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Pre-Vetted Talent Profile

Hire Senior AI Engineers

Onboarding SLA: 48 Hours • Rate Band: $95 - $150 / hr

Hire pre-vetted senior AI engineers specializing in Retrieval-Augmented Generation, LangGraph state machine agents, and model quantization. Esaholic provides production-tested engineers who integrate directly into your GitHub and Slack workflows with 48-hour onboarding and rate bands from $95 to $150 per hour.

Role Responsibilities

What a Senior AI Engineer Delivers

Vector RAG Architecture

Designing HNSW vector indices, hybrid dense-sparse retrieval (BM25 + RRF), and Cohere reranker pipelines in PostgreSQL pgvector or Pinecone.

Agentic State Machines

Building deterministic LangGraph state graphs with PostgresSaver checkpointers, MCP server connectors, and Human-in-the-Loop interrupt gates.

Technical Vetting

Skills That Matter vs. Generic Job Ads

Skill CategoryGeneric Job Ad BuzzwordsWhat We Actually Vet (Esaholic Standard)
Framework Mastery”Experience with Python & AI”Production LangGraph state graphs & MCP JSON-RPC 2.0 servers
Retrieval Engineering”Knowledge of vector databases”HNSW index tuning, Reciprocal Rank Fusion, & chunk metadata filtering
Model Serving”Experience with OpenAI API”vLLM PagedAttention KV cache configuration & AWQ 4-bit quantization
Commercial Terms

Rate Bands & Engagement Shapes

Senior AI Engineer$95 - $125 / hr

Full-time dedicated deployment (40 hrs/wk). Ideal for RAG and agent workflow development.

Lead AI Architect$130 - $150 / hr

Architectural oversight, zero-data-retention compliance, and multi-agent swarm design.

Embedded Pod (3 Engineers)$32,000 / month

Complete engineering squad (2 Senior AI Engineers + 1 MLOps Lead) led by CTO Umar Abbas.

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Buyer FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

How quickly can a senior AI engineer start on our codebase?

Our pre-vetted AI engineers can onboard and submit their first pull request within 48 hours of contract execution.

What is the difference between an AI engineer and a traditional software developer?

AI engineers possess deep expertise in vector retrieval algorithms, LLM prompt guardrails, agent state serialization, and VRAM memory profiling, beyond standard web development.