How many AI Agent Engineer jobs are open?

We currently track 23 active AI Agent Engineer job postings from 5 companies (dataset: public employer career pages, updated Sep 29, 2026).

What skills does a AI Agent Engineer need?

The most requested skills in current AI Agent Engineer postings are: AI Agents, Evaluation, LLM, Python, Guardrails, MCP.

AI Agent Engineer

Builds AI systems that use tools, reason across tasks and operate inside structured workflows.

Also seen as: Agentic AI Engineer, Agent Engineer, AI Agents Engineer, Agentic Systems Engineer

open jobs tracked

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remote openings

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Market status: emerging · Last updated Sep 29, 2026 · Source: public employer job postings tracked by AI Career Observatory

What does a AI Agent Engineer do?

AI Agent Engineers build software systems in which large language models plan, call tools, interact with external systems and complete multi-step tasks with limited supervision. The work spans agent orchestration frameworks, tool and function calling, retrieval, memory, sandboxing, guardrails and evaluation of agent behavior in production.

Job titles we classify into this role

Real, current titles from tracked postings — role names vary by employer; this is what a AI Agent Engineer actually looks like in the market right now.

ML & Agentic Systems Engineer [IC4] Sourcegraph
Senior Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI) Scale AI
Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI) Scale AI
Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Applications Databricks
Staff Product Manager, Agentic AI Applications Databricks
Staff Fullstack Engineer, Agentic Applications Databricks
Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer Scale AI
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) Scale AI

Title variants normalized into this role: Agentic AI Engineer · Agent Engineer · AI Agents Engineer · Agentic Systems Engineer — plus employer-specific patterns matched with evidence. See classification methodology.