Wall Street banks are hiring AI agent experts - AI-related job postings up 49 percent
US banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One, have posted 139,819 AI-related job openings this year - 49 percent more than in 2025, according to an analysis by Draup prepared for CNBC. Postings requiring "agent orchestration," that is, designing AI agents that work together on a single task, are growing fastest, with mentions of this skill up 1,721 percent. A generative AI manager in the industry earns about $190,000 a year (median base salary).