Agentic AI Jobs Index · August 2026
3206 open agentic AI roles across 207 companies — agent engineering is 61% of all tracked demand
As of 3 August 2026, the index tracks 3206 open agentic AI roles across 207 companies in the United States and Australia & New Zealand, fetched weekly from 259 public careers boards. Counts use a strict title-level classifier; generic data and software roles at AI companies are excluded. For the local cut, see the Australia & NZ snapshot. This is the August 2026 baseline — growth statistics begin with the next weekly snapshot.
Frontier vs traditional employers
The index tracks two cohorts: frontier AI-native companies (the Forbes AI 50 and CB Insights AI 100) and traditional enterprises deploying AI. Comparing how much of each cohort’s AI hiring is specifically agentic shows where the agent shift has reached — and where it is still arriving.
Frontier AI companies
68%
of 2109 AI roles are agentic · 132 companies
Traditional enterprises
53%
of 1097 AI roles are agentic · 75 companies
Early read: the enterprise cohort is a 75-company sample fetched via Workday search, which biases toward agent-titled roles, so treat the enterprise figure as directional. The panel expands weekly as more traditional employers are added.
Agentic share of AI hiring, by traditional employer (companies with 5+ tracked roles)
Role mix
Signals worth quoting
"Prompt engineer" has effectively disappeared as a title: 1 of 3206 tracked postings mention "prompt". The work moved inside AI/ML engineering.
407 postings carry "forward deployed" in the title — led by Databricks (98), Palantir (74), OpenAI (39).
Evals roles are the least remote category: 3 of 38 postings are remote. AI security is the most: 10 of 36.
Top hiring companies
Frequently asked questions
How many agentic AI jobs are open right now?
As of 3 August 2026 the Agentic Ready Jobs Index tracks 2019 open agentic roles among 3206 AI roles across 207 companies, classified on the full job description (not the title) across 259 public careers boards.
Which companies are hiring AI agent engineers?
The largest agentic employers in the index are Databricks (177 roles), Salesforce (135 roles), NVIDIA (134 roles), OpenAI (126 roles), Anthropic (108 roles). The full tracker lists every company with live links to their careers pages.
Where does the data come from?
The index tracks two cohorts: frontier AI-native companies (the Forbes AI 50 and CB Insights AI 100) and a curated panel of Fortune 500 enterprises. Postings are fetched weekly from each company’s public job board — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee or Workday. Each posting is screened on its full job description, not just the title: a role counts as agentic only when it shows a hard signal (a named agent framework, an agent protocol such as MCP, or an explicit multi-agent architecture) or two distinct softer signals such as tool use and agent evals. A generic "agentic AI" mention in company boilerplate is not enough, and every posting records which signals fired. Generic data and software roles are excluded. The dataset is published under CC BY 4.0 at /jobs/data.json.
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