Most of ELR's work right now is OCI: data centers, AI, ops and robotics, Principal through EVP. We mapped that market before we talk: 1,602 leaders and distinguished engineers at the 19 companies OCI competes with for talent. We also sized four of OCI's open roles, and found Oracle hired 35 of these leaders from those companies in the last year while losing 5.
Walk me through the solution and then perhaps an example to follow.
75% of what we're doing now is all tied to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) - everything from Principal/Distinguished Engineers through VP/SVP/EVP level roles in Data Centers, AI, Ops, Robotics.
ELR research finds passive executive talent, builds search strategy, keeps leadership pipelines and brings market intelligence to hiring managers. Crustdata does the first pass on all four, so every researcher starts from a ranked pipeline instead of a blank sheet.
Every leader in the segment at every competitor, by level and region, with a reason for each name.
Target companies, how each one titles the role, and the count left after every filter.
A watch on every name. When someone changes title or company, your team hears about it.
Who joined whom, from where, at what level. The brief a hiring manager reads before kickoff.
Crustdata is a real-time data layer on people and companies: public professional profiles, Google Scholar, GitHub, company data, job postings and the web, joined into one record per person.
The hiring manager kickoff, your notes, target companies, a JD if there is one. It drafts the search: companies, title variants (OCI's VP is Google's VP Engineering and AWS's GM), must-haves. Your team edits it.
Every match across 1B+ people, with the count after each filter so you can see what got cut. Engineers come with research and code next to their career history. Any profile can be re-fetched live before it goes on a slate.
A ranked shortlist with the reasoning per name, sent where your team works. Then a watch on the list, so the map built for one search is still right for the next.
Claude, ChatGPT or any LLM your team uses, through our MCP. Or our API, straight into your own tools.
Oracle Recruiting through its candidate API, a clean sheet, or a market map deck. Every candidate worth screening gets pulled in, with the reason they made the list.
OCI posted a Global Vice President, Compute Control Plane role on Oct 10. Here's the first pass, with the count after every filter, the way we'd run it live.
| Company | Title | In seat since |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | Vice President, Amazon EC2 | Apr 2024 |
| VP Engineering, Google Compute Engine | May 2026 | |
| VP Engineering, AI and Compute Infrastructure | May 2025 | |
| NVIDIA | VP, NVIDIA Compute Platform | Jan 2021 |
| Meta | Director of Engineering, Compute Infrastructure | Feb 2026 |
| Microsoft | Director, Azure Compute Infrastructure | Jul 2024 |
| CoreWeave | Head of Bare Metal GPU Infrastructure | Jun 2026 |
| Open role | Area | Market | Narrowed to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global VP, Compute Control PlanePosted Oct 10 | AI and compute | 569compute platform titles | 8senior director+, 2+ years in seat |
| Senior Director, Data Center OperationsAbilene, TX · posted Sep 24 | Data centers | 102DC ops leaders, director+ | 15senior director+ in the US, 5 in Texas |
| Distinguished Cloud Architect, AI InfrastructurePosted Sep 30 | AI | 98AI and cloud architects, principal to chief | 40based in the US |
| Senior Director, Applied Science, RoboticsPosted Sep 3 | Robotics | 164robotics science and research leaders | 37with an h-index of 10+ |
At AWS and Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Nebius, Equinix, Digital Realty, QTS, Vantage and STACK, plus Tesla and Boston Dynamics for robotics. Across 42 countries, 299 of them outside the US.
| Segment | VP-level | Director | New since Jul 1 | Where most of them sit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data centers | 107 | 328 | 21 | Microsoft, Google, Meta, NVIDIA |
| AI infrastructure | 87 | 165 | 9 | NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, AWS |
| Cloud ops and SRE | 42 | 119 | 8 | Microsoft, Google, AWS, Meta |
| Robotics | 49 | 56 | 5 | Amazon, NVIDIA, Boston Dynamics, Meta |
| Distinguished, Fellow, Sr Principal | 673 total | 21 | NVIDIA, Google, AWS, Microsoft | |
Same segments and levels as the map above, counted on each person's previous employer since October 2025. At VP level it's 7 in and 3 out. Most came from AWS, Amazon and Microsoft.
joined Oracle from a competitor
left Oracle for one
The quickest way to grade our data: compare the VP hires on the right with ELR's own placements.
| Title at Oracle | Came from | Started |
|---|---|---|
| VP, Data Center Delivery | AWS | May 2026 |
| VP, Data Center Construction | Amazon | Mar 2026 |
| SVP, Data Center Infrastructure | AWS | Feb 2026 |
| VP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Microsoft | Jan 2026 |
| VP, AI GigaScale Data Center Delivery | Microsoft | Jan 2026 |
| VP, AI Infrastructure | Microsoft | Dec 2025 |
| VP, Global Data Center Physical Security | Equinix | Nov 2025 |
Both. The 673 Distinguished, Fellow and Senior Principal engineers are in the same index as the EVPs, with Google Scholar and GitHub joined on each person for the technical searches.
Public professional profiles, Google Scholar, GitHub, company pages, job postings, news and the web, joined on one person. 1B+ people and 60M+ companies, searchable in real time. We don't log into anyone's accounts, and your team doesn't need a seat on any other tool.
No. We don't have compensation or private job-seeking signals. What we give you is timing: time in seat, recent moves, and headcount and org changes at their company.
There's no connection graph. What we can find is shared history: the same company in overlapping years, the same school and years. That's often where a warm path starts.
1,602 leaders, four open roles sized, and the 12-month talent flow, pulled for this page.
Any open OCI role, Principal to EVP. One of the four above works too.
The full map for that role, with the reasoning per name, in whatever format your team uses.
Thirty minutes: the walkthrough first, then a live search on a role you pick.