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).
9 AI roles tagged agent_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honeywell | Lead AI Engr | Industrial | 9 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · RAG · Vector DB · Multimodal · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Honeywell | Sr IT Engineer | Industrial | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Honeywell | Advanced AI Engineer | Industrial | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra · Fine-tuning |
| Caterpillar | Manager, Product Management (Platform) | Industrial | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Caterpillar | Senior Statistician – AI Product Assurance | Industrial | 7 | Evals · Agent orchestration |
| Caterpillar | Senior Analytics Manager - AI Model & Prompt Engineering | Industrial | 7 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Caterpillar | Solutions Architect - AI & Procurement | Industrial | 7 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| Honeywell | Lead SW Architect | Industrial | 6 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving · RAG |
| Honeywell | Sr Advanced Software Engr | Industrial | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB |