I run a scraper that reads company career pages directly (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and similar) and stores the open roles. It currently holds about 45,000 roles from 450 companies. I wanted to know one thing: who is actually hiring people to build and secure agents?
Here is what the data says. Method first, so you can judge it: I matched role titles against a few patterns. A title match is a rough signal, not a headcount.
Titles containing "agent"
508 open roles across 124 companies have "agent" in the title. That includes customer-support agent products, so read it as demand around agents, not only agent infrastructure.
Most roles per company:
| Company | Roles with "agent" in title |
|---|---|
| Sierra | 75 |
| Decagon | 43 |
| OpenAI | 22 |
| Cresta | 18 |
| Scale AI | 15 |
The first two build customer-service agents, so that is where the hiring volume sits right now.
The infrastructure and security roles
The more interesting rows are the ones about running agents safely. A few real titles from the data:
- Agent Security (Anthropic)
- Multi-Agent Scaling (Anthropic)
- Agent Runtime Platform (Anthropic)
- Agentic Infrastructure (Vercel)
These are fewer, but they are the roles that match what many of us write about here: audit logs, tool-call evidence, guardrails, runtime limits. Companies list them as senior or staff roles, and the posted salary ranges are high.
What I'd take from it
- Volume is in applied agents (support, sales, voice). If you want a job fast, that is the market.
- Platform and security roles are rarer and more senior. A real audit or guardrail project on your profile matters more than a framework list.
- Funding correlates with openings: the best-funded labs list hundreds of roles each. The top 100 by valuation, with open roles per company, is here: https://launchdreamjob.co/funding?utm_source=devto&utm_campaign=agent-jobs
If you want to browse the roles yourself, remote ones are at https://launchdreamjob.co/remote?utm_source=devto&utm_campaign=agent-jobs and the data refreshes daily.
Caveats
- Title matching over-counts ("agent" also means insurance or travel agent at some companies).
- The set of companies is my list of AI and tech employers, not the whole market.
- I recount daily, so the numbers will have moved by the time you read this.
What would you want to filter by that job boards do not offer? I will add the useful ones.
