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.
1,275 active AI roles across 189 companies in our index reference Tool use as of today. New postings fell 20% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (695 → 554).
The companies with the most active Tool use listings are: JPMorgan Chase (73 roles), Salesforce (59 roles), Amazon (57 roles), Google (52 roles), Adobe (46 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, 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, 1,275 active AI roles across 189 companies in our index reference Tool use. Hiring concentrates at the agents (94%) and post-training (2%) stages. Most common sectors: Enterprise, Big Tech, Data AI. New postings fell 20% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (695 → 554).
622 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe | Staff Agentic ML Engineer - Photoshop | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Multimodal · Vision · RL post-training · Reward modeling |
| CrowdStrike | Data Scientist, Agentic Systems (Remote) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · RL post-training · LLM observability · Model serving |
| CrowdStrike | AI Engineer(Remote, IND) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability · Evals · Guardrails |
| Oracle | Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Oracle | Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving |
| CrowdStrike | Director, Model Post-Training and Agentic Research (Remote) | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Evals · RLHF · Reward modeling · Agent research |
| Salesforce | Senior, Member of Technical Staff | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving |
| CrowdStrike | Sr. AI/LLM Threat Researcher, Agentic Systems - AI Detection and Response (Hybrid) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG |
| Oracle | Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra · Agent research |
| Oracle | Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra · Agent research |
| Oracle | Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Oracle | Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Inference infra · Model serving · Agent research |
| Oracle | Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra · Agent research |
| Oracle | Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Okta | Staff Product Security Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Oracle | Principal Applied Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Zendesk | Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RL post-training · Model serving |
| Adobe | Principal Scientist - Agentic Product | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Salesforce | AI Builder, Emerging Talent - Italian Market | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Code gen |
| Salesforce | AI Builder, Emerging Talent - Swedish Market | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Code gen |
| Oracle | Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer (OCI) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Adobe | Director, Engineering – Agentic Product | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Multimodal |
| Adobe | Sr Engineering Manager - Agentic AI, Adobe Express | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Elastic | Lead GenAI Cloud Developer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability · Evals · Guardrails |
| ClickUp | Staff AI Engineer - Multi-Agent Frameworks | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multi-agent · Evals · LLM observability |
| Elastic | Elastic AI Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Dropbox | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Dash Agentic AI | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · RAG · Agent research |
| Canva | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Agent Tools Interop (AU remote) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Canva | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Agent Tools Interop (AU remote) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Canva | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Agent Tools Interop (AU remote) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Guardrails |