Hire an AI Engineer
A senior AI engineer who designs, builds, and ships LLM-powered products end-to-end — embedded in your team or leading a full LaunchAI crew.
What a AI Engineer does
- Design and ship production LLM applications (chat, agents, copilots)
- Implement retrieval, function calling, tools, and agent orchestration
- Integrate with your stack — APIs, databases, queues, vector stores
- Build evals, monitoring, and guardrails for safe rollout
- Mentor your in-house engineers on prompt and agent patterns
Outcomes you can expect
- Working prototype in 2–4 weeks
- Production launch in 6–12 weeks
- Documented codebase, evals, and runbooks at handover
When to hire
- You have an AI use case and need a builder, not a deck
- Your team can't get past prototype into production
- You're scaling an existing AI feature and need senior depth fast
FAQ — Hiring a AI Engineer
What does an AI engineer do day-to-day?
They write the code that ships AI features — orchestrating LLMs, building agents, wiring retrieval and tools, and instrumenting evals and monitoring. They're software engineers with deep model and prompt fluency.
How much does it cost to hire an AI engineer?
LaunchAI rates start around $95/hr for senior AI engineers and scale by region (US, EU, PH, BR) and seniority. Most engagements are full-time on a monthly retainer for 3–12 months.
How fast can an AI engineer start?
Most engineers start within 7–14 days. We pre-vet talent on the bench, so once we agree on the role, sector, and seniority we match from people already cleared — not from a months-long recruiting funnel.
Can I hire just one engineer or do I need a full crew?
Either works. You can staff a single AI engineer into your existing team (staff augmentation), or hire a full LaunchAI crew where the engineer works alongside a Product Owner, Solution Architect, and other specialists.
Ready to hire an ai engineer?
Book a 30-minute launch call. We'll confirm fit, share matched candidates, and get the right person started inside two weeks.