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Engineering Manager - AI Experiences, Copilot Engineering

Microsoft Corporation

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Compensation
$166–296K/yr
Location
CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Microsoft seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team building AI experiences for Windows, including computer-use agents and hybrid device-cloud computing. The role combines team leadership and hands-on engineering, guiding architecture, design, implementation, and cross-team delivery. The team moves ideas from prototype to customers quickly and aims to shape how people use PCs in the AI era.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

C (Programming Language)C++ (Programming Language)C# (Programming Language)Java (Programming Language)JavaScript (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)People ManagementProject PlanningArchitectural Design

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related Technical Field or Equivalent Experience10+ Years Technical Engineering ExperienceMaster's in Computer Science or Related Technical Field and 12+ Years Experience or Bachelor's and 15+ Years Experience or Equivalent8+ Years People Management Experience

Full job description

Overview

As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI, we are on the lookout for passionate individuals to work with us on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. Our vision is bold and broad — to build systems that have true artificial intelligence across agents, applications, services, and infrastructure. It’s also inclusive: we aim to make AI accessible to all — consumers, businesses, developers — so that everyone can realize its benefits.

About the Team

Build the frontier of AI on Windows. Our organization builds frontier AI experiences, including agentic actions that get real work done on your behalf and autopilot experiences that keep working in the background so you don't have to. We move fast. We take new ideas from prototype to customers quickly and learn from real usage as we go. Everything we build serves one goal: making Windows an AI-first operating system. That includes computer-use agents (CUA) that can work across any app the way a person would, and hybrid compute that uses both the device and the cloud to make experiences fast, capable and private. As a manager here, you'd lead a team that ships what's next for a platform used by more than a billion people, and help shape how everyone uses a PC in the AI era.

About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to help build revolutionary experiences at the intersection of modality and intelligence. The pace is fast. The ambiguity is high. You'll ship things that millions of people use—and you'll ship things that don't exist anywhere else yet.

If you want to work on well-scoped problems with clear answers, this isn't the team. If you want to define the future of how humans and AI live and work together, come build with us. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. AI Experiences employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft Hub in the U.S. are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a team of fullstack engineers, including driving project planning, prioritization of work, and designing features.
  • Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Make hands-on contributions to the codebase and infrastructure.
  • Guide architecture and design efforts by leading discussions, creating proposals and design documents, and ensuring solutions meet business, security, and compliance requirements.
  • Ship AI powered experiences that will shape how millions of people will interact with AI in the future.
  • Drive implementation of features and systems, breaking down long-term goals into clear milestones, aligning with release plans, and ensuring cross-team coordination.
  • Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python• OR equivalent experience.

  • 8+ years people management experience.

#AIX

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

How this job compares

Set against the 5,855 open Engineering Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$166–296K/yr
  • California median$191–285K/yr952 salary ranges
  • US median$148–261K/yr4,742 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $231K, is close to the California median midpoint ($235K) — in the middle half of Engineering Manager salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,100 open Engineering Manager jobs in California and 5,855 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Engineering Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (5,202 postings).
Education
2,613 of the 5,855 open Engineering Manager jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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