#1 fastest-growing
AI Engineer
Ships LLM-powered features into production — copilots, assistants and AI-native product flows.
PythonOpenAI & Anthropic APIsPrompt engineeringFunction calling
AI engineering talent, on contract
Hire elite AI engineers, on your terms
Vetted AI, LLM, RAG and agent specialists — matched to your project in days. Flexible contracts, remote-first, risk-free trial. No months-long search.
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- to get matched
- Top 3%
- vetted talent
- Risk-free
- trial period
Live match 98% fit
AE
Senior AI Engineer
Agents · RAG · LLMOps
LangChainPineconePythonAWS BedrockMCP
Available · Remote View
Roles we place
The AI specialists companies are hiring in 2026
Every role below maps to live market demand — from LLM product engineers to agent and RAG specialists.
+280% YoY demand
Agentic AI Engineer
Designs autonomous and multi-agent systems that plan, use tools and act across your stack.
LangChain / LlamaIndexAgent orchestrationTool & function useMCP
High demand
RAG Engineer
Grounds models in your data with retrieval-augmented generation that stays accurate and current.
Vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)Hybrid retrievalRerankingChunking & embeddings
Machine Learning Engineer
Trains, evaluates and deploys production ML — recommendations, ranking, forecasting and fraud.
PyTorch & TensorFlowFeature pipelinesModel servingRecommenders & ranking
Surging
MLOps / AI Platform Engineer
Deploys, monitors and scales AI in production — the infrastructure that turns demos into reliable systems.
CI/CD for MLDocker & KubernetesAWS / Azure / GCPObservability & tracing
GenAI / LLM Engineer
Fine-tunes, evaluates and optimizes large language models for your domain, latency and budget.
Fine-tuning & LoRAEval harnessesPrompt optimizationQuantization
Data Scientist
Turns data into decisions with rigorous analysis, experimentation and modeling.
StatisticsPython & SQLExperimentation / A-BForecasting
Computer Vision Engineer
Builds vision systems — detection, segmentation, OCR and multimodal understanding.
PyTorch & OpenCVDetection & segmentationOCRMultimodal models
Capabilities
The modern AI stack, covered
From first prototype to production scale — our engineers work fluently across the tools teams are actually hiring for in 2026.
Foundations
PythonSQLTypeScriptAWSAzureGCPDockerKubernetes
GenAI & LLMs
Prompt engineeringFunction callingStructured outputsFine-tuningLoRAEvalsQuantization
Agents & RAG
LangChainLlamaIndexMulti-agent orchestrationMCPVector databasesHybrid retrievalRerankingEmbeddings
ML & Infra
PyTorchTensorFlowAWS BedrockAzure OpenAIMLOpsModel servingObservabilityLLM gateways
How it works
From brief to building, in days
A simple, low-risk path to the right AI engineer — without the months-long search.
01
Tell us what you need
Share the role, skills, timeline and budget. A 15-minute call is all it takes to get started.
02
Get matched in days
We hand-pick a vetted AI engineer from our network and introduce you — usually within a few days.
03
Start risk-free
Kick off with a no-risk trial. If it is not the right fit, you are not billed and we rematch you.
04
Scale up or down
Go hourly, part-time or full-time. Extend, pause or wind down as your roadmap changes.
Why Vicode
Elite AI talent, without the overhead
We handle sourcing, vetting and matching so you get a production-ready specialist — fast, flexible and low-risk.
Rigorously vetted
A multi-stage screen for real, shipped production AI work. Only a small fraction make it through.
Production-grade
Engineers who have shipped AI to real users — not just demos and notebooks.
Matched in days
Skip months of sourcing. Meet a hand-picked engineer within days, not quarters.
Flexible contracts
Hourly, part-time or full-time. Scale up or pause with no long lock-ins.
Risk-free trial
Start with a trial period. No fit, no bill — and we will rematch you.
2026-ready skills
Fluent in agents, RAG, MCP, fine-tuning and the modern AI toolchain.
Pricing
Flexible engagements, transparent rates
Hire by the hour, part-time or full-time. No upfront fees, cancel anytime.
On-demand
Hourly, whenever you need it
From $15 /hour
Best for audits, spikes and short projects.
- Pay only for hours used
- Start within days
- Scale up or pause anytime
- Direct line to your engineer
Part-time contract
Dedicated days each week
From $10 /hr equiv.
Best for steady progress without a full-time hire.
- Set days per week
- Same engineer throughout
- Lower effective rate
- Monthly rolling — cancel anytime
Full-time contract
A fully embedded engineer
Best value
Best for sustained roadmaps and team augmentation.
- 40 hrs/week, embedded in your team
- Best effective rate
- Long-term continuity
- Option to extend or convert
See the full rate card by seniority & specialty on the pricing page.
Trusted by teams building with AI
NorthwindAcme LabsQuantaVertexLumenOrbital
“We had a senior RAG engineer shipping against our knowledge base within a week. The match was spot on.”
“Vicode found us an agent specialist we could not have sourced ourselves. Production-ready from day one.”
“Flexible, fast and genuinely senior. We scaled from one contractor to three in under a month.”
How are your AI engineers vetted?
Every engineer passes a multi-stage screen: a technical assessment, a live problem-solving interview, a portfolio of shipped production AI work, and a communication check. We accept only a small fraction of applicants.
How fast can I get matched?
Most clients are introduced to a hand-picked engineer within a few days of sharing their needs — not weeks or months.
What if it is not the right fit?
Every engagement starts with a risk-free trial. If the engineer is not the right fit, you are not billed for the trial and we rematch you — or you can walk away, no strings attached.
Are engineers remote? What about time zones?
Yes — our network is global and remote-first. We match for meaningful working-hours overlap with your team and can prioritize specific regions or time zones.
What roles and skills do you cover?
AI, LLM, RAG and agent engineers, plus ML, MLOps/platform, GenAI, data science and computer vision — across the modern 2026 stack: LangChain, vector databases, MCP, fine-tuning and AWS/Azure/GCP.
How do pricing and billing work?
Transparent hourly or monthly rates with no upfront fees. Hire on-demand, part-time or full-time, billed on a simple monthly cycle. Scale up, pause or cancel as your needs change.
Ready to hire your AI engineer?
Tell us what you are building. We will match you with a vetted specialist in days — risk-free.