Original Hiring Research & Market Intelligence
Hiring intelligence for AI, life sciences, healthcare, cybersecurity, and technology leaders — written by the recruiters running these searches. Each report states its own sources, timeframe, and limitations.
Published research (5)
State of Life Sciences Hiring Report — Q2 2026
Precision hiring has arrived. AI skill premiums, slower velocity, hybrid as advantage, and why the best candidates aren't applying.
2026 AI Engineer Hiring Report
Compensation benchmarks, time-to-hire, in-demand skills, geographic hotspots, and what founders should do to win the hardest AI talent.
2026 Forward Deployed Engineer Talent Report
What the Forward Deployed Engineer market actually looks like in 2026 — role definition, where the talent comes from, technical versus customer-facing requirements, and how FDE differs from software, AI, and sales engineering.
2026 AI Research & Foundation Model Talent Report
How foundation model organizations staff research in 2026 — Research Engineer vs Research Scientist vs Member of Technical Staff, pretraining and post-training talent, multimodal and speech, and research-to-production hiring.
2026 Agentic AI Hiring Report
How companies are staffing production agent systems in 2026 — role definitions, the skills that actually matter, orchestration and evaluation ownership, and where agentic AI hiring goes wrong.
What we cover
Research is organized by the markets we recruit in. Each area connects to the recruiting practice behind it, so you can move from the intelligence to the people who work that market.
AI Engineering & Agentic AI
Hiring patterns for the engineers who ship AI products: AI engineers, applied AI, agentic systems, forward deployed engineering, and AI infrastructure.
AI Research & Foundation Models
Talent-market intelligence for research organizations: research engineers, research scientists, members of technical staff, pretraining, post-training, multimodal, and speech.
Life Sciences & Biotech
Scientific, clinical, regulatory, and commercial hiring across biotech, medtech, diagnostics, CRO/CDMO, and healthcare technology.
Technology & SaaS
Engineering, product, and go-to-market hiring across venture-backed and growth-stage software companies.
Research in development
We publish a report when the underlying material supports it, not on a content calendar. Areas we are actively building research toward:
In the meantime, the AI Recruiting Hub, compensation guides, and hiring guides carry our current market intelligence.