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).
16 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEICO | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent Platform | Insurance | 9 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Agent research · Multi-agent |
| State Farm | REMOTE - AI Engineering Manager (Databricks) | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Model serving · LLM observability |
| GEICO | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent Platform | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · RAG · LLM observability · Evals |
| GEICO | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| GEICO | Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability |
| GEICO | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| GEICO | Sr. Software Engineer - Applied AI | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability |
| GEICO | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent Platform | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · RAG · Guardrails · LLM observability · Evals |
| GEICO | Staff Engineer - Applied AI | Insurance | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra |
| GEICO | Senior Staff Engineer – Agentic AI & Enterprise Productivity | Insurance | 7 | Agent orchestration · Model serving |
| GEICO | Senior Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience | Insurance | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails · Code gen |
| State Farm | AI Engineer (LLM) | Insurance | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| GEICO | Sr Staff Engineer — AI Security Architecture (HYBRID) | Insurance | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| GEICO | Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Insurance | 7 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · LLM observability · RAG · Evals |
| Allstate | Distinguished Engineer | Insurance | 7 | LLM observability · Agent orchestration |
| Allstate | AI Product Engineer Lead Consultant (Copilot & Power Platform) (Remote - US) | Insurance | 5 | RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails · Agent orchestration |