A global technical recruiting partner

AI, Data & Infrastructure Talent.

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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.
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
ManpowerGroup · Gartner · McKinsey State of AI
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
ManpowerGroup · German Federal Labor Office · Optima
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
ManpowerGroup APME 2026 · WEF · Forrester
Why N+1 Talent

Four reasons clients stay with us.

01

Engineer-led

Founded and run by a hardware and software engineer with 20+ years building and hiring technical teams.

02

Speed without fluff

Aligned, production-ready candidates. Most searches are filled in 2 to 4 weeks.

03

Transparent pricing

Flat 20% for direct hires. Fair, published markup for contract engagements. No retainers, no escalators, no surprises.

04

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.

Software Engineering & Leadership Full-stack / Staff / Principal / CTO AI & Machine Learning LLM / GenAI / RAG / MLOps / CV Data Science & Engineering Spark / Airflow / Kafka / dbt Data Center Buildout MEP / Commissioning / Hyperscale Cloud, DevOps & Security SRE / AWS / GCP / Azure / CISO Product, Design & QA PM / UX / Design ops / SDET GTM, Sales & Revenue AE / SE / CSM / CRO / RevOps
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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 →
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of data center professionals plan to leave their role despite rising pay. Retention is now as hard as hiring. We help with both.