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 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 343 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (19), Senior Software Engineer (19), Software Engineer II (8), Principal Applied Scientist (7), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (36%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (19%). 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 (308 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (8 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 227 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Data & Applied Scientist Senior Data & Applied Scientist role focused on product/program analytics and insights for Microsoft's Global Skilling initiatives, including the AI Skills Navigator. The role involves understanding learner behavior, defining success metrics, designing experiments, and partnering with engineering and product teams to improve learning experiences and accelerate proficiency. It leverages data science techniques to measure product performance and learning outcomes. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role in the Bing organization focused on predictive and forecast models, product analysis, and A/B experimentation to understand user engagement with search engines and AI experiences. The role involves translating insights into actionable metrics to guide product and strategic decisions, and developing tools for metric analysis. | Ship |
| 5 |
| Senior Service Engineer Senior Service Engineer role focused on administering and governing Microsoft 365 and AI administration surfaces, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, across multiple internal tenants. The role involves defining configurations, driving automation and policy as code for baselines and drift detection, and responding to AI plane risks at scale. It requires a strong security mindset and collaboration with software engineers. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager - CoreAI This role is for a Principal Product Manager focused on building a unified AI platform by managing ISV partnerships, driving their integration and adoption on Azure & Foundry. The role involves operational excellence, executive alignment, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure partner success and accelerate AI workload adoption. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and operating distributed services and microservices on Azure, integrating AI capabilities like NLP, semantic search, and intelligent agents. The role involves end-to-end feature ownership, platform contributions, and ensuring performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Experience with AI development tools, LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks is preferred. | Ship | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI This role is a Cloud Solution Architect focused on AI and Azure workloads. The primary responsibility is to guide enterprise customers in their AI transformation journey, advising on architecture design, deployment, and scaling of AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role involves building trusted relationships with executives, driving technical excellence, and accelerating Azure consumption for AI initiatives. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Native Senior Software Engineer to create innovative machine learning-powered features across Windows and other Microsoft products, focusing on native code development for OS, platform layers, app experiences, and service integrations. The role involves rapid prototyping, human-centered development, and shipping features used by billions. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal, Data Science & Analytics This role focuses on ecosystem data science within Microsoft AI, owning cross-product measurement strategy, shared systems, and experimentation frameworks. The principal will apply machine learning, statistical modeling, and experimentation to large datasets to define and deliver metrics that measure user and business value across products. Responsibilities include mentoring, developing data strategies, designing and executing experiments, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and establishing standards for data quality and operationalizing ML models. The role aims to optimize MAI-level outcomes and drive data-driven decision-making. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Product Designer Principal Product Designer for Microsoft AI Monetization, focusing on building next-generation AI-powered products for advertising and monetization across various Microsoft consumer surfaces like Copilot, Bing, and MSN. The role involves end-to-end design ownership, driving innovation, and shipping world-class AI-powered consumer experiences. | Ship | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager, Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) / SWE Manager for an Industry Solutions Engineering team focused on delivering customer outcomes using AI and cloud technologies. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team, coaching engineers, and championing AI-forward practices to build customer solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| Multidisciplinary Manager, Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) / TPM This role leads a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on developing and delivering high-impact customer outcomes using AI-forward hypervelocity engineering. The team will apply responsible AI practices and integrate emerging AI capabilities into customer solutions, acting as a player-coach and enabling technical program managers. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Technology Consultant-CTJ-Poly This role focuses on designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud architectures, specifically leveraging Azure AI services and generative AI solution patterns. The consultant will guide customers on secure, compliant, and responsible AI adoption, including integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, and advise on adoption, governance, and value realization. The role involves customer engagement, technical quality assurance, leading meetings, managing escalations, and driving the adoption of Microsoft cloud technologies. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager, AI Monetization, Ads & Creatives, Copilot Principal Product Manager for AI Monetization in Ads & Creatives, focusing on building AI-driven creative products for advertisers to produce high-quality assets at scale, drive performance, and maintain brand integrity. The role involves owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap, partnering with cross-functional teams, and leveraging generative models and creative performance signals. The goal is to establish Microsoft as a leader in responsible AI-powered creative advertising. | Ship | 5 |
| Solution Architect (Japan) Seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead customer AI adoption using Microsoft's AI solutions, focusing on end-to-end architecture and business transformation. The role involves conceptualizing, proposing, and driving AI-centric solutions across Microsoft's AI portfolio, including M365 Copilot, Azure OpenAI, and data platforms. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineering - DevDiv Core AI Software Engineer in Microsoft's DevDiv division focused on integrating AI into developer tools to enhance productivity. The role involves designing and developing software components, leveraging AI technologies like GitHub Copilot and LLM-based code tools, dogfooding internal AI tools, and researching/experimenting with AI techniques to improve engineering workflows. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Consultant - Data & AI This role is for a Principal Consultant within Microsoft's Industry Solutions - Global Center Innovation and Delivery Center (GCID). The primary focus is on leading the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, embedding AI-native thinking into delivery models, and ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes. The role involves driving engineering excellence, innovation, client engagement, and team mentorship, with a strong emphasis on delivering AI-powered solutions that achieve specific business KPIs. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role is for a Principal Software Engineer on the Experimentation Platform team within Microsoft's CoreAI division. The platform enables high-scale online experimentation for AI systems and product features, accelerating product learning and driving progress across Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The engineer will lead architecture and development of this critical infrastructure, focusing on systems that help teams ship better AI experiences faster through rigorous experimentation and responsible AI practices. | ShipEval Gate | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Browser Platform Senior Software Engineer to join the on-device ML team for the Edge browser. The role involves delivering on-device ML capabilities via web APIs, integrating models and runtimes into Edge, developing evaluation pipelines and datasets, and contributing to the Chromium project. The focus is on shipping AI-powered features to end-users. | ShipData | 5 |
| Senior Researcher - Research in Software Engineering - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on advancing software engineering through rigorous research, integrating AI and agent technologies into programming languages, testing, and automated reasoning. The role involves driving high-impact research, developing new ideas, building state-of-the-art systems, and preparing technical papers and presentations. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and scaling AI-powered growth systems for Microsoft's core AI products like GitHub Copilot and VS Code. The engineer will design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments, improve A/B testing frameworks, and use data to drive decisions, aiming to accelerate user adoption and engagement with AI features. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Consultant A2 - Apps This Principal Consultant role focuses on leading the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, with a strong emphasis on embedding AI-first principles and leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot across the software development lifecycle. The role involves architectural ownership, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes within an enterprise context. | Ship | 5 |