StatisticPublic Ready
27,260
Companies represented
Companies Analyzed
Companies represented in the canonical State 2026 hiring corpus.
July 20, 2026Open
Start with the pressure: sales, launch, abuse, agents, data, or guardrails
Finding
The market prices one role while frequently describing team-level capability breadth, compressing five or more specialties into a single requisition.
Finding
One requisition, priced like one hire, is often scoped like an entire team.
Connected intelligence
27,260
Companies represented
Companies represented in the canonical State 2026 hiring corpus.
AI security roles should be derived from system exposure, required functions, ownership, team structure, tooling, and evidence obligations.
What companies really mean by AI Security Engineer and why the operating model is lagging the technology.