Agentic AI Jobs Index · October 2026
3617 open agentic AI roles across 194 companies — agent engineering is 65% of all tracked demand
As of 26 October 2026, the index tracks 3617 open agentic AI roles across194 companies in the United States and Australia & New Zealand, fetched weekly from 255 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 October 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 2325 AI roles are agentic · 122 companies
Traditional enterprises
63%
of 1292 AI roles are agentic · 72 companies
Early read: the enterprise cohort is a 72-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: 2 of 3617 tracked postings mention "prompt". The work moved inside AI/ML engineering.
424 postings carry "forward deployed" in the title — led by Databricks (94), Palantir (73), OpenAI (26).
Evals roles are the least remote category: 4 of 55 postings are remote. AI security is the most: 11 of 37.
Top hiring companies
Cite this: Agentic AI Jobs Index, Get Ready for Agents, October 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/intel · dataset CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV · all data & sources)
Frequently asked questions
How many agentic AI jobs are open right now?
As of 26 October 2026 the Agentic AI Jobs Index tracks 2401 open agentic roles among 3617 AI roles across 194 companies, classified on the full job description (not the title) across 255 public careers boards.
Which companies are hiring AI agent engineers?
The largest agentic employers in the index are OpenAI (177 roles), Databricks (162 roles), Anthropic (158 roles), Salesforce (142 roles), NVIDIA (131 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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