The 20 New Agentic AI Jobs Box, McKinsey, And LinkedIn All See Coming

InnovationAIThe 20 New Agentic AI Jobs Box, McKinsey, And LinkedIn All See ComingBySandy Carter,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sandy Carter, COO at Unstoppable, Top 10 Microsoft MSN AI EntrepreneurFollow AuthorJun 02, 2026, 08:30am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.The 20 New Agentic AI Jobs Box McKinsey And LinkedIn All See Coming (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).Getty ImagesThe dominant headline about Agentic AI and work is the one about jobs disappearing. The data tells a second story that gets far less attention.LinkedIn's January 2026 analysis put a number on it. AI has already added more than 1.3 million new roles, titles like AI Engineer, Forward-Deployed Engineer, and Data Annotator, alongside over 600,000 AI-enabled data center jobs. LinkedIn calls this the new-collar era, a workforce that blends knowledge work, advanced technical skills, and distinctly human strengths. AI Engineer now ranks as the single fastest-growing job title in the United States for the second year running.Box gave the trend a face this week. Responding to a New York Times piece on its AI-driven hiring, CEO Aaron Levie described positions that did not exist at the company two years ago, spread across engineering, IT, and go-to-market: roles that evaluate new AI models, internal automation engineers who rewire how the company works, and professional services teams running a forward deployed engineering motion to get customers live faster. His point was that Box is not the exception. It is the early indicator, and the same shift is happening inside its customers.The institutional research agrees. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report projects 170 million new roles created by 2030 against 92 million displaced, a net gain of 78 million jobs, with AI and machine learning specialists among the three fastest-growing occup...