One job growing in the AI ​​era? Cyber ​​security experts.

“The job market for security professionals is getting hotter,” added Dr. Kissner.

Cybersecurity isn’t the only field where AI has fueled a hiring boom. It’s also creating jobs at private equity and venture capital firms, recruiters said, as investors look to capitalize on the AI ​​boom and use the technology to assess and improve their portfolios. The AI ​​industry itself is hiring – the fastest growing job title for recent college graduates is artificial intelligence engineer, according to LinkedIn.

“We need more software engineers than ever,” said Nick Fox, senior vice president of knowledge and information at Google, on a panel at the company’s marketing conference last week. But the role of engineers has shifted to managing AI agents, or robots, that act as assistants to perform various tasks, he said.

“That’s a change in the software engineer’s job,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean the software engineer’s job is going away.”

Still, these areas of growth are unlikely to offset widespread job cuts in other parts of the tech industry. On Wednesday, Meta laid off 10 percent of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, as it redeployed spending into AI Amazon cut 16,000 jobs in a recent round of layoffs. Other tech companies, including Stripe, Snap and Block, have also laid off thousands of employees.

Cybersecurity recruitment has picked up speed especially with how rapidly artificial intelligence models have advanced.

Last month, AI startup Anthropic announced it had built a new Mythos model that was exceptional at finding and exploiting flaws in the software that powers the world’s power grids, financial institutions and large corporations. The announcement set off a global scramble to prepare for how attackers might eventually use the technology. A week later, OpenAI revealed a similar technology, GPT-5.4-Cyber.