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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Human-Robot-AI Interaction) This role focuses on designing the human-robot-AI interaction and interfaces for Microsoft's robotics platform, enabling collaboration between people, robots, and AI agents. It involves creating interaction paradigms for natural language commands, AR overlays, gesture input, and trust calibration mechanisms, aiming to establish Microsoft's design language for physical AI experiences. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Program Manager - NPI Team This role focuses on increasing the productivity, scale, and depth of NPI Program Managers through data systems, automation, and applied AI. The Senior Program Manager will define the vision and lead the build-out of tools, structured data sources, and agentic AI solutions to help PMs run programs with better risk foresight and pattern recognition. The core responsibility is to improve the leverage and effectiveness of the PM function through AI and data systems. |
| 7 |
| Senior Consultant, Apps & AI Senior Consultant for Microsoft's Industry Solutions team, focusing on delivering AI-enabled applications and cloud solutions on Azure for enterprise customers. Responsibilities include client-facing consulting, designing and building full-stack applications, architecting cloud-native solutions, implementing DevOps, and leading the end-to-end delivery lifecycle. The role emphasizes AI-enabled development using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, custom ML models, agentic AI systems, and RAG architectures, alongside cloud-native architecture and DevOps practices. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver cloud-native services using Microsoft technologies, with a focus on integrating AI-powered capabilities like copilots, LLM integrations, and agent-based workflows. The role involves technical leadership, architectural decisions, and ensuring reliability and safety of AI features. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer II, Foundry Agents - CoreAI Software Engineer II role focused on building foundational platforms for intelligent agents and generative AI systems within Microsoft Foundry. The role involves developing large-scale, cloud-native systems for the end-to-end agent lifecycle, including secure enterprise deployment, tool integration, model fine-tuning, and production observability/evaluation. It sits at the intersection of distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and developer platforms. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to lead architecture and delivery of a Teams-integrated product (Innovation Studio) that uses agentic AI workflows, Azure-native services, and modern web experiences to help organizations run hackathons and accelerate ideas. The role involves defining how the team uses agentic development itself for various SDLC stages. | Agent | 7 |
| Security Solution Architect AI & Cybersecurity Solution Architect responsible for leading AI security pre-sales for complex AI and cybersecurity solutions on Microsoft Cloud, translating client requirements into custom security architectures, and acting as a trusted advisor to CISOs and Chief AI Officers. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered, full-stack cybersecurity capabilities for enterprise customers. The role involves designing and implementing scalable cloud services, LLM-based agentic workflows, and integrating AI for threat detection and response. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building the foundational cloud-native, distributed platform for developing, executing, and managing agentic AI applications at scale. The role involves defining the future of software development, shaping developer interaction with the platform, and integrating multi-modal AI capabilities into agentic applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer on the Windows team, focusing on creating personalized consumer experiences across Xbox, M365, and devices. The role involves leading teams, driving AI adoption, building ML models, and leveraging LLM usage patterns and agentic frameworks for personalization and service health. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to drive the architectural transformation of Conditional Access into a universal policy engine for users, workloads, and AI agents. This role will own the technical vision for scaling Conditional Access to meet the next generation of identity, including autonomous agents, continuous authorization, data-plane enforcement, and policy portability. The role involves defining architecture, owning technical strategy for the evaluation engine, designing next-generation policy models, leading CA-for-Agents vision, architecting agent identity evaluation, driving cross-org technical alignment, and influencing roadmaps for agent governance. It also includes setting standards for safe rollout, driving testability, and mentoring engineers. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior + Principal Software Engineers- Front End Applied AI for Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) Senior and Principal Software Engineers are needed to build AI-driven security product experiences for Microsoft Threat Protection. This role involves designing and developing full-stack solutions that integrate large language models, multimodal models, and frontier AI capabilities into user-facing applications for threat detection, triage, investigation, and incident response. The focus is on creating AI-native workflows and intuitive interfaces that reduce defender toil and enable new security capabilities. | Agent | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 & 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 |
| 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 |