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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instacart | Forward Deployed Engineer | Consumer | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG |
| Instacart | Forward Deployed Engineer | Consumer | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG |
| Asana | Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Code gen |
| AMD | Staff/Principal Engineer - AI/ML & System-Level Validation | Semiconductors | 7 | Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability · Evals · Guardrails · Agent orchestration |
| Microsoft | Architect - AI Business Solutions | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| UiPath | Software Engineer II | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving |
| Snap | Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering | Consumer | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability |
| Nordstrom | Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) | Retail | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Zillow | Director, Product Management - Developer Experience | Consumer | 7 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Guardrails · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Capital One | Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack | Banking | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Autodesk | Principal Data Engineer, User Success | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Bank of America | Senior Engineer - Enterprise GenAI Platform Architect | Banking | 7 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Monday.com | Senior Product Manager | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving |
| Monday.com | Software Engineer - Agentic Release Team | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Asana | Senior Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Code gen |
| Figma | Marketing Engineer, AI Deployment | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Evals |
| Toast | Senior Software Engineer- Agent | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Senior Security Engineer, National Security | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability | |
| Apple | Software Engineer - Regulatory AI & Connected Data | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Amazon | Delivery Consultant, AWS Professional Services | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Agent research |
| Caterpillar | Senior Analytics Manager - AI Model & Prompt Engineering | Industrial | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Multimodal · Agent research |
| Bank of America | Senior Architect (Hands-On) – Client Servicing & Money Movement | Banking | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Capital One | Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack | Banking | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Caterpillar | Principal Digital Architect (Autonomy) | Industrial | 7 | Vision · Multimodal · Agent orchestration · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Klaviyo | Senior Software Engineer - Customer Agent | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Sentry | Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · Evals |
| Microsoft | NPI Program Manager | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Guardrails |
| JPMorgan Chase | Lead Software Engineer - Databricks/PySpark/AI | Banking | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB |
| Superhuman | Senior Product Designer, Android | Consumer | 7 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal |
| OpenAI | Manager, Partner AI Deployment Engineering - AWS | AI Frontier | 7 | Model serving · Inference infra · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Agent orchestration |