Pre-vetted AI and machine learning engineers who join your team and build to your standards. Nearshore on UK hours or onshore. Daily or hourly rates, no minimum term.
An AI engineer builds software that uses AI models, from features powered by large language models to machine learning systems, and keeps them working reliably in production.
On a delivery team, an AI engineer typically:
If you need data pipelines or statistical modelling rather than AI features, see our data engineers and data scientists. If you need engineers to deploy AI software at your clients’ sites, see our forward deployed engineers.
For an overview of the software, data and AI engineers we supply, see Software, Data & AI Engineers.
AI engineers make the difference when AI is on your roadmap and your team hasn’t built it into a product before.
AI work varies with the product and the models. These are some of the profiles we supply:
If you need a different mix, tell us what the work involves and we’ll match profiles to it.
One AI engineer or a whole team, for as long as the work runs. You can start part-time, for example three days a week moving to five, and scale down with two weeks notice.
Most work nearshore in Central and Eastern Europe on UK hours. Where a client needs people on site or in the UK, engineers can work onshore. For US work, engineers in LATAM work US hours.
When you hire AI engineers through Brightbox, they join your team as associates. They work under your brand and your direction, and we handle the rest.
Time and materials, billed on time you’ve signed off.
No minimum headcount.
Two weeks notice to scale down, either way.
Not the months a permanent hire takes.
If someone isn’t the right fit, we replace them and carry our cost during the handover.
Everything they build is yours.
A management layer around every engagement, so you’re not the one carrying a bad fit.
Our people work under your brand, and we never approach your clients.
Profiles against your brief, usually within a day.
We’re investing in technology to keep improving how quickly and accurately we match people to your brief.
Each engagement starts from what you need running, and by when.
One AI engineer or a whole team, scaled up or down with two weeks notice.
Product companies, consultancies and systems integrators use Brightbox to add delivery capacity when the work lands.
AI engineers are on daily or hourly rates, which depend on seniority, specialism and where they work from. Ask and we’ll send a rate card, usually within hours.
Usually within days, rather than the months a permanent hire takes.
An AI engineer builds product features on existing models, often large language models. A machine learning engineer trains and deploys models of your own. A data scientist analyses data and builds statistical models to answer business questions. If you’re not sure, tell us what you’re building and we’ll suggest the right profile.
Tell us the models, platforms and frameworks you use, whether hosted or open-source, and we’ll match engineers with experience in them.
Yes. That’s a common reason teams bring in AI engineers: adding evaluation, guardrails, monitoring and the engineering needed to run a feature reliably.
They go through the same process as all our associates, including a recorded interview to test technical depth and real-world technical tasks matched to your environment. You then interview the people we put forward.
Not as a project we run on our own. We supply AI engineers who join your team and work under your direction, so you keep control of the work and the results. If you need someone to own an AI project from start to finish, we can introduce a proven delivery partner from our network who takes on that responsibility.
Yes. Most work remotely, nearshore in Central and Eastern Europe on UK hours, so they’re online when your team is. Where a client needs people on site, engineers can work onshore.
Yes. There’s no minimum term, and you can scale down with two weeks notice. Engagements shorter than about six weeks rarely work, because onboarding takes too much of the time.
You do. Everything they build, including code, prompts and models trained for you, is yours.
We’ve worked both inside and outside IR35, and we work with a partner to help with status determinations when needed.
Send us a short brief. We’ll come back with profiles and rates, usually within a day.
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