Foundational research on autonomous agents: planning algorithms, tool-use protocols, memory architectures, multi-agent collaboration dynamics. Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents.
618 active AI roles across 131 companies in our index reference Agent research as of today.
The companies with the most active Agent research listings are: Amazon (82 roles), Microsoft (43 roles), Google (34 roles), Salesforce (21 roles), Walmart (21 roles).
Agent research primarily belongs to the agents stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Agent research roles concentrate at: agents (76%), post-training (10%).
The sectors with the most active Agent research hiring are: Big Tech, Enterprise, AI Frontier.
Foundational research on autonomous agents: planning algorithms, tool-use protocols, memory architectures, multi-agent collaboration dynamics.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents.
As of today, 618 active AI roles across 131 companies in our index reference Agent research. Hiring concentrates at the agents (76%) and post-training (10%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, Enterprise, AI Frontier.
919 AI roles tagged agent_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sentry | Engineering Manager, Issue Workflow | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Capital One | Lead Software Engineer (Card Tech) | Banking | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB |
| Amazon | Software Development Engineer, Ring | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Amazon | Software Development Engineer, Ring | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Replit | Product Lead, Growth Marketing | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Multimodal · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI |
| Fivetran | Senior Software Development Engineer in Test | Data AI | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Guardrails · Tool use |
| PayPal | Principal, Experience Architecture & AI Innovation | Fintech | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · RL post-training |
| Amazon | Software Develpment Engineer II, Physical Stores Payments | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Lila Sciences | Community & Ecosystem Growth Strategist | AI Frontier | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Datadog | Staff Software Engineer - Logs Management | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Microsoft | Senior Researcher - Research in Software Engineering - Microsoft Research | Big Tech | 5 | Code gen |
| Vercel | Solutions Architect | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Temporal | Senior Solutions Architect, Commercial - San Francisco | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Brex | Senior Marketing Operations Manager, B2B Sales | Fintech | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Iterable | Principal Engineer | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Okta | Engineering Architect, Application (Auth0) | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Microsoft | Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Cresta | Solutions Engineer, EMEA | Vertical AI | 5 | LLM observability · RAG · Agent orchestration · Audio & speech |
| Glean | Senior Developer Relations Advocate | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving |