Generative AI Engineer Job Description Template 2026

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By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A generative AI engineer job description covers an engineer who builds product features on foundation models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini, owning retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and inference cost, usually without training a model from scratch. Most postings under that title in 2026 describe somebody else. The template … Read more

How to Hire a Splunk Engineer: 2026 Guide

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By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Hiring a Splunk engineer means picking one of three different jobs first, security engineer, observability engineer, or platform admin, because pay bands swing from roughly $99,000 to $153,000 depending on which one you actually post. That’s before certifications, before SPL fluency, before any of it. Get the … Read more

Contractor Headcount Planning for 2027: A Framework for IT Leaders

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By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Contractor headcount planning for 2027 means setting a target contractor-to-employee ratio for your IT org, then building a model that flexes that ratio with project pipeline, budget cycles, and hiring freezes instead of guessing every quarter. Most IT leaders treat that ratio as an accident, whatever mix of approved … Read more

Best Product Manager Staffing Agencies 2026

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By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the best product manager staffing agency in 2026 for companies that need a W-2 contractor, a documented PM screening process, and a 17-day average fill time. Insight Global handles multi-role contract programs at enterprise scale. Kforce brings 60+ years of IT staffing and documented PM practice … Read more