Full-time LLM engineers from Latin America who tune, evaluate and ship language models in production. Shortlist in about 5 days. Flat 20% of what you pay.
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See how it works ->The median data scientist in the United States earns about $10,000 per month (BLS, May 2025), and specialists in language models command more. LLM engineers with Teilur start at $5,150 all-in.
What LLM engineers actually do
They work the layer between a general model and your specific problem: retrieval over your documents, prompt and context engineering, fine-tuning when it is genuinely warranted, evaluation harnesses that measure quality instead of guessing at it, and the token economics that decide whether a feature is viable at scale.
Why evaluation is the real skill
Anyone can make a language model produce something. The engineers worth hiring can tell you whether the output got better after a change, and prove it. Without that, teams ship prompt edits on intuition and discover regressions from customer complaints.
Fine-tuning is usually not the answer
A strong LLM engineer will often talk you out of fine-tuning, because better retrieval or a clearer prompt solves the problem at a fraction of the cost. We screen for that judgment, not just the technique.
Why Latin America
This discipline is barely three years old. There is no established seniority ladder anywhere, which means engineers in LATAM started when everyone else did, and the salary premium US companies now pay for this skill has not reached the region.
English tested before you meet them
Every engineer is evaluated for English before you see a profile.
Transparent pricing
LLM engineers start at $5,150 all-in for mid-level. You pay this; 80% goes to the engineer and 20% is our fee. No subscription.
Tell us what you need and get a curated shortlist of pre-vetted candidates in about five days.