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.
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.
2118 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Innovation | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving | |
| Toast | GTM Engineer - Sales Workflow Automation, Revenue Intelligence | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Robinhood | Senior Penetration Tester | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB |
| DoorDash | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer | Consumer | 7 | Recommender systems · Fine-tuning · Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Caterpillar | Agentic AI / AI Ops Engineer – Platform Engineering | Industrial | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Visa | Senior Software Engineer (3 - 6 years of experience in Java full-stack development, Angular / React, GenAI) | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal |
| OutSystems | Senior Frontend Developer | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Code gen |
| Monday.com | AI Engineering Tech Lead (Core Engineering) | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Microsoft | Member of Technical Staff, Principal Software Engineer - Windows Copilot | Big Tech | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Snowflake | Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform for User Experiences | Data AI | 7 | Agent orchestration · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Klaviyo | Lead People Systems Engineer | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| GitLab | AI Engineer | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Visa | Data Scientist, AI/ML – Visa Consulting and Analytics | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB |
| Johnson & Johnson | Senior Manager, Agentic AI | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Nordstrom | Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Solutions (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) | Retail | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails · Evals · Agent research |
| Disney | Senior Web Developer | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Capital One | Business Manager - Supply Strategy & Intelligence | Banking | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Adobe | Senior Software Development Engineer | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| F5 | Software Development Engineer III - Agentic AI | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · LLM observability |
| Cockroach Labs | VP, Demand Generation & Marketing Operations | Data AI | 7 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| Harvey | Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend — Bengaluru | AI Frontier | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Twilio | Product Management, L2 | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Inference infra · Model serving |
| JPMorgan Chase | Controls Room AI/ML Developer - Senior Associate | Banking | 7 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability |
| Tailscale | Software Engineer, Strategic Projects | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Celonis | Intern Demo Experience & Applied AI | Data AI | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Abnormal AI | Software Engineer II — AI Transformation Engineering | Vertical AI | 7 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra |
| JPMorgan Chase | CEI Data Scientist Sr Associate | Banking | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Nordstrom | Senior Engineer 2, Inventory Visibility | Retail | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB |
| Deloitte | AI Engineer Consultant | Consulting | 7 | RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability |
| NVIDIA | Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems | Semiconductors | 7 | Evals · Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Guardrails |