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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Password | Developer, Machine Identity | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Notion | GTM AI + Innovation Manager | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG |
| DoorDash | UX Design Engineer, Content Tooling | Consumer | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB |
| JPMorgan Chase | Data Catalog Product VP | Banking | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Airtable | Demo Engineer, Pre-Sales Solutions Consulting | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Pinecone | Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience Platform | Data AI | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Notion | Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM - Korea | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · Model serving |
| Scale AI | Staff FullStack Software Engineer, (Forward Deployed), GPS | Data AI | 5 | Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Evals · Guardrails · Agent orchestration |
| Attentive | GTM Engineer | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Airbnb | Android Software Engineer, Quality Platform | Consumer | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Netflix | Senior Software Engineer, Design Tooling | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Walmart | Staff, Software Engineer, Information Security | Retail | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Airbnb | (Contract) Senior Data Scientist, Platform Inference - MarTech DS Measurement | Consumer | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Microsoft | Solution Engineer--Innovation Hub | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails |
| Comcast | Development Engineer 2 | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG |
| Adobe | Enterprise Architect | Enterprise | 5 | RAG · Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Airbnb | Staff Software Engineer, GraphQL | Consumer | 5 | Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability · Agent orchestration |
| Clay | Software Engineer, Developer Experience (AI) | Vertical AI | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Contentful | Engineering Manager - Workflows (f/m/d) | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Adobe | Principal Product Manager | Enterprise | 5 | RAG · Vector DB · Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| CrowdStrike | Patent Agent (Remote) | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| DocuSign | IT Application Engineer | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Guardrails |
| Writer | Solutions architect (pre-sales) (West) | AI Frontier | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| ZoomInfo | Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Fivetran | Senior Software Development Engineer in Test | Data AI | 5 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Gusto | Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Enablement - Front End | Fintech | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| PayPal | Principal, Experience Architecture & AI Innovation | Fintech | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training |
| Microsoft | Solution Engineer - AI Business Process | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Walmart | Staff, Software Engineer | Retail | 5 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Cockroach Labs | Salesforce Integrations Manager | Data AI | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |