How many AI roles reference RAG right now?

1,958 active AI roles across 201 companies in our index reference RAG as of today. New postings fell 24% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (995 → 760).

Which companies are hiring for RAG roles?

The companies with the most active RAG listings are: JPMorgan Chase (149 roles), Amazon (147 roles), Adobe (76 roles), Google (67 roles), Walmart (64 roles).

What AI lifecycle stage does RAG belong to?

RAG primarily belongs to the agents and application stages of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, RAG roles concentrate at: agents (85%), application (5%).

What sectors invest most in RAG?

The sectors with the most active RAG hiring are: Enterprise, Big Tech, Banking.

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation: grounding LLM responses by retrieving relevant documents from a vector store or search index before generation, so answers cite real sources instead of hallucinating.

Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents and application.

As of today, 1,958 active AI roles across 201 companies in our index reference RAG. Hiring concentrates at the agents (85%) and application (5%) stages. Most common sectors: Enterprise, Big Tech, Banking. New postings fell 24% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (995 → 760).

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3085 AI roles tagged rag.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Other tags
Algolia	Director, Product Management, Tech Platform	Enterprise	7	Agent orchestration · Model serving · Search & ranking
Okta	Staff Software Engineer, AI and Automation	Enterprise	7	Agent orchestration · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails · Inference infra · Model serving
Premera Blue Cross	AI Engineer IV	Insurance	7	Model serving · Inference infra
EvenUp	Senior Backend Engineer, Entities	Vertical AI	7	Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability · Agent orchestration
Oura	Senior Product Manager, Health Intelligence	Consumer	7	Agent orchestration · Guardrails
Microsoft	Member of Technical Staff - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)	Big Tech	7	Vector DB · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · LLM observability
Ramp	Product Manager \| Generalist (All Levels)	Fintech	7	Fine-tuning · Evals
Iterable	Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Nova)	Enterprise	7	Agent orchestration · Vector DB · Evals · Model serving
xAI	Backend Engineer - Enterprise	AI Frontier	7	Agent orchestration · LLM observability
Databricks	Software Engineer- Fullstack- Singapore	Data AI	7	Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra · Fine-tuning · LLM observability
Sierra	Strategist, Agent Development	AI Frontier	7	Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals
Amazon	Sr. AI Platform Data Engineer, Ring Decision Science, Ring Decision Science	Big Tech	7	Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning
Spotify	Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Minesweeper	Consumer	7	LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems
Reddit	Staff Software Engineer, ML Search	Consumer	7	Model serving · Inference infra · Recommender systems · Search & ranking
Airbnb	Staff GenAI Backend Engineer, Automation Foundation	Consumer	7	Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving
SoFi	Staff Full Stack Engineer	Fintech	7	Agent orchestration
Cohere	Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (UK/EU/ME)	AI Frontier	7	Agent orchestration
Apple	Senior Software Engineer - AI Observability - AI, Search & Knowledge Platform	Big Tech	7	LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Tool use · Fine-tuning · Model serving
Cresta	Senior Full Stack Engineer - Conversation Intelligence	Vertical AI	7	LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving
Glean	Software Engineer, Data Foundations	Enterprise	7
Whatnot	Software Engineer, Trust & Risk	Consumer	7	Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI
Weights & Biases	Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack + Agentic AI)	Data AI	7	Agent orchestration · Tool use
Okta	Staff Software Engineer	Enterprise	7	Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning
JPMorgan Chase	Lead Software Engineer - MLOps	Banking	7	Model serving · Inference infra · Agent orchestration · LLM observability
Vanta	Senior Software Engineer, AI Product	Enterprise	7	LLM observability · Guardrails · Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving
Dropbox	Senior Engineering Manager, Core Media & Intelligence	Enterprise	7	Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Multimodal · Agent research
Walmart	Principal, Software Engineer	Retail	7	Agent orchestration · LLM observability
Microsoft	Software Engineer II - CoreAI	Big Tech	7	Vector DB · Multimodal · LLM observability
Databricks	Staff Software Engineer, Search Quality	Data AI	7	Search & ranking · Recommender systems · Vector DB · Evals · Multimodal
Cresta	Strategic Solutions Engineer, East	Vertical AI	7	Agent orchestration

Frequently asked questions

What is RAG in AI?
Retrieval-Augmented Generation: grounding LLM responses by retrieving relevant documents from a vector store or search index before generation, so answers cite real sources instead of hallucinating. Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents and application.
How many AI roles reference RAG right now?
1,958 active AI roles across 201 companies in our index reference RAG as of today. New postings fell 24% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (995 → 760).
Which companies are hiring for RAG roles?
The companies with the most active RAG listings are: JPMorgan Chase (149 roles), Amazon (147 roles), Adobe (76 roles), Google (67 roles), Walmart (64 roles).
What AI lifecycle stage does RAG belong to?
RAG primarily belongs to the agents and application stages of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, RAG roles concentrate at: agents (85%), application (5%).
What sectors invest most in RAG?
The sectors with the most active RAG hiring are: Enterprise, Big Tech, Banking.