AI infra has the most openings,
but vertical AI agents grow the fastest
Open job postings across 56 companies on Wing's Enterprise Tech 30, 2026 edition · January 1 to August 2, 2026
Companies tracked
56
ET30 software companies
AI infrastructure
51%
share of open roles now
Vertical agents
+170%
open roles, January to August 2026
Stage gap
27x
giga-stage vs early-stage average board
Vertical agent companies are growing job openings the fastest
Total open roles by ET30 category, shown as a percentage of each category's January 1 count, 42 companies
Who is adding roles, who is cutting
Net change per company: roles open on August 2 minus roles open on January 1; 20 more companies with smaller gains not shown
The stage pyramid
Average open roles per company by ET30 stage tier, all tracked companies now
What the data says
- AI infrastructure is the volume engine. It holds 2353 open roles, 51% of the panel, and the two biggest adders (OpenAI +269, Applied Intuition +261) are infrastructure companies.
- Vertical agents grow the fastest. Open roles rose 170% from January to August 2026, versus 60% for AI infrastructure, with Harvey driving 86% of the group's gain and Basis and Crosby scaling the same playbook.
- Horizontal agents are the counterpoint. The group grew just 16%, and the cohort's deepest cuts, Glean (-69) and Gamma, are both horizontal-agent companies.
- The stage pyramid sets the volume race. Giga-stage companies average 404 open roles; early-stage companies average 15, a 27x gap, and no vertical-agent company is in the giga tier.
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