Mike Carter
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Bring in contract cybersecurity talent when the work is a burst your team cannot absorb or has never done before, and hire full time when someone has to own the outcome permanently. That sounds close to the test you already run on every other technical role. It … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Embedded software engineers earn $125,000 to $150,000 at mid-level and $155,000 to $205,000 at senior in 2026, base only. Published US averages for the title run from $91,755 to $174,754. That $83,000 gap between two averages is the reason bands get approved that nobody accepts. Four different … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A computer vision engineer job description needs four facts up front: the sensor, the deployment target, the latency budget, and whether the job is training models or shipping them. Without them, a research scientist, an autonomous-vehicle perception engineer, and an industrial machine vision specialist all read the … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hire a SCADA engineer by screening for who owns the path into the control network, not who can build an HMI screen, because remote access is where these systems fail in 2026. Base pay clusters near $123,000 across every major aggregator, and a properly scoped search closes … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An AI/ML org chart works when the ratios do: roughly one platform engineer per three modelers, one data engineer per two, and no more than eight people reporting into any single lead. Argue about the rest of it all you want. Those three numbers hold, and the … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An application security engineer secures the code your own company writes, and in 2026 that means owning dependencies and build pipelines as much as reviewing source, because supply chain failures now rank third on the OWASP Top 10. Pay lands between $150,000 and $200,000 for most mid-to-senior … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An analytics engineer builds and owns the tested, version-controlled data models a company reports on, while a data analyst uses those models to answer business questions. Both write SQL all day. Only one of them ships code other people depend on. That single difference sets the pay … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Integration engineers earn $78,873 to $139,132 in base pay across four experience levels in 2026, a $60,259 ladder. A req with no level on it prices at $80,395, which is the bottom rung, and that omission kills more of these searches than the budget does. A client … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Staff augmentation buys hands you direct, consulting buys a recommendation you act on, and managed services buys an operating result under an SLA. The three are not tiers of the same product. They answer different questions, and the one you need depends entirely on which part of … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an EDI analyst starts with naming the vertical, because retail supply chain, healthcare claims, and logistics EDI share a standard and almost nothing else, and a candidate strong in one is a beginner in another. The acronym on the resume is the same acronym in your … Read more
