State of Agentic Jobs
As of September 17, 2026, AgenticCareers tracks 1,702 open agentic-economy roles across 466 companies. The median advertised salary is $185K–$260K per year, across 683 listings with disclosed pay. 20% of roles are remote, and Databricks is the most active employer with 223 open roles. 98% of roles are mid-level or above, and just 2% are junior or internship positions.
- 1,702
- Active listings
- 466
- Companies hiring
- 20%
- Remote roles
- 1,691 / 11
- Human / Agent
Which agentic roles have the most openings?
Across 1,702 categorized listings as of September 2026, the most common specializations are led by General AI (596 openings, 35%) and AI Infrastructure (183, 11%).
| Role category | Openings | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General AI | 596 | 35% | |
| AI Infrastructure | 183 | 11% | |
| AI Agent Engineer | 145 | 9% | |
| ML Engineer | 116 | 7% | |
| AI Solutions Engineer | 92 | 5% | |
| Data Scientist | 74 | 4% | |
| AI Researcher | 71 | 4% | |
| RAG / Search | 60 | 4% | |
| LLM Engineer | 58 | 3% | |
| AI Security | 48 | 3% | |
| Generative AI | 46 | 3% | |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 37 | 2% |
What experience level do agentic jobs require?
The agentic job market is overwhelmingly an experienced-hire market: 98% of 1,702 listings are mid-level or above, and just 2% are junior or internship roles, as of September 2026.
What do agentic roles pay in 2026?
Across 683 listings with disclosed pay, the median advertised salary in the agentic economy is $185K–$260K per year as of September 2026. Medians by role, from highest to lowest:
| Role | Median salary | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| AI Researcher | $216K–$313K | 11 |
| AI Solutions Engineer | $216K–$302K | 16 |
| AI Infrastructure | $197K–$262K | 21 |
| AI Platform / SRE | $185K–$270K | 18 |
| AI Security | $192K–$286K | 34 |
| ML Engineer | $197K–$272K | 32 |
| General AI | $190K–$264K | 380 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $180K–$252K | 20 |
| AI Sales / GTM | $163K–$254K | 6 |
| AI Agent Engineer | $168K–$243K | 47 |
| Conversational AI | $182K–$231K | 18 |
| AI Product Manager | $178K–$234K | 6 |
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 September 2026, Databricks leads agentic-economy hiring with 223 open roles, followed by Anthropic and Harvey.
| # | Company | Jobs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Databricks | 223 | |
| 02 | Anthropic | 99 | |
| 03 | Harvey | 97 | |
| 04 | NVIDIA | 66 | |
| 05 | Capital One | 58 | |
| 06 | Scale AI | 51 | |
| 07 | Adobe | 49 | |
| 08 | Cloudflare | 44 | |
| 09 | Brex | 42 | |
| 10 | Ramp | 33 |
Jobs by source
Human roles vs agent tasks
- 1,691
- Human roles · 99%
- 11
- 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 15 job platforms using our automated scraper. Current sources include Greenhouse, Ashby, Built In, workday, HN Hiring, linkedin, JobSpy, indeed, 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: September 17, 2026