For startups and growing companies
Add AI capacity without a senior hire
An AI/ML engineer and a data engineer build it alongside your team, and you manage the work.
- The SoTalented Office Guarantee
- Works in your time zone
- $0 until you hire
Sound familiar.
- The roadmap has AI features in it, and nobody on the team has shipped one.
- A senior ML hire locally isn’t in the budget.
- The data the feature needs is scattered and unclean.
For example
Say customers are asking for an AI feature, and your engineers are good but haven’t built one. A senior ML hire locally is out of reach, and the data underneath is scattered across systems.
Add an AI/ML engineer and a data engineer in your satellite office. The data engineer gets the data into shape. The AI/ML engineer applies LLM APIs and fine-tuning to the problem, runs the experiments and takes the feature through to production with your team.
It’s your AI capability, inside your office, built on your product.
What you’d set up.
Every seat is dedicated to your company and never shared. Prices are per person, per month, all-inclusive, and differ by level.
AI/ML engineer
from $2,500 a month
What they’ll own
- Applies LLM APIs and fine-tuning to real product problems
- Trains and evaluates models in PyTorch, TensorFlow or scikit-learn
- Builds preprocessing and retraining pipelines
- Runs experiments and documents the results
- Takes a feature through to production
Data engineer
from $2,200 a month
What they’ll own
- Builds and maintains pipelines into your warehouse
- Owns warehouse structure, schema and documentation
- Monitors pipeline health and fixes failures fast
- Documents sources, transformations and schema changes
Start with one seat and add the next when it’s working. $0 until your first hire starts, and 30 days notice to scale down.
What’s inside every seatYour AI/ML engineer is working in about three weeks.
Here is exactly what happens after you say yes, week by week.
Week one
We find them
- We do
- Write the job description, source, screen and run the technical assessment.
- You do
- Brief us on the role and sign the brief.
Week two
You choose
- We do
- Check English and time zone, then run background verification, references and the offer.
- You do
- Interview a shortlist that has already passed the assessment, and choose.
Week three
They start
- We do
- Contracts, benefits, desk, equipment and software access, all in place.
- You do
- Welcome them.
Day one
They start.
You start paying here. Until then, you pay nothing.
An AI contractor, or capability you keep.
A contractor builds a prototype and leaves. Here’s what changes when the people stay.
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Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
The SoTalented Office Guarantee
Hire with confidence. The risk is ours.
Four promises behind every person who joins your office.
Right person
What if they are not the right fit?
We replace them inside 30 days, free.
No questions asked. Tell us it is not working, and the replacement is on us.
Right office
Where will they actually work?
In a premium SoTalented Satellite Office in India.
WeWork-grade workspace in Bangalore or Jaipur, with reliable internet, power backup, IT support and security in place.
Right management
Who looks after them once they start?
We do, across 42 touchpoints.
You interview and approve. Payroll, HR, reviews, growth and a clean exit are ours.
Right terms
What am I signing up for?
Nothing, until your first hire starts.
Then one invoice a month, no long-term contract, and 30 days notice to scale down.
Do you advise on our AI strategy?
No. We set up the people who build it, inside your satellite office. The direction and the product decisions stay with you.
Which tools do they use?
PyTorch, TensorFlow or scikit-learn for models, and LLM APIs for applied work. We match candidates to your stack.
Do I need the data engineer?
If your data is already clean and in one place, start with the AI/ML engineer alone.
What does a seat cost?
It depends on the role and the level. Every price is all-inclusive: salary, benefits, payroll, compliance, office, IT and equipment, on one invoice. Each role’s bands are on its page.
Can I start with one seat?
Yes. You pay nothing until your first hire starts, add seats when it works, and give 30 days notice to scale down.
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Start with one seat.
Tell us your situation on a call. We’ll tell you honestly whether a satellite office fits it, and what it would cost.