[ Vetted AI engineering talent ]

Hire AI developers who have built AI products at scale

We're an AI development company. Every engineer in our network is vetted on real production work, not take-home assignments, so you get people who can build and ship from day one. Hire a single developer or a full dedicated team, on an hourly, monthly, or fixed price basis, whichever suits your project.

acceptance rate
4%acceptance rate
to first match
48hto first match
vetted engineers
500+vetted engineers

The kind of teams that hire through us

Seed fintech
Series B healthtech
Enterprise SaaS
Growth-stage marketplace
AI-native startup
Public sector
AI developers and engineers
0+
AI projects delivered
0+
Client retention rate
0%
Average response time
0h

Capabilities

Every discipline you need to ship AI

One network, six specializations. Hire a single engineer for one of them, or bring in a dedicated team that covers all six.

LLM application development

LLM application development

Chat assistants, copilots and RAG pipelines built on GPT, Claude, Gemini and open-source models, with evaluation built in from day one.

  • RAG pipeline design and retrieval tuning
  • Fine-tuning and evaluation harnesses
  • Guardrails, prompt and cost management
  • Production monitoring for hallucination and drift
GPT-4ClaudeRAG pipelines
Machine learning engineering

Machine learning engineering

Custom models for prediction, ranking and recommendation, trained and tested against your actual business metrics, not textbook benchmarks.

  • Model architecture and feature engineering
  • Offline evaluation against business metrics
  • A/B test design for model rollouts
  • Ongoing retraining and performance tracking
PyTorchXGBoostFeature stores
Computer vision

Computer vision

Detection, segmentation, OCR and visual inspection systems that run on the cloud or on the edge, from first prototype to live production.

  • Dataset curation and annotation pipelines
  • Model training for detection, segmentation and OCR
  • Edge deployment and latency tuning
  • Real-time monitoring for drift and false positives
YOLOSegmentationEdge inference
Natural language processing

Natural language processing

Classification, extraction, summarization and search over your documents, tuned to your domain and to more than one language where needed.

  • Document classification and information extraction
  • Semantic search and embeddings over your content
  • Summarization tuned to your domain vocabulary
  • Multilingual support wherever it's required
spaCyEmbeddingsMultilingual
MLOps & model deployment

MLOps & model deployment

CI/CD for models, monitoring, drift detection and cost-efficient serving on AWS, GCP or Azure, so your models keep working long after launch.

  • Model CI/CD and version control
  • Serving infrastructure and autoscaling
  • Cost optimization for inference at scale
  • Drift detection and automated retraining triggers
DockerKubernetesMLflow
AI product integration

AI product integration

AI embedded into your existing product: APIs, data plumbing, guardrails and UX, delivered by engineers who also write backend and frontend code.

  • API design for AI features inside your product
  • Data plumbing between models and existing systems
  • Guardrails, rate limiting and fallback handling
  • UX for AI features: loading states, confidence, feedback
REST APIsWebhooksGuardrails

How you hire

One engineer or a whole team, same vetting either way

Hiring AI developers with us means choosing a shape, not a headcount. Most clients start with one engineer and grow into a dedicated team as the project grows. Every option can be hired hourly, monthly, or on a fixed price basis.

One dedicated developer

Need a single specialist, not a whole hiring project? We match one vetted AI or ML engineer to your stack and your timezone.

  • One engineer, one specialization
  • Reports directly to you or your tech lead
  • Ramps up in days, since vetting is already done
  • Add a second engineer whenever you need one
Start with one dedicated developer

A dedicated development team

Need a pod that can own a roadmap end to end? We put together a small dedicated team under one contract and one point of contact.

  • Typically an ML engineer, a backend engineer and an MLOps specialist
  • One report to read, instead of managing three vendors
  • Sized to your project, not sold as a fixed package
  • Add or remove specialists as the scope shifts
Start with a dedicated development team

The network

The engineers behind the network

Vetted AI and ML engineers. Every profile below shows the production experience behind it.

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka

Senior LLM Engineer

8 yrs · ex-Rakuten

Fine-tunes and serves production LLMs, with a focus on retrieval accuracy and eval pipelines.

RAGLangChainPyTorchvLLM
Andrés Torres

Andrés Torres

MLOps Architect

10 yrs · ex-Mercado Libre

Designs ML platform infrastructure that scales training and serving to hundreds of models.

KubernetesMLflowTerraformAWS
Carlos Rivera

Carlos Rivera

Computer Vision Engineer

7 yrs · ex-Cornershop

Ships production computer vision pipelines for retail and logistics workflows.

PyTorchOpenCVONNXTensorRT
Diego Vargas

Diego Vargas

NLP Research Engineer

6 yrs · ex-Globant

Takes NLP research to production, from custom tokenizers to domain-tuned embeddings.

TransformersspaCyHuggingFacePython
Elena Petrova

Elena Petrova

ML Platform Engineer

9 yrs · ex-Yandex

Builds feature stores and training infrastructure that hold up at scale.

KubeflowAirflowSparkGCP
James Okafor

James Okafor

Data Engineer, ML Pipelines

8 yrs · ex-Flutterwave

Builds real-time data pipelines that keep ML systems fed with clean, timely data.

KafkadbtSparkSnowflake
Lena Fischer

Lena Fischer

AI Product Engineer

6 yrs · ex-N26

Ships AI features end-to-end, from prototype to production-grade UI.

Next.jsOpenAI APITypeScriptLangChain
Marcus Johnson

Marcus Johnson

Applied AI Engineer

7 yrs · ex-Stripe

Applies LLMs to internal tooling and support automation with measurable impact.

PythonRAGPineconeFastAPI
Maria Santos

Maria Santos

Generative AI Engineer

6 yrs · ex-Globo

Builds diffusion and generative pipelines for media production at scale.

Stable DiffusionPyTorchCUDAPython
Mateus Costa

Mateus Costa

MLOps Engineer

7 yrs · ex-Nubank

Runs CI/CD for ML, plus the monitoring and rollback systems that keep models safe in prod.

MLflowDockerKubernetesPrometheus
Nguyen Thi Lan

Nguyen Thi Lan

Deep Learning Engineer

8 yrs · ex-VNG

Trains and optimizes deep networks for speech and vision workloads.

TensorFlowPyTorchCUDAONNX
Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma

Senior ML Engineer

10 yrs · ex-Freshworks

Leads ML systems from data to deployment across cross-functional teams.

PythonScikit-learnAirflowAWS
Ravi Patel

Ravi Patel

AI Infrastructure Engineer

9 yrs · ex-Zoho

Builds GPU infrastructure and serving layers for demanding model workloads.

KubernetesRayTerraformNVIDIA Triton
Sofia Morales

Sofia Morales

Research Engineer, NLP

5 yrs · ex-Rappi

Builds evaluation and fine-tuning pipelines for domain-specific language models.

HuggingFacePyTorchLangChainPython
Valentina Cruz

Valentina Cruz

AI Solutions Engineer

6 yrs · ex-Globant

Scopes and delivers client-facing AI integrations from kickoff to launch.

OpenAI APIPythonLangChainAWS

Why Hire AI Developers

Hiring AI talent is broken. We fixed the slow parts.

We're an AI development company, not a marketplace or a recruiter. The average in-house AI hire still takes 5+ months, and one in three doesn't work out. Here's what we do differently.

Vetted on production systems

Our four-stage screening tests engineers on the kind of work you'll actually pay them for — designing, shipping and maintaining real ML systems. Fewer than 4 in 100 applicants pass.

Matched in 48 hours

Because vetting happens before you arrive, we skip straight to matching. You interview 2–3 pre-qualified engineers, not a pipeline of résumés.

Your timezone, your tools

Guaranteed 4+ hours of daily overlap with your core hours. Engineers work in your repos, your Slack and your standups, like your own team, minus the hiring overhead.

IP protection by default

NDA before any technical conversation. Full IP assignment in every contract. Code lives in your repositories from the very first commit.

Two-week risk-free start

If the first two weeks don't convince you, you pay nothing, and we replace the engineer at no cost. Our retention rate says you won't need to.

Scale up or down freely

Add an MLOps specialist for launch month, or move to part-time after. Two weeks' notice, no penalties, no renegotiation.

Process

From first call to first commit in one week

  1. Day 0

    Tell us what you're building

    A 30-minute call with a technical lead, not a salesperson. We map your stack, your skills gap and your timeline.

  2. Day 2

    Meet your matched engineers

    Within 48 hours, you get 2–3 profiles pre-vetted for your exact need. Interview them however you like.

  3. Week 1

    Start risk-free

    Your engineer joins your team, your repos and your rituals. The first two weeks are free if it turns out not to be a fit.

  4. Ongoing

    Scale as you grow

    Add specialists, extend hours, or bring in a full dedicated team. One agreement, one point of contact, hired hourly, monthly, or fixed price.

Stack coverage

Fluent in the tools your roadmap already uses

Engineers are matched by stack, not just by title, so onboarding is measured in days.

# Models & frameworks

  • PyTorch

    PyTorch

    custom training loops, distributed runs

  • TensorFlow

    TensorFlow

    production serving, TF Serving pipelines

  • Keras

    Keras

    rapid prototyping, transfer learning

  • Hugging Face

    Hugging Face

    pretrained model hub, transformers

  • scikit-learn

    scikit-learn

    classical ML, feature pipelines

  • NumPy

    NumPy

    vectorized numerical computing

  • pandas

    pandas

    dataframes, data wrangling

# LLM & GenAI

  • Claude

    Claude

    reasoning-heavy agents, long-context tasks

  • Google Gemini

    Google Gemini

    multimodal generation, Google-native stacks

  • LangChain

    LangChain

    RAG orchestration, agent chains

  • Ollama

    Ollama

    local/self-hosted model serving

  • Mistral AI

    Mistral AI

    open-weight models, cost-efficient inference

  • vLLM

    vLLM

    high-throughput LLM serving

  • Redis

    Redis

    caching, low-latency vector lookups

# Data & infrastructure

  • Apache Spark

    Apache Spark

    large-scale batch & stream processing

  • Apache Kafka

    Apache Kafka

    real-time event streaming

  • Apache Airflow

    Apache Airflow

    pipeline orchestration & scheduling

  • ClickHouse

    ClickHouse

    real-time analytics at scale

  • PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL

    transactional data + pgvector search

  • MongoDB

    MongoDB

    document + vector storage

  • Snowflake

    Snowflake

    cloud data warehousing

# MLOps & cloud

  • Google Cloud

    Google Cloud

    managed compute & storage

  • Databricks

    Databricks

    unified data + ML lakehouse

  • Grafana

    Grafana

    metrics dashboards, alerting

  • Kubernetes

    Kubernetes

    container orchestration, autoscaling

  • MLflow

    MLflow

    experiment tracking, model registry

  • Docker

    Docker

    reproducible build & deploy

  • Terraform

    Terraform

    infrastructure as code

Engagement models

Simple pricing, no recruiting fees

Choose how you work with us. Every model includes vetting, matching and replacement guarantees.

Hourly

Rate on request

  • Vetted senior AI engineer
  • 4h+ daily timezone overlap
  • Weekly progress reports
  • Two-week risk-free start
Start with hourly

Most common

Monthly

Rate on request

  • Everything in hourly
  • Embedded in your team rituals
  • Priority replacement guarantee
  • Free technical lead oversight
Start with monthly

Fixed price

Quote on request

  • Fixed scope, fixed price
  • Full pod: ML engineer, backend engineer and MLOps specialist
  • Milestone-based payments
  • Post-launch support included
Start with fixed price

Beyond staffing

Don't want to manage the build yourself? We'll run it.

A named technical lead owns delivery, not just introductions

Scope and milestones are set before work starts, not renegotiated mid-project

You get shipped software and post-launch support, not just a matched engineer

Talk through your project scope

Industries

Domain experience that shortens the ramp

Engineers who have shipped in your industry already know its data, constraints and regulators.

Fintech

Fintech

Fraud detection, credit scoring, document intelligence and compliant LLM assistants.

Healthcare

Healthcare

Clinical NLP, medical imaging and patient triage assistants, built with privacy first.

E-commerce & retail

E-commerce & retail

Recommendation engines, demand forecasting, visual search and pricing models.

SaaS & software

SaaS & software

AI copilots, in-product assistants, semantic search and workflow automation.

Manufacturing & logistics

Manufacturing & logistics

Visual inspection, predictive maintenance and route optimization on the edge.

Food & beverages

Food & beverages

Delivery platforms, restaurant ordering systems and demand forecasting for cloud kitchens.

Travel & hospitality

Travel & hospitality

Booking assistants, guest management, location insights and virtual concierge tools.

Hiring & recruitment

Hiring & recruitment

Applicant tracking, resume screening, interview analytics and workforce prediction.

Real estate

Real estate

Property listing platforms, virtual tours, CRM workflows and automated lease management.

Sports

Sports

Fan engagement apps, ticketing optimization, athlete training tools and performance dashboards.

Education

Education

Adaptive e-learning platforms, virtual classrooms, assessment tools and LMS systems.

Social media

Social media

Networking apps, content discovery engines, moderation tooling and community analytics.

On-demand booking

On-demand booking

Delivery, ride-hailing, booking assistants and subscription management tools.

Solutions

Integration solutions built by expert AI developers

We embed AI into your existing systems: model integrations, language tools, vision pipelines and chat interfaces, built to hold up in production.

AI/ML model integration

01

AI/ML model integration

We integrate AI and ML models into your existing platforms, so you get predictions and automation without rebuilding what's already there.

NLP & language solutions

02

NLP & language solutions

Semantic search, entity extraction and document intelligence, tuned to your domain vocabulary and multilingual where needed.

LLM & chatbot integration

03

LLM & chatbot integration

GPT, Claude and Gemini embedded into your product as copilots and assistants, with guardrails built in from day one.

Computer vision & media recognition

04

Computer vision & media recognition

Image, audio and video recognition pipelines for inspection, moderation and content understanding at production scale.

Custom chatbot integrations

05

Custom chatbot integrations

Custom chatbots for support, sales and internal ops, trained on your data and wired into the tools your teams already use.

Large language models

06

Large language models

Fine-tuning and deployment of open-source and proprietary LLMs for domain-specific reasoning, retrieval and generation tasks.

Comparison

Hire AI Developers vs. the alternatives

Comparison of hiring through Hire AI Developers, in-house recruiting and freelance marketplaces
Hire AI DevelopersIn-house hiringFreelance marketplaces
Time to startUnder 1 week5+ months1–4 weeks
Technical vetting4-stage, by senior AI engineersYour team's timeSelf-reported profiles
Cost of a bad hireZero, free replacementSignificant cost, months lostYour risk
Recruiting feesNone20–30% of salary15–20% platform markup
IP & NDA handlingStandard in every contractStandardVaries per freelancer
Scale team up/down2 weeks' noticeNew hiring cycleRe-search each time

Case files

Recent engagements, measured in outcomes

Support assistant that answers 72% of tickets

LLM · Fintech

Support assistant that answers 72% of tickets

A Series B payments company needed to cut support load without hurting CSAT. Two Hire AI Developers engineers built a RAG assistant over their help center and transaction data.

tickets auto-resolved
72%
to production
6 wks
Defect detection at 99.2% recall on the line

Computer vision · Manufacturing

Defect detection at 99.2% recall on the line

An electronics manufacturer replaced manual inspection with edge models running at 30fps across 12 production lines, staffed by one vision engineer and one MLOps specialist.

defect recall
99.2%
inspection cost
-38%
Model serving costs cut 60% at 30M predictions/day

MLOps · SaaS

Model serving costs cut 60% at 30M predictions/day

A recommendation-driven marketplace was overpaying for GPU inference. A Hire AI Developers MLOps architect re-platformed serving with batching, quantization and autoscaling.

serving cost
-60%
daily predictions
30M

Trust & compliance

Enterprise-grade protection, startup-grade speed

The legal and security groundwork is done before your project starts, not negotiated after.

NDA before anything technical

Mutual NDA signed before we discuss your architecture, data or roadmap. Standard, not an upsell.

Full IP assignment

Everything built during the engagement belongs to you, assigned in writing in every contract.

Your infrastructure, your access rules

Engineers work inside your repos, your VPN and your access controls, with an offboarding checklist on every exit.

Security-screened engineers

Identity verification and background checks on every engineer before their first client engagement.

Data handling on your terms

Training data never leaves your environment. We support GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2-aligned workflows.

Single accountable contract

One agreement covers every engineer on your project, no separate paperwork or ambiguity per freelancer.

FAQ

Questions teams ask before hiring

How fast can I hire an AI developer?

Most clients meet 2-3 matched, pre-vetted engineers within 48 hours of the first call, and have someone starting inside a week.

How are your AI developers vetted?

Every engineer goes through a four-stage screening process that tests them on real production work, not puzzles. Fewer than 4 in 100 applicants pass.

What kinds of AI projects do your developers handle?

Everything from LLM applications and RAG pipelines to computer vision, NLP, MLOps and full AI product integrations. If it involves shipping AI to production, we likely have an engineer for it.

Can I hire a full AI team instead of one developer?

Yes. Alongside single developers, we also put together dedicated teams — typically an ML engineer, a backend engineer and an MLOps specialist — under one contract and one point of contact.

What does it cost to hire an AI developer through Hire AI Developers?

We work on three simple bases: hourly, monthly, or fixed price for a clearly defined scope. There are no recruiting fees on top, and every model already includes vetting, matching and a replacement guarantee.

Who owns the intellectual property?

You do. A mutual NDA is signed before any technical conversation, and full IP assignment is written into every contract.

What if the developer isn't the right fit?

The first two weeks are risk-free. If it isn't working out, you pay nothing for that period, and we replace the engineer at no extra cost.

Do your developers work in my time zone?

Yes. We guarantee at least four hours of daily overlap with your core working hours, so standups and reviews can happen live.

[ Start here ]

Tell us what you're building. Meet your developers this week.

One short form. A technical lead reads it, assigns the right AI developer from our team, and replies within one business day, with a developer ready to start, not a sales deck.

  • Free 30-minute technical consultation
  • 2-3 available AI developers within 48 hours
  • Two-week risk-free trial with every developer

Free consultation · NDA on request · No recruiting fees