Gregg Flecke
AI/ML Talent Map 2026: Where AI Engineers Are and What They Cost Thirty-five percent of all AI engineers in the United States work within a 40-mile radius of San Jose. Another 23% are in Seattle. That leaves roughly 42% of the country’s AI workforce scattered across every other metro area combined. If you’re hiring for … Read more
The 30-Day Talent Window: Why Smart Companies Are Hiring Right Now I’ve been placing IT and engineering talent in Southern California for a while now. Long enough to know what a normal hiring market looks like. This isn’t one. More than 55,900 tech workers have lost their jobs in 2026. We’re barely into Q1. At … Read more
Hire a Site Reliability Engineer: Skills, Salary & What to Look For A site reliability engineer keeps production systems running, automates away the repetitive operational work that burns out your infrastructure team, and builds the monitoring and alerting that tells you something is broken before your customers do. Pay varies a lot by source, but … Read more
How to Hire a Project Manager: Complete Guide for Employers A project manager is the person who keeps a cross-functional initiative from quietly falling apart. They own the timeline, the budget, the stakeholder communication, and the uncomfortable conversations when scope starts creeping. Hiring the right one can compress a 14-month product launch into nine months … Read more
Product Manager Salary Guide 2026 Product managers in the United States earn between $115,000 and $193,000 in base salary as of 2026, with a national average landing around $150,000 depending on who’s counting and how they define the role. Total compensation at Big Tech companies regularly clears $300,000 once you factor in equity and bonuses. … Read more
SOC Analyst Career Path & Salary Guide A SOC analyst monitors an organization’s networks and systems for security threats, triaging alerts across SIEM platforms, investigating incidents, and escalating confirmed breaches. Entry-level Tier 1 analysts earn $57,000 to $80,000, while senior Tier 3 threat hunters pull $90,000 to $140,000 or more. The Bureau of Labor Statistics … Read more
Information Security Analyst: Complete Career Guide Last month we placed an information security analyst at a healthcare company in Irvine. Took three weeks from intake call to signed offer. The one before that took four months. Same title. Same salary range. Completely different outcome, and the difference had nothing to do with the candidate market. … Read more
How to Negotiate Salary as a Tech Professional $24,479. That’s the annual gap between a tech professional who negotiates and one who takes the first offer. I know because we run the numbers on every placement. The research backs it up too, an 18.83% average increase for people who push back versus those who sign … Read more
MLOps Engineer Salary Guide 2026 MLOps engineers in 2026 earn anywhere from $90,000 to north of $250,000. Wide range. The national average lands somewhere between $130,000 and $165,000, but which number you get depends entirely on which salary database you pull from and how they define the role. That spread is unusual. And it exists … Read more
IT staffing for startups connects growing companies with pre-vetted tech talent through flexible models like contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement. Rather than spending months posting on job boards and hoping, startups work with staffing partners who already have qualified developers and engineers ready to go. If your runway is burning and you need a senior … Read more
