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, 1,240 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.
1,240 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.
1894 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud | AI Frontier | 9 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Evals · Model serving · Agent orchestration · Audio & speech |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving | |
| LangChain | Deployed Engineer (Phoenix) | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Agent research |
| NVIDIA | Senior Solutions Architect, Retail | Semiconductors | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Airbnb | Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · RL post-training · Agent research |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Model serving | |
| Walmart | (USA) Senior Manager, Data Science | Retail | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG |
| xAI | Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding | AI Frontier | 9 | Multimodal · Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Evals · Vision · Audio & speech · Agent orchestration · Frontier research |
| Walmart | (USA) Distinguished, Data Scientist | Retail | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Gen AI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Model serving · LLM observability | |
| Principal Engineer, Agentic Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability | |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Model serving · Inference infra · Evals · LLM observability | |
| JPMorgan Chase | Senior Lead Software Engineer- Java/Python/ AI Solutions | Banking | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Agent research |
| NVIDIA | Senior ML Evaluation Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles | Semiconductors | 9 | Evals · LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Vision · Multimodal |
| NVIDIA | Senior Software Engineer, RAG and Agentic AI | Semiconductors | 9 | RAG · Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra · Multimodal |
| Senior Staff Research Engineer, DeepMind | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Agent research | |
| NVIDIA | Solutions Architect, Model Builder - LATAM | Semiconductors | 9 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · RAG · Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Perplexity | Engineering Manager (Agents) | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Multimodal · RL post-training |
| Staff Forward Deployed Developer, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Model serving | |
| Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability · Guardrails | |
| Perplexity | Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · RL post-training · Frontier research · Model serving |
| Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Model serving | |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving | |
| NVIDIA | Principal Engineer - AI Agents and Systems | Semiconductors | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Inference infra · Model serving · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| GE Healthcare | AI Algorithm and Development Software Engineer | Healthcare | 9 | Fine-tuning · RLHF · Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · LLM observability · Multimodal |
| Scale AI | Staff Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise GenAI | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal |
| GEICO | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent Platform | Insurance | 9 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Agent research · Multi-agent |
| Eli Lilly | Advisor - Agent Research | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra · RAG · Fine-tuning |
| Harvey | Senior Software Engineer, Agents | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Canva | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Agent Tools Interop (AU remote) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |