The AI job boom - where the new roles in tech are being created.

In the NZZ, our co-founder Klaus Fuchs reads the Swiss tech market as a market in motion - and the headline is a boom in a whole new class of roles. As AI reshapes what teams build, demand is shifting fast toward the people who can build and extend it.

There is a clear boom in AI roles, and the salaries attached to them are rising. Companies want experienced engineers with real industry knowledge - people who can understand and build highly complex systems, not just ship code. The bar has moved: from knowing HTML in 2000, to Python in 2020, to advancing language models and understanding machine learning today.

The most sought-after profiles pair deep LLM skill with domain expertise - defense, pharma, insurance - because AI still has only a limited grasp of the real world, of security risk, and of what customers actually need. That is exactly where experienced people create the most value.

The bigger picture is one of growth. The World Economic Forum expects AI to displace some 92 million roles worldwide by 2030 while creating 170 million new ones - a net gain of 78 million. The work does not disappear; it moves to where judgment, context and human needs matter.

And Switzerland has a structural advantage. Fuchs expects the IT market to pick up again from 2026, as international groups keep expanding their tech footprint in Zurich and the Swiss startup scene grows. That is the market we recruit into every day - connecting the builders who can lead this shift with the companies racing to make it.