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 Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 Idempotent API design means a client can safely resend the same request, by accident, timeout, or automatic retry, and the server guarantees it only happens once. That guarantee has to survive the network doing something ugly, which, statistically, it will. The alert didn’t say duplicate charge. … Read more
By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 SOC 2 compliance changes four things for engineering teams day to day: every production change needs a documented approval trail, access reviews become a recurring calendar item, logging can’t get switched off to chase a bug, and someone owns evidence collection as a real job. That’s … 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 Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 An incident review changes behavior when it ends with three things: a written timeline of what people actually knew, action items carrying a named owner and a date, and no defendant. The rest of the template exists to make those three things happen. I wrote a … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Automation engineer interviews in 2026 should test startup behavior, safety judgment, and OT network sense. PLC trivia is free. Anybody can memorize scan cycle mechanics in a weekend, and the plants that screen on it keep hiring people who cannot run a commissioning. I run delivery at KORE1 and … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Automation engineer salaries in 2026 run roughly $72,000 to $162,000 depending on platform depth, industry, and hours, with published US averages clustering between $88,000 and $123,000. The spread is not noise. It is eight published figures measuring at least three different jobs, and not one of them … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Hiring an automation engineer starts with deciding who the seat reports to, because that one choice sets the platform experience, the pay band, and which candidates ever apply. Plant floor, engineering group, or IT. Three genuinely different jobs wear the title, and every published salary figure blends … 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 Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 AI implementation cost after a successful POC usually lands at three to five times the pilot price, because inference at real volume, data work, evaluation, and the people who run it are never inside the demo number. The pilot priced a rehearsal. Production prices the run. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 An engineering org chart runs on six staffing ratios, and only one of them has real research behind it. That one is span of control, and it lands near six engineers per manager. Everything else on the chart is convention borrowed from a company that looked nothing … Read more
