Wall Street banks are fueling a hiring surge for AI engineers, with AI-related job postings at firms including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Capital One increasing 49% this year compared to 2025, reaching 139,819 listings. The fastest-growing area is for skills involving AI agents, particularly "agent orchestration"—the ability to coordinate teams of specialized agents—which saw a 1,721% jump in demand this year. Other in-demand skills include LangGraph (up 679%), LlamaIndex (up 291%), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG, up 259%). There is also a growing emphasis on soft skills like problem-solving and creativity, as well as roles for "responsible AI" (up 657%) and AI governance and risk management (up 394% and 359% respectively). Generative AI managers typically earn a median base salary of about $190,000, but filling these specialized roles remains a challenge, leading banks to invest heavily in internal reskilling programs.