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).
8 AI roles tagged tool_use.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smartsheet | Sr Principal Data Scientist | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · LLM observability |
| Smartsheet | Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible in the UK) | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Evals |
| Smartsheet | Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible in Germany) | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Evals · LLM observability |
| Smartsheet | Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Evals |
| Redfin | Sr. Software Developer - Platform Engineering (Hybrid or Remote) | Seattle | 5 | Agent orchestration · Code gen |
| Redfin | Director, Quality Engineering | Seattle | 5 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Redfin | Senior Software Developer, Platform Engineering | Seattle | 5 | Agent orchestration · Code gen |
| Smartsheet | Sr. Business Intelligence Engineer, Enterprise Intelligence (Hybrid, Bangalore) | Seattle | 5 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability |