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
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.
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Current AI Agent Engineer jobs
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Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Applications
Staff Product Manager, Agentic AI Applications
Staff Fullstack Engineer, Agentic Applications
Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)
Companies hiring AI Agent Engineers
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