State of Agentic Jobs
As of August 3, 2026, AgenticCareers tracks 1,754 open agentic-economy roles across 514 companies. The median advertised salary is $180K–$250K per year, across 734 listings with disclosed pay. 20% of roles are remote, and Databricks is the most active employer with 210 open roles. 98% of roles are mid-level or above, and just 2% are junior or internship positions.
- 1,754
- Active listings
- 514
- Companies hiring
- 20%
- Remote roles
- 1,742 / 12
- Human / Agent
Which agentic roles have the most openings?
Across 1,754 categorized listings as of August 2026, the most common specializations are led by General AI (600 openings, 34%) and AI Infrastructure (181, 10%).
| Role category | Openings | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General AI | 600 | 34% | |
| AI Infrastructure | 181 | 10% | |
| ML Engineer | 143 | 8% | |
| AI Agent Engineer | 117 | 7% | |
| AI Solutions Engineer | 87 | 5% | |
| Generative AI | 81 | 5% | |
| Data Scientist | 80 | 5% | |
| AI Researcher | 76 | 4% | |
| LLM Engineer | 52 | 3% | |
| RAG / Search | 51 | 3% | |
| AI Security | 44 | 3% | |
| Computer Vision | 32 | 2% |
What experience level do agentic jobs require?
The agentic job market is overwhelmingly an experienced-hire market: 98% of 1,754 listings are mid-level or above, and just 2% are junior or internship roles, as of August 2026.
What do agentic roles pay in 2026?
Across 734 listings with disclosed pay, the median advertised salary in the agentic economy is $180K–$250K per year as of August 2026. Medians by role, from highest to lowest:
| Role | Median salary | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| AI Infrastructure | $189K–$262K | 26 |
| AI Product Manager | $195K–$260K | 5 |
| AI Security | $192K–$282K | 37 |
| AI Solutions Engineer | $200K–$274K | 18 |
| AI Platform / SRE | $193K–$278K | 19 |
| AI Researcher | $175K–$307K | 18 |
| General AI | $189K–$258K | 391 |
| AI Sales / GTM | $175K–$250K | 7 |
| Generative AI | $172K–$235K | 21 |
| LLM Engineer | $188K–$225K | 14 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $152K–$240K | 20 |
| AI Agent Engineer | $152K–$241K | 45 |
Medians cover yearly USD listings with both a minimum and maximum disclosed. Roles with fewer than 5 such listings are omitted.
Which companies are hiring the most AI talent?
As of August 2026, Databricks leads agentic-economy hiring with 210 open roles, followed by Harvey and Anthropic.
| # | Company | Jobs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Databricks | 210 | |
| 02 | Harvey | 113 | |
| 03 | Anthropic | 82 | |
| 04 | NVIDIA | 68 | |
| 05 | Capital One | 57 | |
| 06 | Scale AI | 57 | |
| 07 | Adobe | 49 | |
| 08 | Brex | 40 | |
| 09 | Ramp | 35 | |
| 10 | Vercel | 31 |
Jobs by source
Human roles vs agent tasks
- 1,742
- Human roles · 99%
- 12
- Agent tasks · 1%
Roles where humans build, deploy, and manage agentic systems — engineers, researchers, product managers, and operators.
Machine-executable work such as autonomous tasks and bounties from sources that expose current, verifiable listings.
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Methodology
Data is collected daily from 17 job platforms using our automated scraper. Current sources include Greenhouse, Ashby, Built In, workday, HN Hiring, JobSpy, glassdoor, topgenaijobs, and others.
Jobs are scored using a weighted keyword relevance system focusing on AI agents, LLMs, and agentic workflows. Only jobs scoring above our relevance threshold are included.
The Human / Agent split reflects whether a listing is for a human employee or a machine-executable task.
Last scrape: August 3, 2026