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, 1,237 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.
1,237 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.
1899 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Principal Applied Scientist, Conversational Assistant Modeling & Learning | Big Tech | 9 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability |
| Cohere | Product Manager, Agent Harness & Modelling | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · RAG · Agent research · Fine-tuning |
| Baseten | Post-Training Applied Researcher | Data AI | 9 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Reward modeling · Agent orchestration · Evals · Synthetic data · Model serving |
| Walmart | Principal, Data Scientist | Retail | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Evals · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Zillow | Senior Applied Scientist, Agentic AI | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · LLM observability · Agent research |
| Ramp | Agentic Operator, Growth Marketing | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · LLM observability |
| ByteDance | Senior Software Engineer, AI Coding Tools | Big Tech | 9 | Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Code gen · Agent orchestration |
| PayPal | Principal, Agentic AI | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Model serving |
| Abridge | Software Engineer, GenAI | Vertical AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · LLM observability · Guardrails · Evals |
| JPMorgan Chase | Vice President — Principal Applied AI Data Scientist | Banking | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Multi-agent |
| Uber | Sr Staff Agentic Systems Engineer | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Amazon | Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineer, AWS Agentic AI | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Cresta | Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Vertical AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Agent research |
| Snowflake | Principal Software Engineer - Snowflake Intelligence | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · LLM observability |
| ByteDance | Research Engineer – Agent Systems & AI Coding Environment (Seed Infra Platform) | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Model serving · Inference infra |
| OpenAI | Product Manager, API Agents | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration |
| Decagon | Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration | Vertical AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · Evals · Model serving |
| Canva | Senior Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning, MoEs | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Model serving · Frontier research · Evals |
| OpenAI | Researcher, Automated Red Teaming | AI Frontier | 9 | Evals · Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenAI, Google Cloud | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · LLM observability · RAG | |
| NVIDIA | Senior Manager, Engineering - Enterprise AI and Automation | Semiconductors | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Vector DB · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Anthropic | Research Engineer, AI Observability | AI Frontier | 9 | LLM observability · Evals · Agent orchestration |
| Elastic | Elastic AI Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Writer | Software engineer, agents (UK) | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability |
| Anthropic | Forward Deployed Engineer | AI Frontier | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Apple | Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI & Agentic Experiences | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Recommender systems · Model serving |
| Amazon | Sr. Applied Science Manager, Agentic AI Ads, Sponsored Products and Brands | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · RAG · RLHF · Evals · LLM observability |
| Decagon | Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration | Vertical AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Scale AI | Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI | Data AI | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Agent research |
| JPMorgan Chase | AI/ML Director | Banking | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |