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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer This role focuses on managing and developing the core platform and fleet of AI High Performance Computing products for Microsoft Azure. The engineer will design and develop high-volume, low-latency telemetry pipelines to provide insights into customer-facing issues across the infrastructure stack, from datacenter events to hardware and networking subsystems. The goal is to improve job reliability and reduce job interrupts on flagship supercomputers used by top-tier AI customers. The role requires expertise in large-scale HPC & GPU systems, cloud computing, and high-performance data processing infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Multimedia offerings in the Search organization, focusing on driving improvements to existing experiences and identifying future opportunities. The role involves using qualitative and quantitative data analysis, working with cross-functional teams, and defining roadmaps for scalable products that leverage advanced ML technologies. | — |
| 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer- CTJ - Poly Senior Software Engineer to deliver secure, scalable, and mission critical AI infrastructure for Microsoft’s sensitive cloud environments, focusing on foundational services for Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft Foundry. The role involves building and operating AI native full stack systems, leveraging modern tooling and AI systems to accelerate development and enhance product quality within air gapped, sovereign, and commercial clouds. | Serve | 5 |
| Director, Product Marketing Director of Product Marketing for M365 Copilot Inbound team, responsible for defining strategy, narrative, and go-to-market for Copilot-first experiences that drive adoption and daily usage. This role involves shaping product direction, crafting compelling narratives, and coordinating across various teams (Product Management, Engineering, Sales, etc.) to ensure successful launch and sustained growth of AI-driven productivity tools within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Backend Engineer Backend Engineer for Microsoft Copilot, focusing on building and scaling the core backend platform including Orchestrator, Inference, and APIs to power AI-driven consumer experiences. The role involves developing secure, performant APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and shipping high-quality code in a fast-paced environment. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Director of Marketing Measurement Strategy & Implementation The Director of Marketing Measurement Strategy & Implementation is responsible for developing and operationalizing marketing measurement as a core strategic capability that drives marketing’s direction and investment decisions. This role defines how Marketing not only understands impact but also implements measurement systems that connect marketing activities to tangible business outcomes. The role leverages AI-driven measurement tools and privacy-first approaches to build scalable data pipelines and reporting infrastructure, translating complex insights into executive-ready recommendations. | — | 5 |
| Japan AI Transformation Area Integrated Marketer - Field Integrated Marketing This role focuses on marketing and positioning Microsoft as an AI Transformation Partner in Japan. It involves developing AI transformation narratives, leading cross-solution marketing orchestration, driving demand, and building thought leadership through AI-focused storytelling. The role aims to influence go-to-market strategy and accelerate demand by leveraging AI messaging. | — | 5 |
| Network Engineer II This role focuses on designing, building, and managing cutting-edge networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The Network Engineer will ensure high performance, low latency, and minimal jitter for distributed AI workloads, working with diverse network architectures and processor/accelerator technologies to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end solution with a focus on performance, scalability, and observability. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer The Principal Software Engineer role on the Azure Data engineering team focuses on building and optimizing big data analytics services, specifically within the Microsoft Fabric Spark team. The role involves pushing the frontiers of analytics performance and scale by working with open-source technologies like Spark, Gluten, Velox, and Delta, as well as proprietary Microsoft services. The goal is to improve onboarding and tuning of workloads, requiring an AI-forward approach to deliver impact at Azure scale. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, and operating data services, mentoring engineers, and participating in live site operations. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Fabric Data & Telemetry team, responsible for building and maintaining telemetry instrumentation services and pipelines, developing tools for metadata management, and creating job monitoring and notification services for data pipelines. The role focuses on providing high-quality data for running the service and business, supporting pillars like live-site monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics for product development, and ensuring customers have data for their own observability needs. The team applies classic cloud and software engineering practices alongside big data-engineering and analytical practices. | Data | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists - Global Black Belt This role is a Solution Area Specialist, a high-level seller focused on guiding customers through AI-led business transformations using Microsoft's AI Business Process portfolio, particularly Power Platform. The role involves understanding customer needs, envisioning AI solutions, executing the sales process, and orchestrating virtual pursuit teams. It emphasizes driving profitability and achieving AI transformation wins. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Microsoft Advertising Senior Data Scientist role within Microsoft Advertising focused on defining and delivering metrics, experimental design, and product iteration to improve user and business value. The role involves partnering with engineering and product teams to solve complex data science problems and influence product improvements through data-driven insights and workflows. | — | 5 |
| Principal Architect-UI Platforms This role focuses on evolving the Windows UI platform (WinUI) to be AI-native, enabling AI agents to author, refactor, and optimize UI code. It involves designing semantic models, stable abstractions, and predictable composition patterns for AI consumption, as well as facilitating migration and adoption through AI-assisted tooling. The goal is to create a declarative, dynamic UI foundation that supports personalization and agent-driven mutation, making it easier for web and SwiftUI developers to adopt and future-proofing for AI-generated code. | Agent | 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 |
| 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 |
| Principal Computer Aided Design Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating components for analog electronic devices, specifically within the Microsoft Quantum team. The engineer will define design approaches, technical specifications, and test requirements, leveraging industry-standard electronic design automation and electromagnetic simulation toolsets. A key aspect involves developing and refining process-design-kit (PDK) requirements for superconducting circuit technologies and collaborating with various teams to codesign for performance, scalability, and reliability. The role also includes leading the design and layout of superconducting cryogenic control and readout circuits and establishing physical-design, layout, and verification workflows. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools to accelerate discovery and drive innovation, the core craft is hardware engineering for quantum computing, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and scaling AI-powered growth systems for Microsoft's core AI products like GitHub Copilot and VS Code. The engineer will design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments, improve A/B testing frameworks, and use data to drive decisions, aiming to accelerate user adoption and engagement with AI features. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Microsoft Azure Data engineering team, focusing on designing and building internal tools, engineering systems, and automation capabilities to enhance the quality and reliability of Power BI Desktop and Service. The role involves end-to-end tool development, including architecture, backend services, dashboards, telemetry integration, and AI-powered workflows, with a focus on integrating GenAI into developer workflows and modernizing engineering processes. | Data | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) Principal Software Engineer focused on building AI-first growth and experimentation systems for Microsoft's CoreAI organization, which powers products like GitHub Copilot. The role involves architecting and implementing foundational engineering systems for measuring, experimenting with, and scaling AI experiences across Microsoft products, with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence, reliability, and driving measurable business outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Data & Analytics - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on building and owning end-to-end technical vision and execution for infrastructure analytics within Microsoft AI. The primary responsibility is to turn raw telemetry into trusted insights on utilization, capacity, readiness, and efficiency, supporting leadership in making informed investment and planning decisions at scale. The role involves designing and building scalable data pipelines, defining core metrics, architecting self-service dashboards and APIs, and ensuring data quality and governance. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Security / Global Solutions This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Security, focusing on driving customer transformation using Microsoft's security solutions like Purview Data Security, Sentinel, and Defender XDR. The role involves owning the technical relationship with enterprise customers, designing and implementing security architectures, and ensuring successful customer outcomes. It requires deep technical expertise in security, foundational AI, and cloud technologies, with a focus on Zero Trust, threat management, and SOC monitoring. | — | 5 |
| "Purview" Software Engineer Software Engineer for Microsoft Purview, focusing on data protection and governance solutions. The role involves using AI tools within the SDLC, contributing to architecture, and developing automation for production and deployment. It emphasizes cost-optimization and resource utilization for services. | — | 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 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Azure HPC/AI team focusing on networking for large-scale AI training supercomputers. The role involves working with AI compute product managers, AI model developers, and datacenter experts to ensure operational uptime and workload throughput for AI supercomputers. The goal is to support the training of advanced AI models for consumer and enterprise services. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Microsoft Azure High Performance Computing & AI Engineering team, responsible for managing the core platform and fleet of AI High Performance Computing products. The role involves designing and developing capabilities to monitor and operate supercomputers at scale, diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale systems, and creating data pipelines for telemetry and alerts. While the role supports AI customers and uses AI HPC products, the core craft is infrastructure engineering and operations, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Principal Consultant A2 - Apps This Principal Consultant role focuses on leading the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, with a strong emphasis on embedding AI-first principles and leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot across the software development lifecycle. The role involves architectural ownership, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes within an enterprise context. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building next-generation networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The role involves developing high-performance, low-latency, and reliable networking capabilities to support distributed AI workloads, working at the intersection of AI and high-performance computing. | Serve | 5 |
| Head of Specialist Sales (STU), Philippines This role oversees and aligns multiple sales teams with the organization's strategic vision and customer success objectives, ensuring adherence to sales frameworks and guidelines. The Head of Specialist Sales strategically guides and empowers teams to proactively anticipate and address competitive threats and gaps in the market across all solution areas. They develop and empower teams to lead end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-driven transformation initiatives for customers. The role works with area or organization leaders to ensure an accurate forecast through pipeline management and a deal-based forecast in each of the core solution areas. They drive cross-organizational collaboration to achieve operational excellence and execution of the business strategy. The role coaches teams to leverage technology to drive business growth across solution areas and ensures the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision. They proactively identify and align solution scenarios with customer and partner organizations, ensuring that Microsoft's offerings integrate with and add value to their business operations. As a prominent customer and partner advocate, they provide feedback to solution area leaders to shape strategy and drive continuous improvement to capture market opportunities and establish trust. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product - Backend Engineer Backend engineer for Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, focusing on building APIs for mobile apps, optimizing user growth, engagement, and retention. Collaborates with various teams to deliver scalable infrastructure and impactful results in a fast-paced consumer product environment. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of large-scale AI training infrastructures, specifically GPU clusters. It involves designing and developing hardware health monitoring and diagnostic frameworks, building predictive analytics pipelines using telemetry data, and leading incident triage for hardware anomalies. The goal is to drive automation in health management and partner with cross-functional teams to improve hardware design for reliability. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Security Researchers Senior Security Researcher role focused on researching emerging attack vectors, analyzing detection/prevention gaps, and designing/developing solutions. The role involves guiding the design of AI-based solutions for security problems and has a preferred qualification in AI workflows or generative AI/LLM frameworks. The primary focus is on building security solutions, with AI being a tool to achieve that. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Quantum Architect This role is for a Principal Quantum Architect focused on the readout and control layer of a topological quantum system. The role involves translating system requirements into subsystem requirements, analyzing performance and scaling, and using modern AI tools for architectural validation and rapid prototyping. The primary focus is on building and scaling quantum computing platforms, with AI tools being used as a supporting technology. | — | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and securing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution (Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop). The role involves modernizing authentication, establishing secure practices, and adopting phishing-resistant credentials. While the role mentions using AI tools in the SDLC and GenAI approaches, the core product is VDI, not an AI model or agent. | — | 2 |
| Senior Security Research Engineer - Microsoft Defender Experts Team This role is for a Senior Security Research Engineer on the Microsoft Defender Experts Team. The primary focus is on detecting, investigating, and responding to advanced attacks and data breaches using Microsoft 365 Defender and rich telemetry. The role involves analyzing attacker behaviors, generating custom alerts, building new tools and automations for hunting, and driving innovations in detecting advanced attacker tradecraft. While AI/ML might be used as a tool, the core craft is cybersecurity detection and response, not building AI models. | — | 2 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Security This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Security, focusing on Microsoft's Purview Data Security, Sentinel, and Defender XDR solutions. The primary responsibility is to drive customer security transformation by owning the technical relationship, providing architecture design, implementation guidance, and ensuring operational health. The role involves working with enterprise-level customers on the bleeding edge of Microsoft's security solutions, leveraging foundational AI and security expertise to deliver end-to-end security outcomes. | — | 1 |
| Technical Program Manager II - Security Platforms & Operational Readiness This role is for a Technical Program Manager II focused on the strategic launch and operational readiness of security platforms within Azure and Microsoft Security solutions. The TPM will drive cross-organizational security initiatives, manage requirements, dependencies, and risks, and partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure successful launches and Day-0 readiness. The role involves defining program strategy, managing stakeholders, providing technical oversight, ensuring program governance, and coordinating readiness assets. Experience with data-driven or AI-enabled approaches for operational analytics or security workflows is preferred, and the role requires U.S. citizenship due to government security requirements. | — | 1 |
| Senior Azure Customer Engineer (ACE) This role is for a Senior Azure Customer Engineer focused on supporting strategic customers in sovereign and regulated environments. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, owning end-to-end support experiences, resolving complex issues, driving proactive improvements, and influencing Azure engineering teams. It emphasizes an AI-first, engineering-led approach leveraging automation and intelligence for detection, diagnosis, and resolution to ensure reliability, compliance, and resiliency at scale. | — | 1 |
| Sr. Account Executive - ASEAN High Tech This role is for a Sr. Account Executive focused on the High Tech industry in ASEAN, specifically working with startups and unicorns. The role involves driving the adoption of Microsoft Cloud & AI platform solutions to help these companies innovate and scale. It emphasizes understanding industry trends, customer business strategies, and orchestrating internal resources to deliver customer outcomes and achieve revenue targets. | — | 1 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Collections Manager This role is for a Senior Finance Manager, Collections Manager at Microsoft. The primary focus is on maximizing protection of Accounts Receivable (AR), accelerating cash flow, and optimizing collections performance. The role involves managing collections for an assigned portfolio, providing support and direction, and utilizing AI to drive improvements. It also includes participation in AI projects to enable business processes and managing vendor relationships. The position requires strong leadership principles, collaboration, and adherence to Microsoft's policies and ethical standards. Experience with AI toolsets is preferred. | — | 1 |
| Senior Tooling PM Senior Program Manager for incentive compensation tooling, focusing on modernization, scalability, and user-centricity. The role involves defining product strategy, driving execution, and improving system effectiveness through automation and AI. Key responsibilities include owning tooling as a product, driving end-to-end execution, improving system effectiveness, making data-informed decisions, partnering across teams, ensuring governance, and identifying AI opportunities to reduce manual effort and accelerate decision-making. | — | 1 |
| Sales Specialist - Workforce AI Sales Specialist focused on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers by positioning Microsoft's AI Business Solutions like Copilot and Viva. The role involves consultative selling, building business cases, and accelerating adoption of AI tools to enhance productivity and employee/customer experiences. | — | 1 |
| Cloud & AI (Azure) Solution Sales Specialist for Global IT Service This role is for a Solution Sales Specialist focused on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers using Azure. The primary responsibility is sales and customer engagement, leading initiatives around infrastructure modernization, AI agent adoption, and data platform transformation to maximize business value. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and partners to close deals and position Microsoft solutions. | — | 1 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and maintaining distributed systems for Azure AI services in disconnected environments. The role involves troubleshooting complex issues, collaborating with partner teams, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of AI services. It also includes on-call rotations, incident response, and mentoring junior engineers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician (Shift Lead) This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician (Shift Lead) at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in datacenters. The role involves coordinating with vendors, managing operational and safety situations, mentoring technicians, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. It is part of the Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, which supports Microsoft's online services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - Quantum Measurement The Principal Technical Program Manager will lead cross-functional engineering projects for Microsoft Quantum's hardware infrastructure, focusing on developing a scalable quantum computing system. This role involves guiding device research and development, managing project execution with internal and external partners, and ensuring the integration of quantum technology with high-performance computing and AI. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager - Business Operations Program Manager for Business Operations within Microsoft's Critical Environment team, focusing on financial controllership, contract management, spend management, and cost savings for datacenters. This role supports the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Security for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms, focusing on driving customer security transformation, technical relationship ownership, and solution architecture. | — | 0 |
| Solution Engineer Manager - Sydney Solution Engineering Manager for Business Process Solutions (CRM, ERP, Contact Centre, Power Platform) in Australia. Focus on leading a team, technical strategy, and customer engagement with senior stakeholders. Drives transformation through innovative, outcome-driven solutions. | — | 0 |
| Security Cloud Solution Architect- CTJ - Poly Security Cloud Solution Architect with a focus on Identity and Access Management (IAM) to drive customer transformation on the Microsoft Cloud platform. This role is responsible for leading Identity engagements, owning the technical relationship with customers, and delivering secure Identity architectures that enable Zero Trust and mission success for the U.S. Federal Government. | — | 0 |