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.
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.
1899 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datadog | Senior AI Engineer - Bits AI Security Analyst | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Decagon | Customer Engineer, Agent Builder | Vertical AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| Writer | Software engineer, generative AI | AI Frontier | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra |
| LangChain | Deployed Engineer (UK) | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving |
| JPMorgan Chase | Agentic Development - Vice President | Banking | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · RAG · Inference infra · Model serving |
| JPMorgan Chase | Agentic Development Associate | Banking | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · RAG |
| JPMorgan Chase | Applied AI Lead Engineer - Agentic Systems | Banking | 8 | Agent orchestration · Multi-agent · RAG · Vector DB · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| JPMorgan Chase | Applied AI Engineer - Agentic Systems - Senior Associate | Banking | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Guardrails · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| NVIDIA | Senior LLM Agents Architect | Semiconductors | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Salesforce | Expert Agent Builder, Forward Deployed Engineering | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · RAG · Evals · LLM observability |
| Salesforce | AI Forward Deployed Engineer (Senior/ Lead/Principal) | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| OpenAI | Backend Software Engineer (Evals) | AI Frontier | 8 | Evals · LLM observability · Agent orchestration |
| Cognite | Senior AI Platform Engineer, Atlas AI | Industrial | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra · Evals |
| GitLab | Senior Professional Services, Technical Architect - AI | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Guardrails |
| GEICO | Staff Engineer - Applied AI | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Datadog | Senior AI Engineer - APM Experiences | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving |
| Vercel | Software Engineer, Agent | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG |
| Anthropic | Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI | AI Frontier | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Ramp | Software Engineer, AI Forward Deployed | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration |
| Descript | Senior Software Engineer, Agent | AI Frontier | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Multimodal |
| Baseten | Software Engineer - Model APIs | Data AI | 8 | Inference infra · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Intercom | Senior Data Scientist - AI Tooling | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Evals |
| Glean | Software Engineer, Agentic Runtime | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Abridge | Software Engineer, Gen AI Platform | Vertical AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Evals |
| Anthropic | Creative Technologist, Editorial | AI Frontier | 8 | LLM observability · Model serving · Multimodal · Agent orchestration |
| Uber | Sr. Staff Engineer (Conversational/Voice AI) | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Audio & speech · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Deloitte | Agentic AI, AI & Data Manager | Consulting | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving |
| Moveworks | Senior Software Engineer II, Agentic AI Systems | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Moveworks | Senior Software Engineer II, Agentic AI Systems | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving · Multimodal |
| ByteDance | Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure - Developer Tooling | Big Tech | 8 | RAG · Vector DB · Agent orchestration · Evals · Code gen |