How agentic hiring shows up in Australia & NZ
The local market is a mix: global AI companies staffing their Australian and New Zealand teams, and homegrown companies — Canva, Atlassian, Relevance AI and others — building agents from here. Across the index, 27 companies are advertising 70 AI roleslocated in Australia & New Zealand, 67% of them agentic.
A notable share — 30% — are forward-deployed, applied or solutions roles: people who embed with customers to put agents into production. That pattern is strongest among the global platforms entering the market — Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks and Palantir tend to land with deployment talent first — while homegrown companies hire more core engineering.
The companies hiring in ANZ
Every company in the index with at least one role located in Australia or New Zealand, ranked by volume. We track a curated watchlist — not the whole market — and link to each careers page.
What they're hiring for
ANZ demand skews even harder to agent engineering than the global index — there is almost no local governance or security hiring yet.
Every ANZ role, right now
All 70 roles located in Australia & New Zealand, grouped by company. The deployed tag marks forward-deployed / applied roles (ship agents on-site); ● marks agentic roles. Open in the searchable browser →
Notes & method
The ANZ view filters the full Agentic AI Jobs Index to roles whose stated location is in Australia or New Zealand. It is a small, fast-moving slice — 70 roles in the October 2026 snapshot — so read it as a directional signal, not a census. Two caveats: some postings list only a location count (e.g. "3 Locations") and may hide an Australian office we can't see; and 4 of the roles are in New Zealand. Roles are classified on the full job description and we link out to every original posting. Dataset CC BY 4.0; cite as "Agentic AI Jobs Index, Get Ready for Agents". Updated 26 October 2026.