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A remote AI Developer who integrates LLM APIs, builds agents and automations, and gets AI features from demo to production without breaking the rest of your product.
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1,100+Placements made
40+Countries we recruit from
40+Roles we fill
AI & Software Hires
Developers Behind Real Products.
$578K
A year saved vs. New York
Elayne
Elayne had tried other international providers. It made 5 hires through HireUA, including a Developer, an Operations Manager and a Motion Designer.
3×
Development efficiency
Seth’s Team
Seth’s team had an integration problem stuck for months. HireUA presented 7–8 qualified developers; the hire solved it in 4–5 days and finished the rest in 2–3 weeks.
2 roles
Across 2 businesses
Axon Growth & Maility
David Jacob hired an Inbox Manager and a junior front-end developer for Maility to take technical work off the CTO.
The Problem
A Demo Isn’t a Product.
Anyone can wire up an API call in an afternoon. Making it reliable, affordable and safe for real users is the job. Hire a developer who knows the difference.
01
Prompt Tinkerers
Great at a weekend prototype. Lost when latency, cost and edge cases show up.
02
No Engineering Discipline
No tests, no logging, no fallback when the model returns nonsense.
03
Runaway Costs
Token bills grow faster than usage because nobody designed for cost.
The Role
What a Strong AI Developer Owns
The AI Engineer scope from our 2026 Pricing Guide, applied to your product.
01
AI Applications
AI features built into your product, not bolted on beside it.
02
Agents & Chatbots
Agents and assistants that follow your rules, use your data and hand off to humans.
03
LLM API Integration
Integrations with models like GPT, Claude and Gemini, with retries, fallbacks and logging.
04
Workflow Automation
Automations that remove manual work across your tools and back office.
05
Evaluation & Cost
Test sets, quality checks and cost monitoring, so changes don’t quietly break output.
06
Product Engineering
The APIs, data handling and front-end work around the AI feature.
More Client Stories
Startups, SaaS and Technical Hires.
Alex
Client Success Manager & WordPress Developer
$160K–$200K saved per year across 2 roles
Connor
HubSpot Specialist
Keeps about $50 of every billable hour
Brad Smith
Project Manager
“Far faster than I’ve ever gotten even one candidate from a US side — let alone five.”
Jordan Nelson
First hire ever
15 hours saved per week
Brandon Foy
Designer
“I look like a huge eight-figure construction company when it’s really just me and her.”
“Used HireUA to hire my first employees for my company and they were absolutely fantastic. Helped pave the way for how I operate the business now. If you’re looking for extremely talented overseas employees, dont hesitate to reach of to HireUA. They make the process extremely simple and easy. They literally handle everything from sourcing, interview screening, managing, etc”
Adam Hamdan
Content team
“Pretty much I just go to you guys for every, like, managerial position in SEO.”
Joe
Shopify Store Manager
“If I had done this myself, it would have taken so much longer and cost us money in lost time and mistakes. Working with HireUA was easy and professional, and the cost difference compared to hiring locally was huge.”
Bert Fernandez
2 Sales VAs
“We went from reports taking 8 to 10 hours a week to now — she’s able to click it out with her fingers, send out a report in 5 to 10 minutes per client.”
How We Screen
Production Experience, Not Just Prompts.
Ask what broke after launch and how they fixed it.
01
Define the Seat
New AI product, AI features in an existing product, or internal automation? Which stack?
02
System Design Talk
Walk through an AI feature they shipped: data, prompts, evaluation, cost and failure modes.
03
Paid Technical Task
A small task in your stack, reviewed for code quality as well as output.
04
Explain the Trade-offs
Can they explain model choice and cost to a non-technical founder?
Where We Recruit
Great AI Developers Aren’t Limited to One Country.
Our Pricing Guide names Eastern Europe as the best region for AI Engineers. We start with the role, then pick the market.
01
Eastern Europe
The Pricing Guide’s best region for AI Engineers and every developer type it tracks. We’ve placed people from 24 countries in the region.
02
Latin America
We’ve placed people from 14 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. Strong US time-zone overlap for client-facing, creative and sales roles.
03
The Philippines
Deep remote-work experience. Strong value for support, admin and repeatable production work where reliability and consistency matter.
04
South Africa
Excellent English and strong customer-facing talent, with natural overlap into the European workday and the US East Coast morning.
05
Middle East
Specialists and cross-functional talent, including Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey, when the role calls for it.
There’s no best country to hire from. There’s a best market for the job: experience, communication, working hours and pay decide where we search.
AI Developer Salaries
What Does an AI Developer Cost?
Typical full-time monthly pay for the person you hire, from our 2026 Pricing Guide. That’s their pay, not HireUA’s fee.
| Role | Monthly pay | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer / AI Developer | $4,500 to $6,000 | Developer guide → |
| Python Developer | $3,500 to $4,500 | Developer guide → |
| Full-Stack Developer | $4,000 to $5,000 | Developer guide → |
| QA Engineer | $3,000 to $3,500 | Developer guide → |
Get the 2026 hiring guide
Roles, typical pay ranges and the best regions to hire from, all in one free PDF.
Process
From Open Seat to Qualified Candidates
01
Tell Us About the Seat
What the developer owns, the tools you run, the hours you need and how you’ll measure it. Not sure which role? We’ll help you figure it out.
02
We Define the Search
We write the requirements from the actual work, then choose the talent markets that fit the role.
03
Meet Qualified Candidates
We source and screen candidates and present qualified professionals within 5 days of kickoff.
04
Choose Your Hire
You interview the finalists and decide who joins your team. Total hiring time depends on how fast you interview and decide.
Industries
Industries We Hire AI Developers For
03
HubSpot & Salesforce Partners
Integrations and automation for client CRMs.
See CRM partner hiring →
Ready when you are
Meet vetted AI Developers in 5 days.
Book a call, tell us what you’re building and the stack, and we’ll show you vetted candidates within 5 days of kickoff.
Vetted candidates · Monthly Hire or Direct Hire
Questions
AI Developer Hiring FAQs
How much does it cost to hire an AI Developer?
AI Engineers typically earn $4,500–$6,000 a month full-time, according to our 2026 Pricing Guide. That’s what the developer earns, not HireUA’s fee.
AI Developer or Machine Learning Engineer?
An AI Developer builds products on top of existing models: LLM APIs, agents and automations. A Machine Learning Engineer trains, tunes and deploys models on your data. Most product teams need the AI Developer first.
Can they work with our existing codebase?
Yes, if you hire for it. Name your stack in the brief and we screen for it.
Can I hire part-time?
Yes. HireUA recruits for part-time and full-time positions. Part-time costs more per hour than full-time.
How quickly can I interview candidates?
Qualified candidates are presented within 5 days of kickoff. Total time to hire depends on how quickly you interview and decide.
How does HireUA charge?
Monthly Hire includes HireUA administering and paying the hire. Direct Hire costs 15% of annual salary, subject to a $3,000 minimum, and you employ the person directly.
Where can I learn more?
Read our guides to hiring a programmer and hiring remote developers.
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The Right Developer. The Right Seat. The Right Cost.
Tell us what you want AI to do in your product. We’ll recruit qualified candidates from the market that fits the role.