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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| Data Center Technician This role involves staging, setting up, troubleshooting, and decommissioning hardware in a data center. It focuses on standard operating procedures, hardware maintenance, and supporting Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Sr Product Manager Senior Product Manager for M365 Substrate Core Auth team, focusing on improving security across the M365 app ecosystem by identifying gaps, partnering with service owners, and driving automation/technical solutions. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Electrical Engineer This role is for a Critical Environment Electrical Engineer at Microsoft, focusing on the design, testing, and implementation of electrical systems for datacenters. The role involves developing designs, creating documentation, conducting tests, and ensuring project implementation schedules are met, all within the context of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. | — |
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| Data Center Technician Manager- Night Shift This role manages a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployment, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers. It involves leading the team, ensuring service compliance and quality, and promoting a strong safety culture. The role focuses on operational excellence within a large-scale infrastructure environment. | — | 0 |
| Fraud Operations Investigation Analyst This role investigates complex fraud and abuse cases across Microsoft's cloud and service ecosystem, protecting customer trust and reducing financial harm. The analyst will conduct deep-dive investigations, document findings, execute remediation actions, monitor fraud signals, perform vetting, and contribute to process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Security Researcher (Multiple Positions) This role focuses on security investigations, analyzing security alerts and telemetry to validate detections and understand attacker intent. It involves correlating large datasets using KQL, investigating identity-centric threats, and delivering customer-facing investigation summaries. The role requires experience in security operations, cybersecurity investigations, incident response, or threat hunting. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager - Datacenter Cost out/Mantis This Senior Finance Manager role focuses on financial planning and modeling for Microsoft's datacenter cost management, specifically within the CPIM team which is at the forefront of Microsoft's AI strategy. The role involves owning the financial planning and modeling toolset, partnering with Mantis Engineering (CSCP) to build and enhance a planning platform, and working with Finance Data & Engineering (FD&E) to create analytic tools for datacenter cost data. Responsibilities include translating finance requirements into engineering specifications, driving the product roadmap, leading user acceptance testing, establishing governance, defining metrics for cost drivers and variance insights, and influencing investment and efficiency decisions through financial modeling and narratives. The role requires experience in financial analysis, modeling, and ideally with hyperscale cloud/datacenter cost modeling, and experience as a finance product owner for planning/modeling platforms. | — | 0 |
| HR Service Lead Advisor - Time & Leave This role is for a HR Service Lead Advisor focused on Time & Leave processes in the EMEA region. The primary responsibilities include executing HR transactions, managing complex employee cases, providing consultation, and ensuring compliance with local legislation and Microsoft policies. The role also involves identifying opportunities for automation and AI support to improve operational efficiency and scalability, collaborating with stakeholders, and maintaining process documentation. While the role mentions leveraging AI solutions and identifying areas for AI support, the core function is HR service delivery and process management, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician at Microsoft, responsible for managing the flow of goods within data centers. Key duties include performing cycle audits, handling incoming and outgoing deliveries, coordinating with vendors, processing warranty claims and returns, and ensuring accurate documentation and inventory tracking. The role also involves the secure destruction of data-bearing devices and compliance with security and data management policies. It requires a high school diploma and some experience in inventory management or a related field, with preferred experience in IT logistics. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture - Infrastructure This role focuses on acting as a trusted technical advisor for Microsoft's strategic customers, helping them improve the reliability, resilience, security, performance, and operational excellence of their Azure environments. It involves proactive assessments, technical guidance, incident leadership, and cross-functional collaboration within a global follow-the-sun model. The CSA will advise on architecture and operations aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework, lead complex troubleshooting efforts, facilitate Root Cause Analysis, and drive reduction of reactive operational demand through reliability-focused recommendations and operational maturity improvements. The role also involves performing proactive health assessments, risk reviews, and analyzing telemetry and monitoring platforms to identify trends and develop actionable insights. Customer engagement includes creating knowledge documentation, delivering onboarding assessments, and tracking remediation progress. Global collaboration with various Microsoft teams is essential. | — | 0 |
| Lease Construction Manager This role is for a Lease Construction Manager responsible for overseeing the construction of leased data center projects, ensuring compliance with Microsoft's requirements as outlined in the lease contract. The manager will act as Microsoft's Employer's Representative, coordinating with internal Subject Matter Experts and lease providers to achieve 'Ready for Service' status for each project. Key responsibilities include managing safety, stakeholder dependencies, vendor contracts, and ensuring alignment with regional business objectives and OKRs. The role requires strong communication, negotiation, and analytical skills, with a focus on driving safe, high-quality, and efficient project delivery in a fast-paced, technical environment. | — | 0 |
| Sr Consulting Program Management-CTJ-Top Secret This role is for a Senior Consulting Program Management Individual Contributor at Microsoft, focusing on complex Federal opportunities. The role involves orchestrating sales, solution architects, partners, and delivery teams to ensure successful qualification, structuring, governance, and delivery of AI-related projects. Key responsibilities include deal shaping, partner and stakeholder orchestration, delivery readiness, financial management, and ensuring compliance with security and federal requirements. The role requires a Top Secret security clearance and experience in project management within a regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role focuses on the engineering and maintenance of Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) within Microsoft's mission-critical datacenters. Responsibilities include ensuring the availability, data quality, service, change management, reporting, and security of ICS systems, managing electrical and mechanical systems, and governing access to these systems. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls. | — | 0 |
| Digital Account Executive This role is for a Digital Account Executive at Microsoft, focusing on serving Medium Enterprise managed clients and guiding them through their Digital Transformation journey. The role involves building executive-level relationships, leveraging digital tools and AI, orchestrating internal resources and partners, managing territory and pipeline, and forecasting sales revenue. The goal is to drive customer success and achieve revenue targets by understanding customer needs and presenting tailored Microsoft solutions. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves performing standard procedures for preparing, installing, diagnosing, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning equipment in a data center environment. The technician will work under guidance, learn about security and data management, and contribute to issue tracking and team collaboration. The role requires adherence to safety and security protocols and meeting performance indicators. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning in Microsoft's data centers, ensuring service compliance, quality, and safety. This role involves coaching, performance management, and operational oversight of data center infrastructure supporting Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| SR CONSULTING AE This role is for a Senior Consulting Account Executive at Microsoft, focused on selling services and solutions that leverage AI and Microsoft Cloud. The primary responsibility is to drive customer value and achieve sales targets by aligning business goals with transformative solutions, managing the full sales cycle, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and partners. While AI is mentioned as a key component of the solutions sold, the core craft of the role is sales and account management, not building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| SR CONSULTING AE - Retail This role is for a Senior Consulting Account Executive in the Retail industry, focusing on selling Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions to customers. The primary responsibility is to drive sales and customer value through consultative selling, managing the full sales cycle, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to achieve sales targets. While AI is mentioned as a component of the solutions sold, the core craft of the role is sales and account management, not building or directly working with AI models. | — | 0 |
| Government Affairs: Events and Operations Internship Opportunities Internship role supporting event management, operations, and program management within Microsoft's European Government Affairs team. Responsibilities include coordinating events, managing systems, supporting projects, contributing to facility experience (including AI demonstrations), and assisting with financial operations and budget management. Requires interest in technology policy and strong English skills. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Windows team, focusing on building and innovating Shell and Services Experiences for future Windows versions. The role involves influencing product vision, mentoring engineers, delivering high-quality results, and driving engineering excellence. Requires strong coding skills in C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, experience in modern app development (XAML/WinUI), and leadership in shipping large-scale software. | — | 0 |
| IT Technical Trainer This role is for an IT Technical Trainer on the Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) Learning team. The trainer will be responsible for technical training delivery, workforce training needs analysis, and procedural change management activities supporting datacenters. They will leverage technical and adult learning fundamentals to evaluate and report on training activities, and coach learners. The role involves delivering training on core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Sales - Contracting & Pricing This role is a Commercial Executive responsible for deal-making, negotiation, and collaboration to drive revenue growth and customer success within Microsoft's Enterprise Commercial organization. The role acts as a trusted advisor on commercial activities and contracting, leading internal and external sales through commercial construct and deal value proposition, while optimizing investment and customization. A key focus is supporting AI transformation across accounts, maximizing business opportunities with new AI offerings like Copilot, and ensuring compliant, on-time deal execution. | — | 0 |
| Senior Materials Manager Senior Materials Manager role focused on global materials management and supply chain execution for Windows devices, ensuring material readiness, inventory optimization, and risk mitigation with contract manufacturers and global supply chain partners. Responsibilities include COS management, E&O management, inventory control, and continuous improvement of supplier capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Principal Consulting Project Manager This role is for a Principal Consulting Project Manager at Microsoft, focused on managing the delivery of industry-specific solutions to strategic customers. The role involves account delivery management, intellectual property research and sharing, relationship development with customer stakeholders, project initiation, contracting, presales support, and detailed project planning. The core responsibilities revolve around managing project lifecycles, ensuring customer satisfaction, adhering to compliance standards, and driving project profitability and risk management within a broader enterprise solutions context. | — | 0 |
| Category Manager Microsoft is seeking a Category Manager for its Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) procurement team, specifically for data center operations supply chain. The role involves defining and executing sourcing strategies, managing supplier scorecards, negotiating contracts, and ensuring compliance within critical equipment maintenance and services categories. The position requires experience in supply chain, data analytics, finance, or project management, with a strong commercial understanding and contract negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Construction Manager Microsoft is seeking a Construction Manager to oversee the delivery of datacenter capacity for their cloud business. This role involves managing project execution across multiple sites, ensuring safety, quality, sustainability, schedule, and budget requirements are met. Responsibilities include project controls, program delivery, cross-functional collaboration, technical oversight, risk and safety leadership, vendor management, and executive reporting. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 5+ years of experience, with a preference for 12+ years and data center project experience. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager (DIAM) Lead a team of technicians responsible for data center inventory and asset management, including logistics, audits, regulatory compliance, warranty processes, and data bearing device destruction. The role involves modeling leadership, driving efficiency, managing escalations, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations within Microsoft's global data center infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| SE&O Lead, Malaysia This role focuses on driving an integrated operating model across Sales, Marketing, and Partner teams within a subsidiary, leveraging AI adoption to accelerate demand generation and pipeline growth. It involves orchestrating initiatives, advising leadership, localizing go-to-market strategies, and translating market insights into actionable plans. | — | 0 |
| Security Solution Specialist (公共/ヘルスケア) Microsoft is seeking a Security Solution Specialist for the Public Sector (Healthcare) in Tokyo. This role involves achieving sales targets, developing sales strategies for Microsoft Security solutions (primarily Microsoft 365 and Azure Security), building customer relationships, identifying cybersecurity needs, and proposing optimal solutions. The specialist will act as a liaison between customers and internal teams, provide feedback to the product team, and lead complex transformational opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Executive Business Administrator Executive Business Administrator supporting leaders at Microsoft, focusing on calendar management, logistics, cross-functional communication, event coordination, and project ownership. The role requires strong organizational, communication, and judgment skills in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Program Manager The Critical Environment Program Manager role at Microsoft focuses on the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment within datacenters, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. This role involves managing daily operations, preventative maintenance, project management, and ensuring compliance with infrastructure standards. It is not directly involved in AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Communications Manager, Cloud & AI This role is for a Senior Communications Manager focused on Microsoft's Cloud & AI infrastructure, including datacenters, energy, water sustainability, and external impact. The role involves developing and executing communication strategies, managing media relations, and handling issues management for high-visibility topics with potential regulatory interest. It requires partnering with various internal teams and external agencies to shape narratives and ensure clear, compelling storytelling. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineers Senior Software Engineers are needed to build innovative agentic and software-security solutions, including Microsoft MDASH. The role focuses on designing and building scalable backend services and data platforms that support high-impact security scenarios, bridging the gap between source code and runtime security. This is a new team focused on shaping the future of AI and security. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineers Principal Software Engineers are sought to build innovative agentic and software-security solutions, focusing on closing the gap between source code and runtime security. The role involves designing, building, and improving systems for software supply chain security, analyzing dependencies and vulnerabilities, applying program analysis techniques, and developing scalable cloud-based pipelines. Integration with developer tools like GitHub and Visual Studio is key, as is contributing to supply chain integrity practices. | — | 0 |
| Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer The Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer will own the development of C and C++ based test content at the subsystem and SoC levels, build and maintain the C test infrastructure, own the pre-silicon verification strategy and execution for security IP blocks and subsystems, architect and extend SystemVerilog and UVM environments, drive coverage signoff, act as a verification lead, mentor engineers, and improve verification efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager (Quantum Manufacturing) This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager focused on Quantum Manufacturing at Microsoft. The primary responsibility is to manage the end-to-end lot lifecycle in a cleanroom and lab environment, coordinating across fabrication, packaging, and measurement teams. The role involves driving execution, managing the production schedule, planning capacity, and improving operational rigor through KPIs and data analysis. The goal is to mature operations from pilot-line R&D towards low-volume production, ensuring reliability and repeatability. While the company aims to integrate AI with quantum computing, this specific role is focused on the manufacturing operations and program management aspects, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Cloud & AI Digital Solution Area Specialist This role is a sales and account management position focused on helping mid-market customers adopt Microsoft's AI, data, and cloud solutions. The specialist will drive strategic customer conversations, advance opportunities, and achieve revenue targets by connecting Cloud & AI solutions to customer business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Senior Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, managing operational and safety situations, mentoring junior technicians, performing maintenance, responding to incidents, and monitoring equipment performance. The role requires hands-on understanding of critical environment equipment like electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems, and involves using CMMS for work orders and adhering to safety procedures. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians responsible for hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissions in Microsoft data centers, focusing on performance, KPIs, SLAs, and team development. | — | 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, driving resolution through internal and external collaboration, and improving support processes. While the role operates within an organization that leverages AI technology, the core responsibilities do not involve building or directly managing AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician This role involves supporting the core infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud services by performing standard procedures for equipment preparation, installation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning in a data center environment. The technician will work under guidance, learn about security and data management, and contribute to issue tracking and team collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Sr Consultant This role focuses on designing and implementing Azure cloud infrastructure solutions, including IaaS/PaaS, cloud migrations, landing zones, governance, and security. It involves architectural leadership, customer engagement, and automation using Infrastructure as Code. While the role supports customers in regulated environments and mentions AI-ready infrastructure, its core function is cloud infrastructure delivery, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| HR Consulting Leader, Japan This role leads the HR Consulting function in Japan, focusing on delivering global People ROB programs and processes with agility. It partners with Japan's managers, employees, and leadership team to accelerate digital transformation and enable AI-driven innovation. The role involves people leadership, enhancing employee experience, managing employee relations, providing HR solutions consulting, building HR capabilities, and overseeing HR projects and programs, all while fostering an inclusive culture and leveraging technology and agile methodologies. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive Account Executive responsible for serving as a trusted advisor to strategic customers, helping them achieve their business goals through digital transformation and Microsoft technology solutions. The individual builds and strengthens executive-level customer relationships, develops long-term account strategies, and leads cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes and drive revenue growth. | — | 0 |
| Services Account Executive, New Zealand Sales role focused on guiding customers through cloud and AI transformation journeys, positioning Microsoft Services portfolio, and driving customer success and business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Vaga Afirmativa para Pessoas com Deficiência/ Affirmative Job Posting Commercial Executive Commercial Executive responsible for leading deal-making, negotiation, and collaboration activities to drive revenue growth and customer success, with a focus on supporting AI transformation and maximizing business opportunities with new AI offerings like Copilot. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Executive Commercial Executive responsible for deal-making, negotiation, and collaboration to drive revenue growth and customer success, with a strong focus on supporting AI transformation and new offerings like Copilot. | — | 0 |
| Fraud Operations Enablement Program Manager Program Manager for Fraud Operations Enablement, focusing on designing and scaling systems, processes, and tooling to improve operational efficiency, quality, and risk reduction. This role enables frontline teams by improving workflows, identifying friction points, partnering with engineering for automation, defining data requirements, and managing cross-functional enablement programs. Experience with AI-assisted investigations is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Incident Command & Threat Hunting Operations Manager This role leads incident response and threat hunting operations for Fraud & Abuse Security at Microsoft. It involves managing major incidents, defining threat hunting strategies, and coordinating cross-functional teams to reduce customer and Microsoft harm. The role requires strong leadership, operational excellence, and experience in cybersecurity incident management. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager Product Manager for Microsoft's Identity Security Premium team, focusing on Entra Identity Protection and Conditional Access. The role involves anticipating customer needs, building enterprise-grade product experiences, influencing cross-functional partnerships, and aligning roadmaps with OKRs/KPIs. Experience in cybersecurity and identity products is preferred, with a desirable mention of using Generative AI tools for product development. | — | 0 |
