# Agentic AI Jobs Index — September 2026

**Agentic AI hiring up 9.1% in September 2026 — 2,331 open roles across 193 companies**

The Agentic AI Jobs Index for September 2026: 2,331 open agentic roles (66% of tracked AI hiring) across 193 companies. On the 188 companies tracked in both months, agentic openings moved from 2,109 to 2,300 (+9.1%).

## Headline numbers

| Metric | September 2026 |
| --- | --- |
| Open agentic AI roles | 2,331 |
| Agentic share of tracked AI hiring | 66% |
| Companies with agentic roles | 193 |
| Companies tracked | 254 |
| Remote share | 9% |
| MoM change (like-for-like) | +9.1% |

## Stats worth quoting

- 2,331 open agentic AI roles across 193 companies in September 2026.
- 66% 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 (417 openings, 18% of agentic demand).
- Salesforce leads all employers with 142 agentic roles open.
- Only 9% of agentic roles are remote — this is overwhelmingly in-office hiring.
- The agent shift has reached the enterprise: Citi (56), Accenture (46), Capital One (44) are hiring agent builders directly.
- "Forward-deployed engineer" has gone mainstream: 417 open postings, led by Databricks (96), Palantir (81), OpenAI (22).
- "Prompt engineer" as a job title has all but vanished — just 2 of 3,515 postings mention "prompt". The work moved inside AI/ML engineering.
- Agent-native skills are now table stakes: MCP appears in 588 postings and multi-agent architecture in 369.
- Agentic hiring skews senior — only 110 of 2,331 agentic roles are junior or internships. Employers want people who can ship agents now.
- Fastest-growing employer this month: Intercom (+101 agentic roles vs 2026-08).
- Like-for-like agentic hiring rose 9.1% month-over-month across 188 consistently tracked companies.

## Most in-demand agentic roles

| Rank | Role | Open roles | Share of agentic demand |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Forward-deployed engineer | 417 | 18% |
| 2 | Software engineer | 311 | 13% |
| 3 | Agent engineer | 141 | 6% |
| 4 | AI product manager | 83 | 4% |
| 5 | AI security engineer | 76 | 3% |
| 6 | AI engineer | 73 | 3% |
| 7 | Applied AI / ML | 58 | 2% |
| 8 | AI solutions architect | 50 | 2% |
| 9 | ML engineer | 48 | 2% |
| 10 | Data scientist | 47 | 2% |

## Top employers (by open agentic roles)

| Rank | Company | Agentic roles | Total AI roles |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Salesforce | 142 | 142 |
| 2 | Databricks | 136 | 166 |
| 3 | Intercom | 111 | 111 |
| 4 | Palantir | 81 | 81 |
| 5 | OpenAI | 78 | 156 |
| 6 | LangChain | 65 | 73 |
| 7 | Anthropic | 58 | 141 |
| 8 | Adobe | 57 | 86 |
| 9 | Citi | 56 | 81 |
| 10 | NVIDIA | 51 | 134 |

## Fastest-growing employers vs 2026-08

| Company | Change | Now | Prev |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Intercom | +101 | 111 | 10 |
| Capital One | +17 | 44 | 27 |
| Verizon | +13 | 15 | 2 |
| CVS Health | +10 | 15 | 5 |
| JLL | +9 | 20 | 11 |
| Anthropic | +8 | 58 | 50 |
| Red Hat | +8 | 9 | 1 |
| Johnson & Johnson | +8 | 8 | 0 |

## Role mix by category

| Category | Roles | Companies | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agent engineering | 2,280 | 169 | 65% |
| AI/ML engineering | 823 | 131 | 23% |
| Agent ops & infra | 148 | 51 | 4% |
| AI product | 107 | 56 | 3% |
| Field & solutions | 59 | 18 | 2% |
| Evals & quality | 49 | 24 | 1% |
| AI security | 33 | 20 | 1% |
| AI governance & risk | 16 | 15 | 0% |

## Most-requested skills

Python (1,633) · Cloud (995) · RAG (637) · Kubernetes (594) · MCP (588) · TypeScript (473) · LangChain (405) · Fine-tuning (391) · Multi-agent (369) · LangGraph (331) · Prompt engineering (314) · Vector DB (312)

## 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, September 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/report/2026-09

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