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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.

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From the network

People, not profiles.

Diego A. · Senior ML / AI Engineer

8 YRS · Buenos Aires · UTC−3

Built an eval-first agent stack for a Series B copilot. 96% gold-set pass.

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Priya R. · Staff Applied Scientist

11 YRS · Bangalore · UTC+5:30

Took a medical-imaging model from research to FDA 510(k) submission.

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Kateryna V. · Senior LLM Engineer

6 YRS · Lisbon · UTC+0

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"?
Every AI candidate ships a live evaluation: a real retrieval task, a real agent loop, a real eval harness. The submissions are reviewed by engineers. Not recruiters.
Can your AI engineers take a model through FDA / regulatory submission?
Yes. We’ve done it. Ezra Flash was a Lateral build with a 510(k) clearance in 2023. Ask us for the playbook.
What about cost / inference economics?
It’s the first conversation we have. Most teams under-estimate inference costs by 3–5x at scale. Our engineers cost-model before they prototype.

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.

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