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 |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Sciences INTERN Internship role focused on analyzing and improving advanced algorithms, implementing AI prototypes, and preparing data for machine learning purposes. The role involves working with large-scale datasets and contributing to the creation of intelligent solutions. | Data | 7 |
| Principal Researcher, Office Product Group Principal Researcher role within the Office Product Group at Microsoft, focusing on advancing AI-powered experiences embedded in Microsoft 365 applications. The role involves designing, developing, evaluating, and deploying AI systems that can reason and act across tools and documents, with a strong emphasis on scaling these capabilities to a large user base. Key responsibilities include developing frameworks for AI component coordination, improving code generation, implementing fine-tuning and post-training for LLMs, designing evaluation strategies for real-world workflows, and collaborating to translate research into production-ready features. |
| 7 |
| Applied Science: Microsoft AI Internship Opportunities - Redmond This internship focuses on applying AI/ML expertise to real-world product scenarios within Microsoft's AI Content and Commerce, Search Fundamentals, and Search Place teams. Interns will work on problems in search, personalization, NLP, computer vision, and recommendation systems, translating research into production-ready solutions for products like Copilot. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal Applied Scientist This role focuses on building intelligence for the advertising marketplace, understanding user behavior, measuring impact, and optimizing outcomes. It involves developing large-scale learning systems for intent inference and causal effects from noisy data, influencing ranking, bidding, pricing, and budget allocation. The role requires defining and driving the scientific and technical strategy for data-driven attribution and causal measurement, establishing methodologies for incrementality estimation, counterfactual learning, and bias correction, and leading the production adoption of relevant frameworks. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in causal inference and a track record of delivering measurable business impact with ML systems. | Ship | 7 |
| Research Intern - Intelligent Quantum Systems Architecture Research Intern role focused on exploring the intersection of quantum applications and quantum system architecture using AI-driven methods and machine learning for advanced resource estimation. The goal is to co-design more efficient quantum systems aligned with real-world application workloads, from application intent to hardware realization. | Data | 7 |
| Applied Sciences PhD This role focuses on advancing the state-of-the-art in AI/ML research and driving innovation from theory into reality by blending research and development techniques. The individual will work on the design, development, execution, and implementation of technology research projects, with a focus on technology transfer into products and services. The role requires a PhD student in a related field and involves understanding research literature, preparing data for analysis, and contributing to patents and white papers. | Post-train | 7 |
| Principal Researcher - Systems & Networking - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher in Systems and Networking with a focus on AI-driven methods for systems innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research focused on advancing cloud and AI infrastructure architecture, and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, designing and optimizing hardware components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate intelligent systems across computing layers. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Sciences INTERN Research intern to conduct research and lead collaborations on incorporating AI capabilities into Azure SQL Database platform. Focus on advancing state-of-the-art in machine intelligence and machine learning applications, implementing prototypes, and developing solutions for large-scale problems. Experience with LLMs and ML techniques is preferred. | Post-trainServe | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Security - Microsoft Research This role focuses on researching and developing next-generation intrusion detection systems by leveraging large-scale security event logs and applying advanced data processing and machine learning techniques. The goal is to achieve accurate and rapid detection of sophisticated attacks. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Research Intern - Human-AI Interaction Research and Design (Health AI) Research Intern position focused on Human-AI Interaction in Healthcare, applying AI/ML and user-centered design to develop novel solutions for precision medicine. The role involves foundational discovery research, building interactive prototypes, and exploring generative UI and multimodal AI with clinical data. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - AI and Systems Reliability - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on AI and Systems Reliability. The role involves defining a novel research agenda in areas like distributed systems, formal methods, ML for system reliability, and reliability of ML systems, with the goal of bringing formal rigor and reliability guarantees to AI-powered platforms. | Post-train | 7 |
| Research Intern - Office of the Chief Scientific Officer Research Intern position at Microsoft's Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, focusing on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible AI. The role involves collaborating with world-class researchers on complex challenges in diverse fields, including AI, biology, biomedicine, and the societal influences of AI. Interns will contribute to research and development strides, present findings, and potentially publish peer-reviewed work. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Inclusive Futures Team Research Intern position at Microsoft Research's Inclusive Futures group, focusing on needs-focused research for underserved individuals. Requires a PhD student in a relevant STEM field with experience in HCI, AI, Accessibility, or related areas. The role involves conducting original research, collaborating with researchers, and potentially publishing findings. | Post-train | 7 |
| Research Intern - Technology for Religious Empowerment Research Intern position focusing on adapting and designing AI systems for religious communities, involving model evaluations, product design, and responsible AI practices. The role requires a PhD student in a STEM field with an interest in religion and experience with emerging technologies like Generative AI and Agentic Systems. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Systems and Networking, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Systems and Networking at Microsoft Research, focusing on AI-driven methods for system innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing and implementing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. Requires a Doctorate and background in systems/networking with knowledge of ML systems, databases, and networking technologies, including Agent Systems and Vector Databases. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Cloud and AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Research, focusing on advancing AI infrastructure architecture and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, optimizing components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex real-world challenges at the intersection of AI, human interaction, and environmental context. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Hardware Research Intern role focused on AI Hardware, specifically researching chip architectures for efficient AI serving and inference systems. Collaborates with researchers to increase performance and efficiency of cutting-edge inference systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Azure Research - Systems Research Intern role focused on next-generation cloud and AI systems, with a focus on improving efficiency, reliability, and usability of Microsoft's online services and datacenters. Projects include efficient GPU/LLM deployments, AIOps, and serverless computing. The role involves research, prototyping, evaluation, and potential publication. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Gray Systems Lab (GSL) Research intern role focusing on machine learning for systems, reinforcement learning, natural language-to-query, and agentic workflows within Azure Data's Gray Systems Lab. The internship involves research and development for databases, big-data, and cloud systems, with potential impact on production systems and publications. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Software-Hardware Co-design Research intern role focused on pioneering technologies for AI/ML workloads, specifically improving efficiency, security, and robustness of GPU memory systems, agentic AI systems, and software architecture for hardware accelerators. The role involves fast-paced execution, implementation, and evaluation on Azure platforms, with a focus on systems and AI. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Reliability of Cloud and AI Systems Research intern role focused on applying LLM and Agentic technology to improve the reliability of large-scale cloud and AI systems. The role involves analyzing production data, designing and building novel tools for monitoring and troubleshooting, and validating solutions on real Microsoft services. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Research Intern - RiSE group Research Intern role in the RiSE group focusing on ML Systems, AI workloads, agentic workflows, and ML models for software engineering tasks. Requires PhD program enrollment and expertise in related STEM fields, with preferred qualifications in ML systems, AI, and software engineering. | Data | 7 |
| Data Science INTERN Internship role focused on applying machine learning, statistics, and data exploration techniques to solve problems and improve products, with a focus on generating business impact and customer insights. The role involves formulating approaches, interpreting results, and collaborating with stakeholders. | Data | 5 |
| Principal Quantum Materials Engineer This role focuses on leading the development of superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures for quantum computing. While the role operates in an AI-first R&D environment and uses AI tools for discovery and optimization, its core craft is in quantum materials engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Researcher - Research in Software Engineering - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on advancing software engineering through rigorous research, integrating AI and agent technologies into programming languages, testing, and automated reasoning. The role involves driving high-impact research, developing new ideas, building state-of-the-art systems, and preparing technical papers and presentations. | Ship | 5 |
| Research Intern - Azure Storage Research intern role focused on optimizing storage systems for AI workloads, including training, checkpointing, and inferencing. The role involves working with leading-edge AI customers to gain insights into their needs. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Researcher - Data Systems - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Data Systems at Microsoft Research focusing on query execution, data storage, resource management, data discovery, and data preparation. Special interest in leveraging AI/ML for data management challenges. Past research has influenced products like SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Requires a Doctorate or equivalent experience and a track record of research accomplishments, including major conference publications. | Data | 5 |
| Research Intern - Office of the Chief Scientific Officer This is a Research Intern position within Microsoft's Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, focusing on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible AI. The intern will collaborate with researchers on various projects, contributing to research and development strides in areas like AI, biology, and responsible AI, with a focus on societal influences. | Data | 5 |
| Research Intern - Computational Social Science Research Intern position focused on computational social science, exploring the impact of AI-based tools at individual and societal levels. This includes research on AI-augmented human cognition, decision-making, and the economics of agentic markets. The role involves leveraging digital data and designing experiments to understand human behavior and the implications of AI. | Agent | 5 |
| Research Intern - AI Network Observability Research intern to design and develop tools for AI datacenter network observability, focusing on high-performance tracing and analysis systems for packet-level behavior at high speeds. The role involves prototyping solutions on real hardware and collaborating with engineers to improve reliability and explainability of AI intra-datacenter networking. | — | 5 |
| Senior Xbox Researcher Senior Xbox Researcher focused on generating consumer insights for game and entertainment experiences, using a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods. The role partners with design and development teams throughout the product lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Senior Opto-Electronics Engineer This role focuses on the co-design of optical and electronic systems for next-generation AI infrastructure, specifically developing scalable, power-efficient connectivity solutions with a focus on co-packaged optics and advanced optical I/O technologies. The role involves designing and simulating optoelectronic systems, integrated circuits, and interfaces, bridging research and production. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Research - MSTIC Threat Intelligence This role is for a Senior Security Research position focused on threat intelligence within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization. The primary responsibility is to track and analyze sophisticated threat actors, translate intelligence into actionable outcomes to improve Microsoft's security products and defenses, and collaborate with internal and external teams to protect Microsoft assets and customer environments. The role requires deep technical expertise and analytic tradecraft for end-to-end investigations, detection, hunting, and disruption efforts. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Materials MBE Engineer This role focuses on developing and optimizing MBE growth processes for semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures for quantum computing. It involves advanced heterostructure growth, materials-device feedback, tooling and diagnostics, cross-functional collaboration, and applying AI/ML tools to improve experiment planning and analysis. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Applications Architect - Cryptography This role focuses on developing quantum algorithms for cryptography and simulation, designing quantum cryptographic schemes, and optimizing quantum system architectures. It involves mathematical research and experimentation for new quantum algorithms, with a focus on fault-tolerant quantum computers and hybrid quantum-classical workflows. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Applied Power Systems Analysis Research Intern role focused on applied studies of power system behavior under extreme conditions, analyzing system responses, assessing operational risk, and studying the impact of external drivers on grid reliability using existing models. This is an application-focused role involving simulations and data analysis. | — | 0 |
| Applied Science Intern Applied Science Intern position at Microsoft in London, England. | — | 0 |
| Applied Science Intern Applied Science Intern position at Microsoft in London, England. | — | 0 |
| Applied Sciences Internship Internship role at Microsoft in Zurich, focusing on Applied Sciences. The posting emphasizes Microsoft's commitment to equal opportunity employment and provides information on requesting accommodations. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Error Correction Researcher Researcher focused on Quantum Error Correction for scalable quantum computing systems, collaborating with theorists and experimentalists to advance fault-tolerance strategies and quantum error correction codes. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Quantum Error Correction Research intern position focused on quantum error correction and fault-tolerance for building scalable quantum computers. Involves developing codes, fault-tolerant operations, decoding algorithms, and theoretical/software tools. Requires a PhD in a related STEM field and experience in quantum error correction. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Data Center and AI Networking Research intern to work on network transport features and telemetry systems for data center and AI networking environments. Focus on congestion control, load balancing, multipath transport, and network reliability. Involves prototyping on hardware, simulation, and collaboration with researchers. | — | 0 |