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 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot & Agents Cloud Solution Architect This role is for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot and customer success within the ANZ AI Business Solutions Area CSA Team. The primary goal is to help customers achieve ROI on their M365 Copilot investment and guide them on their agentic journey by operating across the customer lifecycle from deployment to usage and expansion. The role requires a strong learning mindset and focus on emerging technologies in a dynamic customer environment. | — | 5 |
| Senior System Software Engineer - WSD Senior Software Engineer on the Update Platform team responsible for delivering Windows software updates. The role involves designing and implementing features for update discovery, installation, and lifecycle, with a focus on integrating ML/AI models and preparing for Agentic AI and AI Orchestration. | Ship |
| 5 |
| Principal Customer Success Account Manager This role is for a Principal Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) at Microsoft, focused on driving strategic customer outcomes, accelerating cloud and AI adoption, and ensuring long-term customer health and value realization within enterprise accounts. The CSAM acts as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders, orchestrating Microsoft's capabilities to deliver measurable business impact, with a focus on Azure and AI consumption growth. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager Principal Product Manager for Azure Networking, focusing on AI Networking, hyper-scale network health, and infrastructure evolution. The role involves identifying customer needs, defining solutions, driving business impact, owning roadmaps, and collaborating with engineering and marketing teams to deliver industry-leading innovations in a fast-paced cloud environment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Product Manager for a Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform focused on enabling AI-powered and agentic workloads at hyperscale within Microsoft 365. The role involves defining strategy, driving roadmap execution, and partnering with engineering teams to support the next generation of AI and intelligent agent ecosystems. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Security Specialist This role is for a Principal Security Specialist within Microsoft's AI-powered global sales team. The primary focus is on leading security strategy for strategic customers, advising CISOs, and aligning Microsoft Security and partner solutions to customer priorities such as Defend with AI and Security for AI. The role involves technical leadership, sales execution, and acting as a field multiplier, with a strong emphasis on understanding AI and infrastructure security. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer The role focuses on building and scaling backend services and data pipelines that power device and security intelligence within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The core responsibility is to transform fragmented signals into a consistent, reliable data foundation that supports downstream systems, customers, and AI-driven capabilities. This involves designing, building, and scaling these systems, defining data models and pipelines, and contributing to architectural decisions for correctness, scalability, and durability. | Data | 5 |
| Account Technology Specialist - Gaming Industry This role is for an Account Technology Specialist focused on the gaming industry, acting as a technology partner to major Japanese gaming companies. The primary focus is to understand customer business challenges and strategies, and to drive transformation using AI and agent technologies, particularly Azure AI and Copilot. The role also involves developing and executing Microsoft's industry strategy for gaming, and orchestrating cross-functional teams to maximize customer value. It emphasizes strategic technology advising, business transformation through AI, industry strategy, and team orchestration. | — | 5 |
| Data Engineer Data Engineer role focused on formulating business problems, exploring and analyzing data, and designing/testing predictive and forecasting models. The role will identify opportunities for machine learning and predictive analysis, and communicate insights to influence data-driven decisions. This role is within Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) at Microsoft, supporting IT operations processes and standards for global datacenters. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Bing Multimedia team, focusing on building and evolving large-scale offline infrastructure for image and video search. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable platforms that process vast amounts of data, with a strong emphasis on engineering metrics like latency, cost, availability, and quality. The team leverages state-of-the-art ML models and AI-assisted engineering practices to deliver world-class visual search experiences. | Serve | 5 |
| Director, Executive & Product Communications - Copilot (Microsoft AI) This role is for a Director of Executive & Product Communications for Microsoft Copilot, focusing on shaping the narrative and perception of the AI companion and its executive leadership within the tech, developer, and startup ecosystems. It involves developing communication strategies, drafting content, and engaging with communities to build visibility and credibility. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager II Product Manager II for Azure Data's Cosmos platform, focusing on building and maintaining operational database systems. The role involves driving end-to-end product delivery, program management, capacity planning, and collaborating with engineering and stakeholders. The team actively uses AI tools and aims to build an AI-enabled data platform for mission-critical workloads. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering This role is for a Senior Software Engineer focused on building AI-infused enterprise applications, Agentic Solutions, and Copilots within Microsoft's Commercial Sales Experiences (CSX) team. The engineer will lead the full software development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment, emphasizing engineering best practices, scalability, and security. The role involves leveraging AI technologies and Azure PaaS services to enhance user experience and productivity, contributing to Microsoft's Cloud and AI strategy. | ShipAgent | 5 |
| Copilot & AI Workforce Specialist - Sydney/Melbourne Sales specialist role focused on driving adoption and revenue for Microsoft's AI Workforce solutions, primarily M365 Copilot, within Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C). The role involves consultative selling, value engineering, and partnering with account teams to achieve business outcomes and scale AI-powered productivity. | — | 5 |
| Senior Security Research- Microsoft Security Senior Security Researcher focused on detecting and autonomously protecting against sophisticated enterprise identity-based attacks using Generative AI tooling. The role involves end-to-end research projects, data analysis, threat hypothesis, and crafting detection logic. | Agent | 5 |
| Account Executive - Communication, Transportation and Retail Account Executive role focused on driving digital and AI transformation for clients in the communication, transportation, and retail sectors. The role involves understanding client business needs, developing strategic roadmaps, and leveraging Microsoft solutions (including AI/Copilot) to achieve business outcomes. Requires strong sales experience, relationship building, and industry knowledge. | — | 5 |
| Principal Lead TPM Principal Lead Technical Program Manager for Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization. This role focuses on managing a large-scale service to keep over 1.8 billion Windows devices secure and productive. The TPM will lead a team responsible for security, reliability, customer issues, data insights, and feature development. The role emphasizes an AI-First approach, incorporating AI-assisted methodologies and tools to enhance product strategy, customer understanding, decision-making, and engineering efficiency, while maintaining security, privacy, and compliance. The TPM will drive long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap, foster partnerships, and use data to drive decisions. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager - ISE Principal Technical Program Manager for Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team at Microsoft, focusing on driving high-impact engineering projects with customers to transform their missions using AI and other cloud-based solutions. This role involves defining customer scenarios, orchestrating engineering approaches, and developing end-to-end user stories, acting in a Product Owner capacity within a cross-functional team. | Ship | 5 |
| Agentic AI-Business Consultant | Enterprise This role focuses on driving business transformation through AI, specifically leveraging Microsoft's platforms like Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents. The consultant will redefine how businesses operate in the AI era, focusing on strategy, business case development, and the creation and deployment of Agentic AI use cases within enterprise contexts. The role requires strong consulting and transformation experience, with an understanding of how AI can be applied to business processes. | Agent | 5 |
| Agentic AI-Business Consultant (Principal) | Enterprise This role focuses on driving business transformation through AI, specifically leveraging Microsoft's platforms like Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents. The consultant will redefine business processes and decision-making, working from strategy definition to execution, with a focus on creating new markets and enhancing corporate competitiveness. | Agent | 5 |
| Agentic AI-Business Consultant (Principal) | Enterprise This role focuses on driving business transformation through AI, specifically leveraging Microsoft's platforms like Dynamics 365, Copilot, and AI Agents. The consultant will redefine business processes and decision-making, working from strategy definition to execution, with a focus on creating new markets and enhancing corporate competitiveness. | Agent | 5 |
| Audience Strategy & Operations Manager This role manages audience skilling programs and operations for Microsoft's AI Skills Navigator, focusing on content execution, campaign prioritization, and program delivery to accelerate skill acquisition for workforce audiences. It involves establishing an Audience Insights Center of Excellence and aligning with product teams on roadmap and deliverables. | — | 5 |
| Copilot Cloud Solution Architect This role focuses on designing and delivering cloud and AI application solutions for enterprise customers using Microsoft Azure. The Solution Architect will guide customers in integrating AI capabilities, enabling AI-powered scenarios, and accelerating business outcomes through scalable and secure cloud solutions. The role involves architecting solutions, driving AI innovation, and supporting AI use cases like personalization and automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager (Quantum) This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) at Microsoft Quantum, focused on advancing quantum hardware infrastructure from research to scalable systems. The TPM will lead cross-functional engineering efforts, shape device development, and drive execution across internal teams and external partners. The role involves strategic planning, cross-disciplinary coordination, supplier management, and leveraging AI/ML for development acceleration, quality, and yield optimization. It sits at the intersection of research, engineering, and manufacturing, aiming to scale topological qubits and quantum systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Opto - Electronics Device Engineer This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Research focused on translating early-stage AI infrastructure research into shippable products and services. The role involves shaping technical concepts into product roadmaps, driving execution with Azure engineering teams, and managing external suppliers. It requires bridging research and production, with a focus on hardware innovation for next-generation AI platforms. The role operates at the intersection of optics, electronics, photonics, packaging, networking, and AI system design, aiming to bring these innovations to cloud AI scale. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Research focused on translating early-stage AI research into shippable products and services. The role involves shaping technical concepts into product roadmaps, driving execution with Azure engineering teams, and managing external supplier relationships. It operates at the intersection of optics, electronics, photonics, packaging, networking, and AI system design, bridging research and production for next-generation AI infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| 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 Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Surface Devices team responsible for designing, scaling, and maintaining CI/CD infrastructure for Windows OEM factory images. The role involves integrating Azure AI capabilities for intelligent log analysis, anomaly detection, and automation within the DevOps ecosystem. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Solution Engineer - AI Workforce Senior Solution Engineer focused on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio & Agents, and related solutions. The role involves leading technical engagements, designing scalable architectures, and acting as a trusted advisor to accelerate adoption and win technical decisions. | Agent | 5 |
| Workforce AI Specialist (incl Microsoft 365 Copilot) for Manufacturing Industry This role focuses on driving the adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI Workforce solutions within the manufacturing industry. The specialist will engage with senior decision-makers to identify opportunities, shape digital transformation strategies, and accelerate business outcomes using AI-powered productivity solutions. The role involves solution selling for cloud, SaaS, or AI-based products and requires a strong understanding of AI Workforce and AI productivity solutions. | — | 5 |
| AI Workforce Solution Area Specialist - M365 Copilot, Automotive industry This role is a Solution Sales Specialist focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot and other AI Workforce solutions for the automotive industry in Japan. The primary responsibility is to engage with business and IT leaders to identify strategic challenges and recommend AI solutions that drive operational efficiency and business outcomes, ultimately leading to AI Workforce transformation at scale. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and operate core compute platform services for developers, enabling them to host and run various apps including AI Agent Apps at cloud scale. The role requires end-to-end technical leadership, hands-on component design and coding, and mentoring others on engineering and site reliability practices, with a focus on AI as a core building block. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, Core AI Senior Talent Acquisition Manager for Microsoft's CoreAI division, responsible for leading a team of recruiters to hire talent in AI systems engineering, AI science, and agent-native development. The role involves partnering with leaders to define sourcing strategies, calibrate hiring standards, and attract candidates from top AI programs and companies. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft's Office of the CTO, focused on leading the Simultaneous Shipping (SimShip) process for a strategic AI partnership, likely involving OpenAI technology. The TPM will orchestrate global releases, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, compliance, and partner teams, while meeting Responsible AI and governance requirements. The role requires managing complex, fast-paced AI initiatives, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring global readiness across various dimensions. While the role is deeply involved in shipping AI products, the core craft is program management and operational execution rather than direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Security Specialist This role is a Senior Security Specialist focused on driving sales and business growth for Microsoft's security solutions, including AI-based innovations, with existing strategic customers. The role involves understanding customer needs, articulating business value, developing sales strategies, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to close deals and drive consumption. While the company invests in AI for security, the role itself is sales-focused, not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Customer Experience Engineer II, M365 This role focuses on enhancing the customer support experience for M365 services, including Copilot, by working with strategic customers to ensure they realize value and succeed with the platform. The engineer will act as a Subject Matter Expert, troubleshoot technical issues, and provide feedback to product teams to drive improvements. | — | 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 Customer Experience Engineer This role focuses on customer success and technical support for Microsoft Security products, including generative AI solutions like Microsoft Security CoPilot. The Senior Customer Experience Engineer acts as a trusted advisor and engineering advocate, managing technical escalations, leading incident response, and representing the voice of the customer to influence product direction. The role requires deep technical expertise in security, cloud technologies, and customer-facing problem-solving. | — | 5 |
| Principal Quantum Materials Nanofabrication Engineer This role focuses on developing and optimizing nanofabrication processes for quantum computing devices. While the core function is in materials science and engineering, it explicitly mentions using AI tools to enhance efficiency in process development, data analysis, and documentation, including the design or leverage of AI agents/copilots for various tasks. | — | 5 |
| Principal Quantum Materials Engineer This role focuses on leading the development of superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures for quantum computing. While the role operates in an AI-first R&D environment and uses AI tools for discovery and optimization, its core craft is in quantum materials engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Account Executive (FSI) Senior Account Executive for Financial Services Industry (FSI) at Microsoft Korea, driving AI transformation for top financial institutions by selling Microsoft's AI solution portfolio (Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure, AI, Security). Role involves engaging complex stakeholders, responding to regulatory changes, and collaborating with internal teams to deliver business outcomes. | — | 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 |
| Software Solution Engineer This role is a technical sales position focused on helping enterprise developers adopt Microsoft's AI-powered developer stack, including GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI. The engineer will work with customers on prototyping, PoCs, and architecture workshops to accelerate AI integration into their development workflows and modernize their SDLC. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Solution Engineer This role is a technical sales position focused on helping enterprise developers understand and adopt Microsoft's AI-powered developer stack, including GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI. The engineer will work with customers on prototyping, PoCs, and architecture workshops to accelerate the integration of AI into their development workflows and modernize their SDLC. | — | 5 |
| Senior Analyst Relations Manager This role focuses on driving strategic engagement with industry analysts to shape their perception of Azure's leadership in Cloud & AI, particularly in mission-critical, regulated, and next-generation operational environments. The Senior Analyst Relations Manager will partner with engineering, product, marketing, and sales teams to improve positioning in rated research and amplify Azure's value, with a focus on areas like sovereign initiatives, enterprise workload migration, agentic cloud operations, and hybrid/edge computing. | — | 5 |
| Finance Director - Data Analytics & AI Transformation Finance Director role focused on advancing Treasury's analytics maturity and scaling AI-enabled transformation across Treasury operations. The role leads a team to deliver data-driven insights, intelligent automation, and scalable analytics solutions that improve financial decision-making, productivity, and business outcomes. It partners across Finance, Engineering, and business stakeholders to build a modern, data-driven function under Treasury aligned to Microsoft’s transformation agenda. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on modernizing a global messaging platform for Microsoft 365, integrating AI across the software development lifecycle and ensuring responsible AI practices. The role involves leading architecture, design, and implementation of cloud-native capabilities, partnering with various teams, and driving live-site engineering for a large-scale distributed service. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft's CoreAI Growth and Data Science team, focusing on data and analytics architecture, large-scale data pipelines, and leveraging AI to optimize workflows. The role involves cross-team collaboration, mentoring, and ensuring data governance and trust for AI workloads within the developer ecosystem. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft AI, focusing on Copilot and Agents. This role will shape the narrative, influence the product roadmap, and create demo assets to enable customers and sellers, driving adoption and revenue. Responsibilities include developing demo strategies, managing assets, delivering compelling product stories, and contributing to the next-generation demo platform. The role requires strong strategic thinking, storytelling, and cross-functional collaboration to accelerate deals and represent customer needs. | — | 5 |
| Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft AI, focusing on Copilot and Agents. The role involves shaping product narratives, influencing roadmaps, creating demo assets for customers and sales teams, and driving adoption. Key responsibilities include strategy development, BOM/asset management, narrative and storytelling, demo platform strategy, collaboration with various departments, and customer advocacy. | — | 5 |