enhance the quality and reliability of Power BI Desktop and Service. The role involves end-to-end tool development, including architecture, backend services, dashboards, telemetry integration, and AI-powered workflows, with a focus on integrating GenAI into developer workflows and modernizing engineering processes. | Data | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) Principal Software Engineer focused on building AI-first growth and experimentation systems for Microsoft's CoreAI organization, which powers products like GitHub Copilot. The role involves architecting and implementing foundational engineering systems for measuring, experimenting with, and scaling AI experiences across Microsoft products, with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence, reliability, and driving measurable business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Data & Analytics - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on building and owning end-to-end technical vision and execution for infrastructure analytics within Microsoft AI. The primary responsibility is to turn raw telemetry into trusted insights on utilization, capacity, readiness, and efficiency, supporting leadership in making informed investment and planning decisions at scale. The role involves designing and building scalable data pipelines, defining core metrics, architecting self-service dashboards and APIs, and ensuring data quality and governance. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Security / Global Solutions This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Security, focusing on driving customer transformation using Microsoft's security solutions like Purview Data Security, Sentinel, and Defender XDR. The role involves owning the technical relationship with enterprise customers, designing and implementing security architectures, and ensuring successful customer outcomes. It requires deep technical expertise in security, foundational AI, and cloud technologies, with a focus on Zero Trust, threat management, and SOC monitoring. | — | 5 |
| "Purview" Software Engineer Software Engineer for Microsoft Purview, focusing on data protection and governance solutions. The role involves using AI tools within the SDLC, contributing to architecture, and developing automation for production and deployment. It emphasizes cost-optimization and resource utilization for services. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Microsoft Azure High Performance Computing & AI Engineering team, responsible for managing the core platform and fleet of AI High Performance Computing products. The role involves designing and developing capabilities to monitor and operate supercomputers at scale, diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale systems, and creating data pipelines for telemetry and alerts. While the role supports AI customers and uses AI HPC products, the core craft is infrastructure engineering and operations, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Principal Consultant A2 - Apps This Principal Consultant role focuses on leading the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, with a strong emphasis on embedding AI-first principles and leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot across the software development lifecycle. The role involves architectural ownership, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes within an enterprise context. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building next-generation networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The role involves developing high-performance, low-latency, and reliable networking capabilities to support distributed AI workloads, working at the intersection of AI and high-performance computing. | Serve | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product - Backend Engineer Backend engineer for Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, focusing on building APIs for mobile apps, optimizing user growth, engagement, and retention. Collaborates with various teams to deliver scalable infrastructure and impactful results in a fast-paced consumer product environment. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of large-scale AI training infrastructures, specifically GPU clusters. It involves designing and developing hardware health monitoring and diagnostic frameworks, building predictive analytics pipelines using telemetry data, and leading incident triage for hardware anomalies. The goal is to drive automation in health management and partner with cross-functional teams to improve hardware design for reliability. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Security Researchers Senior Security Researcher role focused on researching emerging attack vectors, analyzing detection/prevention gaps, and designing/developing solutions. The role involves guiding the design of AI-based solutions for security problems and has a preferred qualification in AI workflows or generative AI/LLM frameworks. The primary focus is on building security solutions, with AI being a tool to achieve that. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and securing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution (Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop). The role involves modernizing authentication, establishing secure practices, and adopting phishing-resistant credentials. While the role mentions using AI tools in the SDLC and GenAI approaches, the core product is VDI, not an AI model or agent. | — | 2 |
| Senior Security Research Engineer - Microsoft Defender Experts Team This role is for a Senior Security Research Engineer on the Microsoft Defender Experts Team. The primary focus is on detecting, investigating, and responding to advanced attacks and data breaches using Microsoft 365 Defender and rich telemetry. The role involves analyzing attacker behaviors, generating custom alerts, building new tools and automations for hunting, and driving innovations in detecting advanced attacker tradecraft. While AI/ML might be used as a tool, the core craft is cybersecurity detection and response, not building AI models. | — | 2 |
| Senior Azure Customer Engineer (ACE) This role is for a Senior Azure Customer Engineer focused on supporting strategic customers in sovereign and regulated environments. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, owning end-to-end support experiences, resolving complex issues, driving proactive improvements, and influencing Azure engineering teams. It emphasizes an AI-first, engineering-led approach leveraging automation and intelligence for detection, diagnosis, and resolution to ensure reliability, compliance, and resiliency at scale. | — | 1 |
| Senior 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Datacenter Security Operations Manager. This role is for a Datacenter Security Operations Manager responsible for overseeing physical security operations at Microsoft datacenters, managing vendor security staff, mitigating risks, and responding to security incidents. The role involves program management, security leadership, and collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure the protection of personnel, infrastructure, and data. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations This role involves maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enforcing safety and security requirements. It also includes developing operational procedures and supporting third-party contractors. | — | 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 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving a hyper-scale distributed cloud service within Microsoft's Security organization, specifically Azure Active Directory. The role involves participating in all stages of the service lifecycle, addressing global-scale issues, and driving improvements in resiliency, latency, and reliability. It emphasizes strong customer empathy and participation in live site on-call rotation. | — | 0 |
| ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT CEPM This role manages local energy and environmental projects for datacenter campuses, supporting the implementation and maintenance of Environmental and Energy Management Systems (EMS/EnMS) like ISO 14001 and ISO 50001. Responsibilities include data collection, KPI monitoring, risk identification, improvement project delivery, audit support, and communication plans. The role collaborates with operations and compliance teams on environmental procedures and programs. | — | 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 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Azure Data team, focusing on cloud infrastructure for messaging and real-time analytics services. Responsibilities include building backend services, automating DevOps, enhancing monitoring, and contributing to security. The role involves using AI tools within the SDLC but is not focused on building AI models. | — | 0 |
| Logistics/Warehouse Technician This role is for a Logistics/Warehouse Technician in a Microsoft Data Center. Responsibilities include performing cycle audits, executing deliveries, coordinating vendors, documenting shipments, initiating warranty claims, processing returns, and managing inventory. The role requires a high school diploma and experience in inventory management or related fields. Fluency in French and English is also required. The role is on-site and may require travel between sites. | — | 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 Inventory & Asset Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including inbound/outbound logistics, cycle audits, regulatory compliance, warranty processes, and data bearing device destruction. Focus on operational efficiency, stakeholder management, and team development. | — | 0 |