Foundational research on autonomous agents: planning algorithms, tool-use protocols, memory architectures, multi-agent collaboration dynamics. Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents.
641 active AI roles across 130 companies in our index reference Agent research as of today. New postings fell 21% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (316 → 251).
The companies with the most active Agent research listings are: Amazon (84 roles), Google (37 roles), Microsoft (37 roles), Salesforce (33 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 (78%), post-training (9%).
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, 641 active AI roles across 130 companies in our index reference Agent research. Hiring concentrates at the agents (78%) and post-training (9%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, Enterprise, AI Frontier. New postings fell 21% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (316 → 251).
46 AI roles tagged agent_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbnb | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · RLHF |
| Airbnb | Principal AI/ML Researcher / Engineer Reasoning, Planning, and Decision-making systems | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · RL post-training · Multimodal |
| Airbnb | Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · RL post-training |
| Principal Engineer, Agentic Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Tool use | |
| Sr. Data Scientist, Responsible AI | Consumer | 9 | Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Multimodal | |
| Zillow | Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Uber | 2026 PhD Research Intern, India | Consumer | 9 | Fine-tuning · RLHF · Evals · Frontier research |
| Zillow | Senior Applied Scientist, Agentic AI | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Fine-tuning · LLM observability |
| Uber | Sr Staff Agentic Systems Engineer | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Roblox | Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Engineering Acceleration | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Synthetic data · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Code gen |
| Roblox | Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Embodied AI and Smart NPCs | Consumer | 9 | Embodied AI · Agent orchestration · RL robotics · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Zillow | Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Model serving · Inference infra · Audio & speech |
| Roblox | Director of Engineering - AI for Roblox Studio | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Model serving |
| Uber | Senior Applied Scientist – AI Red Teaming & Model Risk | Consumer | 9 | Evals · Guardrails · Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability |
| Zillow | Distinguished Scientist | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multi-agent · Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Evals · LLM observability · Multimodal |
| Zillow | AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, Next-Gen Agentic and Multi-Modal Home Exploration Experience | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Vision · LLM observability · Tool use · Fine-tuning |
| Roblox | [2026] Applied Scientist - PhD Intern | Consumer | 9 | Multimodal · Model serving |
| Instacart | Machine Learning Engineer, PhD Intern | Consumer | 9 | LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Evals |
| Oura | Senior AI Engineer – Health Intelligence | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Multimodal |
| Uber | Program Lead: Product Operations - AI Observability | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Uber | Senior Manager, Technical Program Management, GenAI | Consumer | 8 | RL post-training · Evals · Agent orchestration |
| Uber | Staff AI Security Engineer - (Agentic Systems) | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration |
| Staff Product Manager, AI Safety | Consumer | 8 | Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Multimodal · RLHF | |
| Zillow | Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · RAG · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Spotify | Senior Conversational AI Lead | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG |
| Airbnb | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Uber | Security Engineer (AI & Agentic Systems) | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG |
| Zillow | AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, Evaluation Systems and Metrics | Consumer | 8 | Evals · Multimodal · Guardrails |
| Zillow | Director, Product Management - Developer Experience | Consumer | 7 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Guardrails · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Airbnb | Senior Advanced Analyst - Digital & AI Products | Consumer | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Evals · Fine-tuning |