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 24% 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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robot Learning) Develop, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models for robots to perceive, reason, and act in the physical world, focusing on vision-language-action (VLA) and similar models. This role involves the full robot learning stack, from data pipelines and model experimentation to large-scale training and real-world deployment on physical robots. | ShipData | 9 |
| Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI Principal Software Engineer to build and operate end-to-end multimodal generative AI systems for Azure Content Understanding, focusing on extracting insights from diverse data types. The role involves technical leadership, system design, quality improvement through evaluation, and collaboration with security and product teams. |
| 8 |
| Applied Scientist II and Senior: Microsoft AI Development Acceleration Program, Cambridge This role focuses on applying and implementing novel AI technologies into production for Microsoft's products and services, acting as a bridge between research and development. It involves selecting and applying ML techniques to large datasets, staying current with research, preparing data, and communicating results. The program offers mentorship and exposure to leaders, with opportunities to join product teams post-program. A PhD is preferred for advanced proficiency in scientific methodology and research. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| Senior Applied Scientist This role focuses on designing, training, and improving large-scale machine learning models for Bing Search relevance and ranking, leveraging LLMs for various understanding and summarization tasks. The goal is to deliver high-quality, low-latency search results at a global scale, involving end-to-end model development and optimization of multi-stage ranking stacks. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Senior Applied Scientist Senior Applied Scientist role focused on bringing state-of-the-art AI/ML research into production for Microsoft products and services. This involves identifying trends, developing research-backed solutions, bridging the gap between research and development, and leveraging data analysis for modeling. The role requires expertise in ML subareas and applying them to solve complex business problems, ultimately impacting Microsoft products. | Ship | 8 |
| Principal Applied Scientist Principal Applied Scientist Architect for the Core Recommendation Ranking team, focusing on integrating GenAI and agentic systems into large-scale content recommendation and ranking stacks for consumer-facing Microsoft surfaces. The role involves designing, implementing, and architecting advanced ML/DL models, including LLMs, for ranking, reranking, and retrieval, with a strong emphasis on production ML systems at scale and cross-team technical leadership. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and integrating customer-facing, high-performance, low-latency, and high-availability AI services within the Responsible AI group at Microsoft. The role involves AI-native development, coding, system design, and ensuring engineering excellence for AI services, with a strong emphasis on reliability, supportability, and compliance. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role focused on developing and deploying AI and cloud-based solutions for enterprise customers, working in a cross-functional team to address customer challenges and build innovative solutions. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer: Microsoft AI Development Acceleration Program, Redmond Software Engineer role within Microsoft's AI Development Acceleration Program (MAIDAP). This two-year program focuses on developing the next generation of AI leaders by having participants work in interdisciplinary teams to provide AI as a service to engineering teams across Microsoft. The role involves implementing cutting-edge AI technology, bridging research and development, and collaborating with product managers and applied scientists to drive innovation from theory into practice. The program aims to build AI solutions for Microsoft's products and services, with opportunities for patenting and publishing IP. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Security Researcher Senior Security Researcher focused on detecting and autonomously protecting against sophisticated enterprise identity-based attacks. The role involves novel attack-technique research, big-data analysis, identifying detection optics, and crafting detection/protection logic. It requires leveraging Generative AI tools to accelerate research stages like hypothesis generation, code prototyping, data triage, and detection authoring. The goal is to deliver identity protection against prevalent threats, from hypothesis to shipped detection and customer impact. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robot Security & Safety) This role focuses on designing and implementing security and safety architectures for Microsoft's robotics platform, which includes AI models and agentic workflows. The primary goal is to ensure robots operate safely and securely in real-world environments, bridging cybersecurity, functional safety, and AI safety. The role involves developing threat models, safety analyses, monitoring systems, and incident response capabilities, with a strong emphasis on compliance with industry standards and responsible AI deployment. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Field Robotics) This role focuses on planning, executing, and analyzing field tests of robotic systems in real-world environments to ensure reliability and performance. It bridges lab development and production readiness by deploying robots, designing test protocols, collecting data, diagnosing issues, and collaborating with engineering teams for continuous improvement. The role is part of Microsoft Robotics within the Discovery and Quantum division, building a platform for physical intelligence that integrates humans, robots, and AI agents. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist The Signals Modeling team builds core intelligence for predicting user interaction with ads, designing and training large-scale transformer models for ad ranking, pricing, and optimization. They own end-to-end ML systems, from data construction to deploying models that drive revenue and ROI in a massive ads ecosystem. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Consultant Apps - (AI + Full stack ) Senior Consultant role focused on designing and delivering end-to-end, industry-aligned, AI-powered cloud-native applications for enterprise customers. Combines full-stack engineering, applied AI, and Azure cloud expertise with a consulting mindset to drive business outcomes and digital transformation. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Software engineer Principal Software Engineer in the CoreAI organization at Microsoft, focusing on building and integrating Responsible AI services. The role involves developing customer-facing, high-performance, low-latency, and high-availability AI services, improving AI tools across the SDLC, and ensuring Responsible AI controls and engineering-health metrics are embedded. Responsibilities include coding, system design, driving engineering excellence, implementing AI features with guardrails, and ensuring reliability and supportability. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Windows Ecosystem & Commercial Engagements (WECE) team. The manager will lead a team of engineers to build features into Windows, leveraging AI-assisted engineering. The role requires experience in managing engineering teams and shipping LLM-based systems to production, with a focus on delivering value to hundreds of millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer II- (GCC‑High/DoD)- CTJ- Secret Backend Software Engineer II for Microsoft Viva Insights (Copilot Analytics), which empowers organizations by providing AI-powered insights to understand and accelerate Copilot and Agent adoption. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems using generative AI and ML techniques, with a focus on government cloud environments (GCC-High/DoD). Responsibilities include building and managing Azure infrastructure, collaborating across disciplines, and ensuring service reliability through strong engineering practices and observability. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role at Microsoft AI's Copilot Discover Engineering Team, focusing on the technical direction and long-range architecture of Copilot Discover. The role involves designing and driving systems for AI-forward discovery experiences, including content ingestion, enrichment, ranking, personalization, and serving across multiple surfaces. It emphasizes end-to-end responsibility, influencing platform direction, and ensuring system robustness, scalability, and privacy. The position requires shaping the adoption of AI/ML techniques and serving as a cross-organizational technical leader. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role focused on applying advanced analytics and data science to solve complex business problems for Microsoft's strategic customers. The role involves shaping data science strategy, defining reusable patterns, and leading technical direction across engagements, with a strong emphasis on business understanding, data preparation, modeling, and evaluation in a customer-facing consulting and engineering context. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack Engineering Manager Engineering Manager for Microsoft AI's Copilot product, focusing on full-stack development, team leadership, and shipping AI-powered experiences. The role involves hands-on coding, architectural guidance, and working across data sampling, collection, processing, analysis, and insights stages of the evaluation platform. Prompt engineering and extensive use of AI tools are also key aspects. | ShipData | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Responsible AI (CoreAI) Principal Software Engineer focused on building and integrating Responsible AI services, ensuring high availability, scalability, and low latency for customer-facing AI applications within Microsoft's CoreAI organization. This role involves end-to-end ownership of the development lifecycle, evaluating architectures, and upholding software engineering best practices. | ShipEval Gate | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer within Microsoft's Office of the CTO (OCTO) to build AI-based systems that accelerate the deployment of OpenAI technology across Microsoft. This role involves collaborating with key technical teams at Microsoft and OpenAI to create the technical foundation for their partnership, focusing on building and shipping robust AI products, leading system design, and ensuring production reliability, observability, and security. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Responsible AI (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and iterating on Responsible AI tools and capabilities to enable developers to build and deploy AI responsibly at scale. It involves prototyping, applying subject-matter expertise, and collaborating across product groups to drive project and release plans. The role emphasizes working in fast-paced, experimental environments and taking ideas from ambiguity to production. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft responsible for end-to-end delivery of strategic data science projects, partnering with customers and internal teams to design and implement advanced analytics and AI solutions that create measurable business impact. This role involves leading teams, engaging with stakeholders, applying machine learning, and integrating data models into customer systems, with a focus on Responsible AI principles. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Platform Engineer This role focuses on engineering user-facing AI features for Microsoft's personal AI, Copilot. The engineer will own the development lifecycle from inception to delivery, build secure and performant AI platform services, and collaborate with researchers and other engineers to create next-generation AI products. The role emphasizes shipping high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code within a fast-paced product development cycle. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product Engineer - Web This role focuses on building AI-powered web experiences for Microsoft Copilot, collaborating with researchers and product managers to deliver a world-class AI companion. The engineer will design and build efficient front-end systems and infrastructure for complex web applications, ensuring safety and reliability for millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Sr. Cloud Solution Architect - AI & Apps This role is for a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect focused on helping customers deploy AI-powered applications at scale on Azure. The architect will lead technical engagements across design, build, and operations, focusing on Azure AI, App Services, GitHub, and data platforms. Responsibilities include designing scalable solutions, leading POCs/MVPs, ensuring production readiness, and contributing to reusable IP. The role requires deep technical expertise in Azure and AI services, customer-facing experience, and the ability to drive adoption and deliver successful deployments. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Quantum focused on building a quantum software stack, SDKs, APIs, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The role involves applying software engineering and LLM best practices to create experiences for quantum algorithm developers and researchers, contributing to external-facing products for quantum computing. | Ship | 5 |
| Solution Engineering - PwD Opportunities Solution Engineer role focused on connecting Microsoft AI solutions (Copilot, Azure AI, Fabric) to customer business outcomes, supporting technical wins, simplifying architectures, and building customer confidence through engagements and prototyping. The role is part of an 'Ability Hiring Event' for candidates with disabilities. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Search Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver platform-level search and AI Platform capabilities for Windows. The role involves building the next-generation search that powers File Explorer, Universal Search, Copilot, and future LLM integrations, as well as the Windows AI Platform for developers. Responsibilities include designing and implementing core search components, driving technical deep-dives, owning end-to-end feature delivery, building observability infrastructure, and championing AI-assisted engineering practices. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of distributed data infrastructure, APIs, and personalization pipelines that drive Copilot's intelligence. The role focuses on building systems that power adaptive, context-aware experiences across Microsoft AI, making Copilot responsive to user preferences and workflows while ensuring privacy, security, performance, and scale. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Microsoft Shopping team, focusing on developing and optimizing distributed services and performance-optimized systems for AI/LLM-powered shopping experiences across Bing, MSN, and Edge. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving design, writing and optimizing code, and staying updated on new trends to improve product availability, reliability, and performance. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer - M365 Copilot Software Engineer role focused on the development and release of web client/services for Microsoft Copilot, enhancing customer experiences. The role involves designing resilient, scalable systems powered by AI infrastructure and fostering a data-driven approach. It requires experience building applications and services with AI infrastructure, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and performance. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team focused on securing non-human communication and authenticating billions of transactions per hour. The team builds and operates services that power Azure infrastructure, customer workloads, and AI agents, with a strong emphasis on security, resilience, and reliability. The manager will lead, grow, and coach engineers, set technical and product direction, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous growth, particularly in AI-first engineering practices. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Data Scientist This role is for a Principal Data Scientist on the Microsoft AI (MAI) team, focusing on business analytics for MSN and Copilot Discover. The role involves analyzing user engagement, content, advertising, and monetization to drive business insights and strategy. A key responsibility is leveraging AI/ML to enhance these processes, build forecasting models, and support AI-powered consumer experiences. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior System Software Engineer - WSD Senior Software Engineer on the Update Platform team responsible for delivering Windows software updates. The role involves designing and implementing features for update discovery, installation, and lifecycle, with a focus on integrating ML/AI models and preparing for Agentic AI and AI Orchestration. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineering This role is for a Senior Software Engineer focused on building AI-infused enterprise applications, Agentic Solutions, and Copilots within Microsoft's Commercial Sales Experiences (CSX) team. The engineer will lead the full software development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment, emphasizing engineering best practices, scalability, and security. The role involves leveraging AI technologies and Azure PaaS services to enhance user experience and productivity, contributing to Microsoft's Cloud and AI strategy. | ShipAgent | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role in the Bing organization focused on predictive and forecast models, product analysis, and A/B experimentation to understand user engagement with search engines and AI experiences. The role involves translating insights into actionable metrics to guide product and strategic decisions, and developing tools for metric analysis. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Service Engineer Senior Service Engineer role focused on administering and governing Microsoft 365 and AI administration surfaces, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, across multiple internal tenants. The role involves defining configurations, driving automation and policy as code for baselines and drift detection, and responding to AI plane risks at scale. It requires a strong security mindset and collaboration with software engineers. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and operating distributed services and microservices on Azure, integrating AI capabilities like NLP, semantic search, and intelligent agents. The role involves end-to-end feature ownership, platform contributions, and ensuring performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Experience with AI development tools, LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks is preferred. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI This role is a Cloud Solution Architect focused on AI and Azure workloads. The primary responsibility is to guide enterprise customers in their AI transformation journey, advising on architecture design, deployment, and scaling of AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role involves building trusted relationships with executives, driving technical excellence, and accelerating Azure consumption for AI initiatives. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Native Senior Software Engineer to create innovative machine learning-powered features across Windows and other Microsoft products, focusing on native code development for OS, platform layers, app experiences, and service integrations. The role involves rapid prototyping, human-centered development, and shipping features used by billions. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal, Data Science & Analytics This role focuses on ecosystem data science within Microsoft AI, owning cross-product measurement strategy, shared systems, and experimentation frameworks. The principal will apply machine learning, statistical modeling, and experimentation to large datasets to define and deliver metrics that measure user and business value across products. Responsibilities include mentoring, developing data strategies, designing and executing experiments, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and establishing standards for data quality and operationalizing ML models. The role aims to optimize MAI-level outcomes and drive data-driven decision-making. | Ship | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager, Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) / SWE Manager for an Industry Solutions Engineering team focused on delivering customer outcomes using AI and cloud technologies. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team, coaching engineers, and championing AI-forward practices to build customer solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager, Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) / TPM This role leads a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on developing and delivering high-impact customer outcomes using AI-forward hypervelocity engineering. The team will apply responsible AI practices and integrate emerging AI capabilities into customer solutions, acting as a player-coach and enabling technical program managers. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Technology Consultant-CTJ-Poly This role focuses on designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud architectures, specifically leveraging Azure AI services and generative AI solution patterns. The consultant will guide customers on secure, compliant, and responsible AI adoption, including integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, and advise on adoption, governance, and value realization. The role involves customer engagement, technical quality assurance, leading meetings, managing escalations, and driving the adoption of Microsoft cloud technologies. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineering - DevDiv Core AI Software Engineer in Microsoft's DevDiv division focused on integrating AI into developer tools to enhance productivity. The role involves designing and developing software components, leveraging AI technologies like GitHub Copilot and LLM-based code tools, dogfooding internal AI tools, and researching/experimenting with AI techniques to improve engineering workflows. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Consultant - Data & AI This role is for a Principal Consultant within Microsoft's Industry Solutions - Global Center Innovation and Delivery Center (GCID). The primary focus is on leading the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, embedding AI-native thinking into delivery models, and ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes. The role involves driving engineering excellence, innovation, client engagement, and team mentorship, with a strong emphasis on delivering AI-powered solutions that achieve specific business KPIs. | Ship | 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 |