# Agentic AI Jobs Index — June 2026

**2,072 open agentic AI roles across 221 companies — the June 2026 baseline**

The inaugural Agentic AI Jobs Index for June 2026: 2,072 open agentic roles (64% of 3,230 tracked AI roles) across 221 companies, screened on the full job description, not the title. June 2026 sets the baseline — month-over-month movement starts next month.

## Headline numbers

| Metric | June 2026 |
| --- | --- |
| Open agentic AI roles | 2,072 |
| Agentic share of tracked AI hiring | 64% |
| Companies with agentic roles | 221 |
| Companies tracked | 267 |
| Remote share | 8% |

## Stats worth quoting

- 2,072 open agentic AI roles across 221 companies in June 2026.
- 64% of all tracked AI hiring is now specifically agentic — screened on the full job description, not the title.
- Forward-deployed engineer is the most in-demand agentic role (336 openings, 16% of agentic demand).
- Salesforce leads all employers with 140 agentic roles open.
- Only 8% of agentic roles are remote — this is overwhelmingly in-office hiring.
- The agent shift has reached the enterprise: Citi (74), Accenture (45), Walmart (42) are hiring agent builders directly.
- "Forward-deployed engineer" has gone mainstream: 336 open postings, led by Databricks (74), Palantir (58), OpenAI (32).
- "Prompt engineer" as a job title has all but vanished — just 3 of 3,230 postings mention "prompt". The work moved inside AI/ML engineering.
- Agent-native skills are now table stakes: MCP appears in 454 postings and multi-agent architecture in 369.
- Agentic hiring skews senior — only 52 of 2,072 agentic roles are junior or internships. Employers want people who can ship agents now.
- Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 59% to 64% across June 2026.

## Most in-demand agentic roles

| Rank | Role | Open roles | Share of agentic demand |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Forward-deployed engineer | 336 | 16% |
| 2 | Software engineer | 276 | 13% |
| 3 | Agent engineer | 126 | 6% |
| 4 | AI product manager | 90 | 4% |
| 5 | AI engineer | 68 | 3% |
| 6 | Data scientist | 63 | 3% |
| 7 | AI solutions architect | 56 | 3% |
| 8 | AI security engineer | 53 | 3% |
| 9 | ML engineer | 49 | 2% |
| 10 | AI researcher | 49 | 2% |

## Top employers (by open agentic roles)

| Rank | Company | Agentic roles | Total AI roles |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Salesforce | 140 | 140 |
| 2 | Databricks | 103 | 134 |
| 3 | OpenAI | 80 | 108 |
| 4 | Citi | 74 | 102 |
| 5 | LangChain | 63 | 69 |
| 6 | Adobe | 59 | 97 |
| 7 | Palantir | 58 | 58 |
| 8 | NVIDIA | 50 | 136 |
| 9 | Accenture | 45 | 62 |
| 10 | Walmart | 42 | 50 |

## Role mix by category

| Category | Roles | Companies | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agent engineering | 2,024 | 182 | 63% |
| AI/ML engineering | 763 | 140 | 24% |
| Agent ops & infra | 163 | 53 | 5% |
| AI product | 118 | 60 | 4% |
| Field & solutions | 71 | 22 | 2% |
| Evals & quality | 37 | 20 | 1% |
| AI governance & risk | 27 | 19 | 1% |
| AI security | 27 | 17 | 1% |

## Most-requested skills

Python (1,778) · Cloud (1,093) · RAG (725) · Kubernetes (668) · LangChain (493) · Fine-tuning (456) · MCP (454) · Prompt engineering (401) · TypeScript (381) · Multi-agent (369) · Vector DB (342) · LangGraph (315)

## Methodology

The Agentic AI Jobs Index tracks two cohorts — frontier AI-native companies (Forbes AI 50 / CB Insights AI 100) and a curated panel of traditional enterprises — by fetching every role weekly from each company's public careers board (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Workday and others). Each posting is classified on its full job description, not the title: a role counts as agentic only on a hard signal (a named agent framework, an agent protocol such as MCP, or an explicit multi-agent architecture) or two distinct softer signals. Generic data and software roles are excluded.

**Citation:** Agentic Ready Jobs Index, Prefactor, June 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/report/2026-06

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