Engineering staffing insights covering mechanical, electrical, biomedical, and systems engineering roles — including hiring trends, salary data, and strategies for building R&D, manufacturing, and product development teams.
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Strong mechanical engineer interview questions in 2026 have a candidate work a number by hand, read a part that already failed, and defend a material or tolerance call under cost pressure. Definitions of stress, strain, and Young’s modulus tell you who passed Statics. They don’t tell you who you’d … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A firmware engineer job description should name the silicon, the RTOS, where the product sits in its life, who owns the bootloader and the update path, the memory and power budget, and a published pay range. Most postings name the first two and stop. That is why … Read more
The best embedded and firmware staffing agencies in 2026 are KORE1, PRA USA, SPECTRAFORCE, Protingent, Actalent, Net2Source, and EV.Careers, ranked by the Placement Authority Score across firmware-specific recruiter depth, vertical industry coverage, screening methodology, and engagement flexibility. KORE1 ranks first for its combination of active firmware and embedded engineering bench, W-2 staffing model, 92% twelve … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Good firmware engineer interview questions in 2026 make a candidate bring up a board that has never run code, defend an update path against a power cut, and say who files the vulnerability report. Mutex versus semaphore only sorts out who revised the night before. Shipping hardware … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The Senate permitting deal, introduced September 30, 2026, would put most of its new grid work on transmission planners, interconnection engineers, and line designers, but almost none of that work lands before 2027, even if the bill passes in November. For permitting reform, the engineering jobs question … Read more
By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 Post-acquisition engineering integration works when you merge how decisions get made before you merge code or org charts, which means one definition of done, one written priority list, and one named venue for cross-team calls within 100 days. The repositories can wait a year. The engineers … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An electrical engineer job description should name the voltage class, the deliverable the engineer hands off, whether that work carries a PE seal, the field and energized-work split, and a base range, roughly $90,000 to $158,000 in 2026. Most postings skip all five. They describe electrical engineering in general, … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Schneider Electric’s $22.6 billion deal for PTC won’t change who you hire for Creo and Windchill until it closes, expected by Q3 2027, but it makes engineers who connect product data to factory operations more valuable starting now. The day-to-day software stays the same for a while. The market … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The electrical engineer interview questions that work in 2026 make a candidate produce a number, mark up a schematic, and explain when they would refuse to work on something energized. Definitions of Ohm’s law and power factor tell you who studied. They don’t tell you who can … Read more
By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 Integrating contract engineers without a two-tier culture means assigning decisions by the work, not the badge, so contractors own the reversible, local calls in their area while one-way doors go to whoever will still be there when the consequences land. Every other difference between the two … Read more
