Currently tracking 250 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 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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| Technical Support Engineering Manager This role is for a Technical Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers who resolve complex customer technical issues related to Business Applications. The role involves people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback, and business integration for effective collaboration. While the company and its products leverage AI, this specific role focuses on managing the support and resolution process for customers, not on building or directly developing AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Sr Technology Consultant-CTJ-Poly This role is for a Sr. Technology Consultant focused on helping customers adopt and optimize Microsoft technology solutions, including cloud and security. The consultant will engage with customers to understand requirements, communicate business value, identify risks, and collaborate with internal teams to shape deals and drive adoption. The role emphasizes leveraging existing intellectual property and providing feedback for continuous improvement. |
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| Construction Project Management This role is for a Construction Project Manager responsible for overseeing the planning, compliance, and progress of Early Works General Contractors for datacenter construction projects. The role involves directing day-to-day field activities, managing vendor relationships, driving risk mitigation, and ensuring on-time delivery of complex global construction projects. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer Electrical Engineer role focused on the design, testing, and verification of electrical systems for Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure, supporting services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. The role involves developing designs, creating documentation, implementing solutions, and ensuring quality metrics for hardware components within a critical environment. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, focusing on hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Responsibilities include managing technician performance, monitoring KPIs and SLAs, providing training, and ensuring safety and operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves developing an understanding of standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacing, and/or decommissioning equipment in a data center environment, under the guidance of more experienced colleagues. It focuses on core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment (CE) Technical Trainer Microsoft is seeking a Critical Environment (CE) Technical Trainer to join their Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) Learning team. This role involves establishing technical training delivery, conducting workforce training needs analysis, and participating in procedural change management activities for datacenters. The trainer will leverage technical and adult learning fundamentals to evaluate and report on training activities, and coach learners in their career growth. The role is primarily on-site in a datacenter with limited remote work. Responsibilities include aligning learning preparation with success metrics, building awareness of new features and technologies, delivering training (in-person or virtual), using digitally enhanced instructor-led resources, applying classroom management techniques, and creating a supportive learning environment. Required qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree and 2+ years of experience in training, critical environments, cloud systems, or datacenter environments, along with proficiency in Brazilian Portuguese and advanced English. A Microsoft Cloud Background Check is mandatory. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to lead architecture and technical strategy for Azure Key Management and HSM platform capabilities, focusing on scalable, secure, and reliable services, including advancing post-quantum cryptography readiness for regulated and mission-critical workloads. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly Senior Software Engineer to support a portfolio of products within the Azure cloud, involving the complete end-to-end lifecycles of product development and operations. The role requires independent use of AI tools and practices within the SDLC, code reviews, debugging, incident retrospectives, and leading by example in producing high-quality code. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of experience and an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Ops Technician This role involves maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on equipment maintenance, safety procedures, and operational monitoring. It is not directly AI/ML related. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory management, delivery coordination, and asset management within Microsoft's data centers. This role involves cycle audits, handling incoming/outgoing deliveries, managing warranty claims, and ensuring accurate physical inventory tracking. It requires adherence to security and data management policies, and potentially involves destruction of data-bearing devices. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in 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 Data Center Technician This role involves performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of network and server equipment in a data center environment. It requires providing guidance to other technicians, ensuring quality execution, and maintaining awareness of KPIs. The role is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, supporting core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Electrical Engineer - Systems Integration Seeking an Electrical Engineer to contribute to the design, simulation, and validation of RF and electronic components for a scalable quantum computing system. The role involves hands-on system integration in a research hardware environment, including developing measurement and analysis workflows, supporting hardware bring-up, and troubleshooting system performance. Requires experience in electrical engineering design, RF/EM/circuit simulation, measurements, and programming (Python). | — | 0 |
| Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, focusing on hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Responsibilities include managing technician performance, monitoring KPIs and SLAs, providing training, and ensuring safety and operational excellence. | — | 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, and monitor equipment performance. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory management, delivery coordination, and asset management within Microsoft's data centers. Responsibilities include cycle audits, managing incoming/outgoing deliveries, coordinating vendor escorts, documenting shipments, processing warranty claims, and ensuring accurate inventory tracking. The role requires adherence to security and data management policies, and involves the destruction of data-bearing devices. | — | 0 |
| Principal Group Engineering Manager Lead a team responsible for foundational systems and services that power GitHub’s internal engineering and development workflows, focusing on improving how GitHub engineering teams build, test, and ship software across the company. This includes CI/CD platforms, developer tooling, virtualized infrastructure, and paved paths. The role involves people leadership, technical depth, and operational ownership impacting daily developer experience and product quality for millions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Engineer Senior Data Engineer for the Product Engineering Partnership pillar, focusing on telemetry, instrumentation, semantic modeling, experimentation, feedback pipelines, catalog management, external reporting, and analytics for Global Skilling products. This role involves technical leadership, owning telemetry contracts, building the experimentation data backbone, and ensuring insights flow back to product teams. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly This role is for a Sr. Software Engineer on the Microsoft Defender engineering team, focusing on building and delivering cloud security solutions for government environments. The role involves DevOps responsibilities, ensuring service stability, performance, and scalability in complex cloud infrastructures. It requires strong collaboration skills and participation in an on-call rotation within a secure facility. | — | 0 |
| Senior Accounting Manager- Lease Accounting This role is for a Senior Accounting Manager focused on Lease Accounting within Microsoft's Corporate Accounting organization. The primary responsibilities include reviewing lease contracts, preparing accounting records, drafting financial statement disclosures, and supporting audits for the worldwide office portfolio. The role also involves contributing to process improvement efforts by identifying and evaluating AI and technology solutions to automate or enhance internal processes, and performing gap analysis for SOX compliance. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, asset tracking, deliveries, and coordinating with vendors for hardware returns and warranty claims. It involves cycle audits, documentation, and ensuring compliance with security and data management policies. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineer Manager This role is for a Senior Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers to resolve complex customer technical issues. The role involves people management, 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 role operates within an organization that leverages AI technology and aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers, the core responsibilities are focused on technical support management and team leadership, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineer, Microsoft 365 - Exchange / Skype & Teams / SharePoint (Korean Speaker) This role provides technical support for Microsoft 365 products, specifically Exchange, Teams, Skype, and SharePoint, to Korean customers from Japan. It involves troubleshooting, resolving technical issues, collaborating with teams, and contributing to product improvements. The role requires shift work and on-call support, with fluency in Korean, English, and Japanese. | — | 0 |
| Regional Infrastructure Director Microsoft is seeking a Regional Infrastructure Director in Dublin, Ireland, to oversee the delivery of data center projects. This role involves managing construction, integration, and fit-out activities, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring timely handover to operations teams. The position requires strong project management skills, experience in data center design and operations, and a focus on network infrastructure and lease management. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Data Center, focusing on inventory management, delivery coordination, security escorts, and documentation of inbound/outbound shipments. It involves adhering to safety protocols, managing tactical shifts, handling customer service aspects of inventory, and managing warranty processes and data-bearing device destruction. | — | 0 |
| Cryogenic Engineer This role is for a Cryogenic Engineer at Microsoft Quantum, focusing on the upgrade, maintenance, and lifecycle management of dilution refrigerators and cryogenic systems for a scalable quantum computing system. The engineer will lead technical operations, coordinate stakeholders, and ensure system reliability and performance in a multi-site experimental environment. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Security Engineer Microsoft is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer in Australia to implement and operate cybersecurity controls for their cloud infrastructure, focusing on defending datacenters and critical infrastructure from threat actors. The role involves working with security platforms, cloud services, Azure environments, and SIEM tools, as well as conducting incident investigations and developing automation workflows. The position requires experience in cloud security engineering, SIEM, threat detection, and incident response, with a preference for Azure expertise and Infrastructure as Code or scripting skills. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Project Manager- Compliance Project Manager for Datacenter Compliance at Microsoft, responsible for operationalizing strategic initiatives, managing financial planning, and overseeing audit and compliance programs. The role involves driving compliance accountability, implementing strategies, executing controls, and ensuring adherence to standards and regulations within datacenter operations. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of mission-critical electrical systems in data center environments. The engineer will act as a Subject Matter Expert, ensuring reliability, safety, and operational excellence, and will be involved in technical project implementation and continuous improvement initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician responsible for physical operations in Microsoft's data centers, including receiving, staging, packing, shipping equipment, inventory management, and supervising server rack deliveries. The role also involves destroying storage media and improving site safety and efficiency. It requires business-level Japanese and English, basic computer skills, and the ability to perform physical labor. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Manager- Windows Serving & Delivery Principal Software Engineering Manager for Windows Serving & Delivery team, focusing on leading engineers to improve the reliability, performance, and customer experience of Windows client, Windows Update, and Windows reliability for commercial and enterprise customers. Responsibilities include people leadership, technical direction, operational quality, and coordinating responses to live-site issues. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Operations - Day Shift This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, enforcing safety and security requirements, and developing operating procedures. The role focuses on ensuring the safe and reliable operation of datacenter facilities. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer responsible for managing and maintaining electrical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. The engineer will act as a technical expert, oversee operations, work with commissioning teams, and ensure safety and compliance. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of experience or equivalent. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the electrical infrastructure of datacenters that power Microsoft's cloud services. The engineer will be involved in design, testing, verification, and implementation of electrical systems within these critical environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Supply Chain Planning This role is for a Senior Supply Chain Planner within Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain organization. The primary focus is on managing supply chain operations, supplier relationships, and leading process improvement initiatives, including those related to AI. The role involves end-to-end supply planning, risk mitigation, and cross-functional execution to ensure the reliable delivery of hardware infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud and AI services. While AI is mentioned as an area for improvement and a component of the services supported, the core function of the role is supply chain management, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in Microsoft's data centers. It focuses on core infrastructure operations and standard procedures, with opportunities for skill development and career growth within cloud operations. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on automating the onboarding and management of new hardware for Microsoft's datacenters, supporting Azure, HPC, Office, and Edge Computing products. The role involves understanding requirements, designing, and implementing features to validate, manage, and track hardware throughout its lifecycle, ensuring quality and security. It operates at the intersection of software and hardware, aiming to accelerate the adoption of new technologies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Package & Motherboard Engineer Seeking a Senior Quantum Package & Motherboard Engineer to adapt industry-standard packaging and motherboard design processes for cryogenic/quantum devices, collaborating with a global team to assemble and scale complex quantum hardware. This role involves designing PCB layouts, simulating components, owning the signaling chain from room temperature to cryogenic temperatures, and improving electrical and PCB development processes. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer to build and improve detection, OS event monitoring, telemetry, and reporting in the on-device agent for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) on macOS. This role involves developing native components to detect and respond to endpoint threats, focusing on reliability, performance, and operational health within the macOS security model. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician (Shifts) This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure of Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring equipment performance, performing maintenance and repairs, responding to onsite incidents, and ensuring safety and security requirements are met. The role requires experience in mission-critical services and the ability to work shifts. | — | 0 |
| CE Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Program Manager (CEPM) responsible for the operational excellence of critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. The role involves ensuring service continuity, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement in safety, reliability, and efficiency. It requires experience in data center operations or similar critical environment settings and focuses on maintaining uptime and reliability of critical systems through proactive monitoring and maintenance oversight. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician who will learn standard processes for equipment installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning under guidance. The technician will gain understanding of the data center environment, security, and data management procedures, contributing to the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security requirements are met. The role involves working with facility equipment like HVAC and mechanical systems, using a CMMS, and following operating procedures. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer - Red Team Senior Security Engineer for Microsoft's Red Team (MRT) focused on identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in Azure and other Microsoft services. The role involves emulating advanced persistent threats, leading operations, advocating for security changes, analyzing data, prototyping tools, and collaborating with Blue Teams to improve defenses. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Apprentice - Paris / Apprenti Technicien en Environnement Critique This is an apprentice role for a Critical Environment Technician at Microsoft's datacenters in Paris. The role involves supporting the infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services (Azure, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive). Responsibilities include performing basic operational tasks, learning to operate critical systems, monitoring facility equipment, using a maintenance management system, assisting with emergency response, supporting incident investigations, participating in maintenance activities, and contributing to procedure development. The role requires ongoing technical study (Bac+2 or Bac+3) and has specific background check requirements. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Infra This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Azure Infrastructure, enabling customers to achieve their outcomes by leveraging Microsoft's technology. The role involves developing customer relationships, providing technical expertise on Azure Infrastructure services for AI solutions, and architecting cloud solutions using frameworks like CAF and WAF. The goal is to help customers adopt Azure for AI innovation and ensure they get value from their investments. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer, Data Center (On-Site) This role is for an Electrical Engineer focused on data center operations and infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. Responsibilities include design, testing, verification, and technical project implementation of electrical systems within datacenters. The role emphasizes collaboration, adherence to industry trends, and contributing to a sustainable and inclusive work environment. | — | 0 |
| Lease Commissioning Manager Manages the end-to-end delivery of new data center capacity for Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) organization, focusing on the commissioning process for lease projects in the Chicago, IL region. Responsibilities include managing commissioning agents, ensuring compliance with Microsoft standards, overseeing construction site inspections, and reporting on project progress, scope, schedule, and budget. | — | 0 |
| Lease Commissioning Manager Microsoft is seeking a Lease Commissioning Manager to oversee the end-to-end delivery of new data center capacity. This role involves managing commissioning projects in the Abilene, TX region, ensuring compliance with Microsoft's standards, and coordinating with various internal and external teams including architects, engineers, construction managers, and operations. The manager will be responsible for scope, schedule, and budget, driving best practices, and reporting on project progress. | — | 0 |