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Hire AI Engineers

Senior AI engineers shipping LLM agents, RAG pipelines, and production-grade AI features — not weekend GPT wrappers.

Experience
5+ years ML/AI, in production since GPT-3.5
Rate
USD 110–200 / hour blended
Start
Engineer assigned within 7 business days

Senior AI engineers who've shipped LLM systems to production — with eval suites, observability, cost ceilings, and fallback logic. The difference between a great demo and a customer-trusted product is the boring infrastructure; that's where we live.

Who hires us

Built for teams that need senior engineering — fast.

  • AI startups going from prototype to production
  • SaaS adding AI features that need to actually work at scale
  • Operators automating document workflows, support, or sales
  • Teams whose 'just plug in OpenAI' broke under real users
What our AI / LLM engineers ship

Concrete deliverables. No bench-warming.

Production RAG pipelines

Hybrid retrieval, reranking, eval-driven chunking, freshness handling. Not the demo; the version that works for paying customers.

Production agents on LangGraph

State machines, retries, deterministic fallbacks, schema-validated tool calls, prompt-injection defences, cost ceilings.

Eval infrastructure first

Golden test sets, automated regression on every PR, production sampling, human-in-the-loop scoring. Deploys gated on eval health.

Multi-model strategy

OpenAI, Anthropic, open-weights via Bedrock / Together. Per-task routing, no provider lock-in, swap without rewrites.

Fine-tuning where it pays off

Honest assessment first. We fine-tune when you have repeatable structured tasks at scale — not when better prompting would do.

Cost + observability

LangSmith / Helicone tracing, per-session cost dashboards, hard ceilings, alerts. Burn rate becomes a metric, not a roulette.

Engagement models

Pick the shape that fits.

Project-based

Fixed scope build of an AI feature or product.

Pricing
From USD 40k

Staff augmentation

Senior AI engineer embedded in your team for 3+ months.

Pricing
From USD 14k/month per engineer

Retainer

Ongoing AI engineering — features, evals, model upgrades.

Pricing
From USD 9k/month

AI audit + roadmap

Audit of your current AI system: eval coverage, cost, observability, with prioritised remediation plan.

Pricing
From USD 6k
Stack

Tools our AI / LLM engineers reach for.

PythonTypeScriptLangGraphLangChainOpenAIAnthropicPineconePgvectorPyTorchFastAPI
FAQ

Common questions about hiring AI / LLM engineers.

Are these engineers really senior or junior fronts?+

Senior. Average 5+ years in ML/AI, 2+ years shipping LLM systems to production, with eval and observability discipline. We don't pad engagements with juniors.

Can you take over a flaky AI feature we already shipped?+

Yes — that's a big chunk of what we do. We audit eval coverage, cost, observability, prompt versioning, and fallback logic, then propose a remediation plan with concrete priorities.

Do you fine-tune models?+

Yes when it's the right call. We assess fine-tune vs RAG vs better prompting honestly. Most early projects don't need fine-tuning; the ones that do, we ship.

Will you keep our data out of model training?+

Yes. We use enterprise tiers (OpenAI, Anthropic) with contractual training opt-out, or self-host open-weights for the most sensitive workloads.

Ready to hire AI / LLM engineers?

Send us a brief, we send 1–2 candidate engineers to interview within 7 business days. No long sales cycles.