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, Evaluations Engineering - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on building and scaling the evaluation infrastructure for generative AI models on large-scale GPU clusters. It involves developing sophisticated tools and techniques for reliability, performance, and health monitoring, and collaborating with model scientists on evaluation methods and inference strategies. The role also touches on pretraining software development and benchmarking. | Eval GateServe | 9 |
| Technical Solution Management Specialist - AI Evaluation, Research, and Technical Architecture Func. This role focuses on establishing and operating an AI Innovation Lab within Microsoft's Customer Experience and Success organization. The primary responsibility is to research, validate, and evaluate early-stage AI opportunities (pre 0-to-1) before they are handed off for prototyping or product engagement. This involves defining research frameworks, building evaluation approaches for various AI workloads, developing automated testing, and creating reference architectures. The role acts as a bridge between business strategy, research, and technical execution, ensuring AI innovations are rigorously tested and aligned with Responsible AI standards. |
| Eval GateData |
| 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Responsible AI (CoreAI) Senior Software Engineer focused on building Responsible AI services, including identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring AI risks across various content types. The role involves designing and developing large-scale distributed cloud services with a focus on safety, governance, inference, evaluation, and multimodal safety infrastructure. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Research Intern - STAC, NYC (Sociotechnical Alignment Center) Research Intern position at Microsoft's Sociotechnical Alignment Center (STAC) focusing on evaluating AI systems, particularly generative ones. The role involves applying measurement theory from social sciences and statistics to assess risks, capabilities, and performance. Collaboration with Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) researchers is expected. The internship emphasizes theoretical and methodological approaches to advance AI system evaluation. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Principal Applied Scientist, Experimentation Platform - CoreAI This role focuses on building and scaling an experimentation platform for AI products, enabling teams to evaluate, refine, and safely deploy new AI innovations. It involves pushing the envelope on online experimentation methodology and agent evaluations, collaborating with various engineering and science teams, and translating applied research into production-quality features. | Eval GateAgent | 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 |
