# Senior Technical Sourcer, Microsoft AI

OverviewMicrosoft AI is building the next generation of artificial intelligence, bringing together researchers, engineers, and technical leaders to advance the frontier of AI capabilities. We are seeking a Senior Technical Sourcer to identify, engage, and attract the talent behind this work across frontier model research, pretraining, post-training, research engineering, AI infrastructure, and supercomputing. This is not traditional technical sourcing. You will approach talent acquisition as a research discipline: investigate unfamiliar technical domains, uncover exceptional talent beyond familiar companies and credentials, and develop original strategies where established playbooks do not exist. You will pair technical curiosity and sound judgment with thoughtful candidate engagement and hands-on execution. You will work in a fast-moving, research-driven environment that combines the agility of a frontier AI lab with the resources of Microsoft. Success requires trusted partnerships with researchers, engineers, recruiters, and technical leaders, as well as a willingness to experiment with AI-powered tools and improve how sourcing is done. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every per

- **Id**: 4131794
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-senior-technical-sourcer-microsoft-ai>
- **Role**: HR
- **Role family**: HR
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, New York, United States, Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-23T21:11:38Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T02:36:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 19
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7186
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 487
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0.047
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 106400
- **Max**: 203600
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 203600

## Technologies

- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **arXiv** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 19

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T02:36:56Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 75
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.838
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 19
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T03:57:24Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 203600
- **Is top pay**: yes

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