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.
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| Sales Manager - Financial Services Sales Manager for Financial Services at Microsoft, focusing on driving revenue growth, customer adoption, and market leadership by leveraging industry expertise and Microsoft solutions, including Digital & AI transformation. The role involves leading teams, building executive networks, and fostering strategic partnerships to achieve business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Sr Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Office 365 core platform security initiatives, focusing on defining vision, driving adoption, and improving platform security, scale, availability, and performance. Will work with Entra ID and other teams to guide partners and customers on platform usage. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Program Manager This role is for a Data Center Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on adhering to compliance, contractual agreements, and budget requirements within Data Center operations. The role involves engaging with teams to execute tasks, managing projects, troubleshooting incidents, monitoring KPIs and OKRs, and ensuring security and safety protocols are followed. It also includes managing costs, budgets, vendor relationships, and driving improvements in service delivery and operational efficiency. |
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| Validation Tools Engineer The Validation Tools Engineer will design and build the test automation framework for custom silicon platforms, focusing on developing scalable automation, tooling, and data infrastructure using Python, SQL, and TypeScript to accelerate post-silicon bring-up and validation. | — | 0 |
| Principal Corporate Counsel, Privacy, Advocacy and Regulatory Affairs This role is for a Principal Corporate Counsel focused on privacy, advocacy, and regulatory affairs. The responsibilities include engaging with data protection authorities, supporting customer inquiries, collaborating with internal teams on privacy descriptions and guidance, building stakeholder relationships, and facilitating compliance with privacy laws and the Microsoft Privacy Standard. The role also involves driving innovation using AI and other technologies where appropriate, and fostering a growth mindset. Qualifications include a JD degree, active law license, and experience in privacy and data protection, with preferred experience in related digital regulatory domains and an interest in technology like AI. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Program Manager This role is for a Data Center Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on managing projects, troubleshooting service incidents, and ensuring adherence to safety and security policies within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. The role involves collaboration across teams, mentorship, and maintaining cost efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Security Operations Manager This role manages physical security operations for Microsoft datacenters, focusing on protecting personnel, infrastructure, and data. It involves implementing security policies, analyzing threats, managing incidents, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure secure and continuous operations. The role requires experience in security program management and risk analysis, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and automation. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role involves maintaining critical datacenter infrastructure, including monitoring, inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring safety and security compliance. The technician will also participate in developing operating procedures and coordinating with third-party vendors. | — | 0 |
| Support Escalation Manager This role is a Senior Support Escalation Manager within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. The primary focus is on managing escalated customer and partner issues, acting as an internal expert, and driving resolution through collaboration with internal and external teams. The role also involves leading strategic projects, providing mentorship, improving processes, and managing vendor relationships. While the organization leverages AI technology, this specific role is centered on customer support and issue resolution, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Community Affairs Manager Microsoft is seeking a Community Affairs Manager in Jakarta to manage relationships with local stakeholders, develop community engagement and investment strategies, and coordinate social and environmental programs for their datacenters. The role involves communication, research, and implementing community strategy plans. | — | 0 |
| Circular Center Inventory & Asset Technician This role is responsible for managing inventory and assets within a circular center, including performing cycle audits, handling deliveries, coordinating with vendors, documenting shipments, initiating warranty claims, and processing returns. It also involves the destruction of data-bearing devices according to strict policies and SLAs. The role contributes to Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) by supporting the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 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 communicate incidents. The position is focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, overseeing hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focus on technician performance, KPI monitoring, SLA adherence, and team culture. Ensure compliance with policies and safety procedures. | — | 0 |
| Land Acquisition Manager This role is for a Land Acquisition Manager at Microsoft, responsible for securing land for data center expansion across EMEA. It involves identifying, validating, negotiating, and closing land transactions, managing cross-functional stakeholders, and developing regional market strategies. The role requires extensive experience in real estate acquisitions and assessing powered land, with a focus on complex transactions and stakeholder management. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering Software Development Engineer II for the Azure HorizonDB team, building a next-generation, cloud-native database platform for high performance, strong consistency, and scalability, designed for AI-driven workloads. Responsibilities include working on core components like storage engines, transaction processing, and replication for planet-scale databases. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Director This role focuses on strategic account management for Microsoft's enterprise clients, developing and executing customer plans to drive adoption and consumption of Microsoft and partner services. It involves building strategic relationships, providing thought leadership, and identifying new business opportunities aligned with customer priorities and market trends. The role emphasizes understanding the customer's business model and industry to deliver tailored solutions and foster long-term partnerships. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager This role is for a Critical Environment Technician Manager at Microsoft, responsible for overseeing the operations, maintenance, and safety of datacenter critical environments, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. The manager will lead a team of technicians, ensure adherence to safety and operational procedures, manage incident response, and coordinate with third-party vendors. The role focuses on maintaining the infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive Account Executive role at Microsoft focused on partnering with strategic enterprise customers to drive digital transformation, with a focus on AI, Copilot, and Security solutions. The role involves developing account plans, engaging with senior customer stakeholders, orchestrating internal Microsoft teams, identifying new business opportunities, and achieving revenue targets. | — | 0 |
| Senior Quantum Engineer - Digital Control Systems This role is for a Senior Quantum Engineer focused on designing and implementing digital control systems for cryogenic quantum hardware. The responsibilities include FPGA design, timing-critical logic development, high-speed digital interface design, and hardware integration. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for innovation, the core craft is quantum engineering and digital control systems, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Executive This role is for a Strategic Account Executive at Microsoft, focusing on partnering with strategic enterprise customers to drive digital transformation, with a specific emphasis on AI, Copilot, and Security solutions. The role involves leading account teams, accelerating customer satisfaction, winning against competition, and cultivating senior-level relationships to achieve business outcomes and revenue growth for Microsoft. | — | 0 |
| Director Supply Chain Planning Transformation This role is for a Director of Supply Chain Planning Transformation at Microsoft, focusing on the planning, sourcing, making, and delivering of hardware infrastructure for Microsoft's Cloud and AI businesses. The role involves people management, portfolio/project management, solution definition and delivery, and thought leadership in technology and business operations, aiming to align solutions with business strategy and drive adoption of emerging technologies. While the role operates within the context of enabling AI growth, it does not involve direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Global Supply Manager This role is for a Global Supply Manager responsible for the fulfillment of Microsoft's custom silicon (Maia GPU) and supporting data center and network infrastructure. The role involves creating the Supply Plan of Record for component suppliers, managing raw material supply, inventory, and supplier interactions to ensure reliable delivery of hardware for Microsoft's cloud and AI capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Global Category Manager This role is for a Senior Global Category Manager within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, specifically supporting the U.S. Government Airgap team. The primary focus is on developing and executing multi-year sourcing and category strategies for datacenter infrastructure mechanical and electrical equipment and services, ensuring continuity of supply and meeting government-specific sovereignty and compliance requirements. Responsibilities include stakeholder influence, negotiation and contracting, supplier management, sourcing execution, risk and compliance, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires a Master's degree or equivalent experience in a related field and several years of experience in areas like supply chain, data science, finance, or project management. Citizenship verification is required due to the nature of supporting U.S. government customers. | — | 0 |
| Inventory and Asset Technical Trainer This role is for an Inventory and Asset Technical Trainer in a datacenter environment. The trainer will be responsible for delivering technical training programs, conducting needs analysis, and managing procedural changes related to inventory and asset management within datacenters. The role involves applying adult learning fundamentals and incorporating new logistics technologies into training. It is an on-site position with limited remote work. | — | 0 |
| Senior SoC HW (PnP/Functional) Validation Engineer Senior SoC HW (PnP/Functional) Validation Engineer for Microsoft's Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering team, focusing on custom silicon for Azure Cobalt and other systems. Responsibilities include owning post-silicon validation direction (functional, electrical, power/performance), defining debug tools, coordinating programs, and developing validation strategies and methodologies. Requires a strong background in electrical/computer engineering or related fields with significant technical experience. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role is for a Data Center Technician responsible for the physical installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of IT equipment within Microsoft's data centers. The technician will work under guidance to prepare, install, diagnose, repair, and decommission hardware like servers, storage, and networking equipment, ensuring compliance with operational procedures and safety protocols. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environments Controls Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret This role focuses on maintaining and managing Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) for Microsoft's U.S. Government Airgap datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring ICS availability, data quality, security, and managing system infrastructure, servers, applications, and networks. The role also involves program and project management for ICS systems and governing access controls. A U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance is required. | — | 0 |
| Head of Customer Marketing & Advocacy Lead customer marketing and advocacy for Microsoft, focusing on bringing customer success stories to the forefront of brand and commercial marketing. This role involves building and managing a systematic advocacy program, defining its operating model, and elevating customer storytelling across marketing, sales, and customer success. The objective is to make customer voice a defining aspect of how the market experiences Microsoft, by identifying, shaping, and activating customer success stories. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Program Manager (On-Site) This role is for a Data Center Program Manager responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment within Microsoft's global datacenters. The role involves managing preventative and corrective maintenance, monitoring equipment performance, ensuring compliance, acting as an escalation point for facilities issues, and driving cost/energy efficiency projects. It is not directly related to AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager - Search / News & AI Advertising Finance This role is for a Senior Finance Manager within Microsoft's Search, News & AI Advertising Finance team. The primary focus is on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for the PC & Tablet revenue of the Search business. Responsibilities include revenue ownership, financial modeling, executive communication, and business partnering. The role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to translate financial data into actionable insights for business leaders. While the team name includes 'AI Advertising Finance', the core responsibilities are financial management and analysis, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Group Manager, Data Center Investments and Deals This role is for a Group Finance Manager responsible for leading financial ownership of major data center infrastructure investments, including land, power, and leases. It involves investment underwriting, deal structuring, cash flow modeling, valuation, risk assessment, and executive decision support within Microsoft's Cloud Product Infrastructure Margin team. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Field Service Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Field Service Engineer responsible for ensuring the availability and operational efficiency of data center infrastructure, including mechanical and electrical equipment. The role involves overseeing day-to-day operations, maintenance, incident reduction, cost/energy efficiency initiatives, and compliance verification in leased data centers. It requires collaboration with internal teams and external partners, adherence to safety and security policies, and contributing to a positive work environment. The position is focused on the physical infrastructure supporting cloud services, not on AI/ML development itself. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Techncial Program Manager - Equipment Senior Technical Program Manager for Equipment in Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) organization, focusing on end-to-end delivery of long lead equipment for datacenter construction. Responsibilities include managing supplier performance, driving schedule tracking, risk management, and coordinating cross-functional execution across procurement, engineering, and construction. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the electrical engineering aspects of datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. Responsibilities include design, testing, verification, technical project implementation, and documentation within a critical environment context. | — | 0 |
| Gestionnaire principal(e) de programmes / Partner Ecosystem Program Manager The Partner Program Manager will be responsible for developing the partner ecosystem for Microsoft Fabric and SQL, including recruiting, managing, training, and enabling SI partners globally. This role involves defining and driving the long-term strategy for the partner ecosystem, leading program design and execution, managing executive relationships with partners, tracking business performance, gathering market feedback, and ensuring compliance with Microsoft's policies. | — | 0 |
| Compliance Program Manager This role is for a Regulatory Compliance Program Manager focused on consumer and commercial hardware devices. The manager will own regulatory compliance for these devices, develop compliance strategies, anticipate emerging regulatory areas, translate complex standards into actionable guidance for engineering and operations, and report on compliance metrics. The role requires knowledge of global environmental regulations and Microsoft consumer hardware products to ensure market readiness across global jurisdictions. | — | 0 |
| Sr Cybersecurity Technology Consultant-CTJ-Poly Senior Cybersecurity Technology Consultant specializing in Microsoft Security platforms, focusing on designing, implementing, and operationalizing enterprise cybersecurity solutions within classified federal environments. Requires expertise in Zero Trust architecture and advising customer security leadership. | — | 0 |
| Regional Security Integration Manager This role is for a Regional Security Integration Manager responsible for physical security systems and devices at datacenters and other facilities within an assigned region. The manager will lead projects involving physical security systems design, implementation, testing, commissioning, and acceptance. Responsibilities include partnering with engineering and operations teams, conducting field site visits, reviewing and improving physical security designs, and managing operational state security system projects. The role requires experience in Security Program or Program Management and the ability to meet security screening requirements. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft Specialized Clouds Teams Phone team, focusing on building, deploying, and operating Teams Phone services in Air Gapped and Sovereign Cloud environments. This role requires leading the design, development, and evolution of these services with strict security, compliance, and reliability requirements, ensuring feature parity with Public Cloud offerings. The engineer will drive technical strategy, influence architecture, and own the full software development lifecycle, acting as a senior technical leader and mentor. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineering Manager This role is a Technical Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers to resolve complex customer technical issues. The role involves people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback and automation, and fostering business integration for a great customer experience. While the company and its support services leverage AI, the core function of this role is managing a support team and customer relationships, not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Management This role is focused on strategic account management within Microsoft, aiming to drive high-volume sales and identify new opportunities by understanding customer industries and priorities. It involves developing and executing account plans, leveraging relationships with internal and external partners, and understanding Microsoft's product landscape to provide solutions and thought leadership. The role requires a deep understanding of customer business and technology transformation to accelerate co-innovation and digital transformation. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Advisory This role focuses on technical readiness and process compliance for frontline support staff, providing subject matter expertise for Microsoft products and services to ensure timely case resolution and drive delivery excellence. It involves case reviews, mentoring engineers, contributing to self-help initiatives, and providing feedback for product and process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineering Manager This role is a Technical Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team of support engineers to resolve complex customer technical issues. The role involves people management, customer relationship management from a support standpoint, ensuring team readiness, driving product/process improvement through feedback and automation, and fostering business integration for a great customer experience. While the company leverages AI extensively and aims to accelerate AI transformation for customers, this specific role focuses on managing the support and resolution of technical issues, not on building or directly deploying AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Digital Account Executive This role is for a Digital Account Executive at Microsoft, focused on serving medium enterprise clients and driving their digital transformation. The role involves building executive relationships, leveraging digital tools and AI, orchestrating internal resources and partners, managing territory and pipeline, and forecasting sales revenue. The goal is to help clients realize their potential and achieve more through Microsoft's solutions. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Advisory This role is a Technical Support Advisory position within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization. The primary focus is on ensuring the technical readiness and process compliance of frontline support staff and delivery partners. Responsibilities include case reviews, mentoring engineers, contributing to self-help initiatives, and providing product/process improvement feedback. While the role operates within an organization that leverages AI, the core responsibilities are focused on support readiness and process improvement, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| EHS Campus Manager This role is responsible for implementing and managing Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) programs within Microsoft Datacenters. The EHS Campus Manager will identify risks, implement controls, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with Microsoft standards and regulations to maintain a safe and healthy working environment. This involves high-risk-activity management, emergency response planning, and conducting risk assessments and training. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Account Executive - Digital Native Sr. Account Executive at Microsoft focused on leading digital transformation initiatives for digital native customers. Responsibilities include understanding customer needs, developing account plans, orchestrating virtual teams, and closing opportunities to drive business outcomes. Requires extensive sales experience with enterprise customers and startups, industry knowledge, and strong client management skills. | — | 0 |
| IT Operations Manager This role is for an IT Operations Manager at Microsoft, responsible for leading a team and overseeing data center site services and logistics. The position involves managing physical operations, ensuring safety, security, and compliance, and collaborating with internal business groups to deliver service levels for Microsoft's cloud services like Azure, Office 365, and Xbox. It requires significant experience in IT infrastructure management and team leadership. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering INTERN Software Engineering Intern role at Microsoft, focusing on solving problems and building innovative software solutions. The intern will apply engineering principles, learn new technologies, and contribute to next-generation software development. Requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS or related field and one year of programming experience. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center environment. The technician will follow standard operating procedures, perform quality checks, and assist other technicians. The role is part of Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team, supporting core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |