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).
13 AI roles tagged agent_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disney | Lead Machine Learning Engineer | Media | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · RAG · LLM observability · Evals · Guardrails · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Disney | Omni-Channel Analytics Mgr | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Comcast | Senior Manager - Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Tool use |
| Comcast | Engineer 2 - Machine Learning | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Comcast | Software Engineer - Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · LLM observability · RAG |
| Comcast | Comcast AI Research Intern | Media | 8 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Evals · Synthetic data |
| Comcast | Principal Engineer - Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Evals · Tool use |
| Comcast | Engineer 3, Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · LLM observability · Code gen |
| Comcast | Sr. Software Engineer - Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Evals |
| Warner Bros Discovery | Sr. Staff, Data Science & Applied AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB |
| The Trade Desk | Senior Product Manager, Audience | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Comcast | Principal Product Manager, Omnichannel Experience Platform | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking |
| Comcast | Lead Analyst, Technology & Automation | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI |