“The job market for security people is getting hotter and hotter,” Dr. Kissner added.
Cybersecurity is not the only area where A.I. has spurred a hiring boom. It is also creating jobs in private equity and venture capital firms, recruiters said, as investors look to cash in on the A.I. boom and to use the technology to assess and enhance their portfolios. The A.I. industry itself is hiring — the fastest-growing job title for recent college graduates is A.I. engineer, according to LinkedIn.
“We need more software engineers than ever,” Nick Fox, the senior vice president of knowledge and information at Google, said on a panel at the company’s marketing conference last week. But engineers’ roles have shifted to managing A.I. agents, or bots that act as assistants in accomplishing various tasks, he said.
“That’s a change to the work of a software engineer,” he said. “But it doesn’t mean the job of a software engineer goes away.”
Still, those 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 staff, or about 8,000 people, as it reallocated spending to A.I. Amazon cut 16,000 jobs in a recent round of layoffs. Other tech companies, including Stripe, Snap and Block, have also shed thousands of workers.
Cybersecurity hiring has particularly picked up speed as A.I. models have made rapid advances.
Last month, the A.I. start-up Anthropic announced that it had built a new model, Mythos, that was exceptional at finding and exploiting flaws in the software that supports the world’s power grids, financial institutions and major companies. The announcement set off a global scramble to prepare for how attackers might eventually use the technology. A week later, OpenAI unveiled similar technology, GPT‑5.4‑Cyber.
