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A global technical recruiting partner
AI, Data & Infrastructure Talent.
Direct hire and contract engagements for AI, ML, infrastructure, and modern software teams. Active across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Transparently priced.
Engineer-led
20+ years building and hiring technical teams worldwide.
Focused search.
Measured delivery.
Measured delivery.
The gap in tech recruiting
A structural talent shortage, on every continent.
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Global AI talent demand vs. supply. 1.6M open AI roles worldwide — only 518K qualified candidates to fill them.
Americas · US & LATAM
1.4M
unfilled US tech jobs today
- 92% of tech execs say hiring is “very or extremely challenging”
- 1.2M+ software engineer shortfall projected by year-end
- AI and cybersecurity engineers top the hardest-to-fill list
- Senior AI salaries average $285K in North America
EMEA · Europe, Middle East & Africa
57%
of EU firms can't find qualified tech staff
- Germany (83%), UK, Netherlands, Nordics are the tightest markets
- 137,000+ open IT roles in Germany alone
- AI/ML, cybersecurity, and cloud/platform show the deepest gaps
- Remote work has intensified cross-border competition for talent
APAC · Asia Pacific
71%
of APAC employers struggle to fill roles
- Japan (84%) and India (82%) post the most acute shortages
- APAC has the steepest AI demand-to-supply ratio at 1:3.6
- 81% of APAC IT employers report talent shortages
- India leads +43% Net Employment Outlook for tech hiring
Why N+1 Talent
Four reasons clients stay with us.
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Engineer-led
Founded and run by a hardware and software engineer with 20+ years building and hiring technical teams.
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Speed without fluff
Aligned, production-ready candidates. Most searches are filled in 2 to 4 weeks.
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Transparent pricing
Flat 20% for direct hires. Fair, published markup for contract engagements. No retainers, no escalators, no surprises.
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Hard-to-hire AI focus
LLM fine-tuning, RAG, MLOps, CV, Responsible AI. The roles other recruiters can't fill.
Network
Private candidate database, prescreened and mapped before your search begins.
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Reach
Global profiles accessible across our sourcing stack, in 30+ countries.
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Experience
Years building technical teams, from startups to hyperscale enterprises.
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Talent expertise
The roles we fill, from engineering to revenue.
Market intelligence
Know the number before you make the offer.
The N+1 Salary & Market Guide tracks live compensation across critical facilities, commissioning, MEP, and operations, plus attrition risk and market-by-market pressure. Built from the roles we work, updated as the market moves.
Read the 2026 salary guide →0%
of data center professionals plan to leave their role despite rising pay. Retention is now as hard as hiring. We help with both.
Open roles
A few of the searches we are filling now.
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