The Agentic AI Jobs Index · Updated July 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.

3,235open AI roles2,064 · 64% of AIagentic214companies
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214 companies hiring 192 US · 22 ANZ · of 270 tracked
3,235 AI roles tracked 1,456 US · 64 ANZ (by location)
62%vs69% agentic — US vs ANZ share of AI roles that are agentic
39 new agentic job titles role concepts only one company names so far
United States the global index
1,456 roles · 155 companies · 9.4 roles/company · 62% agentic
Most-hiring companies
  • OpenAI89
  • Databricks87
  • Anthropic77
  • Scale AI50
  • LangChain48
Most common roles
  • Senior Software Engineer176
  • Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE80
  • Product Manager74
  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer - GenAI Platform71
  • Research Engineer58
  • Research Scientist40

Biggest category: Agent engineering (61%).

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Australia & NZ the local market
64 roles · 29 companies · 2.2 roles/company · 69% agentic
Most-hiring companies
  • Databricks9
  • Commonwealth Bank9
  • Maincode5
  • Palantir3
  • MongoDB3
Most common roles
  • Senior Software Engineer8
  • Manager5
  • AI Engineer - FDE5
  • Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer5
  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Elements Platform4
  • Forward Deployed Software Engineer - AUS Government3

Biggest category: Agent engineering (69%) · 30% forward-deployed.

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“US” and “ANZ” split each role by its stated location; companies are split by home region. 214 of 270 tracked employers have a live role this snapshot. The ANZ snapshot in depth →

Where the hiring is

All 3,235 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 2,01662%
AI/ML engineering 77324%
Agent ops & infra 1555%
AI product 1274%
Field & solutions 662%
Evals & quality 431%
AI security 331%
AI governance & risk 221%

Two markets, side by side

Same role taxonomy, different shape and different employers.

Frontier AI-native

Forbes AI 50 + CB Insights AI 100

67%of AI roles agentic

2,001 AI roles · 138 companies

Top hirers: Databricks (156), Salesforce (139), NVIDIA (132), OpenAI (111)

Traditional enterprise

Curated Fortune 500 deployers

59%of AI roles agentic

1,234 AI roles · 76 companies

Top hirers: Citi (93), Capital One (74), Netflix (63), Autodesk (59)

Where they differ

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

29% vs 20%Enterprises hire proportionally more foundational AI/ML — still building the base layer.
17 vs 5Enterprise AI-governance roles outnumber frontier 3.4-to-1 — regulation drives it.
3% vs 1%Frontier owns field & solutions roles — selling and deploying agents.
No overlapDatabricks, Salesforce 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, Netflix, Autodesk

03ManagedAgents as production software
Agent engineerForward deployedSolutions architect

Salesforce, Palantir, Sierra · Citi, Walmart, Micron

02EmergingFirst AI builds
AI engineerAI product manager

World Labs, Layer Health, EliseAI · AeroVironment, Wolfspeed, Tokyo Electron

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.

Uztna Client Agent Developer

HPEfirst seen 6 Jul

Senior Principal Agentic Platforms Architect

Mastercardfirst seen 6 Jul

Senior AI and Agentic Developer

Accenturefirst seen 6 Jul

Agentic Strategy & Advisory Manager

Accenturefirst seen 6 Jul

Agentic Architect

Accenturefirst seen 6 Jul

Senior Frontier Agent Engineering Manager

Scale AIfirst seen 6 Jul

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 3235 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 July 2026.

How many of these roles are actually about AI agents?

Of the 3235 tracked roles, 2064 (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 July 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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