AI systems that invoke external APIs, search engines, or code interpreters during inference, extending capabilities beyond raw LLM generation. The foundational capability behind most agentic products. Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents.
1,238 active AI roles across 193 companies in our index reference Tool use as of today.
The companies with the most active Tool use listings are: JPMorgan Chase (80 roles), Salesforce (64 roles), Amazon (51 roles), Adobe (49 roles), Google (44 roles).
Tool use primarily belongs to the agents stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Tool use roles concentrate at: agents (94%), application (2%).
The sectors with the most active Tool use hiring are: Enterprise, Big Tech, AI Frontier.
AI systems that invoke external APIs, search engines, or code interpreters during inference, extending capabilities beyond raw LLM generation. The foundational capability behind most agentic products.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents.
As of today, 1,238 active AI roles across 193 companies in our index reference Tool use. Hiring concentrates at the agents (94%) and application (2%) stages. Most common sectors: Enterprise, Big Tech, AI Frontier.
1633 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity | Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents) | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · RL post-training · Frontier research · Model serving |
| Perplexity | Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · RL post-training · Frontier research |
| Scale AI | AI Builder Intern | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration |
| ClickHouse | AI Product Engineer - ClickStack | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG |
| ClickHouse | AI Product Engineer - ClickStack | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG |
| ClickHouse | AI Product Engineer - ClickStack | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG |
| ClickHouse | AI Product Engineer - ClickStack | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving |
| ClickHouse | AI Product Engineer - ClickStack | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Okta | Staff Product Security Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Data Tooling, DeepMind | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Embodied AI | |
| JPMorgan Chase | Applied Machine Learning Scientist - Vice President | Banking | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Multimodal · Agent research · RL post-training |
| Ramp | Senior Growth Operator, Partner | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails |
| Augury | Senior GenAI Engineer | Vertical AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability · Multimodal |
| NVIDIA | Senior Software Manager, Agentic AI | Semiconductors | 9 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · RL post-training · RAG · Multimodal · Code gen |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability | |
| Forward Deployed Development Manager, Generative AI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Model serving | |
| Partner Forward Deployed Engineering Manager III, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · RAG · LLM observability | |
| Oracle | Principal Applied Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Verizon | Princ Engr-AI Science | Telecom | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multi-agent · Fine-tuning · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability |
| Forward Deployed Engineer I, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving | |
| Amazon | Applied Scientist II, Sponsored Products Autonomous Campaigns | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Agent research · RL post-training · LLM observability |
| Mistral AI | Model Behavior Architect- Function Calling | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Agent research |
| Apple | Machine Learning Engineer | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Amplitude | Staff AI Engineer | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| NVIDIA | Senior High Performance AI Engineer | Semiconductors | 9 | Agent orchestration · Code gen · Inference infra · Model serving · Agent research |
| Zendesk | Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RL post-training · Model serving |
| Adobe | Principal Scientist - Agentic Product | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agent Data Quality, DeepMind | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Agent research | |
| Staff Software Engineer, Gemini Evals, GenAI, DeepMind | Big Tech | 9 | Evals · Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving · Embodied AI | |
| Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI, Commerce | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Evals · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |