Currently tracking 224 active AI roles, down 17% 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 313 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (18), Senior Software Engineer (17), Software Engineer II (6), Principal Applied Scientist (5), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (39%), application (22%), serving infrastructure (18%). 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 (271 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (10 roles), United Kingdom (8 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 245 new AI-related roles.
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Global Supply Manager This role is for a Global Supply Manager responsible for the fulfillment of Microsoft's custom silicon (Maia GPU) and supporting data center and network infrastructure. The role involves creating the Supply Plan of Record for component suppliers, managing raw material supply, inventory, and supplier interactions to ensure reliable delivery of hardware for Microsoft's cloud and AI capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Inventory and Asset Technical Trainer This role is for an Inventory and Asset Technical Trainer in a datacenter environment. The trainer will be responsible for delivering technical training programs, conducting needs analysis, and managing procedural changes related to inventory and asset management within datacenters. The role involves applying adult learning fundamentals and incorporating new logistics technologies into training. It is an on-site position with limited remote work. | — | 0 |
| Senior SoC HW (PnP/Functional) Validation Engineer Senior SoC HW (PnP/Functional) Validation Engineer for Microsoft's Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering team, focusing on custom silicon for Azure Cobalt and other systems. Responsibilities include owning post-silicon validation direction (functional, electrical, power/performance), defining debug tools, coordinating programs, and developing validation strategies and methodologies. Requires a strong background in electrical/computer engineering or related fields with significant technical experience. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the physical installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of IT equipment within Microsoft's data centers. The technician will work under guidance to prepare, install, diagnose, repair, and decommission hardware like servers, storage, and networking equipment, ensuring compliance with operational procedures and safety protocols. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environments Controls Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret This role focuses on maintaining and managing Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) for Microsoft's U.S. Government Airgap datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring ICS availability, data quality, security, and managing system infrastructure, servers, applications, and networks. The role also involves program and project management for ICS systems and governing access controls. A U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance is required. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Program Manager (On-Site) This role is for a Data Center Program Manager responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment within Microsoft's global datacenters. The role involves managing preventative and corrective maintenance, monitoring equipment performance, ensuring compliance, acting as an escalation point for facilities issues, and driving cost/energy efficiency projects. It is not directly related to AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer responsible for ensuring the availability and operational efficiency of data center infrastructure, including mechanical and electrical equipment. The role involves overseeing day-to-day operations, maintenance, incident reduction, cost/energy efficiency initiatives, and compliance verification in leased data centers. It requires collaboration with internal teams and external partners, adherence to safety and security policies, and contributing to a positive work environment. The position is focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services, not on AI/ML development itself. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Techncial Program Manager - Equipment Senior Technical Program Manager for Equipment in Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) organization, focusing on end-to-end delivery of long lead equipment for datacenter construction. Responsibilities include managing supplier performance, driving schedule tracking, risk management, and coordinating cross-functional execution across procurement, engineering, and construction. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the electrical engineering aspects of datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. Responsibilities include design, testing, verification, technical project implementation, and documentation within a critical environment context. | — | 0 |
| Sr Cybersecurity Technology Consultant-CTJ-Poly Senior Cybersecurity Technology Consultant specializing in Microsoft Security platforms, focusing on designing, implementing, and operationalizing enterprise cybersecurity solutions within classified federal environments. Requires expertise in Zero Trust architecture and advising customer security leadership. | — | 0 |
| Regional Security Integration Manager This role is for a Regional Security Integration Manager responsible for physical security systems and devices at datacenters and other facilities within an assigned region. The manager will lead projects involving physical security systems design, implementation, testing, commissioning, and acceptance. Responsibilities include partnering with engineering and operations teams, conducting field site visits, reviewing and improving physical security designs, and managing operational state security system projects. The role requires experience in Security Program or Program Management and the ability to meet security screening requirements. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft Specialized Clouds Teams Phone team, focusing on building, deploying, and operating Teams Phone services in Air Gapped and Sovereign Cloud environments. This role requires leading the design, development, and evolution of these services with strict security, compliance, and reliability requirements, ensuring feature parity with Public Cloud offerings. The engineer will drive technical strategy, influence architecture, and own the full software development lifecycle, acting as a senior technical leader and mentor. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineering Manager This role is a Technical Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers to resolve complex customer technical issues. The role involves people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback and automation, and fostering business integration for a great customer experience. While the company and its support services leverage AI, the core function of this role is managing a support team and customer relationships, not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Advisory This role focuses on technical readiness and process compliance for frontline support staff, providing subject matter expertise for Microsoft products and services to ensure timely case resolution and drive delivery excellence. It involves case reviews, mentoring engineers, contributing to self-help initiatives, and providing feedback for product and process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineering Manager This role is a Technical Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers to resolve complex customer technical issues. The role involves people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback and automation, and fostering business integration for a great customer experience. While the company leverages AI extensively and aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers, this specific role focuses on managing the support and resolution of technical issues, not on building or directly deploying AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| EHS Campus Manager This role is responsible for implementing and managing Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) programs within Microsoft Datacenters. The EHS Campus Manager will identify risks, implement controls, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with Microsoft standards and regulations to maintain a safe and healthy working environment. This involves high-risk-activity management, emergency response planning, and conducting risk assessments and training. | — | 0 |
| IT Operations Manager This role is for an IT Operations Manager at Microsoft, responsible for leading a team and overseeing data center site services and logistics. The position involves managing physical operations, ensuring safety, security, and compliance, and collaborating with internal business groups to deliver service levels for Microsoft's cloud services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. It requires significant experience in IT infrastructure management and team leadership. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering INTERN Software Engineering Intern role at Microsoft, focusing on solving problems and building innovative software solutions. The intern will apply engineering principles, learn new technologies, and contribute to next-generation software development. Requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS or related field and one year of programming experience. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform quality checks, and assist other technicians. The role is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, supporting core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center. It focuses on standard operating procedures, hardware maintenance, and supporting Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the design, testing, and implementation of electrical systems for datacenters. The role involves developing designs, creating documentation, conducting tests, and ensuring project implementation schedules are met, all within the context of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager- Night Shift This role manages a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers. It involves leading the team, ensuring service compliance and quality, and promoting a strong safety culture. The role focuses on operational excellence within a large-scale infrastructure environment. | — | 0 |
| Fraud Operations Investigation Analyst This role investigates complex fraud and abuse cases across Microsoft's cloud and service ecosystem, protecting customer trust and reducing financial harm. The analyst will conduct deep-dive investigations, document findings, execute remediation actions, monitor fraud signals, perform vetting, and contribute to process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Security Researcher (Multiple Positions) This role focuses on security investigations, analyzing security alerts and telemetry to validate detections and understand attacker intent. It involves correlating large datasets using KQL, investigating identity-centric threats, and delivering customer-facing investigation summaries. The role requires experience in security operations, cybersecurity investigations, incident response, or threat hunting. | — | 0 |
| HR Service Lead Advisor - Time & Leave This role is for a HR Service Lead Advisor focused on Time & Leave processes in the EMEA region. The primary responsibilities include executing HR transactions, managing complex employee cases, providing consultation, and ensuring compliance with local legislation and Microsoft policies. The role also involves identifying opportunities for automation and AI support to improve operational efficiency and scalability, collaborating with stakeholders, and maintaining process documentation. While the role mentions leveraging AI solutions and identifying areas for AI support, the core function is HR service delivery and process management, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing the flow of goods within data centers. Key duties include performing cycle audits, handling incoming and outgoing deliveries, coordinating with vendors, processing warranty claims and returns, and ensuring accurate documentation and inventory tracking. The role also involves the secure destruction of data-bearing devices and compliance with security and data management policies. It requires a high school diploma and some experience in inventory management or a related field, with preferred experience in IT logistics. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture - Infrastructure This role focuses on acting as a trusted technical advisor for Microsoft's strategic customers, helping them improve the reliability, resilience, security, performance, and operational excellence of their Azure environments. It involves proactive assessments, technical guidance, incident leadership, and cross-functional collaboration within a global follow-the-sun model. The CSA will advise on architecture and operations aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework, lead complex troubleshooting efforts, facilitate Root Cause Analysis, and drive reduction of reactive operational demand through reliability-focused recommendations and operational maturity improvements. The role also involves performing proactive health assessments, risk reviews, and analyzing telemetry and monitoring platforms to identify trends and develop actionable insights. Customer engagement includes creating knowledge documentation, delivering onboarding assessments, and tracking remediation progress. Global collaboration with various Microsoft teams is essential. | — | 0 |
| Lease Construction Manager This role is for a Lease Construction Manager responsible for overseeing the construction of leased data center projects, ensuring compliance with Microsoft's requirements as outlined in the lease contract. The manager will act as Microsoft's Employer's Representative, coordinating with internal Subject Matter Experts and lease providers to achieve 'Ready for Service' status for each project. Key responsibilities include managing safety, stakeholder dependencies, vendor contracts, and ensuring alignment with regional business objectives and OKRs. The role requires strong communication, negotiation, and analytical skills, with a focus on driving safe, high-quality, and efficient project delivery in a fast-paced, technical environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role focuses on the engineering and maintenance of Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) within Microsoft's mission-critical datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring the availability, data quality, service, change management, reporting, and security of ICS systems, managing electrical and mechanical systems, and governing access to these systems. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves performing standard procedures for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning equipment in a data center environment. The technician will work under guidance, learn about security and data management, and contribute to issue tracking and team collaboration. The role requires adherence to safety and security protocols and meeting performance indicators. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers, ensuring service compliance, quality, and safety. This role involves coaching, performance management, and operational oversight of data center infrastructure supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Windows team, focusing on building and innovating Shell and Services Experiences for future Windows versions. The role involves influencing product vision, mentoring engineers, delivering high-quality results, and driving engineering excellence. Requires strong coding skills in C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, experience in modern app development (XAML/WinUI), and leadership in shipping large-scale software. | — | 0 |
| IT Technical Trainer This role is for an IT Technical Trainer on the Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) Learning team. The trainer will be responsible for technical training delivery, workforce training needs analysis, and procedural change management activities supporting datacenters. They will leverage technical and adult learning fundamentals to evaluate and report on training activities, and coach learners. The role involves delivering training on core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Materials Manager Senior Materials Manager role focused on global materials management and supply chain execution for Windows devices, ensuring material readiness, inventory optimization, and risk mitigation with contract manufacturers and global supply chain partners. Responsibilities include COS management, E&O management, inventory control, and continuous improvement of supplier capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Construction Manager Microsoft is seeking a Construction Manager to oversee the delivery of datacenter capacity for their cloud business. This role involves managing project execution across multiple sites, ensuring safety, quality, sustainability, schedule, and budget requirements are met. Responsibilities include project controls, program delivery, cross-functional collaboration, technical oversight, risk and safety leadership, vendor management, and executive reporting. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 5+ years of experience, with a preference for 12+ years and data center project experience. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager The Critical Environment Program Manager role at Microsoft focuses on the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment within datacenters, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. This role involves managing daily operations, preventative maintenance, project management, and ensuring compliance with infrastructure standards. It is not directly involved in AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineers Senior Software Engineers are needed to build innovative agentic and software-security solutions, including Microsoft MDASH. The role focuses on designing and building scalable backend services and data platforms that support high-impact security scenarios, bridging the gap between source code and runtime security. This is a new team focused on shaping the future of AI and security. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineers Principal Software Engineers are sought to build innovative agentic and software-security solutions, focusing on closing the gap between source code and runtime security. The role involves designing, building, and improving systems for software supply chain security, analyzing dependencies and vulnerabilities, applying program analysis techniques, and developing scalable cloud-based pipelines. Integration with developer tools like GitHub and Visual Studio is key, as is contributing to supply chain integrity practices. | — | 0 |
