Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% 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 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.
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| AI Business Solution Consultant This role is for a Principal Consultant focused on Microsoft 365 and Endpoint Management. The consultant will advise clients on cloud productivity, security, compliance, and endpoint management, designing and delivering modern workplace solutions. The role involves engaging with business and technology stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions and driving project delivery. | — | 0 |
| Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and deploying complex solutions for strategic customers, primarily leveraging existing offerings and reference architectures. The Solution Architect collaborates with account teams, project managers, and stakeholders to understand business challenges, define technical strategies, manage risks, and ensure successful implementation and transition to operations. The role involves significant documentation, communication, and governance to ensure solutions meet customer needs and business value. | — | 0 |
| Sr Digital Solution Area Specialist - Security This role is for a Sr. Digital Solution Area Specialist focused on Security within Microsoft's Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) division. The role involves building digital transformation security strategies with customers, collaborating with internal teams and partners to drive sales opportunities, and leveraging AI-powered tools and insights to achieve customer success and business growth. The position requires extensive experience in technology sales, understanding of security frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, and knowledge of XDR, SIEM, and Data Security technologies. |
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| Lessor Relationship Manager This role focuses on managing relationships with lessors (third-party data center providers) to ensure the smooth operation and expansion of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. It involves analyzing lessor performance, identifying areas for improvement, developing and managing programs to enhance lessor performance, and acting as a liaison between lessors and internal subject matter experts. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and program management skills, with a focus on driving operational excellence and maintaining 100% uptime. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Technician This role is for a Critical Environment Technician responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure in Microsoft's datacenters, including electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. Responsibilities include performing maintenance, responding to incidents, monitoring equipment performance, and ensuring safety and security protocols are followed. The role requires shift work and the ability to pass security screenings. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Construction Manager This role is for a Sr. Construction Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the delivery of datacenter capacity. The role involves overseeing project execution, managing vendors, driving risk mitigation, and ensuring safety, quality, sustainability, schedule, and budget requirements are met for large-scale construction projects. It requires leadership in cross-functional collaboration, technical oversight, and regulatory compliance. | — | 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 escalate incidents as needed. The role also includes assisting peers, completing training, and contributing to a positive team environment. A background check and Malaysian citizenship verification are required. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory audits, deliveries, security escorts, and documentation of inbound/outbound shipments. It involves coordinating warranty claims, managing return merchandise authorizations (RMAs), maintaining inventory systems, tracking physical inventory, reconciling discrepancies, and performing data-bearing device destruction. The role requires adherence to SLAs and Microsoft policies, with a focus on inventory management principles and career advancement within cloud operations. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Technician Manager Lead a team of technicians in a data center environment, overseeing hardware deployments, diagnostics, and decommissioning. Focus on team performance, KPI monitoring, SLA adherence, and ensuring compliance with policies and safety procedures. This role is crucial for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure operations. | — | 0 |
| Director Business Planning This role is for a Director of Business Planning within Microsoft's Commercial Strategy organization, focusing on pricing, packaging, licensing, channel, and monetization strategies for their commercial portfolio, particularly for Public Sector customers. The role involves developing data-driven business cases, influencing senior stakeholders, driving cross-functional alignment, and shaping go-to-market approaches for modern commerce platforms and partner strategies. It requires strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, and strong communication skills to influence and execute strategies. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Solution Architecture The Cloud Solution Architect role involves gathering customer insights, mapping architecture, and proposing digital transformation solutions based on Microsoft technologies, with a focus on accelerating AI transformation for customers. The role requires coaching team members, driving adherence to Microsoft standards, and providing a holistic perspective of customer challenges. The role is within the CSA Global Delivery team, focusing on enhancing customer experience with Microsoft's hybrid/public cloud solutions. The role requires prior experience on M365 technologies and a growth mindset to skill up on Copilot and PowerPlatform. Customer demand for Security is trending up, specifically in AI security, Zero Trust, and SOC modernization. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in the Windows Enterprise and Security team, focusing on designing and shipping security and enterprise features for the Windows ecosystem. The role involves building foundational security and management features, ensuring secure-by-design principles, and collaborating with partner teams for end-to-end execution. | — | 0 |
| Vietnam Sales Manager Sales Manager for Microsoft in Vietnam, responsible for developing and executing go-to-market sales strategies, driving revenue growth, and managing teams. The role involves leveraging industry expertise to identify opportunities, foster customer relationships, and lead digital transformation initiatives relevant to customers and partners. It also includes people management responsibilities, focusing on employee development, performance, and building an inclusive culture. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the CloudMine team, responsible for maintaining and evolving the data mining framework and pipelines that support engineering initiatives across Microsoft. This role involves architecting scalable data pipelines, curating datasets, developing data collectors, and ensuring the security, reliability, and compliance of the data platform. Requires versatility in software and data engineering, with a focus on data quality and large-scale data systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Physical Design Engineer Microsoft is seeking a Senior Physical Design Engineer to join their Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) team. This role is responsible for the end-to-end physical design implementation of state-of-the-art computer chips, specifically mentioning Azure Cobalt. The engineer will coordinate with various teams, influence design tools and methodologies, and optimize designs for power, performance, and area. The role requires experience in synthesis, RTL/DFT feedback, timing constraints, and RTL to GDS implementation, with a focus on production flagship projects. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on optimizing the performance of Microsoft Edge, a user-facing product. The engineer will lead architectural evolution, drive data-informed improvements, modernize legacy code, and scale impact through performance tooling and AI-assisted diagnostics to ensure a fast, responsive, and reliable user experience. | — | 0 |
| Chief Nursing Services Leader This role is for a Chief Nursing Services Leader who will bring deep clinical expertise in nursing workflows to help customers prepare for and adopt AI solutions. The role combines clinical leadership and customer experience, ensuring product strategy and customer success teams are grounded in real-world clinical practices. Responsibilities include thought leadership, collaboration with partners and commercial teams, identifying customer KPIs, providing subject matter expertise during product development, building trust with healthcare systems, representing customer success in best practices, partnering with product management, and furthering transformation strategies. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Error Correction Software Engineer This role focuses on designing and developing infrastructure for evaluating fault-tolerance strategies in quantum computing systems, advancing quantum error correction codes, and empowering research for scalable quantum computers. It involves software engineering for a revolutionary technology, working with a multidisciplinary team. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer for Azure PostgreSQL team, focusing on relational database engine innovations like query processing, transaction logging, and distributed systems. The role involves system architecture, roadmap creation, and ensuring code quality, with on-call responsibilities for live services. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field and 6+ years of engineering experience, with preferred experience in distributed cloud services and database internals. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Azure PostgreSQL team, focusing on relational database engine innovations like query processing, transaction logging, and distributed systems. The role involves contributing to open-source PostgreSQL and Linux, developing extensions, and maintaining live services. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building next-generation payment, checkout, and agentic-commerce infrastructure for Microsoft surfaces like Copilot, Edge, Bing, and MSN. The role involves designing and implementing client applications, cloud services, SDKs, and distributed systems at a global scale, ensuring secure, privacy-preserving, and compliant operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer -Front End Development Senior Software Engineer focused on front-end development for a SaaS data development environment. The role involves architecting and designing scalable web experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-quality code, test coverage, and engineering excellence. The focus is on building a unified and extensible web studio for data analytics, impacting usability and functionality. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role in Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization, focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM) products and services. The role involves designing and implementing full-stack systems, adhering to engineering best practices, collaborating with customers and teams, and ensuring security compliance within Microsoft's heterogeneous environments. This is a core engineering role within a mature enterprise AI/security domain. | — | 0 |
| Principal Data Scientist The Principal Data Scientist will join the Microsoft Advertising Data Science Team, focusing on monitoring business metrics, defining metrics, building analytical & experimentation frameworks, and enabling data-driven decisions. The role involves addressing complex data science problems across users, advertisers, and publishers in a dynamic environment, requiring creative modeling and a willingness to challenge the status quo. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - POLY Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Azure Data Transfer (ADT) team, focusing on reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency of distributed systems for highly regulated industries. Responsibilities include owning reliability architecture, defining SLIs/SLOs, implementing automation, improving observability, and leading incident response. Requires experience with cloud reliability practices, secure-by-design principles, and compliance requirements. | — | 0 |
| Az Storage - SWE2/SSE Software Engineer to design and develop the next generation of the Azure file storage stack, a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving design documents, creating and optimizing code, and acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for system monitoring and incident response. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - Distributed Systems Software Engineer II role focused on building and maintaining distributed systems for Azure Data's messaging and real-time intelligence team. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating core components of large-scale distributed systems that power Azure messaging services, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and low latency. The team also supports strategic scenarios within Microsoft Fabric for streaming data ingestion and transformation. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - Full Stack Software Engineer II - Full Stack role at Microsoft, focusing on building customer-facing web experiences for the Microsoft Fabric platform, specifically within the Real-Time Intelligence team. The role involves prototyping and developing a new UX platform for interfacing with streaming data, aiming to address high-profile customer pain points and contribute to a core piece of the UX plane. The position requires experience with data platforms and front-end technologies, with a strong emphasis on delivering polished components and iterating based on feedback. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role at Microsoft working on OneDrive and SharePoint services. Focuses on building and delivering large-scale, distributed architectures and features for cloud services, managing internet-scale data stores, and ensuring service availability, reliability, and performance. Involves coding, debugging, system design, and on-call responsibilities. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Microsoft Azure High Performance Computing & AI Engineering team, focusing on managing and operating the core platform and fleet of AI and High Performance Computing products. The role involves designing and developing capabilities to monitor and efficiently operate supercomputers at scale, creating data pipelines for telemetry and logs to generate alerts, and implementing systemic solutions to improve performance and reliability. The position emphasizes a live-site first, metrics-driven culture with a focus on customer experience and incident management. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Product Manager Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Fabric Capacities, a unified data platform for the age of AI. The role involves defining and executing the vision for Fabric Capacities, which provide computing power for data modeling, warehousing, BI, and machine learning, enabling business users and data scientists. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and operating a next-generation service for transferring large volumes of data from various source systems to Microsoft Fabric with minimal latency. The role involves designing, building, and optimizing advanced data movement and replication scenarios within the Azure Data integration team. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - OneDrive and SharePoint Software Engineer II role at Microsoft focusing on the core infrastructure of OneDrive and SharePoint. The role involves designing and delivering systems for data integrity, availability, and performance, managing billions of files and exabytes of storage at a global scale. Responsibilities include enabling partner migrations, improving system performance and efficiency, and ensuring business continuity through robust systems and telemetry. | — | 0 |
| Senior Corporate Counsel, Construction This role supports Microsoft's Cloud Operations + Innovation division by providing legal counsel for the design, procurement, construction contracting, and project delivery of global datacenters. The role involves advising on complex agreements, negotiating with contractors and suppliers, managing outside counsel, and supporting active construction projects. While the division operates AI tools like Copilot and the role mentions using AI to improve legal work, the core function is legal counsel for infrastructure construction, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| "Purview" Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Purview, focusing on data governance and security solutions. The role involves leading design and implementation of robust workflows, optimizing platform performance for large data volumes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires strong software engineering skills in cloud-native and distributed systems, with an emphasis on scalability, availability, and security. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for the Edge Web Platform team, focusing on the Rendering team. The role involves developing and improving web platform features in the Chromium rendering pipeline, collaborating with engineers and program managers, partnering with standards and upstream communities (W3C, Chromium), and delivering web platform innovation. The goal is to shape how modern web content is rendered, animated, and interacted with across platforms, bridging the gap between native applications and the web, and contributing to the Chromium project. | — | 0 |
| CE Field Service Engineer - Tokyo This role is for a CE Field Service Engineer in Tokyo, Japan, responsible for the operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in leased datacenters. The role focuses on ensuring critical environment availability, operational efficiency, and compliance with safety and security policies. It involves managing day-to-day operations, supporting emergency preparedness, conducting audits, and fostering relationships with partners and engineering groups. | — | 0 |
| Applied Science Intern Applied Science Intern position at Microsoft in London, England. | — | 0 |
| Applied Science Intern Applied Science Intern position at Microsoft in London, England. | — | 0 |
| Applied Sciences Internship Internship role at Microsoft in Zurich, focusing on Applied Sciences. The posting emphasizes Microsoft's commitment to equal opportunity employment and provides information on requesting accommodations. | — | 0 |
| Quantum Error Correction Researcher Researcher focused on Quantum Error Correction for scalable quantum computing systems, collaborating with theorists and experimentalists to advance fault-tolerance strategies and quantum error correction codes. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Azure Storage team, focusing on distributed systems, massive scalability, and durability for foundational cloud storage services. The role involves defining technical direction, ensuring reliability, performance, and quality, and mentoring other engineers. | — | 0 |
| "Purview" Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Purview, focusing on data protection and governance solutions. The role involves leading design and implementation of robust workflows, optimizing platform performance for large data volumes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Emphasis on cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and security within a mature product offering. | — | 0 |
| Senior Construction Manager Senior Construction Manager responsible for the end-to-end EPC delivery of Microsoft data centres in EMEA, overseeing shell, MEP fitout, testing, and IT fitout. The role involves managing the full project lifecycle from due diligence to handover, including budget ownership, risk mitigation, and leading multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced, technical environment. | — | 0 |
| Critical Environment Industrial Controls Systems Engineer This role is for an Industrial Control Systems Engineer responsible for maintaining and managing ICS systems within Microsoft's mission-critical datacentres. The engineer will focus on availability, data quality, security, and project management for these systems, which are crucial for powering Microsoft's cloud services. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - POLY Software Engineer II role focused on driving reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions across the C+E stack, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and supporting dedicated clouds by mitigating issues with sustainable solutions. The role involves developing scripts and automation to resolve complex problems, leveraging telemetry for operational improvement, and conducting root cause analyses. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of technical engineering experience, and an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph. | — | 0 |
| Senior Hardware Engineer-Commissioning Manager HEL Senior Hardware Engineer-Commissioning Manager for Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) in the EMEA region, responsible for delivering core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services. The role involves managing commissioning projects, ensuring compliance with standards, overseeing contracted agents, conducting site inspections, and reporting on progress, scope, schedule, and budget. | — | 0 |
| Reliability Engineering Manager- Commissioning Manager HEL This role is for a Commissioning Manager in Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division, responsible for delivering core infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. The manager will oversee commissioning projects in the EMEA region, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, and budget, and adhere to Microsoft's standards. Responsibilities include managing commissioning agents, conducting site inspections, reporting on project progress, and refining commissioning strategies and procedures. The role requires technical engineering experience, preferably in data center operations or construction, and strong English communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret Software Engineer II role focused on building and delivering cloud security solutions for government environments. Responsibilities include developing scalable and reliable services, improving engineering systems, automating features, and investigating/fixing production issues within a secure facility. Requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, 2+ years of engineering experience with coding, and an active TS/SCI clearance. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Quantum Error Correction Research intern position focused on quantum error correction and fault-tolerance for building scalable quantum computers. Involves developing codes, fault-tolerant operations, decoding algorithms, and theoretical/software tools. Requires a PhD in a related STEM field and experience in quantum error correction. | — | 0 |