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).
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.
29 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comcast | Principal Machine Learning Engineer | Media | 8 | Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Fine-tuning · Agent orchestration · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Disney | Manager - Applied AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Comcast | Senior Manager - Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · RAG |
| Disney | Sr Software Engineer | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Comcast | Engineer 2 - Machine Learning | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra · Agent research |
| Comcast | Software Engineer - Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · RAG · Agent research |
| Disney | Software Engineer II | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Comcast | Principal Engineer - Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · Evals |
| Comcast | Software Engineering Manager, AI Agents | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Comcast | Engineer 3, Agentic AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Agent research · Code gen |
| Warner Bros Discovery | Sr. Staff, Data Science & Applied AI | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Agent research |
| Comcast | Machine Learning Engineer (GoLang) | Media | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Multimodal · Vision · Audio & speech |
| Disney | Software Engineer II | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Comcast | Engineer 3 - Machine Learning | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Disney | Senior Web Developer | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |
| Comcast | Sr. Python Engineer, Agentic AI | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Comcast | Engineer 3, Software Engineering | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Comcast | Go-to-Market Systems Lead, AI Native | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG |
| Disney | Senior Software Engineer - AI Core Engineering | Media | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Disney | Product Mgr | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB |
| Disney | Sr Software Engineer | Media | 5 | LLM observability · RAG · Agent orchestration |
| Disney | Sr Product Software Engineer | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Comcast | Lead Analyst, Technology & Automation | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI |
| Disney | Solutions Engineer II | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails |
| Disney | Staff Software Engineer (Emerging Tech & AI Automation) Project Hire | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Disney | Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Technology | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Warner Bros Discovery | Atlassian & DevOps Operations Engineer | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Warner Bros Discovery | Atlassian & DevOps Operations Engineer | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Comcast | Development Engineer 2 | Media | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG |