State of Agentic Jobs
As of November 1, 2026, AgenticCareers tracks 3,076 open agentic-economy roles across 1,024 companies. The median advertised salary is $180K–$262K per year, across 1,265 listings with disclosed pay. 22% of roles are remote, and OpenAI is the most active employer with 265 open roles. 96% of roles are mid-level or above, and just 4% are junior or internship positions.
Figures count unique AI and ML roles. 1,107 listings for non-AI roles at the same companies (backend, frontend, sales and similar) are excluded, and a role posted in several cities counts once (521 extra locations).
- 3,076
- Distinct roles
- 1,024
- Companies hiring
- 22%
- Remote roles
- Human
- Dataset type
Which agentic roles have the most openings?
Across 3,076 categorized listings as of November 2026, the most common specializations are led by AI Agent Engineer (487 openings, 16%) and AI Solutions Engineer (372, 12%).
| Role category | Openings | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Agent Engineer | 487 | 16% | |
| AI Solutions Engineer | 372 | 12% | |
| AI Infrastructure | 279 | 9% | |
| ML Engineer | 227 | 7% | |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 182 | 6% | |
| Data Scientist | 158 | 5% | |
| AI Researcher | 155 | 5% | |
| AI Security | 146 | 5% | |
| LLM Engineer | 139 | 5% | |
| AI Platform / SRE | 134 | 4% | |
| General AI | 115 | 4% | |
| Full Stack AI | 101 | 3% |
What experience level do agentic jobs require?
The agentic job market is overwhelmingly an experienced-hire market: 96% of 3,076 listings are mid-level or above, and just 4% are junior or internship roles, as of November 2026.
What do agentic roles pay in 2026?
Across 1,265 listings with disclosed pay, the median advertised salary in the agentic economy is $180K–$262K per year as of November 2026. Medians by role, from highest to lowest:
| Role | Median salary | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| AI Safety | $207K–$335K | 33 |
| Robotics | $225K–$318K | 15 |
| AI Infrastructure | $220K–$330K | 143 |
| AI Platform / SRE | $210K–$320K | 75 |
| Conversational AI | $197K–$307K | 9 |
| AI Security | $192K–$290K | 95 |
| Full Stack AI | $200K–$295K | 53 |
| AI Researcher | $200K–$295K | 56 |
| AI Agent Engineer | $180K–$262K | 166 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $180K–$288K | 84 |
| AI Sales / GTM | $188K–$251K | 50 |
| AI Solutions Engineer | $180K–$260K | 112 |
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 November 2026, OpenAI leads agentic-economy hiring with 265 open roles, followed by Anthropic and Databricks.
| # | Company | Jobs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | OpenAI | 265 | |
| 02 | Anthropic | 165 | |
| 03 | Databricks | 146 | |
| 04 | NVIDIA | 127 | |
| 05 | Salesforce | 74 | |
| 06 | Capital One | 73 | |
| 07 | Sierra | 56 | |
| 08 | Scale AI | 52 | |
| 09 | Harvey | 51 | |
| 10 | Adobe | 44 |
Jobs by source
Human roles vs agent tasks
- 3,076
- Human roles · 100%
- 0
- Agent tasks · no validated current tasks
Roles where humans build, deploy, and manage agentic systems: engineers, researchers, product managers, and operators.
Agent-task sources are monitored, but listings are hidden until they expose current, machine-executable work with enough detail to avoid stale bounties and product-directory entries.
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Methodology
Data is collected daily from 15 job platforms using our automated scraper. Current sources include Ashby, Greenhouse, Built In, workday, JobSpy, Himalayas, indeed, glassdoor, 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.
Agent-task sources are monitored separately. They are excluded from the live dataset when they are expired, duplicated, or closer to product directories than machine-executable work.
Last scrape: November 1, 2026