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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Okta | Staff Product Manager, AI & Automation Platforms | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Walmart | (USA) Principal, Software Engineer- Agent Builder | Retail | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Microsoft | Product Manager II | Big Tech | 5 | |
| JPMorgan Chase | Infrastructure Engineer III | Banking | 5 | Agent orchestration · Model serving |
| Replit | Partner Engineer | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Walmart | Principal, UX Designer – AI Shopping | Retail | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Multimodal |
| Decagon | Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Product | Vertical AI | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Netflix | Full Stack Software Engineer 4 - Enterprise Engineering | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Datadog | Product Manager II - Code Security | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Vercel | Software Engineer, Dashboard | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Cloudflare | Marketing Operations Architect (AI & Automation) | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Snowflake | Strategic Initiatives Associate | Data AI | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Cresta | GTM Engineer | Vertical AI | 5 | Agent orchestration |
| Netflix | Product Manager, Developer Experience (Ads) | Big Tech | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Figma | Support AI Engineer | Enterprise | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Zillow | Principal Data Scientist - Rentals Shopping | Consumer | 5 | Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Deloitte | ServiceNow - Moveworks Senior Consultant | Consulting | 5 | Agent orchestration |