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, 1,238 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, 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.
1,238 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, AI Frontier.
8 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ford | Senior Data Scientist | Auto | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems |
| Ford | Generative AI Engineer - Ford Pro Intelligence | Auto | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Ford | AI Engineer | Auto | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Ford | Full Stack Software Engineer, AI Integration | Auto | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · LLM observability · Evals |
| Rivian | Lead, AI Product Engineer, Facilities Technology | Auto | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Ford | Studio Engineer (AI & Generative Workflows) | Auto | 7 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Tesla | Software Engineer, Tooling, Self-Driving QA | Auto | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Evals |
| Rivian | Autodesk Systems & Construction Technology Manager | Auto | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |