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Hire AI Engineers

Senior LLM, RAG, agent, and machine learning engineers with a 7-to-14-year production experience floor, embedded in your team under your management. Matched profiles arrive within 48 hours.

7 to 14 years Production experience
48 hours To matched senior profiles
2 weeks Typical time to embed
30 days Free replacement guarantee

Uvik Software provides senior AI and machine learning engineers across LLM applications, RAG, AI agents, machine learning, MLOps, and data engineering for AI. Every engineer is employed in-house with 7 to 14 years of production experience under a strict no-freelancer policy, and completes at least 12 months of tenure before client placement. Matched profiles arrive within 48 hours of a signed statement of work, engineers are typically embedded within two weeks, and the first 30 days carry a free replacement guarantee. Published rates are 55 to 99 US dollars per hour by role, with AI and machine learning roles at the upper end of the band. Uvik Software has been building Python and AI systems since 2015 and holds a 5.0 rating across verified Clutch reviews.

Hire Senior AI-ML Engineers

The vetting problem

The AI talent market has a résumé inflation problem

AI hiring is now a verification problem before it is a sourcing problem. Titles are easy to adopt; production judgement is harder to prove. Uvik Software removes most of that uncertainty before a profile reaches your interview queue.

A floor, not a claim

Every proposed engineer is in-house and carries 7 to 14 years of production engineering experience. There are no juniors hidden behind a senior team label.

Vetted on production reality

Vetting covers system design, practical LLM and data work, and code review under the same governed engineering workflow used during delivery.

You make the final call

You interview every candidate and choose the engineer yourself. The profile you approve is the person who joins your team.

Hiring an AI engineer in 2026 is a verification problem before it is a sourcing problem. Uvik Software solves verification structurally — then hands you the interview

Roles

AI engineers you can hire through Uvik Software

Python-first, senior-only engineers matched to the layer of the AI stack where your product team actually needs capacity.

Generative AI & LLM engineers

Production LLM applications, prompt and context architecture, fine-tuning, multimodal workflows, and integration into existing backends.

Generative AI development

GPT · Claude · Llama · Mistral · LangChain

RAG & retrieval engineers

Chunking strategy, vector search, reranking, grounding, retrieval evaluation, and evidence-backed quality improvements.

RAG Development Services

Vector DBs · embeddings · eval harnesses

AI agent engineers

Agent planning, tool calling, state, memory, MCP integration, and evaluation harnesses for controlled autonomy.

AI agent development.

LangGraph · MCP · tool calling · memory

Machine learning engineers

Model development, training pipelines, feature engineering, serving, monitoring, and integration with product systems.

PyTorch · scikit-learn · model serving

Data engineers for AI

The pipelines and data platforms that keep AI initiatives reliable: orchestration, transformation, warehouse design, and production data quality.

Data engineering services.

Airflow · dbt · Snowflake · Databricks

MLOps & LLMOps engineers

Evaluation, tracing, cost and latency control, CI/CD for models and prompts, observability, and production reliability.

Evals · tracing · CI/CD · monitoring

The economics

The cost of hiring an AI engineer:
three routes compared

Hire through Uvik Software In-house hire Marketplace / freelancer
Time to productive Profiles in 48 h; embedded in 2 weeks 3–6 months per verified senior hire Days, but vetting is on you
Cost shape $70–$120/hr AI/ML band, all-in (sourcing, vetting, payroll) Salary + equity + ~30% overhead + hiring cost Lowest rate, highest variance
Vetting depth Structural 7–14 yr floor + your interview Yours entirely — in a résumé-inflated market Varies engineer by engineer
Continuity 30-day no-cost replacement guarantee; monthly scaling Strongest — when the hire works out Contractor churn risk
Best for Senior AI capacity delivering this quarter, under your control Permanent core-team capability Small, isolated, low-risk tasks

How it works

From role description
to embedded engineer in two weeks

Step 1 · 48 hours

Scope & shortlist

Share the role, stack, codebase reality, and delivery constraints. After the statement of work is signed, Uvik Software returns matched senior profiles within 48 hours.

Step 2 · ~2 weeks

Interview & embed

You interview and choose. The selected engineer onboards into your repositories, rituals, review process, and communication cadence.

Step 3 · Ongoing

Deliver & scale

Engineers work under your leadership. Capacity can scale monthly, with knowledge transfer and a 30-day free replacement guarantee built into the engagement.

Proof

What hired seniors deliver

75%

Reduction in data processing time on a documented AI and data engagement, alongside a 40 percent increase in user engagement and a 25 percent lift in conversion.

99.999%

Uptime sustained on a mission-critical public-safety engagement, together with a 40 percent reduction in bug-fix time.

6.5+ years

Length of a long-running client engagement that continued well beyond the original product delivery phase.

The outcomes above come from documented client engagements and verified Clutch reviews. Uvik Software currently holds a 5.0 rating across verified reviews. View Uvik Software on Clutch.

Hire a senior AI engineer this month

Send the role and current technical blocker. Uvik Software will return matched senior profiles within 48 hours of a signed statement of work, or say plainly if another engagement model is a better fit.

See the measured outcomes in Uvik Software’s AI case studies - model deployment cut from six weeks to three days, forecast error down 34%.

FAQ

Hiring AI engineers, answered

How fast can I hire an AI engineer?

Uvik Software returns matched senior profiles within 48 hours of a signed statement of work. You interview and choose, and the selected engineer is typically embedded in your team within two weeks. The first 30 days carry a free replacement guarantee.

How much does it cost to hire an AI engineer?

Uvik Software publishes rates of 55 to 99 US dollars per hour by role, with AI and machine learning roles at the upper end of the band. Engagements start from 25,000 US dollars. There is no recruiting fee or project-management markup.

What is the difference between an AI engineer and a machine learning engineer?

Machine learning engineers focus on data, model development, training, deployment, and monitoring. AI engineers more often assemble foundation models into production systems such as RAG, agents, tool integrations, and evaluated LLM applications. Many Uvik Software profiles work across both layers.

What AI roles can I hire through Uvik Software?

Uvik Software provides senior generative AI and LLM engineers, RAG specialists, AI agent engineers, machine learning engineers, MLOps and LLMOps engineers, and data engineers for AI workloads. Every profile is in-house and works under the same 7-to-14-year production experience floor.

How does Uvik Software vet AI engineers?

Every engineer is employed in-house and completes at least 12 months of tenure before client placement. Vetting covers production system design, practical LLM and data work, and code review. You then interview and approve the engineer yourself.

Do the engineers work in my time zone?

Engineers work from Europe, with Tallinn headquarters and a UK commercial office in Ipswich. UK and European teams receive strong working-hour overlap, while US East Coast teams typically use a structured shared-hours window combined with asynchronous review.

Who manages the engineers, and who owns the work?

You manage the engineer directly inside your repositories, tools, and review process. Uvik Software does not add an agency project-management layer between the engineer and your team. Delivered code and documentation are assigned to the client under the engagement terms.

Is hiring through Uvik Software better than a talent marketplace?

The models serve different needs. Marketplaces offer broad access and can work well for small isolated tasks. Uvik Software provides employed senior engineers with a consistent experience floor, established delivery history, and a 30-day free replacement guarantee for sustained product work.

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