Hire an AI Engineer in 7 days.

Talento places AI engineers who ship LLM apps to production. Placed in seven days. Fit for teams building agents, RAG systems, or AI features in an existing product.

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What a AI Engineer does

The scope, in five bullets.

Build LLM-powered features: prompting, chaining, tool use, agents
Design and run evals for AI outputs at scale
Integrate LLM APIs into production systems with retries, timeouts, and fallbacks
Build RAG pipelines and vector stores where needed
Monitor cost, latency, and quality of AI features in production

Vetting

The ten factors we screen for.

Every candidate passes an AI pre-screen and a human interviewer before you meet them. Miss more than two of these and they don't make the shortlist.

Fluent with the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs
Comfortable with agent frameworks (Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, or building from scratch)
Eval discipline: writes tests before scaling prompts
Vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate)
Prompt engineering: chain-of-thought, few-shot, structured outputs
Strong software engineering fundamentals (Python or TypeScript)
Understands cost and latency tradeoffs at LLM scale
Reads AI research well enough to apply it, not just to cite it
Async and remote-first work discipline
Ships to production, not just to notebooks

Why Talento

The old ways make you choose. Talento doesn't.

	Talento	DIY	Agency	Freelance
Speed	7 days to placed	Slow	Slow	Fast
Vetting	10-factor + head of talent	Your job	Their screen	Ratings only
Cost model	One retainer	Your time	15-20% of salary	Markup + admin
Agent option	Human only for this role	You'd build it	None	None
If it doesn't work	30-day fit window	Start over	Pay again	Start over

FAQ

Hiring a AI Engineer — questions we hear.

AI Engineer or ML Engineer?

Different roles. AI Engineer builds on top of foundation models (LLM apps, agents, evals). ML Engineer trains and deploys custom models. Tell us which you need at intake.

Do your AI Engineers build agents?

Yes. Fluency with agent patterns (tool use, memory, orchestration) is a screening factor.

How fast can you place an AI Engineer?

Seven days from first intake to a placed hire. Shortlist inside 72 hours.

What's the 30-day fit window?

If the hire isn't working out inside 30 days, we swap them. No calls, no forms.

Can Talento also build the agent for us?

Yes. For scoped agent workloads (SDR, BDR, and expanding), Talento can deliver the agent as a running system instead of a hire. Ask at intake.

Ready when you are

Your next AI Engineer could ship this week.

Placed in 7 days. Nothing to install, no contracts to sign until you see who you're getting.

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