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).
10 AI roles tagged agent_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verizon | Dist Engr-AI/ML Engineering | Telecom | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · RAG · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| T-Mobile | Sr AI Engineer | Telecom | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Fine-tuning · RAG · LLM observability |
| Verizon | Sr Engr Cslt-AI Science | Telecom | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability · RAG |
| AT&T | AI Automation Engineer-SRE Focus (Early Career) | Telecom | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| AT&T | Principal AI-Native Software Engineer | Telecom | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB |
| Verizon | Director of Digital Customer Experience & AI Innovation | Telecom | 7 | LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Guardrails · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Interpretability · Synthetic data · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI |
| T-Mobile | Sr Software Engineer, Agentic AI | Telecom | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| AT&T | Senior Full Stack/AI Engineer | Telecom | 5 | LLM observability · Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Multimodal · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI · Code gen |
| AT&T | Lead Product Management & Develop | Telecom | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| AT&T | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Telecom | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Multimodal · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI · Code gen |