How can businesses solve the AI engineering talent gap?

Lara Williams

Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 8:22 AM 7 min read

Big Tech companies person been successful a longstanding arms contention for specializer AI talent. An AI engineering endowment corridor betwixt the likes of Microsoft, Apple and Google has seen specified companies poach heavy tech endowment from 1 different for immoderate time.

And portion Big Tech tin pull the champion engineers from astir the satellite with prestige roles and highly competitory salaries, determination are inactive ways that businesses tin vie to pull the close AI endowment from distant moving and upskilling to concern programs and greater inclusivity.

The accelerated improvement of GenAI has seen the fig of occupation postings for this skillset summation by 61% successful 2024, according to GlobalData’s Annual Jobs Analytics Signals Report, published successful February 2025. The effect was peculiarly striking erstwhile noting that the study recovered increases successful occupation posting crossed each industries stood astatine 1.4% year-on-year.

The study notes: “Increased absorption connected GenAI, AI Agents, and Agentic AI roles boosted the request for expertise successful ChatGPT and Copilot.” Globally and crossed each manufacture sectors successful 2024, caller occupation postings were driven by roles for AI/ML engineers, unreality architects, and GenAI solution architects.

According to GlobalData main expert and signifier lead, Rena Bhattacharyya, evolving overseas and economical policy, demonstrated by the implementation of President Trump’s wide tariffs connected 2 April, whitethorn interaction the mobility of skilled AI professionals.

“It is unclear whether nationalistic tendencies volition promote experts to stay successful their location countries. Preferences whitethorn not lone beryllium impacted by compensation levels, but besides by planetary attraction to caller US attraction of immigrants and guests, arsenic good arsenic contention astatine world institutions,” says Bhattacharyya.

But businesses tin mitigate this planetary uncertainty, to immoderate extent, by casting their hiring nett wider to see distant working. Indeed, Thomas Mackenbrock, CEO-designate of Paris headquartered BPO elephantine Teleperformance says that the company’s planetary footprint helps it to fulfil AI skills demand. “We're not reliant connected immoderate azygous marketplace [for skills] arsenic we are contiguous successful astir 100 markets,” explains Mackenbrock.

“One our largest footprints, successful presumption of caput count, is India with much than 90,000 radical there, an astonishing labour excavation present of talented individuals to pat into, and they're each moving remotely,” helium says.

Teleperformance clients’ services centers, are by definition, 100% virtual. “So we tin enactment wrong a planetary network. That’s the quality of our business,” adds Mackenbrock.

Another attack is to summation the worth of existing employees. Many companies look the determination of whether to upskill an existing workforce oregon outsource. According to The State of Tech Talent 2025 study by exertion grooming level General Assembly, “the companies that clasp a caller and deliberate attack to endowment recruitment and improvement volition beryllium the ones champion prepared to vie and triumph successful our AI future”.