The Agentic AI Jobs Index · Updated August 2026

Who's hiring in AI agents

A live index of open AI roles across frontier and enterprise companies — and how much of that hiring is specifically agentic.

3,204open AI roles2,044 · 64% of AIagentic207companies
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207 companies hiring 187 US · 20 ANZ · of 270 tracked
3,204 AI roles tracked 1,492 US · 62 ANZ (by location)
62%vs60% agentic — US vs ANZ share of AI roles that are agentic
40 new agentic job titles role concepts only one company names so far
United States the global index
1,492 roles · 156 companies · 9.6 roles/company · 62% agentic
Most-hiring companies
  • Databricks102
  • OpenAI94
  • Anthropic84
  • Scale AI62
  • LangChain50
Most common roles
  • Principal Software Engineer - PMTS184
  • Forward Deployed Engineer99
  • Sr. Product Manager93
  • Staff Machine Learning Engineer68
  • Research Engineer56
  • Research Scientist42

Biggest category: Agent engineering (60%).

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Australia & NZ the local market
62 roles · 27 companies · 2.3 roles/company · 60% agentic
Most-hiring companies
  • Databricks6
  • Relevance AI5
  • Maincode5
  • Culture Amp5
  • Canva4
Most common roles
  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Image Design Generation7
  • AI Engineer - FDE5
  • Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer4
  • Associate Data Scientist4
  • Senior Software Engineer3
  • Manager2

Biggest category: Agent engineering (60%) · 24% forward-deployed.

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“US” and “ANZ” split each role by its stated location; companies are split by home region. 207 of 270 tracked employers have a live role this snapshot. The ANZ snapshot in depth →

Where the hiring is

All 3,204 tracked AI roles by category. Agent engineering dominates the market; governance and security are still small — but they're the fastest-growing edge.

Agent engineering 2,00262%
AI/ML engineering 77024%
Agent ops & infra 1605%
AI product 1214%
Field & solutions 602%
Evals & quality 391%
AI security 321%
AI governance & risk 201%

Two markets, side by side

Same role taxonomy, different shape and different employers.

Frontier AI-native

Forbes AI 50 + CB Insights AI 100

68%of AI roles agentic

2,104 AI roles · 133 companies

Top hirers: Databricks (177), NVIDIA (130), OpenAI (125), Salesforce (124)

Traditional enterprise

Curated Fortune 500 deployers

56%of AI roles agentic

1,100 AI roles · 74 companies

Top hirers: Citi (80), Capital One (71), Accenture (62), Netflix (61)

Where they differ

Both lean on agent engineering — the divergence is everywhere else.

33% vs 19%Enterprises hire proportionally more foundational AI/ML — still building the base layer.
15 vs 5Enterprise AI-governance roles outnumber frontier 3.0-to-1 — regulation drives it.
2% vs 1%Frontier owns field & solutions roles — selling and deploying agents.
No overlapDatabricks, NVIDIA vs Citi, Capital One — different employers entirely.

Read maturity from the hiring

Each company placed by the most advanced role it posts — frontier and enterprise shown separately.

04AutonomousRunning agents at scale
Agent opsEvalsGovernanceAI security

Databricks, NVIDIA, OpenAI · Capital One, Accenture, Netflix

03ManagedAgents as production software
Agent engineerForward deployedSolutions architect

Salesforce, Palantir, Grafana Labs · Citi, Disney, Travelers

02EmergingFirst AI builds
AI engineerAI product manager

Layer Health, EliseAI, The Bot Company · NAB, AeroVironment, Wolfspeed

Emerging agentic titles

New role concepts only one company is naming so far — matched on the role itself, so the same job in a new location or grade isn't counted as new.

Director of Agent Deployment Engineering

Decagonfirst seen 10 Aug

Agentic AI & RPA Developer

HPEfirst seen 10 Aug

Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)

Scale AIfirst seen 10 Aug

Senior AI Agent Development Engineer

NVIDIAfirst seen 10 Aug

Agentic Outcome Engineer

Adobefirst seen 10 Aug

Offensive Security Agent Engineer

OpenAIfirst seen 10 Aug

How the index is built

Two cohorts, classified the same way on the full job description: frontier (Forbes AI 50 + CB Insights AI 100) and a curated panel of Fortune 500 enterprises. A role counts as agentic only on a hard signal — a named framework, a protocol like MCP, or a multi-agent architecture — or two distinct softer signals; a generic "agentic AI" mention is not enough. We link out to every careers page and host no listings. Dataset CC BY 4.0 — JSON · CSV · browse every role · Australia & NZ · full company tracker · the index in depth · the monthly report.

Common questions

Agentic AI jobs — frequently asked questions

What is the Agentic AI Jobs index?

It tracks 3204 live AI and agent-related roles across a curated watchlist of 270 companies, sorted into categories from agent engineering to AI governance, so you can see where agent hiring is actually happening. The current snapshot is from August 2026.

How many of these roles are actually about AI agents?

Of the 3204 tracked roles, 2044 (64%) are agentic — explicitly about building, operating, evaluating, or governing AI agents, rather than general AI or ML work.

Where does the jobs data come from?

Postings are fetched directly from company career sites and applicant-tracking systems across the watchlist, then categorised — not scraped from third-party job boards. Each role links back to the original posting.

How often is the jobs index updated?

It is a weekly snapshot of agent-related hiring; the current edition is from August 2026.

What counts as an agentic AI job?

Roles focused on building, deploying, evaluating, securing, or governing autonomous AI agents — agent engineering, agent ops and infrastructure, evals and quality, AI governance and risk, and AI security — as distinct from general data-science or ML positions.

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