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Role Hire data engineers Eight channels ranked. Cost-per-qualified-candidate and 2026 comp benchmarks. Role Hire ML engineers Eight channels ranked, MLOps premium, four interview blocks. Role Hire AI engineers LLM-era role profile, 15-25% MLE premium, OSS contributor sourcing. Role Hire a data scientist Three DS variants, channels by variant, scoping framework. Role Hire analytics engineers dbt-centric role hiring. When AE beats DE for your first hire. Role Hire MLOps engineers Platform-engineering-flavored hire. Sourced from infra communities, not ML. Role Hire data platform engineers Platform-engineering for data infrastructure. Distinct from DE. Role Hire applied scientists Research-leaning ML hire with publication background. Seniority Hire a senior data engineer Senior IC specifically. Tighter channel set than mid-level. Seniority Hire a staff data engineer Staff-IC channels weighted to agencies and warm intros. Seniority Hire a principal data engineer Principal-IC hire. Conference recruiting and existing-team warm intros. Leadership Hire a director of data engineering Leadership-recruiting channels and the executive-search call.