Hire AI Developers in LATAM
Senior AI engineers who join your product team in 3 to 5 business days and work in your time zone. Vetted by a team that ships LLM features to production.
Why product teams hire AI developers through HitOcean
- Your product already works. Now the roadmap has an AI feature on it, a customer or the board wants it, and nobody on the team has taken an LLM to production. That is usually when companies start looking to hire AI developers, and when they find out how vague the title is. "AI developer" can mean someone who wrote a few prompts or someone who has run retrieval, evaluations and cost controls for a year.
- We filter for the second kind. HitOcean ships AI in production for its own clients, so we know what to ask in a technical interview and what a weak answer sounds like. 95% of our developers are senior. You see a short list, not a pile of resumes.
- The developer joins your team, your standups and your repo. You keep the roadmap and the day-to-day decisions. If the fit is wrong, we replace the profile. Talk to an expert about the feature you need to ship.
Hire AI engineers for the work on your roadmap
Tell us what you need to build with AI. We match the profile to your stack and seniority, and you interview every candidate before anyone joins your team.
Talk to an expertLLM features inside your product
Assistants, search over your own documents with RAG, summaries, classification. We match engineers to the stack you already run, from a model provider's API to LangChain and Python, which is what we used for Seidor. And we look for people who care about the boring parts: evaluations, latency, and what each request costs you.
AI agent developers
Agents that read from your systems and take actions, with logs and human approval where it matters. If you would rather have us build the agent end to end, see our custom AI agents service.
Generative AI and machine learning engineers
Some roadmaps need fine-tuning, forecasting or a classic ML model, not a chat interface. You tell us the problem and the stack, and we match a generative AI developer or a machine learning engineer to it, not a generalist.
Vetted like the rest of our nearshore developers
Every profile goes through a technical review by our own Tech Leads before you see it. It is the same process we use when you hire nearshore developers for any other stack, with an AI-specific interview on top.
One engineer or a full team
Add one AI engineer to your current team through staff augmentation, or bring in a dedicated software team when the AI work grows into its own product line.
Share your brief
The feature, the stack, the seniority and the time zone overlap you need. This starts the 3 to 5 business day clock.
Review a short list
Profiles already interviewed by our Tech Leads, with notes on the AI work each person has shipped.
Interview and choose
You run your own technical interview and pick the engineer who fits your team.
Onboard and ship
The engineer joins your tools and rituals from day one. If the fit is wrong, we replace the profile.
AI we have already taken to production
Our teams built Seidor's CX Agent on LLMs, a conversational platform for Miinta, the AI assistant inside BeValk's security app, launched in 3 months, and an AI agent that supervises oil and gas wells for PAE. Also trusted by teams at Adidas, Dell, Fiat, Ford, MercadoLibre, Nissan, Renault and Stanley.
Seidor — CX Agent
Customer service automation with LLMs
- 4 people · AWS + PostgreSQL + Python + LangChain
Miinta
AI-powered conversational platform for mental health
- LLM + Laravel
BeValk
Personal digital shield with AI for everyday security
- 1 Manager + 2 developers + 1 QA · LLM + React + Laravel + AWS
PAE
AI agent for oil & gas well supervision
What AI feature does your team need to ship?
Frequently asked questions
01 How fast can I hire an AI developer through HitOcean?
Once your brief is clear, we usually present matched profiles in 3 to 5 business days. Very specific roles, like a senior engineer with production fine-tuning experience, can take longer, and we tell you up front.
02 What is the difference between an AI developer and a machine learning engineer?
An AI developer usually builds product features on top of existing models: LLM APIs, RAG, agents. A machine learning engineer trains, tunes and deploys models, and works closer to the data. Tell us what you are building and we will tell you which profile you need.
03 Why not hire a freelancer or recruit in-house?
A freelancer can get a demo running, but the prompts, evaluations and context leave when they do. Recruiting in-house means months of searching for one of the hardest roles to fill right now. A nearshore engineer from HitOcean stays with your team, in your time zone, and we cover the replacement if it does not work out.
04 What happens if the developer is not the right fit?
We replace the profile, subject to the terms of the agreement.
05 Can HitOcean build the AI project instead of adding people to my team?
Yes. If you do not have a team to lead the work, we build it for you through our generative AI development services, or we start with AI consulting to define what is worth building first.
06 How much can I save compared to hiring in the US?
Companies typically save between 40% and 70% compared to hiring in the US or Europe, without giving up seniority or time zone overlap. See how much it costs to hire developers in Latin America.
Ready to hire your first AI developer?
Send us the feature and the stack. In 3 to 5 business days you will be looking at senior AI engineers who can start on it.
Talk to an expert