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).
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.
23 AI roles tagged agent_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | Senior Scientist, AI Applications - R&D Immunology Data Science & Digital Health | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · LLM observability · Fine-tuning |
| Johnson & Johnson | Senior Scientist – AI Agent Systems for Drug Development | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · LLM observability · Interpretability |
| Johnson & Johnson | Sr Director/Scientific Fellow, AI Safety, R&D Data Science and Digital Health | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Frontier research · Interpretability |
| Johnson & Johnson | Sr Director/Scientific Fellow, AI Safety, R&D Data Science and Digital Health | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · Evals · Frontier research · Multimodal |
| Johnson & Johnson | Senior Scientist, AI Applications - R&D Oncology | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · LLM observability · Interpretability |
| Johnson & Johnson | Senior Director, Global Data Science (Oncology) | Pharma | 8 | Agent orchestration |
| Pfizer | Postdoctoral Fellow – AI/ML Enabled Bioprocess Modeling and Control | Pharma | 8 | Fine-tuning · Agent orchestration |
| Merck | Senior AI Research Scientist | Pharma | 8 | Fine-tuning · Evals |
| Merck | Sr. Manager, MCICC | Pharma | 8 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Tool use |
| Merck | Sr. Spclst , CDNA Strategy & Architecture – Emerging Technology Architect | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Merck | Associate Director, Business Insights and Analytics- Data Science | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Merck | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics and Governance Senior Specialist | Pharma | 7 | Evals · Guardrails · Interpretability · Fine-tuning |
| Merck | Associate Director – Business Insights & Analytics, US Vaccines & ID (HIV) | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning |
| Merck | Senior Specialist, Veeva QMS Technical Product Management | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Merck | AI Research Scientist (R2) | Pharma | 7 | Evals · Fine-tuning · Vision |
| Johnson & Johnson | Principle Optimization Engineer | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Merck | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics and Governance Specialist | Pharma | 7 | Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Fine-tuning |
| Johnson & Johnson | Associate Director, Discovery Informatics | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Eli Lilly | Director, Software Product Management – Discovery Research Platforms | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB |
| Merck | Specialist, Machine Learning Engineer | Pharma | 7 | Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Eli Lilly | Product Manager - GenAI | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG |
| Eli Lilly | Technical Lead Software Architect | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Evals · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Merck | Enterprise Data Access Product Owner | Pharma | 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 |