Talent·By Discipline·AI / ML
Hire AI / ML Engineers.
Engineers who command AI. Not dabble with it.
Senior AI / ML engineers embedded in your team through staff augmentation. The hardest hire in 2026. The shape of the role has changed faster than any other discipline , and the best AI engineers shipped before the boom, not because of it.
What they do
AI engineers at Lateral build production retrieval systems, eval harnesses, supervised agent stacks, and fine-tuned models.
AI engineers at Lateral build production retrieval systems, eval harnesses, supervised agent stacks, and fine-tuned models. They understand inference economics. They’ve put models through audits. They know which problems don’t need an LLM.
Common stacks
What they bring to the table.
Sample profiles
Real engineers. Anonymised.
Profiles below are from current network members, anonymised to protect their next move.
Diego A.
Senior ML / AI Engineer · 8 yrs
"Built an eval-first agent stack for a Series B copilot. 96% gold-set pass."
Buenos Aires · UTC−3
Priya R.
Staff Applied Scientist · 11 yrs
"Took a medical-imaging model from research to FDA 510(k) submission."
Bangalore · UTC+5:30
Kateryna V.
Senior LLM Engineer · 6 yrs
"Shipped a multi-agent dispatch tool replacing six legacy services."
Lisbon · UTC+0
Why hire through Lateral
Three reasons engineering leaders choose us.
- 01Top 1%, vetted by engineers, not recruiters. Every AI / ML candidate is reviewed by a senior in the same discipline. No keyword matching, no leetcode.
- 02Matched in 7 days, in your time zone. We don't place engineers more than ~4 hours off your business day.
- 03Transparent pricing. 60/25/15: most of what you pay reaches the engineer. See the breakdown.
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