Agent Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-08-28, Skillenai has indexed 3 job postings with the title “Agent Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is distill.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-08-28
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+How many Agent Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 3 job postings with the title “Agent Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28.
+What skills do Agent Engineer jobs require?
Across Agent Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, the skills mentioned most often are distill, LLM APIs, Benchmark design, retrieval, LLM evaluation.
+Which cities are hiring the most Agent Engineer?
As of 2026-08-28, Agent Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in San Francisco, South San Francisco.
+Is Agent Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 3 Agent Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28. The skill mentioned most often in Agent Engineer postings is distill, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Agent Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Agent Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| distill | 1 | 33.3% |
| LLM APIs | 1 | 33.3% |
| Benchmark design | 1 | 33.3% |
| retrieval | 1 | 33.3% |
| LLM evaluation | 1 | 33.3% |
| citations | 1 | 33.3% |
| voice models | 1 | 33.3% |
| Python | 1 | 33.3% |
| Tool calling | 1 | 33.3% |
| data ingestion | 1 | 33.3% |
| human evaluation | 1 | 33.3% |
| model selection | 1 | 33.3% |
| right-sizing | 1 | 33.3% |
| planning | 1 | 33.3% |
| profiling | 1 | 33.3% |
Top metros hiring Agent Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 1 | 33.3% |
| South San Francisco | 1 | 33.3% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, matching postings whose canonical role is “Agent Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Agent Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-08-28
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