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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| Director of Marketing, Minecraft Entertainment & Experiences Director of Marketing for Minecraft's Entertainment & Experiences pillar, responsible for brand management, marketing strategy, and launch execution across films, series, theme parks, and location-based experiences. This role involves leading a team, managing external partners, and driving the growth of the connected Minecraft universe. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer at Microsoft, responsible for the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud services, including datacenters, mechanical systems, and backup electrical systems. The role involves supporting 24x7 operations, collaborating on mechanical designs, and ensuring safety and compliance. | — | 0 |
| 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. |
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| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers, ensuring service compliance, quality, and safety. This role involves managing technician performance, prioritizing tasks, and monitoring KPIs/SLAs to support Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Americas Sales Leader, Microsoft Elevate Sales leader for Microsoft Elevate, an AI-powered global sales team focused on customer success and partner ecosystem engagement. Responsible for strategic direction, driving alignment, and nurturing leaders to achieve segment business goals and cloud growth. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Silicon Sourcing This role is for a Senior Manager, Silicon Sourcing at Microsoft, focusing on the supply chain for cloud infrastructure, including AI hardware. The responsibilities include driving strategic negotiations with OSAT partners for silicon test services, developing should-cost models, securing test capacity, contributing to sourcing strategy, managing supplier relationships, ensuring supply continuity, and leading procurement of manufacturing test hardware. The role requires experience in procurement, supply chain, or engineering, with a preference for semiconductor sourcing and test operations. | — | 0 |
| Services Account Executive This role is for a Services Account Executive at Microsoft, focused on selling services and solutions that align with customer business goals, including guiding their AI transformation journey. The role involves consultative selling, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable outcomes and accelerate customer innovation and growth using Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions. It requires leading consulting virtual account teams, identifying and selling industry cloud solutions, owning the full sales cycle, and collaborating across customer and partner networks. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager This role is for a Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Windows Consumer Mainstream segment, focusing on Everyday Productivity and Core Essentials. The individual will be responsible for the end-to-end business ownership, setting segment strategy, driving growth through data-driven go-to-market strategies, defining portfolio and demand strategies based on consumer insights and market trends, and leading cross-functional execution with partners to ensure the right products are delivered at the right value and time. The role involves influencing senior stakeholders and driving high-impact execution across the device lifecycle, including current market performance, retail readiness, and future roadmap decisions. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager within Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on leading global-scale security initiatives across cloud services. The primary responsibility is to ensure the resilience and compliance of Microsoft services, enabling customers to operate securely. The role involves defining strategy, aligning roadmaps, and delivering secure-by-design solutions in collaboration with engineering, security, services, and compliance teams. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Infra This role focuses on helping customers migrate, modernize, and secure their infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, specifically to lay the foundation for scalable, production-ready AI solutions. The Cloud Solution Architect will deliver engagements focused on migration, modernization, operational excellence, and resilient architecture, ensuring readiness for AI workloads and accelerating adoption of Azure services. The role involves building trusted relationships with IT decision-makers, leading architectural design sessions, driving migration initiatives, and ensuring environments are optimized for AI use cases. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Executive - Public Sector Commercial Executive role focused on designing, negotiating, and executing complex commercial models for Public Sector clients in Japan. The role involves managing contracts, pricing, terms, and compliance to maximize value for both customers and Microsoft, while collaborating with internal teams and partners. It requires a deep understanding of public sector procurement and fiscal constraints, with a focus on long-term commercial strategies and growth opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Operations Manager Manages data center operations, including people management, service delivery, and ensuring adherence to SLAs and KPIs for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician Logistics Technician role focused on inventory and asset management within Microsoft's data centers, involving cycle audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation of inbound/outbound shipments. The role also includes managing warranty claims, processing hardware returns, and ensuring the destruction of data-bearing devices according to SLAs and company policies. It requires strong organizational skills and adherence to security and data management protocols. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It focuses on standard operating procedures, hardware maintenance, and supporting Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager This role is a Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) at Microsoft, focused on accelerating business value for customers by driving adoption and realization of Microsoft's cloud technologies and services. The CSAM acts as a strategic partner, managing customer relationships, orchestrating post-sales delivery, and identifying growth opportunities within existing accounts. The role requires strong business acumen, technical fluency across Microsoft's portfolio, and the ability to engage with senior stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| People Operations Sr. HR Advisor - Offboarding EMEA This role is for a Senior HR Service Advisor focused on offboarding processes in EMEA for Microsoft. It involves managing complex cases, ensuring compliance with local regulations, coordinating with stakeholders, and driving process improvements. While the role mentions leveraging AI and digital tools, its core function is HR operations and employee lifecycle management, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician at Microsoft. The technician will learn and perform standard procedures for equipment preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning under guidance. They will also gain familiarity with security and data management procedures within the data center environment. The role involves contributing to issue tracking, participating in safety briefings, completing assigned tickets efficiently, and complying with security and data management policies. The technician will maintain a client focus, contribute to a positive team environment, and take accountability for service quality. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Fabric platform team, focusing on reliability, performance, and reducing toil for a unified data stack serving AI-powered applications. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum Systems Architect Seeking a Principal Quantum Systems Architect to define the architecture of scalable classical control and readout systems for large-scale quantum computing. This role focuses on system design at the quantum-classical interface, including compute platforms, communication fabrics, synchronization, and signal-processing frameworks. This is a strategic technical leadership role, shaping long-term architecture while guiding validation and integration across the stack. | — | 0 |
| Payments Manager, LATAM This role focuses on leading payment strategy, execution, and partner management across Latin America for Microsoft. It involves driving payment performance, reducing fraud and chargebacks, optimizing payment costs, and enabling new payment capabilities in complex LATAM markets. The position requires deep payments expertise, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to navigate diverse regulatory environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Customer Business Outcomes Specialist, Manufacturing & Mobility This role is for a Senior Customer Business Outcomes Specialist in the Manufacturing & Mobility industry. The primary focus is on driving customer business outcomes through industry expertise and value-focused engagement, helping customers become 'Frontier Organizations' in the age of AI. The role involves uncovering customer needs, quantifying business value, identifying capability gaps, influencing account planning, building executive relationships, and collaborating with account teams to accelerate sales and consumption. It is a customer-facing sales role focused on opportunity creation, pipeline growth, and deal closure by connecting customer value to Microsoft offerings. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - CTJ - Top Secret This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, focusing on Azure security services in sovereign clouds. The responsibilities include leading and coaching a high-performing team, planning and executing technical deliverables, and working with external partners and stakeholders. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with significant technical engineering experience and a Top Secret Security Clearance. | — | 0 |
| Skilling Strategy Manager, Delivery & Program Operations This role is a Skilling Strategy Manager within Microsoft's Delivery and Program Operations team. The primary focus is on managing and developing skilling strategies for sales teams, aligning them with business priorities to drive outcomes. Responsibilities include acting as a strategic account manager, developing skilling plans, managing the rhythm of business for skilling initiatives, engaging stakeholders, and reporting on the impact of skilling programs. The role requires experience in learning and development, business strategy, and stakeholder management, but it is not directly involved in the creation or deployment of AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Construction Workforce Infrastructure Manager Microsoft is looking for a Construction Workforce Infrastructure Manager to lead the strategy for workforce accommodations and labor logistics for large-scale data center development in Pecos, Texas. This role involves building operating models, establishing scalable processes, and managing stakeholder relationships to support thousands of construction workers. The position is on-site in Pecos, TX, and offers opportunities for broader construction project leadership. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director - Global SMB Strategy & Growth Senior Director role focused on shaping and executing global SMB strategy and growth, particularly in the context of the AI era, to empower customers and drive business outcomes. This leadership position involves strategic vision, operational discipline, and team management to accelerate growth and deepen customer impact. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Executive This role is for a Strategic Account Executive at Microsoft, focusing on driving AI and Agentic strategy for a major pharmaceutical and manufacturing client. The primary focus is on sales, business development, and client relationship management within the enterprise AI sector, rather than direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Digital Account Executive Digital Account Executive at Microsoft responsible for managing medium enterprise clients, driving digital transformation, and leveraging AI-powered sales strategies. Focuses on building executive relationships, orchestrating sales resources, managing territory and pipeline, and partnering with ecosystem partners to deliver cloud solutions and accelerate customer AI adoption. | — | 0 |
| M365 Senior Category Manager Senior Category Manager for Microsoft 365 Consumer, focusing on business strategy, performance management, investment planning, and go-to-market execution to grow subscribers and revenue across the Americas. This role involves building and running the operating system for data-driven decisions, owning Rhythm of Business processes, analyzing performance, and managing programs and investments. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Account Executive - Mfg. & Conglomerates This role is for a Sr. Account Executive at Microsoft, focusing on the Manufacturing & Conglomerates business segment. The primary responsibility is to partner with customers to achieve strategic goals, drive revenue growth, and maximize customer spend by selling Microsoft solutions, including those related to Digital & Artificial Intelligence transformation. The role involves analyzing sales strategies, building customer relationships, leading virtual teams, and understanding industry and market expertise to identify new opportunities. It also includes people management responsibilities. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator This role is not related to AI/ML. It is an Executive Business Administrator role supporting the CVP for the AMERS region within Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I). The role focuses on operational excellence, enabling leadership effectiveness, and fostering a high-performing, inclusive support culture. Responsibilities include leading a team of Executive Assistants, strategic calendar management, leadership team enablement, driving the rhythm of business, cross-functional partnership, event planning, resource management, and travel logistics. | — | 0 |
| Technical Customer Success Account Manager Customer Success Account Manager for Microsoft's enterprise customers, focusing on accelerating business value through Microsoft's products and services, including cloud platforms and AI solutions. Responsibilities include relationship management, strategic alignment, program delivery, and driving adoption and usage of Microsoft products. | — | 0 |
| Field Service Engineer This role is for a Field Service Engineer within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining the critical infrastructure (power, cooling, network, security) that supports Microsoft's cloud services like Azure, Bing, and Office 365. Key responsibilities include ensuring data center operations, maximizing critical environment availability, overseeing mechanical and electrical equipment, reducing incidents, delivering on cost/energy efficiency, supporting emergency preparedness, conducting audits, managing reporting, and building relationships with partners. The role requires a technical degree (Mechanical/Electrical Engineering) or equivalent experience in data center operations. | — | 0 |
| Sub-Regional Planning Leader This role is a Sub-Regional Planning Leader for Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I). The primary focus is on managing project budgets, change management, coordination, driving results, financial acumen, goal alignment, resource management, project management, project tracking, risk mitigation, safety and regulation adherence, technical acumen in reviewing engineering documentation, and vendor management/selection for data center construction projects. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience, and the ability to pass security screenings. | — | 0 |
| Business Support ATR-D Provides strategic calendar management and time planning support for manager(s). Aligns calendar based on knowledge of manager's preferences and operating styles. Continues to build and leverage network across organizations to enable their team and leader's work. Facilitates team experience activities. Collaborates with Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) to facilitate internal and external recruitment efforts, and partners with hiring managers to ensure a smooth process. Owns the coordination, logistics, and direction for events. Leads by example and serves as a role model to Business Support colleagues by maintaining a positive attitude, demonstrating executive presence, influencing others, and encouraging self reflection during challenging situations. Balances multiple projects end to end with varying deadlines, while maintaining executional and operational excellence within the business and across business groups as applicable. Participates in discretionary budget tracking and reporting. Understands and helps to implement rhythm of business (ROB) in line with recognized patterns, and proactively takes action on business cadence. Maintains and manages up-to-date space-management processes and team spaces. Manages travel arrangements for manager(s) and/or group. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in Microsoft's Data Centers. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform quality checks, and contribute to team tasks. The role supports Microsoft's cloud infrastructure for services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. | — | 0 |
| Digital Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI This role is for a Digital Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, focusing on AI-powered sales for Small Medium Enterprises and Channel partners. The architect will lead customer engagements, drive Azure consumption, architect solutions, and collaborate with internal teams to ensure successful cloud deployments. The role emphasizes customer success, technical sales leadership, and driving business outcomes through Microsoft's cloud and AI services. | — | 0 |
| Director, Lifecycle Products This role is for a Director, Lifecycle Products within the People Operations team at Microsoft. The primary focus is on transforming employee lifecycle experiences by designing and delivering end-to-end operational services. While the role mentions leveraging AI to enhance experiences and increase agility, the core responsibilities revolve around program management, process improvement, portfolio intake, and stakeholder management within HR and business operations. The role does not involve shipping AI models or directly building AI systems. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. It focuses on standard operating procedures, hardware maintenance, and supporting IT infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on Microsoft's identity platform, powering secure and reliable user experiences. The role involves designing and building scalable notification capabilities, ensuring service reliability, and collaborating across teams. It emphasizes innovation in areas like AI-driven signal processing and intelligent notification capabilities, with a requirement to use AI-based tools. | — | 0 |
| Manager of Customer Success Account Managers Manager of Customer Success Account Managers leading a team to help Microsoft customers achieve their business goals by leveraging Microsoft's delivery forces and solutions. Focuses on building relationships, expanding engagements, and developing roadmaps to maximize customer investment value. | — | 0 |
| Metro Contract Lead This role is for a Metro/Contract Lead within Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) organization, specifically in the Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) group. The position focuses on managing and executing contracts related to datacenter construction projects in the US Central Region. Responsibilities include overseeing contract execution, collaborating with legal and procurement teams, managing risks, coordinating with suppliers and contractors, handling budget and change order management, ensuring compliance, and maintaining project documentation. The role requires a Master's Degree in a related field and 4+ years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineer Principal Engineer role focused on extending Azure's native capabilities to the customer edge, delivering comprehensive edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems. The role involves architecting solutions ground-up, taking features from ideation to global rollout, and collaborating with platform teams to enable customers to host network infrastructure and operations on Azure. It emphasizes building and operating reliable, distributed systems software with experience in microservices, Kubernetes, and Azure. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator to support the VP of Delivery & Programs Operations, managing calendars, travel, business rhythms, events, expenses, and team infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager - Strategic Partnership Enablement This role is a Senior Finance Manager focused on enabling and optimizing financial accounting and operations for large-scale AI partnerships within Microsoft. It involves managing financial compliance, record-keeping, process execution, providing business insights, and ensuring deals are compliant with policies, GAAP, and SOX. The role also involves identifying and managing business risk and driving improvements through automation and understanding of advanced technology. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory management, deliveries, warranty claims, and equipment returns. It involves cycle audits, documentation, and data bearing device destruction, with a focus on operational efficiency and adherence to SLAs and company policies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager Product Manager for Azure Usage Billing team, responsible for building the next-generation data platform for ingesting, aggregating, and processing high-volume usage data from Microsoft services for customer billing. This role focuses on a mission-critical, scalable, and compliant service within Azure Data. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Operations Manager This role manages critical environment operations for Microsoft's global datacenters, ensuring the availability, efficiency, and compliance of the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. It involves leading a team of technical professionals, overseeing the maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment, and driving safety and sustainability initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Design Recruiter Microsoft is hiring a Design Recruiter to support its Design organization. The role involves shaping the future of Microsoft Design by identifying, attracting, and engaging designers, systems thinkers, and creative technologists. It sits at the intersection of design, engineering, and innovation, requiring an understanding of how the design discipline is changing with AI and emerging technologies. The recruiter will design and execute inclusive recruiting strategies, partner with design and engineering leaders, translate evolving skill needs into hiring strategies, and build candidate experiences. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solutions Architect Strategic technical leader and trusted advisor to enterprise customers, driving digital transformation through Microsoft solutions. Combines industry knowledge, business acumen, and technical expertise to shape customer strategy, create opportunities, and orchestrate cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager Lead Lead a team of Product Managers to define and execute the product vision and strategy for Microsoft's Sales Planning & Commercial Incentives (SPCI) team, focusing on building a composable, intelligent platform that supports the end-to-end planning-to-payout lifecycle for sellers. The role involves team leadership, customer understanding, and cross-functional influence to drive business transformation with AI. | — | 0 |