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Agentic Developer. The role, the market signal, and how to build it in your org.
Builds multi-step agent workflows. Heaviest concentration in IT-services consulting (PwC India, Accenture) wrapping engineering work inside advisory titles.
In a workforce of people and AI agents, this role takes shape around the workflows it supports. Define its responsibilities and handoffs, then prepare people to perform that work.
330 postings · 235 distinct titles · from 264,613 real job postings · see the live data →
What the market calls it
Agentic Automation DeveloperAgentic AI EngineerMulti-Agent Developer
Hiring this role in our corpus right now
PwC 84Capitalone 50Paypal 18ServiceNow 16Booz Allen Hamilton 15
What the postings ask this role to do
5,268 tasks extracted from real Agentic Developer job descriptions, classified Automate / Augment / Human-only. Only 1.1% can be fully automated: companies are hiring this role for the judgment, not the keystrokes.
Automate
- Monitor service performance.
- Perform large language model inference.
- Automate deployment workflows for ml systems.
- Use automated testing tools to test and maintain ai software.
Augment
- Leverage a broad stack of open source and saas ai technologies such as aws ultraclusters, huggingface, vectordbs, nemo guardrails, pytorch, and more.
- Identify and prioritize opportunities where autonomous agents and generative ai can drive business value.
- Define structured data models with pydantic.
- Implement rag pipelines and memory-augmented workflows.
- Integrate apis, enterprise applications, and mcp/a2a protocols.
Human-only
- Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational ai systems at capital one.
- Define and execute the long-term roadmap for agentic ai and genai initiatives.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to align ai strategy with overall business goals.
- Mentor junior team members.
- Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver ai-powered products.
How we build it in your org
From the market's version of this role to your version of it
1. Define workflow responsibilities
Start with the workflows this role supports: the outcomes, decisions, and handoffs it owns. Task Intelligence examines the tasks within that work and how people and agents can share responsibility.2. Define your version
Your team composes the job description for your org's variant of the role, grounded in those responsibilities and the task evidence rather than a copied template.3. Practise and assess readiness
Build on the domain and technical expertise your people already bring. Use relevant Simulations, GenAI Sandboxes, and Skill Validation Assessments to practise changed responsibilities and demonstrate capability. Revisit preparation when the work changes.Start with the work, not the org chart.
Define what this role will own, then connect those responsibilities to practice and assessment.