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 |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to design and build a Postgres-based database for modern, AI-native, agent-driven workloads within Microsoft Fabric. The role involves innovating on query planning, execution, and storage layers to support high-performance data access for next-generation applications, leveraging open storage formats and engines. | Serve | 7 |
| ML - Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on building high-performance software for AI capabilities across Windows & Devices. The role involves architecting and building code for deploying ML models at scale, optimizing edge execution, and guiding system-level decisions for inference, memory, power, and security. It requires defining ML infrastructure strategy and has preferred experience in architecting ML inference pipelines for LLMs, local model integrations, and hardware-aware optimizations. | Serve |
| 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer This role focuses on building the cloud-native, distributed platform for developing, executing, and managing agentic AI applications at scale. It involves defining the future of software development by shaping how developers interact with the platform, including programming models, user experiences, and a managed runtime for orchestrating agent-based AI applications with enterprise-grade guarantees. The role will collaborate with AI research teams and integrate multi-modal capabilities into agentic applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack - ML Efficiency & Observability - MAI Superintelligence Team Full Stack Engineer on the MAI Superintelligence Team focused on ML Efficiency & Observability, building capacity management portals and visibility into model performance for ML researchers and executives. The role involves designing and developing features for user interfaces, integrating with backend APIs for training frameworks, and contributing to internal tooling and infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal AI Network Architect This role focuses on the network architecture for AI accelerator platforms, specifically for high bandwidth and low latency networks critical for AI GPU clusters. The Principal AI Network Architect will evaluate, design, and optimize the network stack from hardware to software kernels, influencing Azure product roadmaps and working with state-of-the-art networking labs. The role requires deep expertise in networking technologies and familiarity with AI model execution pipelines. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering Manager This role is for a Principal Software Engineering Manager within Microsoft's AI Platform organization, specifically on the AI Foundry OSS Model Customization Team. The team focuses on enabling data scientists and developers to build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models, with a specialization in customizing open-source models. The manager will lead and develop a team of engineers, focusing on scalable services, customer needs, and career development, while collaborating with external partners and internal Microsoft teams. A strong background in Generative AI, ML, deep learning, NLP, transformer models, and cloud platforms is required. | Post-train | 7 |
| Cloud Solution Architect - Microsoft 365 Copilot Cloud Solution Architect focused on AI solutions, primarily Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Copilot Chat, to drive customer AI transformation. The role involves understanding business requirements, designing and implementing AI agent solutions, providing technical support, and maximizing business value and ROI for enterprise clients. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager - AI Security (CoreAI) This role focuses on defining and building the security foundation for AI systems, particularly agentic systems, within enterprise applications. The Principal Product Manager will lead product efforts to detect, prevent, and govern AI security risks, integrating these capabilities with Microsoft's broader security stack. The role is at the intersection of AI systems, cybersecurity, and enterprise cloud infrastructure, driving 0-to-1 product development for AI security. | Agent | 7 |
| Director, MAVS Technology & Product This Director role focuses on leveraging AI and AI-enabled tools to accelerate technical due diligence, product integration, and decision-making for Microsoft's strategic deals (acquisitions, divestitures, data/IP transactions). The role involves leading cross-functional teams, assessing technical risks (including AI/ML, security, privacy, compliance), developing integration plans, and driving innovation in AI-first workflows to improve efficiency and decision quality in a rapidly evolving AI market. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager/Architect - Foundry Inference Platform (CoreAI) The Principal Product Manager/Architect will define and guide the technical architecture of Microsoft Foundry, an AI inferencing platform focused on reliability, scalability, and efficiency for large-scale GPU fleets. The role involves setting product direction for reliability, GPU fleet efficiency, capacity management, and engaging with strategic customers. Success metrics include platform reliability, GPU utilization, and customer outcomes. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role focused on applying advanced analytics and data science to solve complex business problems for Microsoft's strategic customers. The role involves shaping data science strategy, defining reusable patterns, and leading technical direction across engagements, with a strong emphasis on business understanding, data preparation, modeling, and evaluation in a customer-facing consulting and engineering context. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role on the Microsoft Teams AI Platform team, focusing on building and operating high-scale backend services that enable AI agents to work seamlessly across Teams. The role involves designing and developing foundational infrastructure, collaborating with AI teams, and ensuring high standards of availability, reliability, and performance for features impacting millions of users. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior AI Development Consultant - AI/Agent Development (Japan) Seeking a Senior AI Development Consultant to lead AI/agent development for enterprise clients using Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI. Responsibilities include architectural design, technical implementation, custom agent development, data and AI foundation building with Microsoft Fabric, and RAG architecture implementation. The role involves end-to-end project delivery and technical support for client workstyle transformation. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI Senior Software Engineer to join the Evaluation platform team within Core AI, focusing on building core services for large-scale agent observability and optimizing AI agent performance. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack Engineering Manager Engineering Manager for Microsoft AI's Copilot product, focusing on full-stack development, team leadership, and shipping AI-powered experiences. The role involves hands-on coding, architectural guidance, and working across data sampling, collection, processing, analysis, and insights stages of the evaluation platform. Prompt engineering and extensive use of AI tools are also key aspects. | ShipData | 7 |
| Principal Researcher - Systems & Networking - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher in Systems and Networking with a focus on AI-driven methods for systems innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research focused on advancing cloud and AI infrastructure architecture, and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, designing and optimizing hardware components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate intelligent systems across computing layers. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Sciences INTERN Research intern to conduct research and lead collaborations on incorporating AI capabilities into Azure SQL Database platform. Focus on advancing state-of-the-art in machine intelligence and machine learning applications, implementing prototypes, and developing solutions for large-scale problems. Experience with LLMs and ML techniques is preferred. | Post-trainServe | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Senior Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for Microsoft Copilot, aiming to create revolutionary AI-powered experiences across modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with applied AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to millions of users, defining the future of human-AI interaction. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Responsible AI (CoreAI) Principal Software Engineer focused on building and integrating Responsible AI services, ensuring high availability, scalability, and low latency for customer-facing AI applications within Microsoft's CoreAI organization. This role involves end-to-end ownership of the development lifecycle, evaluating architectures, and upholding software engineering best practices. | ShipEval Gate | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Site Reliability Engineer (HPC) - MAI SuperIntelligence Team The role is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure for AI model training and inference. The engineer will ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of large-scale distributed AI systems, including GPU clusters, and will be involved in monitoring, automation, incident management, and security. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer within Microsoft's Office of the CTO (OCTO) to build AI-based systems that accelerate the deployment of OpenAI technology across Microsoft. This role involves collaborating with key technical teams at Microsoft and OpenAI to create the technical foundation for their partnership, focusing on building and shipping robust AI products, leading system design, and ensuring production reliability, observability, and security. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, HPC Operations Engineering Manager This role manages a team of Site Reliability Engineers responsible for the reliability and efficiency of large-scale distributed AI infrastructure, specifically for training, fine-tuning, and serving generative AI models. The focus is on leading operations, observability, automation, incident management, and security within hybrid cloud/on-prem CPU+GPU environments, collaborating closely with ML engineers and platform teams. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Responsible AI (CoreAI) This role focuses on building and iterating on Responsible AI tools and capabilities to enable developers to build and deploy AI responsibly at scale. It involves prototyping, applying subject-matter expertise, and collaborating across product groups to drive project and release plans. The role emphasizes working in fast-paced, experimental environments and taking ideas from ambiguity to production. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft responsible for end-to-end delivery of strategic data science projects, partnering with customers and internal teams to design and implement advanced analytics and AI solutions that create measurable business impact. This role involves leading teams, engaging with stakeholders, applying machine learning, and integrating data models into customer systems, with a focus on Responsible AI principles. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Principal Full Stack Engineer - Copilot Applications This role focuses on building cross-cutting capabilities for AI companions like Copilot, spanning multiple modalities (text, voice, vision, action). The engineer will own features end-to-end, collaborate with AI researchers, and ship experiments rapidly to create user experiences that redefine AI companionship. The role requires strong full-stack fundamentals and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling the inferencing cloud for Large Language Models and GenAI Services within Azure CoreAI Platform. The role involves designing, building, and operating large-scale engineering systems for AI models. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Security - Microsoft Research This role focuses on researching and developing next-generation intrusion detection systems by leveraging large-scale security event logs and applying advanced data processing and machine learning techniques. The goal is to achieve accurate and rapid detection of sophisticated attacks. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and optimizing Azure's High Performance Computing and AI Platform (HPC/AI) virtual machines. This involves deep technical work on hardware/software interactions, device virtualization, and performance analysis of GPU workloads for large-scale AI training and inference. The role contributes to the underlying platform software and its exposure as an Azure service, with opportunities to work on upper layers of Azure infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |
| Engineering Lead - Extreme Retrieval Engineering Lead to build and own the software engineering platform for large-scale machine learning retrieval systems, including RAG for Copilots, web-scale search, and personalized recommendations. The role focuses on translating retrieval research into reusable, scalable systems, defining engineering standards, and integrating new methods. It involves cross-team technical leadership and improving developer/researcher experience. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer The role focuses on designing and building cutting-edge networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure Cloud. The goal is to enable breakthroughs in AI by delivering unmatched computational power, scalability, and reliability, with a focus on high performance, low latency, and minimal jitter for distributed AI workloads. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior & Principal Security Researcher Senior/Principal Security Researcher on the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage (GHOST) team. The role involves performing threat hunts, assisting with investigations, developing threat intelligence, and cultivating investigation best practices into Microsoft tooling and products. Researchers will support a global team to identify and catalog new attacker TTPs, victims, and deliver customer notifications to protect worldwide enterprise customers and empower customers to protect themselves via constantly improving Microsoft products. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Copilot M365 Calendar Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building AI-powered scheduling systems by integrating backend services, LLMs, APIs, and Outlook services for Microsoft Calendar and Teams. The role involves developing agent-driven solutions to reduce cognitive load and empower users in the hybrid work era. | Agent | 7 |
| Research Intern - Human-AI Interaction Research and Design (Health AI) Research Intern position focused on Human-AI Interaction in Healthcare, applying AI/ML and user-centered design to develop novel solutions for precision medicine. The role involves foundational discovery research, building interactive prototypes, and exploring generative UI and multimodal AI with clinical data. | Agent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Platform Engineer This role focuses on engineering user-facing AI features for Microsoft's personal AI, Copilot. The engineer will own the development lifecycle from inception to delivery, build secure and performant AI platform services, and collaborate with researchers and other engineers to create next-generation AI products. The role emphasizes shipping high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code within a fast-paced product development cycle. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - AI and Systems Reliability - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on AI and Systems Reliability. The role involves defining a novel research agenda in areas like distributed systems, formal methods, ML for system reliability, and reliability of ML systems, with the goal of bringing formal rigor and reliability guarantees to AI-powered platforms. | Post-train | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Product Engineer - Web This role focuses on building AI-powered web experiences for Microsoft Copilot, collaborating with researchers and product managers to deliver a world-class AI companion. The engineer will design and build efficient front-end systems and infrastructure for complex web applications, ensuring safety and reliability for millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Research Intern - Office of the Chief Scientific Officer Research Intern position at Microsoft's Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, focusing on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible AI. The role involves collaborating with world-class researchers on complex challenges in diverse fields, including AI, biology, biomedicine, and the societal influences of AI. Interns will contribute to research and development strides, present findings, and potentially publish peer-reviewed work. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Infra - MAI Superintelligence Team The role focuses on building and maintaining data infrastructure for large-scale AI model training, specifically ingesting and processing enormous amounts of multimodal data (text, audio, images, video). This includes owning data pipelines, Spark, Ray, and Vector Databases, and partnering with pretraining and post-training teams to improve the data recipe for frontier models. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineering The Microsoft 365 Copilot Windows App team is building intelligent, multimodal AI experiences into Windows, enabling AI agents using MCP to redefine user interaction with devices and bring AI to billions. The role involves designing and implementing intelligent features leveraging voice, camera, and screen context, building and optimizing agentic workflows, and owning end-to-end AI capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Inclusive Futures Team Research Intern position at Microsoft Research's Inclusive Futures group, focusing on needs-focused research for underserved individuals. Requires a PhD student in a relevant STEM field with experience in HCI, AI, Accessibility, or related areas. The role involves conducting original research, collaborating with researchers, and potentially publishing findings. | Post-train | 7 |
| Research Intern - Technology for Religious Empowerment Research Intern position focusing on adapting and designing AI systems for religious communities, involving model evaluations, product design, and responsible AI practices. The role requires a PhD student in a STEM field with an interest in religion and experience with emerging technologies like Generative AI and Agentic Systems. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Systems and Networking, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Systems and Networking at Microsoft Research, focusing on AI-driven methods for system innovation, performance, efficiency, and scalability. The role involves developing and implementing new methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and publishing research findings. Requires a Doctorate and background in systems/networking with knowledge of ML systems, databases, and networking technologies, including Agent Systems and Vector Databases. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Researcher - Cloud and AI Infrastructure, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Cloud and AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Research, focusing on advancing AI infrastructure architecture and chip design using AI technologies. The role involves investigating hardware trends, optimizing components, conducting simulations, developing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex real-world challenges at the intersection of AI, human interaction, and environmental context. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Research Intern - AI Hardware Research Intern role focused on AI Hardware, specifically researching chip architectures for efficient AI serving and inference systems. Collaborates with researchers to increase performance and efficiency of cutting-edge inference systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Azure Research - Systems Research Intern role focused on next-generation cloud and AI systems, with a focus on improving efficiency, reliability, and usability of Microsoft's online services and datacenters. Projects include efficient GPU/LLM deployments, AIOps, and serverless computing. The role involves research, prototyping, evaluation, and potential publication. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Gray Systems Lab (GSL) Research intern role focusing on machine learning for systems, reinforcement learning, natural language-to-query, and agentic workflows within Azure Data's Gray Systems Lab. The internship involves research and development for databases, big-data, and cloud systems, with potential impact on production systems and publications. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Research Intern - MSR Software-Hardware Co-design Research intern role focused on pioneering technologies for AI/ML workloads, specifically improving efficiency, security, and robustness of GPU memory systems, agentic AI systems, and software architecture for hardware accelerators. The role involves fast-paced execution, implementation, and evaluation on Azure platforms, with a focus on systems and AI. | Serve | 7 |
| Research Intern - Reliability of Cloud and AI Systems Research intern role focused on applying LLM and Agentic technology to improve the reliability of large-scale cloud and AI systems. The role involves analyzing production data, designing and building novel tools for monitoring and troubleshooting, and validating solutions on real Microsoft services. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Research Intern - RiSE group Research Intern role in the RiSE group focusing on ML Systems, AI workloads, agentic workflows, and ML models for software engineering tasks. Requires PhD program enrollment and expertise in related STEM fields, with preferred qualifications in ML systems, AI, and software engineering. | Data | 7 |
