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).
240 AI roles tagged agent_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB | Senior Research Scientist | Enterprise | 10 | Frontier research · RL post-training · Code gen · Agent orchestration |
| CrowdStrike | Data Scientist, Agentic Systems (Remote) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · RL post-training · LLM observability · Model serving |
| CrowdStrike | AI Engineer(Remote, IND) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability · Evals · Guardrails · Tool use |
| CrowdStrike | Lead AI Engineer, GTM Applications (Remote) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails · Evals · Model serving · Inference infra |
| CrowdStrike | Director, Model Post-Training and Agentic Research (Remote) | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · RLHF · Reward modeling |
| Salesforce | Software Engineering LMTS | Enterprise | 9 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Frontier research · Model serving |
| Salesforce | Senior, Member of Technical Staff | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving · Tool use |
| CrowdStrike | Sr. AI/LLM Threat Researcher, Agentic Systems - AI Detection and Response (Hybrid) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Tool use |
| Salesforce | Principal Architect | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multi-agent · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Oracle | Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Oracle | Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Oracle | Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Oracle | Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Okta | Staff Product Security Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Tool use |
| Handshake | AI Red Teamer, CBRNE | Enterprise | 9 | Evals · Guardrails |
| MongoDB | Staff Research Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Frontier research · Pretraining · RAG · Multimodal |
| Handshake | AI Red Teamer, LLM Generalist | Enterprise | 9 | Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Multimodal |
| Salesforce | AI Architect - Software Engineering | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multi-agent · LLM observability |
| Autodesk | Principal AI Research Scientist Post-Training Alignment | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Evals · Frontier research · Interpretability |
| Autodesk | Principal AI Research Scientist Post-Training · Alignment · Reinforcement Learning Autodesk AI Lab: London · San Francisco · Toronto · Remote (US/CA/EU | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Evals · Interpretability · Frontier research |
| Workday | Principal AI Researcher | Enterprise | 9 | Frontier research · Pretraining · RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Multimodal · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Autodesk | Research Lead / Principal Scientist & Manager Post-Training · Alignment · Reinforcement Learning Autodesk AI Lab: Toronto · Remote (CA) | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability |
| GitLab | Distinguished Engineer, Agentic SDLC & Non‑Linear Productivity | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · Evals |
| Salesforce | Principal Agentic Data Systems Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Synthetic data · Evals |
| CrowdStrike | Vice President, Agentic Systems | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration |
| Clari | Mgr, Engineering - Data Science | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · LLM observability |
| Dropbox | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Dash Agentic AI | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · RAG |
| F5 | Principal Engineer – AI Specialist | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Twilio | Staff Engineer, AI Security | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Salesforce | Research Scientist - Salesforce AI Research | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Vision · Audio & speech · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Frontier research · Model serving · Evals |