Hire an AI engineer
Builds the AI part so that it is measurable: retrieval over your data, agents with permissions, evaluation before launch.
Rates last reviewed 2026-08-15. A single role can sit below our blended engagement floor of $55 per hour, because the floor applies to a whole project team rather than to one person.
What this role does here
- Retrieval augmented generation over documents you already have
- Agents that perform work in your systems, with the boundaries written down
- Evaluation sets, so a change can be judged rather than admired
- Cost and latency budgets per request, decided before the invoice arrives
When you need one
A demo worked and you now need the version that answers correctly on Monday, with numbers to prove it, and does not quietly leak internal documents.
A measured baseline on your own questions, an honest number for how often it is wrong today, and the cheapest change that moves it.
How the engagement works
The same terms as any other project with us. Nothing on this page is a different contract.
The contract is with our American company, whoever does the work and wherever they sit.
You meet the person before the engagement starts, and they stay on it.
Time and materials with a ceiling you set, or a fixed price for defined scope.
Code, design files and accounts transfer to you. 30 days of defect fixes after handover.
Where this role usually works
All servicesAgents that act inside the systems where the work already happens: your ticketing, your catalogue, your back office. Every action that costs money passes a human first, every action is logged, and there is a kill switch.
Retrieval over your own documents, assistants inside your product, classification and extraction. No replatforming: the feature lands in the stack you already run, with a fallback for the day the model is slow or gone.
Questions about this role
Do you train models?
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Rarely, and we say so early. For most business problems retrieval and a good evaluation set beat fine-tuning on cost and on time, and we will tell you when yours is the exception.
Where does our data go?
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Wherever your contract with the model provider allows, and nowhere else. Providers, regions and retention are decided with you and written into the design, not chosen by the engineer that week.
Need an AI engineer?
Say what the work is and how long it runs. You get a name, a rate and a start date within one business day.