AI Agent Jobs November 2026: 2,965 Open Roles, Median Pay $227,000

AI agent jobs have reached a scale that can now be counted in the thousands, with AgenticCareers.co reporting 2,965 open agentic roles across 958 companies in its November 2026 State of Agentic Hiring report. The report, published in November 2026, puts the median pay at $227,000 a year among the 42% of listings that disclose a salary range, and says 2,054 of the roles opened in the last 30 days alone. AI Agent Engineer is the largest single category, with 481 roles, or 16.2% of the total.

At a glance	Details
Report	State of Agentic Hiring, November 2026, AgenticCareers.co
Open agentic roles	2,965 across 958 companies
Median pay	$227,000 a year (middle half $173,000 to $285,000), across 1,239 listings that disclose pay
Share disclosing pay	42%
Roles added in the last 30 days	2,054 (69.3% of the board)
Largest category	AI Agent Engineer, 481 roles (16.2%)
Largest employer	OpenAI, 264 roles
Remote share	22% of listings market-wide
Entry-level share	110 junior and internship roles out of 2,965
Application route	Each employer's own careers page; the report carries no single deadline

AI agent jobs: where the roles sit

AI Agent Engineer leads the board by a wide margin, with 481 roles, followed by AI Solutions Engineer with 359 roles and AI Infrastructure with 271 roles. Machine Learning Engineer accounts for 218 roles, Forward Deployed Engineer for 172, and Data Scientist for 150. AI Security follows with 148 roles, AI Researcher with 141, and LLM Engineer with 135. AI Platform and Site Reliability Engineering holds 125 roles, General AI 102, Full Stack AI 93, and Computer Vision 92. AI Safety, at 89 roles, sits below the engineering categories in count even though it carries the highest median pay in the report.

Growth is just as concentrated. AI Agent Engineer added 311 roles in the last 30 days, AI Solutions Engineer added 266, AI Infrastructure added 190, Machine Learning Engineer added 146, and Forward Deployed Engineer added 128. The fastest-growing work is building agents, putting them into production for customers, and running the infrastructure underneath them, rather than smaller fields such as prompt engineering, with 56 roles, or retrieval and search, with 57.

AI agent jobs pay: what the disclosed ranges show

Among roles with enough disclosed listings to publish a median, AI Safety pays most at $277,500 a year, closely followed by AI Researcher at $277,000. Full Stack AI sits at $269,000, AI Infrastructure at $267,925, and AI Platform and Site Reliability Engineering at $252,250. AI Security reports $247,000, Forward Deployed Engineer $230,000, and AI Sales and Go-to-Market $227,000, matching the overall median. AI Agent Engineer and AI Solutions Engineer both sit at $220,000, Data Scientist at $211,200, Machine Learning Engineer at $192,000, General AI at $185,200, and LLM Engineer at $183,750.

Two limits apply to every pay figure here. The report publishes a median only where at least 30 listings disclose pay, and withholds medians for smaller segments such as AI Product Manager, with 25 disclosed listings, AI Operations and DevOps, with 18, and Robotics, with 15. The median is also the midpoint of the disclosed range, in United States dollars per year, and says nothing about equity, bonuses, or location adjustments, which the report does not break out. A listing without a stated range is not evidence of low pay; it is one of the 58% of listings that do not disclose a figure.

AI agent jobs: who is hiring most

OpenAI leads the employer table with 264 roles, followed by Anthropic with 165, Databricks with 147, and NVIDIA with 130. Salesforce lists 69 roles, Capital One 63, Sierra 56, Harvey 51, Scale AI 49, and Adobe 42. LangChain and Cloudflare each list 39, Together AI 38, Perplexity AI 37, and JPMorganChase 36. The ten largest employers together hold 35.3% of all open roles, so a jobseeker who applies only to the best-known names is competing in just over a third of the market, while the remaining 948 companies hold the rest.

That spread matters for applicants who need remote work. Only 6% of listings from the ten largest employers are remote, against 22% market-wide and 41% among employers with a single open role, so smaller employers may offer better odds, even though they disclose pay less often, at 35% against 43% for the ten largest.

The entry-level squeeze in AI agent jobs

The seniority split is the starkest finding in the report. Mid-level roles make up 49% of the board, with 1,453 listings, followed by senior roles at 24%, with 697, staff roles at 15%, with 450, and lead roles at 8%, with 239. Internships account for 58 roles and junior roles for 52, a combined 110 entry-level listings against 450 staff-level listings, with only 16 executive roles above them. A normal engineering market, the report notes, has more junior roles than staff roles, because companies expect to grow people; this market has the shape reversed.

The report offers capacity, not hostility, as the likeliest explanation: agent teams are mostly small and new, assembled by moving experienced engineers across from other teams, leaving nobody whose job is to train a junior hire. It names internships as the leading indicator to watch, since junior hiring follows about a year later when internship numbers move, and notes that the entry-level roles that do exist cluster with the smallest employers. New graduates should treat an internship as the realistic entry point, and target smaller employers first.

What to do next with the AI agent jobs data

Start from the category, not the company name. Agent-building experience points to AI Agent Engineer and AI Solutions Engineer, where growth is fastest; infrastructure experience points to AI Infrastructure and AI Platform and Site Reliability Engineering, where medians are higher. Check each posting on the employer's own careers page before applying. There is no single deadline for this market, so each role carries its own closing date or stays open until filled.

Apply only through the employer's own site or a posting linked from it, and never pay to apply. No genuine employer in this report charges a fee for an application, and any message asking for payment, gift cards, or bank details in exchange for an interview should be treated as a fraud attempt. For readers weighing other paid routes into AI work, AI startup jobs across more than 1,100 companies cover permanent roles at a median base of $190,000 a year, AI training jobs for software engineers pay by the hour, and the Anthropic Residency offers a paid fixed-term route into AI safety research.

Sources: AgenticCareers.co, "State of Agentic Hiring (November 2026)", at https://agenticcareers.co/state-of-agentic-hiring. The report states the role counts, pay medians, hiring velocity, employer table, seniority split, and remote shares quoted here; the dataset is licensed CC BY 4.0. No single application deadline applies to the listings counted in the report.