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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| Sr. Product Marketing Manager | Security This role is for a Senior Product Marketing Manager focused on Microsoft's Cloud Security portfolio, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The individual will shape cross-portfolio marketing narratives, growth strategies, and go-to-market plans. Responsibilities include partnering with engineering on product strategy and roadmap, developing messaging and positioning, creating customer-centric content, and representing Microsoft Security to internal and external audiences. The role requires experience in security solutions and enterprise SaaS, with strong communication and collaboration skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Azure Storage focusing on the technical direction and delivery of features for a highly distributed storage system. Responsibilities include defining technical direction, delivering improvements and features, working with server technologies, and ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, and debuggability. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving design documents, creating and optimizing code, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), and monitoring system performance. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of experience in coding and 2+ years in file storage or distributed systems. |
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| Software Engineering IC3 Software Engineering IC3 role within Microsoft's Customer Experiences (CXP) team, focusing on building software systems and applications for enhancements and new products. The role involves working on complex problems in a fast-paced environment, collaborating across teams, and contributing to Microsoft's Marketing and Sales Ecosystem. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, developing design documents, writing code, task breakdown and estimation, and monitoring system performance. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with proven coding experience in languages like C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft Azure Storage team, focusing on building a common platform for the Control Plane. The role involves leading technical direction, ensuring high quality, and working on challenges related to scale and reliability in distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Principal Quantum System Architect Seeking a Principal Quantum System Architect to conceptualize, design, and evaluate quantum computing systems. Responsibilities include evaluating qubit technologies, constructing performance models, developing toolsets for modeling quantum components, and determining novel quantum applications. Requires experience in high-performance computing, quantum algorithms, or related fields. | — | 0 |
| AI Business Solution Specialist Manager Manage a team of AI Business Solution Specialists focused on driving customer business transformation through Microsoft's AI solutions. This role involves coaching the team to engage C-suite stakeholders, build sales pipeline, and close deals by articulating business value and industry-relevant insights. Responsibilities include territory planning, presentation coaching, leveraging partners, and driving sales execution excellence. Requires strong people management, technology sales experience, and understanding of SaaS solutions and industry-specific sales. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Lifecycle team responsible for managing Kubernetes nodes, ensuring support for the latest Kubernetes and Azure features, and integrating new advancements in container runtime and node features. The role will also enable access to AI hardware through AKS for customer training labs. | — | 0 |
| DATACENTER INV & ASSET MANAGER Lead a team of Inventory & Asset Management technicians responsible for inbound/outbound logistics, inventory audits, and data center regulatory compliance. This role involves managing warranty processes, data bearing device destruction, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. The manager will also handle project plans, vendor relationships, and procurement requests, while promoting a positive team culture and ensuring safety compliance. | — | 0 |
| Research Intern - Data Center and AI Networking Research intern to work on network transport features and telemetry systems for data center and AI networking environments. Focus on congestion control, load balancing, multipath transport, and network reliability. Involves prototyping on hardware, simulation, and collaboration with researchers. | — | 0 |
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| Sr Technology Security Consultant-CTJ-TS/SCI | — | — |
| Principal Product Manager - M365 Core Platform | — | — |
| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager | — | — |
| Software Engineer 2 (ISE) | — | — |
| Senior Applied Scientist | — | — |
| Critical Environment Technician Manager | — | — |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager | Ads Trust & Safety AI Platform | — | — |
| ROP - SE2/SSE - Azure Data | — | — |
| CE Field Service Engineer | — | — |
| Principal Threat Research Lead | — | — |
| Senior Content Program Manager | — | — |
| Principal Silicon Sourcing Engineer | — | — |
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| Senior Software Engineering | — | — |
| Sales Manager- Federal Government | — | — |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager - Substrate efficiency | — | — |
| Logistics Technician | — | — |
| Senior Data Center Technician IT Support | — | — |
| Senior Technical Program Manager | — | — |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Infra | — | — |
| Software Engineer II | — | — |
| Senior Director, Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience Policy (Asia) | — | — |
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics | — | — |
| Senior SoC HW (Analog/Functional) Validation Engineer | — | — |
| Critical Environment Business Program Manager | — | — |
| Logistics Technician | — | — |
| Service Engineer 2 | — | — |
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| Data Center Inventory & Asset Technician Manager | — | — |
| Senior Field IT Manager | — | — |
| SMB Sales | — | — |
| Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 | — | — |
| Director, Product Marketing | — | — |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager | — | — |
| Principal Opto-Electronics Device Engineer | — | — |
| Principal Opto-Electronics Engineer | — | — |