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What is a AI Agent / Agentic Engineer?

444 open roles across 224 companies right now · updated daily

AI Agent / Agentic Engineers build autonomous systems that plan, use tools, and act — LLM-powered agents that go beyond chat to do real work. It's one of the newest and fastest-moving engineering specialties of the AI era. This board aggregates open agentic / AI-agent roles daily from company ATS feeds and links to the original posting.

Frequently asked questions

What is an AI Agent / Agentic Engineer?

An engineer who builds LLM-powered agents that reason, call tools and APIs, and execute multi-step tasks autonomously — work spanning agent frameworks, tool use, retrieval, evaluation, and orchestration.

What skills do agentic roles need?

Strong software engineering plus hands-on LLM experience: function/tool calling, RAG, evals, and agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom orchestration), with an eye for reliability.

How is it different from ML engineering?

Agentic work is less about training models and more about composing LLMs, tools, and control flow into dependable autonomous systems.

Compensation

In the US, AI Agent / Agentic Engineer roles typically fall in the range of $185,000–$246,000 in base salary, with a median of $220,000 based on 165 roles with published salary data (41% coverage). See the AI Agent / Agentic Engineer salary page for full data.

Top companies hiring AI Agent / Agentic Engineers right now

224 companies have open AI Agent / Agentic Engineer postings tracked by latchhire. Top employers by open headcount:

  1. 1. NVIDIA 37 open roles
  2. 2. Cresta 14 open roles
  3. 3. Airwallex 11 open roles
  4. 4. Databricks 10 open roles
  5. 5. Extreme Networks 10 open roles
  6. 6. Cisco 10 open roles
  7. 7. Cohere 7 open roles
  8. 8. Cloudflare 7 open roles
  9. 9. AstraZeneca 7 open roles
  10. 10. 100ms 6 open roles

444 open AI Agent / Agentic Engineer roles, updated daily

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