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, 1,237 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, Data AI.
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.
1,237 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, Data AI.
1899 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deloitte | Senior Consultant - GenAI Full Stack Developer | Consulting | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving |
| Apple | Machine Learning Engineer - LLM | Big Tech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving · RAG · Vector DB · Multimodal · LLM observability |
| Writer | Software engineer, agents | AI Frontier | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving |
| Datadog | Staff AI Engineer - Notebooks | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Guardrails · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Stripe | Machine Learning Engineer, Stripe Assistant | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · RAG · LLM observability · Code gen |
| Datadog | Staff AI Engineer - Notebooks | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Guardrails · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Datadog | Staff AI Engineer - Notebooks | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Grafana Labs | Staff AI Engineer | US | Remote | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Evals |
| Grafana Labs | Staff AI Engineer | Canada | Remote | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Perplexity | Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist, Evals) | AI Frontier | 8 | Evals · LLM observability · Vision · RAG |
| Deloitte | Mgr, Product Management – (GenAI/AI Product Experience) | Consulting | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Anthropic | Staff Software Engineer, People Products | AI Frontier | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Fine-tuning |
| Crusoe | Staff Enterprise AI Automation Engineer | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG |
| Walmart | Distinguished, Software Engineer | Retail | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Harvey | Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack - New Verticals | AI Frontier | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Cresta | Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agent) | Vertical AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Celonis | Senior Applied Value Engineer | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails · Fine-tuning |
| Samsara | AI Engineer | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability |
| Celonis | Senior Applied Value Engineering Consultant - Public Sector | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Guardrails · LLM observability · Multimodal |
| Snowflake | Principal Machine Learning Engineer- Search Quality | Data AI | 8 | Search & ranking · Recommender systems · RAG · Vector DB · Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Datadog | Staff AI Engineer - Notebooks | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Datadog | Staff AI Engineer - Notebooks | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Guardrails · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Netflix | Tech Lead Manager, GenAI Sandbox & Tooling (AI Foundations) | Big Tech | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Autodesk | Software Architect | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Inference infra · Model serving · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Walmart | Distinguished, Data Scientist | Retail | 8 | Search & ranking · Recommender systems · Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Cresta | Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agent) - UK | Vertical AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Weights & Biases | AI Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales- W&B | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Anthropic | Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal Civilian | AI Frontier | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Model serving |
| Moveworks | Software Engineer, Agentic AI Systems | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Code gen · Multimodal |
| Moveworks | Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI Systems | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Multimodal · Model serving |