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 224 active AI roles, down 17% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 313 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (18), Senior Software Engineer (17), Software Engineer II (6), Principal Applied Scientist (5), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (39%), application (22%), serving infrastructure (18%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Microsoft is hiring AI talent in: United States (271 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (10 roles), United Kingdom (8 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 245 new AI-related roles.
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| Principal Software Engineering Manager Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a major Frontier Security Engineering sub-organization, owning delivery, talent, and technical strategy at scale. The role involves setting the bar for how Microsoft's advanced security capabilities reach customers and flow back into the product, partnering with executive leadership, and driving the operating model's scale. Requires experience in security, cloud, or AI domains and managing managers. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Energy Marshall This role is responsible for overseeing and assuring compliance with Microsoft's Energy Isolation Program in critical environments, specifically within data centers. The Marshall will implement safety policies, establish Lockout Tag Out (LOTO) procedures, liaise with construction and engineering teams, and generate reports on program status. The role requires a degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with relevant experience, and the ability to meet security screening requirements. | — |
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| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator role supporting the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, focusing on calendar management, team support, travel, and event coordination to ensure smooth operations and effective execution of AI initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building, testing, deploying, and monitoring a large-scale, real-time advertising technology platform. The role involves leading cross-team engineering efforts, owning significant areas of the platform, and contributing to roadmap and architectural decisions. Responsibilities include designing and implementing scalable solutions, participating in planning sessions, producing prototypes, mentoring junior engineers, and supporting production issues. The platform operates under strict real-time constraints, handling billions of requests daily and generating terabytes of data. | — | 0 |
| Digital Account Executive Digital Account Executive role focused on empowering SME&C customers through Microsoft cloud solutions, building executive relationships, and orchestrating internal/external resources to meet customer objectives. This role emphasizes strategic account management, customer engagement, and maintaining product/solution expertise within assigned industries. | — | 0 |
| Advertising Account Manager - Microsoft Advertising - Gaming Division This role is for an Advertising Account Manager within Microsoft's Gaming Division. The primary focus is on managing client relationships, understanding their advertising needs, identifying upselling opportunities, and educating clients on the Microsoft Advertising platform. The role involves proactive client engagement, feedback solicitation, and collaboration with internal partners to drive client success and revenue growth. It requires knowledge of industry trends and sales strategies, leveraging CRM tools for account management and performance tracking. | — | 0 |
| Business Administrator The Business Administrator role at Microsoft supports executive leadership within the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on calendar management, cross-functional communication, event coordination, and resource management. The team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering data-first applications and driving a data culture. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Security Operations Manager. This role is for a Datacenter Security Operations Manager responsible for overseeing physical security operations at Microsoft datacenters, managing vendor security staff, mitigating risks, and responding to security incidents. The role involves program management, security leadership, and collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure the protection of personnel, infrastructure, and data. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations This role involves maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, focusing on monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enforcing safety and security requirements. It also includes developing operational procedures and supporting third-party contractors. | — | 0 |
| Responsable Environnement Critique - Data Center - Critical Environment Technician Manager This role is for a Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager at Microsoft, responsible for managing a team that ensures the operational integrity of data center infrastructure, including electrical and mechanical systems. The role involves people management, equipment maintenance, and responding to critical environment incidents. It is not directly related to AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving a hyper-scale distributed cloud service within Microsoft's Security organization, specifically Azure Active Directory. The role involves participating in all stages of the service lifecycle, addressing global-scale issues, and driving improvements in resiliency, latency, and reliability. It emphasizes strong customer empathy and participation in live site on-call rotation. | — | 0 |
| Director of Communications This role is for a Director of Communications focused on external communications for Microsoft's AI models and research. The responsibilities include developing and executing communication strategies, partnering with GTM and marketing teams, building spokesperson benches, supporting senior leaders, and creating content for developer and research audiences. The role requires strong technical writing and experience launching new technologies, with a preference for experience with social media influencers. | — | 0 |
| Sales Manager (French Market) - Microsoft Advertising Dublin based Sales Manager for Microsoft Advertising in the French Market, based in Dublin. The role involves driving revenue growth, developing client relationships, and managing a team of Account Executives/Managers. Requires digital media sales experience, strategic thinking, and a proven track record in building and managing high-performing sales teams. Focuses on sales strategy, planning, and execution to achieve sales targets and business transformation. | — | 0 |
| ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT CEPM This role manages local energy and environmental projects for datacenter campuses, supporting the implementation and maintenance of Environmental and Energy Management Systems (EMS/EnMS) like ISO 14001 and ISO 50001. Responsibilities include data collection, KPI monitoring, risk identification, improvement project delivery, audit support, and communication plans. The role collaborates with operations and compliance teams on environmental procedures and programs. | — | 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, monitor equipment performance, and ensure safety and security protocols are followed. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Firmware + Audio Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft's Surface Team, focusing on the audio subsystem for Windows-based devices. The role involves end-to-end ownership of audio delivery, from platform bring-up to driver ingestion, quality, and validation. Responsibilities include architecting solutions across hardware-firmware-driver-APO, leading bring-up and validation, developing drivers and APOs, root-cause analysis of audio issues, and integrating third-party audio processing pipelines. The role also involves mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with partners. While AI/ML features are mentioned as a collaboration point, the core of the role is traditional audio driver and subsystem development. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Microsoft is seeking a Logistics Technician for their Data Center Inventory & Asset team in Pune, MH, IN. The role involves performing cycle audits, managing deliveries, coordinating vendor escorts, documenting shipments, initiating warranty claims, and processing returns. The technician will also be involved in data bearing device destruction and maintaining inventory controls. This position offers opportunities for career development within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. | — | 0 |
| HR Service Lead This role focuses on the operational execution of HR policies and statutory requirements within specific markets. The HR Service Lead translates policy into day-to-day execution, manages issue resolution, ensures compliance, and contributes to operational analytics and continuous improvement. It involves coordinating with various internal teams and external vendors to ensure accurate and compliant HR operations. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Executive Commercial Executive role focused on designing and executing customer commercial strategies and negotiations, ensuring deals are compliant and profitable. The role involves identifying business opportunities related to AI, optimizing deal customization, and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve revenue targets. It requires expertise in commercial licensing, contracting, risk assessment, and adherence to policies and legal standards. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Azure Data team, focusing on cloud infrastructure for messaging and real-time analytics services. Responsibilities include building backend services, automating DevOps, enhancing monitoring, and contributing to security. The role involves using AI tools within the SDLC but is not focused on building AI models. | — | 0 |
| Logistics/Warehouse Technician This role is for a Logistics/Warehouse Technician in a Microsoft Data Center. Responsibilities include performing cycle audits, executing deliveries, coordinating vendors, documenting shipments, initiating warranty claims, processing returns, and managing inventory. The role requires a high school diploma and experience in inventory management or related fields. Fluency in French and English is also required. The role is on-site and may require travel between sites. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer Electrical Engineer role focused on critical environments within Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, involving design, testing, verification, and project implementation of electrical systems for datacenters. The role emphasizes collaboration, adherence to procedures, and contributing to the development of robust and scalable infrastructure that supports Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Researcher Senior Threat Researcher for Microsoft's Defender Experts (DEX) Research team, focusing on AI-driven analytics and threat protection against advanced cyberattacks. The role involves researching emerging cloud threats, developing detection and response strategies using EDR and SIEM platforms (especially Microsoft Defender and Sentinel), and translating security data into actionable intelligence. The position requires extensive experience in cloud security, threat hunting, and mentoring other researchers, contributing to industry knowledge and Microsoft's security posture. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including inbound/outbound logistics, cycle audits, regulatory compliance, warranty processes, and data bearing device destruction. Focus on operational efficiency, stakeholder management, and team development. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, overseeing hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focus on technician performance, task prioritization, KPI/SLA monitoring, and ensuring compliance with policies and safety procedures. This role supports critical Microsoft cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Data engineering team, focusing on building and scaling data platforms for AI and analytics. The role involves leading coding, design, engineering excellence, implementation, and reliability efforts for products like Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, and others. It requires strong software engineering skills and experience in a cloud-native environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Client Delivery Partner- Public Sector Senior Client Delivery Partner for Public Sector clients, responsible for envisioning, developing, and delivering transformative business outcomes and solutions. Drives customer satisfaction, identifies measurable business value, fosters innovation, and ensures achievement of customer outcomes and internal KPIs through digital transformation and cloud consumption. | — | 0 |
| Technical Customer Success Account Manager This role is a Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) at Microsoft, focusing on helping strategic enterprise customers maximize the value of Microsoft's cloud products and services, including Azure, M365, and Data & AI solutions. The CSAM acts as the primary delivery lead, orchestrating post-sales delivery and support across the Microsoft and Partner ecosystem to achieve customer business outcomes. Responsibilities include customer relationship management, aligning customer objectives with Microsoft's portfolio, program management, and driving consumption and usage of Microsoft products. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive - Public Sector This role is for an Account Executive in Microsoft's Public Sector division. The primary focus is on cultivating customer relationships, understanding their needs, and driving digital transformation through Microsoft's solutions. The role involves strategic account planning, identifying new business opportunities, managing complex accounts, and working with internal and external partners to achieve sales goals and business outcomes for both Microsoft and the customer. The Account Executive will leverage sales acumen and consultative engagement to influence decision-makers and drive adoption of Microsoft technologies. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager (DIAM) Lead a team of Inventory & Asset Management technicians responsible for inbound/outbound logistics, inventory audits, and data center regulatory compliance. Manage warranty processes and data bearing device destruction. Focus on operational efficiency and team leadership within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician (DCT) Manager Manager for Data Center Technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focuses on team performance, KPI monitoring, SLA adherence, training, and safety compliance within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Solution Engineer (Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain) Solution Engineer (pre-sales consultant) for Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain, focusing on integrating Agentic World concepts with core systems to solve business challenges for enterprise clients. The role involves demonstrating solution capabilities, addressing technical proof requirements, and securing customer solution design endorsements, leveraging a broad portfolio of Microsoft products including Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and Dynamics CE. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - Organic Growth Software Engineer II role focused on growing user base for Office products through SEO-driven content experiences, building and maintaining a Next.js application with Contentful CMS integration, and utilizing DevOps practices. The role involves full-stack development, infrastructure support, and on-call duties. While the role mentions staying current with AI tools and using Github Copilot, its core function is not AI/ML development but rather content delivery and platform engineering. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive - Health Account Executive for the Health Industry in São Paulo, Brazil. This role focuses on deepening customer relationships, understanding their business and technology needs, and driving the adoption of Microsoft solutions to meet revenue targets and business outcomes. It involves strategic account planning, orchestrating internal and external resources, and engaging with key decision-makers to lead digital transformation within healthcare organizations. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Account Executive - GOV Enterprise Account Executive focused on selling Microsoft's AI, Copilot, and Security solutions to government customers in São Paulo, Brazil. The role involves developing account plans, engaging with senior stakeholders, orchestrating internal teams, and driving revenue growth through digital transformation initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for maintaining and optimizing the operations of leased data centers. The engineer will ensure the availability, efficiency, and safety of mechanical and electrical equipment, manage daily operations, oversee maintenance, and collaborate with partners to reduce incidents and improve performance. The role also involves compliance verification, reporting, and contributing to best practices within the data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Recruiter, Cloud + AI Recruiter for Microsoft's Cloud + AI Platforms division, focusing on hiring technical talent for engineering and product roles. The role involves partnering with leaders to identify, engage, and hire exceptional talent, developing sourcing strategies, and managing the hiring process. It requires understanding the competitive landscape and driving differentiated hiring strategies. | — | 0 |
| Site Logistics Engineer The Site Logistics Engineer supports data center construction projects by assisting with site logistics planning, coordination, and execution, ensuring materials, equipment, and workforce movement are organized. This role involves tracking progress, identifying coordination issues, and supporting daily site logistics activities in a fast-paced construction environment. The position is based in La Porte, Indiana, with relocation assistance provided. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Executive This role is for a Commercial Executive within Microsoft's US Telco, Media & Gaming (TMG+) organization. The primary focus is on achieving revenue targets by leading collaborations with sellers and business stakeholders, leveraging knowledge of customer business needs and AI transformation. The role involves managing internal teams, optimizing deal structures, and ensuring adherence to commercial solutions policy, including regulatory laws. It requires analyzing deals for risks, negotiating complex commercial terms, and creating commercial plans for major accounts to drive upselling and cross-selling opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Core Trust team building and operating foundational secrets and certificate infrastructure (Azure Key Vault, Microsoft PKI, Managed Identity) that protects millions of keys, secrets, and certificates across Azure, enabling customers and internal teams to build zero-trust architectures. The role focuses on security, identity, and platform, touching security compliance mandates, credential theft mitigation, and cryptographic underpinnings for regulated workloads. | — | 0 |
| Microsoft Data Center Project Manager This role is for a Microsoft Data Center Project Manager responsible for managing data center projects, troubleshooting service incidents, and ensuring service delivery objectives are met. The role involves collaboration across teams, adherence to safety policies, and participation in root cause analysis. It is part of the Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) group, which supports Microsoft's online services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator for Regional Leader Executive Business Administrator for a Regional Leader in an AI-powered global sales team. Responsibilities include calendar management, meeting logistics, cross-functional communication, event coordination, and project ownership. Requires strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator supporting a global team within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. Responsibilities include calendar management, travel coordination, expense reporting, event logistics, and supporting business operations. Requires strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work under pressure and maintain confidentiality. | — | 0 |
| Consulting Project Manager This role is a Consulting Project Manager within Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD). The primary responsibility is to manage the end-to-end delivery of complex consulting engagements, focusing on scope, schedule, risk, quality, and financial health. The role involves collaborating with sales, managing customer relationships, overseeing project metrics, managing risks and issues, ensuring deliverable quality, and driving project closure and business growth through client engagements. While the organization works with customers on their digital and AI transformation, this specific role is focused on project management and delivery, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Datacenter Design Manager Manage the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for datacenter construction and lease projects, overseeing the delivery of Microsoft's industry-leading datacenter designs from site due diligence through construction and turnover to operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Technician - Night Shift This role involves standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning IT datacenter technology and equipment. The Senior Data Center Technician will provide guidance to other technicians, ensure compliance with security and safety standards, and manage assigned tickets efficiently. The role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, including Azure, Bing, and Office 365. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Office Data Loader team, responsible for building and maintaining a hyper-scale distributed data ingestion service for Office365. The service handles massive amounts of data daily and is critical for service quality, feature usage insights, bug troubleshooting, and empowering Machine Learning scenarios. A key focus is on ensuring data privacy and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer - CTJ - Poly Mechanical Engineer role within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, focusing on the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. Responsibilities include understanding datacenter design, managing mechanical and electrical systems, collaborating on new designs, and ensuring operational support for 24x7 operations. Requires a Master's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with relevant experience and a strong security clearance. | — | 0 |
| Commercial GTM Performance Lead This role focuses on driving business performance, program execution, and business strategy for commercial GTM performance within Microsoft's Windows Commercial Category. It involves owning business reviews, translating data into insights, managing investments, and crafting strategic narratives. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools, its core function is not AI/ML development but rather business and product performance management. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Enterprise Partner Business Strategy - ABS or CAIP This role is for a Senior Director of Enterprise Partner Business Strategy at Microsoft, focusing on AI Business Solutions (ABS) or Cloud & AI Partner priorities (CAIP). The position involves defining and executing worldwide partner growth strategies, expanding market opportunities, and driving customer value through enterprise partners. The role requires collaboration across sales, marketing, engineering, and partner organizations to achieve measurable business impact in the AI era. It is a leadership position focused on business strategy within a complex, matrixed organization, shaping the partner ecosystem strategy and creating scalable go-to-market motions. | — | 0 |