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.
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.
1894 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ServiceTitan | Lead Analyst, People Technology & AI | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Salesforce | Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Cloud Platform | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| Tech Lead, Software Engineering, Search Ads, AQI DevAI | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration | |
| Sourcegraph | Software Engineer - Code Understanding [IC2] | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · Code gen |
| Amazon | Scaled Abuse Specialist, Special Projects & Investigations | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Autodesk | Product Manager, Ecosystem & Extensions — Forma Design | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Autodesk | Senior Software Engineer - Agentic AI | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Evals · Guardrails |
| Technical Program Manager II, Platforms | Consumer | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails | |
| AT&T | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Telecom | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Multimodal · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI · Code gen |
| Scale AI | Head of Finance Systems & Automation | Data AI | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Cloudflare | Product Marketing Engineer Intern (AI & Automation) - Intern (Summer/Spring/Fall 2026) | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Capital One | Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Full Stack (Enterprise Platform Technology) | Banking | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Walmart | (USA) Software Engineer III | Retail | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Plaid | Engineering Manager - Security | Fintech | 5 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| Grafana Labs | Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer | Sweden | Remote | Data AI | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Johnson & Johnson | Software Application Engineer/Surgical Robotics - OTTAVA | Pharma | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Adobe | Sr. Product Designer, Stock | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| DocuSign | Lead Atlassian Engineer | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Airbnb | Engineering Manager, UI Tooling | Consumer | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Adobe | Business Architect & AI Evangelist | Enterprise | 5 | RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Agent orchestration |
| Airtable | Software Engineer, Product Backend (8+ YOE) | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Affirm | Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (Zero to One Labs) | Fintech | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Whatnot | Software Engineer, Horizontal Ops | Consumer | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Whatnot | Software Engineer, CX | Consumer | 5 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Perplexity | Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer) | AI Frontier | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Walmart | (USA) Senior, Software Engineer | Retail | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Airtable | Senior Solutions Architect | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Adobe | Sr Design Program Manager | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| CrowdStrike | Strategic Advisory Services, AI Security Consultant (Remote) | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| 1Password | Senior Developer, Machine Identity | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |