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 17% 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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| Software Engineer 2 Software Engineer II role on the Azure PostgreSQL team, focusing on building and operating a globally distributed, fully managed PostgreSQL service. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and high-performance cloud database systems, with a mission to build the data platform for the age of AI. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, overseeing hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focus on technician performance, task prioritization, KPI/SLA monitoring, and ensuring compliance with policies and safety procedures. This role supports critical Microsoft cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and scaling data platforms for AI and analytics. The role involves leading coding, design, engineering excellence, implementation, and reliability efforts for products like Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, and others. It requires strong software engineering skills and experience in a cloud-native environment. |
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| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and scaling the managed PostgreSQL service on Azure. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining core PostgreSQL platform components, improving system reliability, availability, and performance, and building CI/CD pipelines. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, 4+ years of software development experience in systems programming languages like C#, C++, GO, or RUST, and proficiency in building highly concurrent, performance-optimized systems. Knowledge of database internals in PostgreSQL is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician (DCT) Manager Manager for Data Center Technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focuses on team performance, KPI monitoring, SLA adherence, training, and safety compliance within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - Organic Growth Software Engineer II role focused on growing user base for Office products through SEO-driven content experiences, building and maintaining a Next.js application with Contentful CMS integration, and utilizing DevOps practices. The role involves full-stack development, infrastructure support, and on-call duties. While the role mentions staying current with AI tools and using Github Copilot, its core function is not AI/ML development but rather content delivery and platform engineering. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining and optimizing the operations of leased data centers. The engineer will ensure the availability, efficiency, and safety of mechanical and electrical equipment, manage daily operations, oversee maintenance, and collaborate with partners to reduce incidents and improve performance. The role also involves compliance verification, reporting, and contributing to best practices within the data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Recruiter, Cloud + AI Recruiter for Microsoft's Cloud + AI Platforms division, focusing on hiring technical talent for engineering and product roles. The role involves partnering with leaders to identify, engage, and hire exceptional talent, developing sourcing strategies, and managing the hiring process. It requires understanding the competitive landscape and driving differentiated hiring strategies. | — | 0 |
| Site Logistics Engineer The Site Logistics Engineer supports data center construction projects by assisting with site logistics planning, coordination, and execution, ensuring materials, equipment, and workforce movement are organized. This role involves tracking progress, identifying coordination issues, and supporting daily site logistics activities in a fast-paced construction environment. The position is based in La Porte, Indiana, with relocation assistance provided. | — | 0 |
| Microsoft Data Center Project Manager This role is for a Microsoft Data Center Project Manager responsible for managing data center projects, troubleshooting service incidents, and ensuring service delivery objectives are met. The role involves collaboration across teams, adherence to safety policies, and participation in root cause analysis. It is part of the Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) group, which supports Microsoft's online services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Senior Datacenter Design Manager Manage the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for datacenter construction and lease projects, overseeing the delivery of Microsoft's industry-leading datacenter designs from site due diligence through construction and turnover to operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician - Night Shift This role involves standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning IT datacenter technology and equipment. The Senior Data Center Technician will provide guidance to other technicians, ensure compliance with security and safety standards, and manage assigned tickets efficiently. The role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, including Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Office Data Loader team, responsible for building and maintaining a hyper-scale distributed data ingestion service for Office365. The service handles massive amounts of data daily and is critical for service quality, feature usage insights, bug troubleshooting, and empowering Machine Learning scenarios. A key focus is on ensuring data privacy and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer - CTJ - Poly Mechanical Engineer role within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, focusing on the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. Responsibilities include understanding datacenter design, managing mechanical and electrical systems, collaborating on new designs, and ensuring operational support for 24x7 operations. Requires a Master's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with relevant experience and a strong security clearance. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud services, including datacenters, mechanical systems, and backup electrical systems. The role involves supporting 24x7 operations, collaborating on mechanical designs, and ensuring safety and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers, ensuring service compliance, quality, and safety. This role involves managing technician performance, prioritizing tasks, and monitoring KPIs/SLAs to support Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Silicon Sourcing This role is for a Senior Manager, Silicon Sourcing at Microsoft, focusing on the supply chain for cloud infrastructure, including AI hardware. The responsibilities include driving strategic negotiations with OSAT partners for silicon test services, developing should-cost models, securing test capacity, contributing to sourcing strategy, managing supplier relationships, ensuring supply continuity, and leading procurement of manufacturing test hardware. The role requires experience in procurement, supply chain, or engineering, with a preference for semiconductor sourcing and test operations. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on leading global-scale security initiatives across cloud services. The primary responsibility is to ensure the resilience and compliance of Microsoft services, enabling customers to operate securely. The role involves defining strategy, aligning roadmaps, and delivering secure-by-design solutions in collaboration with engineering, security, services, and compliance teams. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Infra This role focuses on helping customers migrate, modernize, and secure their infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, specifically to lay the foundation for scalable, production-ready AI solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will deliver engagements focused on migration, modernization, operational excellence, and resilient architecture, ensuring readiness for AI workloads and accelerating adoption of Azure services. The role involves building trusted relationships with IT decision-makers, leading architectural design sessions, driving migration initiatives, and ensuring environments are optimized for AI use cases. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Operations Manager Manages data center operations, including people management, service delivery, and ensuring adherence to SLAs and KPIs for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory and asset management within Microsoft's data centers, involving cycle audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation of inbound/outbound shipments. The role also includes managing warranty claims, processing hardware returns, and ensuring the destruction of data-bearing devices according to SLAs and company policies. It requires strong organizational skills and adherence to security and data management protocols. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It focuses on standard operating procedures, hardware maintenance, and supporting Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| People Operations Sr. HR Advisor - Offboarding EMEA This role is for a Senior HR Service Advisor focused on offboarding processes in EMEA for Microsoft. It involves managing complex cases, ensuring compliance with local regulations, coordinating with stakeholders, and driving process improvements. While the role mentions leveraging AI and digital tools, its core function is HR operations and employee lifecycle management, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician at Microsoft. The technician will learn and perform standard procedures for equipment preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning under guidance. They will also gain familiarity with security and data management procedures within the data center environment. The role involves contributing to issue tracking, participating in safety briefings, completing assigned tickets efficiently, and complying with security and data management policies. The technician will maintain a client focus, contribute to a positive team environment, and take accountability for service quality. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Fabric platform team, focusing on reliability, performance, and reducing toil for a unified data stack serving AI-powered applications. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Systems Architect Seeking a Principal Quantum Systems Architect to define the architecture of scalable classical control and readout systems for large-scale quantum computing. This role focuses on system design at the quantum-classical interface, including compute platforms, communication fabrics, synchronization, and signal-processing frameworks. This is a strategic technical leadership role, shaping long-term architecture while guiding validation and integration across the stack. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - CTJ - Top Secret This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, focusing on Azure security services in sovereign clouds. The responsibilities include leading and coaching a high-performing team, planning and executing technical deliverables, and working with external partners and stakeholders. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with significant technical engineering experience and a Top Secret Security Clearance. | — | 0 |
| Construction Workforce Infrastructure Manager Microsoft is looking for a Construction Workforce Infrastructure Manager to lead the strategy for workforce accommodations and labor logistics for large-scale data center development in Pecos, Texas. This role involves building operating models, establishing scalable processes, and managing stakeholder relationships to support thousands of construction workers. The position is on-site in Pecos, TX, and offers opportunities for broader construction project leadership. | — | 0 |
| Field Service Engineer This role is for a Field Service Engineer within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure (power, cooling, network, security) that supports Microsoft's cloud services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. Key responsibilities include ensuring data center operations, maximizing critical environment availability, overseeing mechanical and electrical equipment, reducing incidents, delivering on cost/energy efficiency, supporting emergency preparedness, conducting audits, managing reporting, and building relationships with partners. The role requires a technical degree (Mechanical/Electrical Engineering) or equivalent experience in data center operations. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in Microsoft's Data Centers. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform quality checks, and contribute to team tasks. The role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure for services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Digital Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI This role is for a Digital Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, focusing on AI-powered sales for Small Medium Enterprises and Channel partners. The architect will lead customer engagements, drive Azure consumption, architect solutions, and collaborate with internal teams to ensure successful cloud deployments. The role emphasizes customer success, technical sales leadership, and driving business outcomes through Microsoft's cloud and AI services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It focuses on standard operating procedures, hardware maintenance, and supporting IT infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on Microsoft's identity platform, powering secure and reliable user experiences. The role involves designing and building scalable notification capabilities, ensuring service reliability, and collaborating across teams. It emphasizes innovation in areas like AI-driven signal processing and intelligent notification capabilities, with a requirement to use AI-based tools. | — | 0 |
| Metro Contract Lead This role is for a Metro/Contract Lead within Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) organization, specifically in the Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) group. The position focuses on managing and executing contracts related to datacenter construction projects in the US Central Region. Responsibilities include overseeing contract execution, collaborating with legal and procurement teams, managing risks, coordinating with suppliers and contractors, handling budget and change order management, ensuring compliance, and maintaining project documentation. The role requires a Master's Degree in a related field and 4+ years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineer Principal Engineer role focused on extending Azure's native capabilities to the customer edge, delivering comprehensive edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems. The role involves architecting solutions ground-up, taking features from ideation to global rollout, and collaborating with platform teams to enable customers to host network infrastructure and operations on Azure. It emphasizes building and operating reliable, distributed systems software with experience in microservices, Kubernetes, and Azure. | — | 0 |
| Global Crisis Incident Manager (GCIM) This role is for a Global Crisis Incident Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary focus is on managing high severity and crisis incidents, leading post-incident reviews, and coordinating with various global teams to ensure timely resolution and continuous improvement of incident management processes. While the role operates within an organization that leverages AI technology, the core responsibilities do not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, deliveries, warranty claims, and equipment returns. It involves cycle audits, documentation, and data bearing device destruction, with a focus on operational efficiency and adherence to SLAs and company policies. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager This role manages critical environment operations for Microsoft's global datacenters, ensuring the availability, efficiency, and compliance of the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. It involves leading a team of technical professionals, overseeing the maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment, and driving safety and sustainability initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Program Manager This role is for a Data Center Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on adhering to compliance, contractual agreements, and budget requirements within Data Center operations. The role involves engaging with teams to execute tasks, managing projects, troubleshooting incidents, monitoring KPIs and OKRs, and ensuring security and safety protocols are followed. It also includes managing costs, budgets, vendor relationships, and driving improvements in service delivery and operational efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Validation Tools Engineer The Validation Tools Engineer will design and build the test automation framework for custom silicon platforms, focusing on developing scalable automation, tooling, and data infrastructure using Python, SQL, and TypeScript to accelerate post-silicon bring-up and validation. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Operations Manager This role is for a Data Center Project Manager responsible for troubleshooting service incidents, managing projects, and ensuring safety and security policies are followed within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. The role involves collaboration across teams, root cause analysis, and contributing to the delivery of core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Program Manager This role is for a Data Center Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on managing projects, troubleshooting service incidents, and ensuring adherence to safety and security policies within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. The role involves collaboration across teams, mentorship, and maintaining cost efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Security Operations Manager This role manages physical security operations for Microsoft datacenters, focusing on protecting personnel, infrastructure, and data. It involves implementing security policies, analyzing threats, managing incidents, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure secure and continuous operations. The role requires experience in security program management and risk analysis, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and automation. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role involves maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure, including monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security compliance. The technician will also participate in developing operating procedures and coordinating with third-party vendors. | — | 0 |
| Circular Center Inventory & Asset Technician This role is responsible for managing inventory and assets within a circular center, including performing cycle audits, handling deliveries, coordinating with vendors, documenting shipments, initiating warranty claims, and processing returns. It also involves the destruction of data-bearing devices according to strict policies and SLAs. The role contributes to Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) by supporting the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in Microsoft's data centers. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform quality checks, and communicate incidents. The position is focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, overseeing hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focus on technician performance, KPI monitoring, SLA adherence, and team culture. Ensure compliance with policies and safety procedures. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering Software Development Engineer II for the Azure HorizonDB team, building a next-generation, cloud-native database platform for high performance, strong consistency, and scalability, designed for AI-driven workloads. Responsibilities include working on core components like storage engines, transaction processing, and replication for planet-scale databases. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role is for a Critical Environment Technician Manager at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing the operations, maintenance, and safety of datacenter critical environments, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The manager will lead a team of technicians, ensure adherence to safety and operational procedures, manage incident response, and coordinate with third-party vendors. The role focuses on maintaining the infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer - Digital Control Systems This role is for a Senior Quantum Engineer focused on designing and implementing digital control systems for cryogenic quantum hardware. The responsibilities include FPGA design, timing-critical logic development, high-speed digital interface design, and hardware integration. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for innovation, the core craft is quantum engineering and digital control systems, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |