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Hire AI engineers from Latin America
The market is full of people who can get an impressive demo out of a model and nobody who can tell you whether it got worse last Tuesday. We test the second thing, because that is what costs money in production.
Brief us on this role
Brief us Monday; we aim to send the write-ups by Friday. Search, interviews and a shortlist you decline cost nothing.
The two hours before you meet them
The candidate is given a retrieval pipeline that answers correctly about 70% of the time and asked to make it better, with no eval set. The real test is whether they build one before they start changing prompts. We also watch how they use their own AI tooling during the session, because that is now part of the job.
What we fail people for
A syntax quiz proves nothing. These are the mistakes that decide a no, and they only surface once the work stops being tidy.
- Tunes prompts with no measurement
- Changes the prompt, likes the one output they saw, calls it fixed. Cannot tell you whether the change helped or hurt.
- No cost or latency instinct
- Reaches for the biggest model by reflex and has never looked at a per-request cost.
- Ignores failure modes
- No plan for the model returning malformed output, hallucinating a tool call, or timing out mid-stream.
Stack we test
Tools change. Judgment travels. We still test in the stack your team runs, including the paths where it breaks.
They join your team, not a bench
An embedded engineer sits in your standup, your repo and your Slack from day one. We never leave the loop: the founder who vetted them still reads their code weekly or every two weeks, then sends that read in writing.
- Engineers you get to know
- You get a person with a name, a write-up and a calendar. Nobody is swapped out behind your back, and no second account manager sits between you and them.
- They work inside your process
- Your repo, your board, your standup, your review rules. We do not run a parallel delivery process or insert a project manager you did not ask for.
- We stay in the engagement
- The founder who ran the vetting reads the work weekly or every two weeks and sends you one page: what shipped, what stalled, and where we would push back on you.
- 4 to 6 hours of real overlap
- Latin American time zones mean the working day overlaps yours, so review, pairing and incident response happen live rather than on a 12-hour delay.
What AI engineers cost
One hourly rate in USD covers their pay, our fee, the vetting, contracts and invoicing. The band comes from what they did in the pairing session, not the title on their CV.
Read every pricing term- Senior$49-$66
- 6-8 years · $USD Hourly rate
- Staff / Lead$67+
- 8+ years · $USD Hourly rate
Planning range, not a quote. Pairing performance, stack, overlap, engagement length and start date set the final rate.
Questions about hiring AI engineers
We aim for one to three AI engineers on your shortlist by the Friday after your brief, but it depends on who clears the bar. AI roles are the tightest pool we source, so a two-week start is possible but costs more and we say so on the call.
An AI engineer through wepair.works starts at $49 an hour, all-inclusive, in USD. There is no placement fee and no platform fee on top of it.
The candidate gets a retrieval pipeline that answers correctly about 70% of the time and no eval set. The test is whether they build one before they touch a prompt, and we watch how they use their own AI tooling while they do it.
See a sample write-up
Every shortlisted candidate arrives with what we saw, where they were strong and what they got wrong. Read one before you decide whether this process is any different.
Read the sample vetting write-upHiring more than one role?
See every role we placeTwenty minutes. You leave knowing whether we can fill the role.
Tell us the stack, the scope and the seniority. On the call you get a straight answer on whether we can fill it and what it would cost. If we take it on, a founder pairs with each candidate and you get one to three names with the write-ups attached. If nobody clears the bar, we say so instead of padding the list.
Or email . We read every single email.