Talent & Teams·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.
How it works
The work, in practice.
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
The tools of the trade.
From the network
People, not profiles.
Diego A. · Senior ML / AI Engineer
Built an eval-first agent stack for a Series B copilot. 96% gold-set pass.
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Priya R. · Staff Applied Scientist
Took a medical-imaging model from research to FDA 510(k) submission.
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Kateryna V. · Senior LLM Engineer
Shipped a multi-agent dispatch tool replacing six legacy services.
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FAQ
Before you ask.
How do you screen for AI fluency vs. just "Python on a resume"?
Can your AI engineers take a model through FDA / regulatory submission?
What about cost / inference economics?
Tell us what has to move.
A 30-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. We will map the capacity and ownership the work actually needs.