{"id":450995,"date":"2026-04-24T04:28:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/450995\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:28:34","slug":"200-new-tech-jobs-as-ai-giant-opens-new-cork-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/450995\/","title":{"rendered":"200 new tech jobs as AI giant opens new Cork office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company will expand its Irish workforce by 50%<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_mongodb.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"MongoDB is expanding in Cork\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">MongoDB is expanding in Cork(Image: IDA Ireland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">In another vote of confidence for Cork&#8217;s tech sector, global AI firm MongoDB is set to boost its Irish workforce and open a new office here on Leeside.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The US software company, headquartered in New York, is set to create 200 new Irish <a aria-label=\"jobsLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/all-about\/employment\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">jobs<\/a> across engineering, product development, and customer-facing teams, as part of a \u20ac74 million investment in engineering, AI development, and operational growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">That investment will include a new base in Cork, and increasing its Irish workforce by 50% over the next year. The company, established in 2013, provides AI database solutions for more than 65,000 customers, including Anthropic, Eleven Labs, TUI, Vodafone, Decathlon, Lombard Odier, Financial Times, L&#8217;Or\u00e9al Groupe and Volvo Connect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">CJ Desai, President and Chief Executive Officer at MongoDB, said: \u201cIreland is an important market for MongoDB, home to exceptional talent, great customers, and the right environment to scale our global business. Our teams here are central to how we innovate for and serve our world-class customer base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Paul Sweetman, Chief Executive, American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (AmCham), added: \u201cI want to congratulate MongoDB on the announcement of its \u20ac74 million expansion in Ireland. This significant investment, with its strong focus on AI, underscores Ireland\u2019s position as a hub for advanced engineering, innovation, and next-generation technologies, and highlights the strength of the country\u2019s deep and collaborative talent ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It also reflects the continued confidence of US companies in Ireland as a location for high-value investment and growth. US companies already employ hundreds of thousands of people across Ireland, and recent AmCham surveys point to sustained confidence among members, with many planning further investment in areas such as AI, R&amp;D, and digital transformation. This announcement is a clear example of how that confidence is translating into real investment and job creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It follows the announcement that Cork will share in <a aria-label=\"125 new tech jobs as HCS confirmed a major expansionLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/news\/local-news\/cork-share-125-new-jobs-33780092\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">125 new tech jobs as HCS confirmed a major expansion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company will expand its Irish workforce by 50% MongoDB is expanding in Cork(Image: IDA Ireland) In another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,233,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-450995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-employment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116457800277887353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}