New AI postings mentioning Tool Use per week — 233 total over 12 weeks.
314 active AI roles across 107 companies mention Tool Use. Category: Agents & Autonomy.
Tool Use is a skill in the "Agents & Autonomy" category. It currently appears in 314 active AI roles across 107 companies in our index.
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Tool Use are: Amazon (23), OpenAI (20), Adobe (19), NVIDIA (18), Google (10).
Over the last 12 weeks, 233 new AI postings mentioned Tool Use. Demand is rising — up 173% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
Roles requiring Tool Use are concentrated in: agents (75%), application (8%), serving infrastructure (8%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.
Job postings that mention Tool Use most often also require: Agentic Systems, Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), System Design, Agent Orchestration.
6 AI roles requiring this skill.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | Lead Engineer - GenAI | Retail | 9 | L4 |
| Walmart | (USA) Principal, Data Scientist - Applied AI | Retail | 8 | L4 |
| Walmart | Staff, Data Scientist | Retail | 8 | L4 |
| Nordstrom | Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) | Retail | 7 | L4 |
| Walmart | Staff, Software Engineer | Retail | 7 | L4 |
| Walmart | (USA) Principal, Software Engineer | Retail | 7 | L4 |