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Assistants that answer from your documents, with citations.

Also called: AI Developer, LLM Engineer, Generative AI Developer

From £5.50 an hour£5.50-25/hr

  • SaaS & tech
  • Startups
  • Professional services
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A free 15-minute call on Teams.

  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your AI Engineer gets doneSample day
  • Designs and builds RAG pipelines end to endBuild & integrate
  • Builds golden evaluation sets with domain ownersEvaluation & safety
  • Monitors cost, latency, token usage and error ratesOperate & optimise
  • Writes short design docs covering approach, trade-offs, eval planCollaboration & documentationDoing
In your tools
  • Python
  • TypeScript / Node.js
  • Qdrant
  • Hugging Face
  • FastAPI
  • Docker

Pick the level. See the price.

£9.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended

Owns an AI feature end to end: design doc, retrieval choices, prompts, eval harness.

  • Production RAG assistant with citations and an eval dashboard
  • Tool-using agent for one business workflow
  • Prompt versioning and regression evals wired into CI

2-4 years software engineering to real users.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your AI Engineer

Tasks

  • Build & integrate

    • Designs and builds RAG pipelines end to end
    • Builds agents that call tools and APIs
    • Integrates LLM features into existing Python or TypeScript codebases
    • Deploys AI services with Docker to AWS, GCP, Azure, Vercel or Modal

  • Evaluation & safety

    • Builds golden evaluation sets with domain owners
    • Measures retrieval quality separately from answer quality
    • Implements guardrails
    • Runs red-team sessions against agents and assistants

  • Operate & optimise

    • Monitors cost, latency, token usage and error rates
    • Reduces cost and latency with prompt caching, model routing
    • Versions prompts and manages model migrations with regression testing
    • Handles rate limits, retries, timeouts and provider fallbacks

  • Collaboration & documentation

    • Writes short design docs covering approach, trade-offs, eval plan
    • Explains model limitations and realistic accuracy targets
    • Reviews code and prompts from other engineers

Tested before you meet them

How we test AI work

Tested on AI work, with mistakes planted in it

  • A real task from the roleDone with the AI tools the job uses, in a suite like yours.
  • Mistakes planted in the AI's outputCatching them is part of the pass mark, at every level.
  • Restricted data stays outPutting it into an AI tool fails the test, whatever the score.
Sample result, not a real candidate
AI workflow test: Failure-handling review60 minutes · marked by a senior
Planted problems found
2 of 2
Error handling and a retry added
Yes
Personal data out of the logs
Yes
Alert on bad input
Yes

Passed at IntermediateReal profiles show the date and score.

  1. Written English and technical communicationAll levels30 min
  2. LLM fundamentals testAll levels45 min
  3. RAG build take-homeIntern to Expert4 hrs
  4. Agent debugging and guardrails live sessionIntermediate and up1.5 hrs
  5. AI system design scenarioExpert and Specialist60 min
  6. Portfolio and code walkthroughAll levels45 min
  7. AI workflow test: Failure-handling review60 min

One score on every profileSample shown

90%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern AI Engineer is £5.50 an hour, Intermediate £9.50, Expert £14.50 and Specialist £25, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Build & integrate, evaluation & safety, operate & optimise and collaboration & documentation, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Seven practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English and technical communication, LLM fundamentals test and RAG build take-home. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your AI Engineer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

You do. Your AI Engineer builds in your own accounts (Zapier, Make or n8n, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, your AI provider), under your logins and billing. Each build is logged with notes and a recorded walkthrough, so it stays with you if you leave us.

You do, on your own accounts, at the provider's price. We never mark it up. Your AI Engineer asks before adding a paid tool and sets spending limits where the tool allows.

Every automation has error alerts, and your AI Engineer fixes or escalates failures within the day. Steps that send, pay or change records wait for a person's approval, so a failure stops the run instead of sending the wrong thing.

You agree what gets built first. Builds are tested on real cases, and nothing goes live until you or your nominee says yes. Every change is logged: what, when and why.

Yes. Your AI Engineer works inside your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace with the access your admin gives, so Copilot and Gemini follow your tenant's rules and AI policy. You can remove access at any time.

An Intermediate AI Engineer owns an AI feature end to end: design doc, retrieval choices, prompts, eval harness. An Expert AI Engineer owns the outcomes of AI initiatives and designs multi-component systems. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every AI Engineer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Python and TypeScript / Node.js, before you meet them.

In week one: access to client repo, Slack channels; models provider keys issued under the client's own organisation; and access to staging, observability and logs. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called AI Developer, LLM Engineer and Generative AI Developer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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