Tom Kenaley
HPE Layoffs 2026: What the Juniper Integration Means for Networking Talent HPE is cutting 2,500 jobs, roughly 5% of its workforce, while absorbing Juniper Networks into a combined networking division that doubles HPE’s networking business but creates significant product overlap with Aruba in switching, wireless, and SD-WAN. The displaced pool is heavy on network engineers, … Read more
Mobile Developer Job Description Template 2026 Last updated: May 1, 2026 Mobile developers in 2026 earn $95,000 to $140,000 at mid-level and $145,000 to $200,000 for senior roles, with salary variance driven almost entirely by whether the hire writes native iOS, native Android, or cross-platform code. This post includes a ready-to-use JD template built from … Read more
How to Hire Rust Developers in 2026 Last updated: May 9, 2026 Rust developers cost $120K–$185K mid-level and $170K–$280K senior in the U.S. in 2026, with most searches closing in 6 to 12 weeks depending on whether the role is systems-level or application-layer work. The talent pool is real but smaller than almost any other … Read more
VMware Broadcom Layoffs 2026: 19,000 Cloud Engineers Hit the Market and Most Hiring Teams Aren’t Looking Broadcom has eliminated roughly 19,000 VMware positions since closing its $69 billion acquisition in November 2023, cutting the workforce from 38,000 to approximately 16,000 across engineering, cloud operations, sales, and marketing. The displaced pool includes virtualization architects, cloud infrastructure … Read more
Last updated: May 9, 2026 SOC analysts in 2026 monitor IT environments for threats, investigate alerts, and contain incidents across a three-tier structure — with U.S. base pay from $58K (Tier 1) to $145K (Tier 3). Below is a ready-to-adapt SOC analyst job description template, calibrated to the actual 2026 hiring market and the JD … Read more
Data Engineer Job Description Template 2026 Last updated: May 9, 2026 A data engineer builds and maintains the pipelines that transform raw source data into clean, queryable datasets for analysts and ML teams — with 2026 U.S. base salaries of $110K–$155K mid-level and $145K–$190K for senior engineers. Below is a ready-to-adapt data engineer job description … Read more
How to Hire Data Platform Engineers in 2026 Last updated: May 4, 2026 Senior data platform engineers cost $165K to $215K in the United States in 2026, mid-level $130K to $160K, and staff-level platform leads clear $230K to $290K. Most placements close in 5 to 9 weeks once you’ve decided whether you’re hiring a platform … Read more
Defense Tech Hiring Boom 2026: Anduril, Palantir & The New Race Last updated: May 9, 2026 Defense tech is on the most aggressive hiring trajectory of the post-Cold War era — Anduril alone added more than 1,000 employees in nine months and now sits above 6,200, while Palantir, Shield AI, and Saronic raised $7B-plus in … Read more
AI-Era Hiring: Staffing Builders Who Use (or Review) AI-Generated Code Last updated: May 9, 2026 Hiring engineers in 2026 means screening for how candidates review and edit AI-generated code, not whether they can write every line from memory — the strongest signal is a candidate who pushes back on AI output, not one who pastes … Read more
A 2026 machine learning engineer job description template with the four ML hiring lanes, real salary benchmarks from five sources, the JD mistakes that screen out the strongest candidates, and the domain-overlap problem most postings ignore.
