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What is a AI Agent / Agentic Engineer?

459 open roles across 220 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 $190,000–$250,000 in base salary, with a median of $221,975 based on 150 roles with published salary data (35% coverage). See the AI Agent / Agentic Engineer salary page for full data.

Top companies hiring AI Agent / Agentic Engineers right now

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

  1. 1. NVIDIA 23 open roles
  2. 2. Tide 14 open roles
  3. 3. Cresta 12 open roles
  4. 4. Paytm 12 open roles
  5. 5. UiPath 9 open roles
  6. 6. Comcast 8 open roles
  7. 7. Cohere 7 open roles
  8. 8. Kraken 7 open roles
  9. 9. 100ms 7 open roles
  10. 10. Nord Security 7 open roles

459 open AI Agent / Agentic Engineer roles, updated daily

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