Unison isn't an all-things-IT firm. We're a software engineering company delivering targeted resourcing for enterprise applications and systems engineering — and in an AI-driven world, that focus matters more than ever.
Machine Learning Engineers, Generative AI Engineers, Applied Scientists, NLP Engineers, Computer Vision Engineers, Foundation Model & Fine-Tuning Engineers, and Agentic AI Engineers.
MLOps and LLMOps Engineers, AI Platform Engineers, Inference Optimization, Vector Database & Retrieval, and AI Infrastructure (GPU, accelerator, distributed training).
AI Solution Architects, AI Integration Engineers, Prompt & RAG Engineers, AI Product Engineers, Conversational AI / Agent Designers, and AI Data Engineers.
Responsible AI Leads, Governance & Compliance Specialists, Model Risk & Validation Engineers, and AI Security Engineers (model, data, and prompt security).
Demand for AI and machine learning talent has outpaced supply in almost every sector — and the gap has widened sharply with the shift to generative and agentic AI. The roles are new, the skill sets are narrow, and the difference between a candidate who can talk about AI and one who can ship models to production is enormous. Unison's Applied AI practice focuses exclusively on that second group.
We place the engineers, scientists, and platform specialists driving today's most-demanded AI work: Generative AI Engineers, RAG and retrieval engineers, agentic AI developers, foundation-model fine-tuning specialists, LLMOps and MLOps engineers, AI platform engineers, vector database specialists, prompt and evaluation engineers, AI security engineers, and Responsible AI leads — alongside the traditional core of ML engineers, applied scientists, and data engineers who continue to anchor every serious AI program. Every candidate we place has verifiable production experience: they've trained, deployed, monitored, and maintained AI systems in real enterprise environments under real operational and regulatory pressure.
Our network spans the full AI lifecycle — from foundational model development and fine-tuning through inference infrastructure, agent orchestration, and Responsible AI governance. As companies move from AI pilots to enterprise-scale deployments and from copilots to autonomous agents, the talent bar is rising fast. We're positioned to help you meet it — whether you're building proprietary models, deploying agentic systems against existing business processes, integrating LLMs into customer-facing products, or standing up the data and platform foundation that makes any of it run reliably.
Aerospace Structural Engineers, Stress Analysts, Airframe Designers, Composites Engineers, Loads & Dynamics Engineers, and Weight Engineers.
Propulsion, Mechanical, Fluid Systems, Thermal & Cryogenics, Environmental Control Systems, GN&C, and Manufacturing Engineers.
Avionics Engineers, Electrical Engineers & Designers, Embedded Software (DO-178C), Hardware Engineers (DO-254), Flight Software, and Test & Integration.
Unison's Engineering & Design group has served the Aerospace, Defense, and Commercial Space industries for over 15 years. Our recruiters understand aerospace engineering from the inside; they know the difference between a stress analyst who has worked on certified airframes and one who has only worked on academic problems.
Through 15+ years of placing multi-disciplinary engineering and design professionals in contract and contract-to-hire roles, we deliver candidates who are rigorously vetted, technically precise, and ready to contribute from day one — saving our clients the time and cost of sorting through unqualified submissions. We understand the realities of cleared work, ITAR and export-control compliance, AS9100 environments, and the certification regimes (FAA Part 23/25, DO-178C, DO-254) that drive aerospace program economics.
We place across all major engineering disciplines for project staffing initiatives both large and small, supporting primes, tier-one and tier-two suppliers, and the fast-growing commercial space sector across the United States.
Unison's Marine Group has served the Commercial Marine, U.S. Navy, and Offshore/Platform Oil & Gas industries for over 25 years. Our recruiters are engineers by trade — they have designed and engineered naval vessels themselves, and they bring a level of technical credibility that general staffing firms simply cannot match. That credibility extends below the waterline and out to the platform deck: we place the piping designers, structural engineers, and topside specialists who keep offshore oil and gas platforms producing safely in some of the most demanding operating environments on earth.
Through more than two decades of placing multi-disciplinary engineering and design professionals in contract and contract-to-hire roles, we deliver candidates who are rigorously vetted, technically precise, and ready to contribute from day one. We understand the realities of government work, ITAR and export-control compliance, ABS and DNV classification standards, and the NAVSEA and MIL-STD requirements that drive military marine program execution. On the offshore side, we work fluently across API, ASME B31.3 and B31.4 piping standards, and the regulatory regimes that govern fixed and floating platform design.
We place across all major engineering disciplines for project staffing initiatives both large and small, supporting shipyards, design agents, and offshore operators in military and commercial programs across the United States.
Across naval architecture & structural design, we place naval architects, structural engineers and designers, civil/structural engineers, hull designers, weight and stability engineers, and topside and platform structural engineers. On the mechanical & systems side, our network spans mechanical engineers, piping engineers and designers (shipboard and offshore platform), process piping designers, HVAC designers, thermal engineers, control systems engineers, outfitting designers, and subsea and topside systems engineers. For electrical & controls disciplines, we deliver electrical engineers and designers, instrumentation and controls engineers, combat systems engineers, power systems engineers, and Hazardous Area (Class I Div 1/2) electrical engineers.
Security Architects, Cloud Security Engineers, Identity & Access Management Engineers, and the senior practitioners who design defense in from day one.
SOC Analysts (Tier 1–3), Threat Hunters, SIEM/SOAR Engineers, and Incident Response & Forensics Analysts keeping watch around the clock.
Penetration Testers and Red Team operators with OSCP, CEH, and CPENT credentials — finding vulnerabilities before adversaries do.
Compliance Specialists, vCISO & Security Program Advisors, and audit-ready leadership across NIST CSF, CIS Controls, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
The threat landscape has outpaced the talent pipeline. Ransomware, supply chain attacks, insider threats, and AI-enabled intrusions are accelerating faster than enterprises can staff against them, and the gap between attacker capability and defender capacity keeps widening. Hiring cybersecurity talent today isn't just competitive — it's a strategic constraint on how fast a business can grow, adopt cloud, or earn customer trust. Unison exists to close that gap.
We place security architects, SOC analysts, penetration testers, and compliance specialists with real-world experience defending enterprise environments. Our candidates bring hands-on expertise across zero-trust architecture, cloud security posture, SIEM operations, and regulatory frameworks — not just familiarity with the concepts. That distinction matters. The difference between an engineer who has tuned a SIEM under live attack conditions and one who has only studied the platform is the difference between a contained incident and a breach disclosure.
Beyond staffing, Unison supports clients with cybersecurity audits and risk assessments that meet them where they are — whether that's a SOC 2 readiness review, a HIPAA or PCI-DSS gap analysis, a NIST CSF or CIS Controls maturity assessment, a cloud security posture audit, a penetration test, or a third-party risk evaluation. These engagements are led by senior practitioners who have sat on both sides of the audit table and know how to deliver findings that strengthen security without stalling the business.
Whether you need to scale a security operations center, stand up a zero-trust program, prepare for your next audit, or embed a single senior architect into an existing team, Unison delivers through project staffing, contract, contract-to-hire, direct placement, and advisory engagements.
Platform Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Kubernetes Engineers, and Cloud / Multi-Cloud Architects across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
DevOps and DevSecOps Engineers, CI/CD Engineers, IaC practitioners (Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep), GitOps Engineers (ArgoCD, Flux), and Release Engineers.
Application Support, Cloud Application, API & Integration, Observability (Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana), and Performance Engineers.
Security Engineers, IAM & Zero Trust Engineers, Network Engineers (SD-WAN, Cloud Networking), and FinOps Engineers.
Cloud transformation has become the backbone of enterprise technology strategy — but the harder challenge isn't moving to the cloud, it's running on it. Modern application delivery depends on engineers who can design resilient platforms, automate everything that can be automated, and keep production environments observable, secure, and performant under real operational pressure. Unison's Cloud & Infrastructure practice places the architects, platform engineers, SREs, and DevSecOps specialists who turn cloud strategy into reliable, repeatable application delivery.
We work with organizations at every stage of the cloud journey — greenfield buildouts, legacy modernization, multi-cloud orchestration, and ongoing platform and reliability engineering — across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Our candidates have built CI/CD pipelines that ship code dozens of times a day, designed Kubernetes platforms that host hundreds of services, hardened production environments against zero-day threats, and stood up the observability, IaC, and GitOps practices that make all of it sustainable.
AI is now reshaping this layer too — from AI-assisted code generation and infrastructure automation to AIOps platforms that detect, diagnose, and remediate production issues faster than human operators ever could. AIOps capabilities are increasingly embedded in the platforms our clients already run — Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, and the hyperscaler-native operations suites — and the engineers who can tune those signals, integrate them into incident response, and build agentic remediation workflows on top of them are quickly becoming some of the most sought-after talent in the practice.
Unison's Enterprise Data practice supports global enterprises managing data at scale — across business units, geographies, and regulatory regimes. We place the architects, engineers, and analysts who turn fragmented, distributed enterprise data into trusted, governed, decision-ready information. We support global enterprise and mid-market organizations across greenfield platform builds, cloud migrations, MDM rollouts, governance program stand-ups, and AI/ML enablement initiatives.
AI is now embedded across the data lifecycle itself — accelerating pipeline development, automating data quality and lineage, generating semantic models, and powering the agentic and generative workloads that increasingly depend on enterprise data as their foundation.
We work fluently across the platforms and disciplines that define modern enterprise data: Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, and the orchestration, transformation, and governance layers (dbt, Airflow, Informatica, Collibra, Alation, Purview) that hold them together. We understand the regulatory realities our clients operate under — SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, GLBA, and the data residency and lineage requirements that drive financial services, healthcare, and public sector engagements. Our candidates are rigorously vetted, technically precise, and ready to contribute from day one.
Enterprise & Cloud Data Architects, Data Engineers, ETL/ELT Developers, Streaming & Real-Time Pipeline Engineers, and Database Administrators (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
BI Developers (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik), Analytics Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, ML & MLOps Engineers, and AI/Generative AI Engineers.
Data Governance Leads, Data Stewards, Master Data Management (MDM) Architects, Data Quality Engineers, Metadata & Lineage Specialists, and Privacy & Compliance Analysts.
S/4HANA Functional Consultants (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, EWM, TM), Solution & Enterprise Architects, ABAP / ABAP on HANA Developers, BTP & CPI Integration, Basis & HANA Admins, SuccessFactors & Ariba, Data Migration Leads, and SAP AI / Joule Consultants.
Fusion Cloud Functional Consultants (ERP, EPM, HCM, SCM), Cloud Technical (OIC, VBCS, BI Publisher), OCI Architects & Engineers, EBS / PeopleSoft / JDE specialists, DBAs & Cloud DBAs, Data Integration & Migration, and Oracle AI/ML & Analytics Consultants.
ERP Program Managers, Project Managers, Functional & Technical Leads, Test Leads, Cutover & Hypercare Managers, and Change Management & Training Leads — across both stacks.
Enterprise ERP programs don't fail because the software doesn't work — they fail because the right people aren't on the right modules at the right time. Unison's SAP & Oracle practice places the functional consultants, technical developers, architects, and program leadership that move large ERP initiatives forward — from greenfield implementations and S/4HANA migrations to Oracle Cloud transformations, post-go-live optimization, and ongoing enhancements. We've staffed full project teams on $57M multi-year programs all the way down to a single program manager or hard-to-find international banking integration analyst — both with the same rigor and at the same speed.
Our value to clients is straightforward: blended-rate economics that materially undercut the Big 4 and tier-one SI bench rates without sacrificing the depth of experience those firms charge a premium for. We deliver senior, certified, hands-on ERP talent typically at 17 to 45 percent below comparable SI partner rates — saving literally millions of dollars in labor while creating project cushion for the inevitable unexpected hurdle.
SAP — S/4HANA, RISE, and the AI-era suite. SAP's center of gravity has shifted, and the talent market has shifted with it. We place across the full S/4 functional footprint (Finance, Controlling, MM, SD, PP, EWM, TM, Ariba, SuccessFactors) and the technical disciplines that underpin migrations and clean-core extensions (ABAP on HANA, CDS views, Fiori/UI5, BTP integration, CPI). On the AI side, we're seeing rising demand for engineers and consultants who can implement Joule (SAP's generative AI copilot), embed AI scenarios through BTP and SAP AI Core, and rework business processes around the agentic capabilities SAP is rolling into S/4.
Oracle — Fusion, OCI, and the on-prem programs that fund the migration. We place Fusion Cloud functional and technical consultants, OCI architects and engineers, and the EBS / PeopleSoft / JDE specialists who keep on-prem environments running while migrations are planned. Oracle has been aggressive in embedding generative AI across Fusion (predictive forecasting, AI-assisted journal entries, generative narrative reporting, AI-driven recruiting in HCM) and in positioning OCI as the cloud of choice for enterprise AI workloads — and the consultants and engineers who can pull those capabilities into a live Fusion implementation are increasingly the differentiator between an on-time go-live and a stalled program.
AI is reshaping how software is designed, built, and deployed. The engineers Unison places aren't just fluent in modern development stacks — they know how to apply AI-driven tools to compress timelines, elevate quality, and keep enterprise applications ahead of the curve. We source talent that bridges deep engineering expertise with practical AI capability, because that's how high-performing software teams operate today.
Our engineers design and build applications, integrate enterprise data, and deliver scalable software solutions across Fortune 1000 industries. By working hand-in-hand with engineers and delivery leaders, our recruiters place talent based on real technical needs — not résumé keywords.
Unison delivers your vision from design through deployment. Whether you need a single senior engineer or a complete delivery team — via project staffing, contract, contract-to-hire, or direct placement — Unison has provided dependable, industry-tested engineers to technical leaders who need results, not résumé noise, for over 25 years.
Web, mobile, and enterprise applications — designed, built, and supported by engineers who've shipped production software at scale.
Engineers fluent in AI-assisted development — using copilots, agentic tooling, and generative workflows to compress timelines without compromising quality.
API design, middleware, and legacy modernization connecting disparate platforms into coherent, maintainable architectures.
PMO setup, Agile coaching, change management, and project leadership to keep complex initiatives on time and on budget.
Tell us what you're building — we'll find the people who can build it with you.