State of Agentic Hiring
As of August 2026, AgenticCareers.co tracks 1,731 open agentic roles across 491 companies. 43% disclose pay, at a median of $213,800. 1,026 roles opened in the last 30 days. The largest category is General AI (33%).
- 1,731
- Open agentic roles
- 491
- Companies hiring
- $213,800
- Median salary
- 1,026
- Added in 30 days
Salary intelligence
Median $213,800 (p25 $181,250, p75 $250,000), USD annual, across 744 disclosed listings.
| Role | Median (USD) | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| AI Infrastructure | $246,150 | 23 |
| AI Security | $235,000 | 33 |
| Generative AI | $231,368 | 22 |
| AI Platform / SRE | $230,000 | 19 |
| AI Solutions Engineer | $222,500 | 15 |
| AI Researcher | $220,499 | 17 |
| AI Sales / GTM | $220,000 | 7 |
| AI Agent Engineer | $219,663 | 42 |
| General AI | $217,500 | 377 |
| LLM Engineer | $217,475 | 14 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $208,000 | 18 |
| ML Engineer | $201,550 | 42 |
| Conversational AI | $197,700 | 6 |
| Data Scientist | $190,600 | 35 |
| RAG / Search | $181,250 | 50 |
| Prompt Engineer | $125,000 | 9 |
Hiring velocity
1,026 new roles in the last 30 days (59.3% of the board). The categories adding roles fastest:
- General AI+302
- AI Infrastructure+161
- ML Engineer+75
- AI Agent Engineer+68
- Data Scientist+63
Role & skill landscape
Where agentic hiring concentrates across role categories.
| Category | Roles | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General AI | 571 | 33% | |
| AI Infrastructure | 186 | 10.7% | |
| AI Agent Engineer | 136 | 7.9% | |
| ML Engineer | 128 | 7.4% | |
| Data Scientist | 89 | 5.1% | |
| AI Solutions Engineer | 83 | 4.8% | |
| AI Researcher | 73 | 4.2% | |
| RAG / Search | 69 | 4% | |
| Generative AI | 65 | 3.8% | |
| LLM Engineer | 53 | 3.1% | |
| AI Security | 41 | 2.4% | |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 38 | 2.2% | |
| Computer Vision | 30 | 1.7% | |
| AI Platform / SRE | 30 | 1.7% | |
| AI Product Manager | 29 | 1.7% | |
| Prompt Engineer | 26 | 1.5% | |
| AI Ops / DevOps | 21 | 1.2% | |
| NLP Engineer | 16 | 0.9% | |
| AI Safety | 13 | 0.8% | |
| Robotics | 11 | 0.6% | |
| AI Sales / GTM | 9 | 0.5% | |
| Conversational AI | 9 | 0.5% | |
| Full Stack AI | 4 | 0.2% | |
| AI Agent (Non-Human) | 1 | 0.1% |
Company leaderboard
491 companies hiring; the top 10 hold 43.9% of open roles.
- 01Databricks221
- 02Harvey111
- 03Anthropic81
- 04Capital One63
- 05NVIDIA61
- 06Scale AI58
- 07Adobe53
- 08Brex40
- 09Deloitte36
- 10Vercel33
- 11Ramp33
- 12Cloudflare30
- 13Twilio30
- 14Stripe30
- 15Ashby22
Methodology
1,731 live roles from 17 sources. Salary: USD annual midpoint of disclosed range; segments need >=5 disclosed listings. Every listing passed AgenticCareers' agentic relevance classifier; there is no non-agentic denominator.
Cite this dataset
Licensed CC BY 4.0. Cite as:
AgenticCareers.co, State of Agentic Hiring, August 2026. https://agenticcareers.co/state-of-agentic-hiring