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.
1,295 active AI roles across 191 companies in our index reference Tool use as of today.
The companies with the most active Tool use listings are: JPMorgan Chase (73 roles), Salesforce (62 roles), Amazon (60 roles), Google (51 roles), Adobe (47 roles).
Tool use primarily belongs to the agents stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Tool use roles concentrate at: agents (94%), post-training (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, 1,295 active AI roles across 191 companies in our index reference Tool use. Hiring concentrates at the agents (94%) and post-training (2%) stages. Most common sectors: Enterprise, Big Tech, AI Frontier.
2118 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbnb | Senior Software Engineer, BizTech | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Perplexity | Member of Technical Staff (Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI) | AI Frontier | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving |
| Robinhood | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Agent research |
| Sentry | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Datadog | Senior Software Engineer - AI Code Gen - Agent Engineer | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Code gen · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Cresta | Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agent) | Vertical AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Intercom | Senior Engineer, AI Developer | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Guardrails · Code gen |
| JPMorgan Chase | Applied AI/ML Lead | Banking | 8 | LLM observability · RAG · Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Snowflake | Staff AI Engineer - Snowflake Intelligence | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · Evals · RAG |
| Cresta | Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agent) | Vertical AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Scale AI | Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Model serving |
| Scale AI | Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, Model Serving Platform | Data AI | 8 | Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability |
| Scale AI | Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise GenAI | Data AI | 8 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Model serving |
| Cognition | Special Projects Engineer | Coding AI | 8 | Agent orchestration |
| Netflix | AI Engineer 6 - AI Foundation & Tooling, Ads Platform | Big Tech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Evals |
| OpenAI | Full Stack Software Engineer, Agent Enablement | AI Frontier | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Senior Software Engineer, Developer and Agent Experience | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Inference infra · Model serving | |
| Microsoft | PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENG MGR | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Software Engineer, Generative AI Agent, Pixel Quality | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals | |
| Microsoft | Solution Engineer - Copilot | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Copilot |
| Workday | Senior Software Development Engineer | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Intel | Software Engineer - Agent Harness | Semiconductors | 7 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Model serving |
| Salesforce | AI Forward Deployed Engineer (Senior/Lead/Principal) | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| Microsoft | Senior Product Manager | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| ClickUp | Professional Services Consultant, AI Solutions | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| ClickUp | Professional Services Consultant, AI Solutions | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| Technical Program Manager, Network Solutions and Automation | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Model serving | |
| Sigma Computing | Senior Security Engineer | Data AI | 7 | Guardrails · LLM observability · Agent orchestration |
| Cohere | Software Engineer, North for Finance | AI Frontier | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Rubrik | Staff/Sr Information Security Engineer | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |