Engineers who put models into production, not just into notebooks. Full-time Latin American talent, in your time zone. A flat 20% of what you pay. Shortlist in about 5 days.
We handle everything from sourcing to onboarding so your team can focus on building.
The median data scientist in the United States earns about $10,000 per month, and computer and information research scientists reach $11,700 (BLS, May 2025). A mid-level AI engineer in Latin America through Teilur starts at $5,150 all-in, works your hours, and joins one team full-time.
The field is young enough that the region is not behind
Most of what matters in applied AI today did not exist five years ago. There is no thirty-year head start to catch up on, so engineers in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico learned the same tools at the same time as everyone else. What has not arrived yet is the US salary premium, and that gap is the opportunity.
Production experience, not demos
The hard part of this work is rarely the model. It is the retry logic, the evaluation harness, the cost controls and the monitoring that catches drift once real data stops resembling the training set. We screen for people who have shipped something that survived contact with real users, because that is the difference between a prototype and a product.
Time zones that matter when a model misbehaves
AI systems fail in ways that are hard to reproduce and expensive to ignore. An engineer twelve hours away means a bad output stays in front of your users until their morning. Latin America sits within one to three hours of EST and PST, so the person who built it is online while it is still happening.
English tested, not assumed
This work involves explaining probabilistic behaviour to people who expect deterministic answers. Every engineer is evaluated for English before you see a profile, because the ability to say why a model did something is part of the job.
Full-time only, by design
We do not place freelancers or short-term contractors. Model quality depends on knowing your data, your users and your edge cases, and that knowledge compounds over months rather than sprints.
What you pay is what you see
Starting at $5,150 per month all-in for a mid-level hire. You pay this; 80% goes to the engineer and 20% is our fee. No markups buried in a blended rate, and no subscription.
Every engineer is pre-vetted for technical depth, English level and culture fit before you meet them.
Four steps from first call to onboarded team member. No hidden fees at any point.
See how it works ->Tell us what you need and get a curated shortlist of pre-vetted candidates in about five days.