HIRE

Hire senior AI / ML engineers

Vetted AI and ML engineers ready to work on your team this week — spanning LLM app development, agent design, RAG systems, fine-tuning, and MLOps.

EXPERTISE

What our AI / ML engineers bring to your team

Every engineer we place has shipped AI systems to real users — not tutorials, not demos, production code with SLOs.

LLM app development

End-to-end LLM apps — prompt design, model routing, streaming interfaces, structured outputs, and safety layers.

Agent & RAG systems

Multi-step agents, tool use, retrieval pipelines, and evaluation harnesses built with LangGraph and LlamaIndex.

Model fine-tuning

LoRA, QLoRA, and full-parameter fine-tuning with dataset curation, eval design, and reproducible training runs.

MLOps & serving

Model registries, inference endpoints, GPU autoscaling, and cost/latency monitoring for production ML systems.

Evaluation frameworks

Golden sets, LLM-as-judge scoring, regression suites, and CI gates that make quality a number you can move.

Enterprise integrations

Wire AI features into your existing product — SSO, tenant isolation, audit logs, and your data warehouse.

TECHNOLOGY

The AI / ML stack they work in

Every engineer we place is comfortable across at least six of these — deployed to production, not read about.

Python PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face LangChain LangGraph LlamaIndex OpenAI Anthropic Pinecone W&B MLflow vLLM Ray
WHAT THEY BUILD

The work our AI engineers ship in production

The types of systems our engineers have delivered against real user traffic and enterprise data.

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Enterprise copilots

Product- or domain-specific copilots grounded in your data, integrated with SSO and role-based access.

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Multi-step AI agents

Tool-using agents that plan, act, and self-correct across workflows like triage, research, and back-office automation.

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Grounded RAG systems

Retrieval pipelines with chunking strategy, hybrid search, reranking, and citation-first answer generation.

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Fine-tuned domain models

Smaller, cheaper models tuned to your task — with an eval harness that proves they beat the general-purpose baseline.

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MLOps platforms

Training-to-serving pipelines with dataset versioning, experiment tracking, and rollout controls.

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AI product features

Smart search, summarization, drafting, and classification embedded into an existing SaaS product.

HIRING PROCESS

From requirements call to first commit

A tight four-step flow — no shopping résumés, no agency friction, engineers on your team within a week.

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Requirements call

A 45-minute call with our engineering lead to scope skills, seniority, tooling, and the specific problems the hire will own.

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Shortlist in 48 hours

Two or three matched engineer profiles delivered within 48 hours, each with recent AI project work you can review.

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Technical interviews

Interview shortlisted engineers directly — no gatekeeping. Use your own rubric or borrow one of ours.

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Start within a week

Selected engineer joins your Slack, repos, and standups. Contract, invoicing, and onboarding handled by us.

WHY HIRE THIS WAY

What you get that in-house hiring misses

Building an AI team from scratch takes quarters. Ours starts moving your roadmap this week.

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Senior-only engineers

Every engineer we place has shipped production AI systems. No juniors billed as seniors, no résumé inflation.

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Start in 48 hours

Shortlists back within two business days. First engineer on the team within a week — not a hiring quarter.

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No agency markup layers

You work directly with our engineering lead and the engineers themselves. No account manager between you and the work.

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Own your codebase from day one

All code, prompts, evals, and infra live in your repos and your cloud. No lock-in, no proprietary tooling.

FEATURED WORK

A system built by the engineers we place

A grounded, tool-using assistant delivered by the same bench you would be hiring from.

NeuraDesk case study AI • RAG

NeuraDesk

A retrieval-augmented support copilot that grounds answers in a company's own knowledge base.

LangChain • RAG Pipeline • Vector Search • Evaluation

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WHY ZIKOSOFT

Why teams hire AI engineers through us

A senior bench, direct engagement, and a delivery record that other AI hiring channels don't match.

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Real production AI experience

Our engineers have shipped RAG, agents, and fine-tuned models against real users — not built notebooks and left.

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Direct access to the engineers

You interview, choose, and work with the engineers themselves. No layers of account management or handoffs.

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Vetted for evals, not just prompts

Prompt-crafting is table stakes. Our engineers are vetted for evaluation design, cost control, and safety.

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You keep the codebase and the keys

Code in your repos, keys in your vaults, models swappable. No dependence on our platform to keep running.

FAQ

Common questions about hiring AI engineers

Practical answers on seniority, engagement, timelines, and how our engineers plug into your team.

How do you vet AI / ML engineers?
Every engineer we place has been through a technical screen on a real AI system — RAG design, eval reasoning, or an agent debugging exercise — plus a review of production code they have shipped. We reject roughly nine of every ten applicants.
What seniority levels can you place?
Mid-senior to staff-level AI engineers, plus principal engineers and technical leads for platform-level work. We do not place junior AI engineers.
Can I hire for a short-term project?
Yes. Engagements start at four weeks with monthly renewals. Many clients start short to prove fit, then extend.
Do your engineers work in my time zone?
Yes. We match to your time zone and working hours, with at least four hours of daily overlap for standups, reviews, and pairing.
Who owns the code and IP?
You do. All work-for-hire clauses assign IP to you on delivery. Code and prompts live in your repositories from day one.
Can engineers work through my staffing vendor or MSA?
Yes. We can work through an existing MSA, tier-two staffing arrangement, or contract directly. Whichever your legal team prefers.

Need an AI engineer on your team this week?

Tell us the problem and the stack. We'll come back with a shortlist within 48 hours.

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