Hire AI Developers and ML Engineers in Latin America

Fill out the form, and on the intake call you describe the models or AI features your engineer will build, the data and infrastructure they'll work with, the seniority you need and your budget. NBS screens each candidate's resume and portfolio, tests English at a B2-or-higher CEFR level, sets a technical work sample for the AI/ML role and runs a behavioral interview with reference and background checks. You interview your first candidates within 3 business days of the intake call and choose your hire.

Senior AI/ML engineers in Latin America cost 40 to 60 percent below US rates, and mid-level roles save 50 to 70 percent. A direct hire placement carries a one-time fee, and nearshore staff augmentation runs on a fixed monthly fee that covers employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and monthly invoicing. NBS quotes its fee on the intake call. The 2026 Latin America Salary Report breaks salaries down by role, country and seniority.

Hire nearshore when your AI/ML engineer needs to work live with your US team. All 12 NBS countries sit within 2 hours of US Eastern time, while common offshore locations such as India or the Philippines run about 9.5 to 13 hours ahead, so a nearshore engineer can review a drifting model's metrics with your data team at 2 p.m. Eastern and retrain it that afternoon. NBS replaces a hire free within 90 days if the hire does not work out.

Nearshore AI/ML engineers build and maintain your models, LLM features and ML pipelines from Latin America as part of your US team during US hours. The engineer joins your standups, works through a model integration live with your product engineers and fixes a broken pipeline or a bad retrieval result on the day your team reports it.

You can hire from 12 LatAm countries: Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in North and Central America, and Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in South America. NBS has local recruiters in each, and each country has a hiring guide on this site.

Yes, NBS offers nearshore staff augmentation for a fixed monthly fee and Employer of Record coverage in all 12 markets. It also offers direct hire placements with a one-time fee and Recruitment as a Service for high-volume hiring teams.

The typical monthly salary for mid-level AI developers in Latin America is $5,015 to $6,130. The typical range is $3,565 to $4,460 for junior developers and $6,690 to $8,360 for senior developers. NBS quotes its fee on the intake call.

NBS recruits AI developers who work with Python, PyTorch and TensorFlow, LLMs and RAG, Agentic AI, MLOps and cloud ML platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

Interview your first candidates within 3 business days of the intake call.

Yes, developers work US hours. All 12 countries sit within 2 hours of US Eastern time all year.

Mexico City and Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) run 2 hours behind US Eastern during US daylight time and 1 hour behind the rest of the year. Colombia, Peru and Ecuador run 1 hour behind during US daylight time and level with US Eastern the rest of the year.

Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil (Brasília time) run 1 hour ahead during US daylight time and 2 hours ahead the rest of the year. Mainland Chile also changes its clocks: it runs level with US Eastern from early April to early September, 1 hour ahead in the weeks around that, and 2 hours ahead from early November to mid-March.

Yes, you can hire LLM engineers in Latin America through NBS. NBS recruits in 12 countries, applies its four-stage vetting process and sends first candidates for interview within 3 business days of the intake call.

An AI engineer usually builds product features that use models, while a machine learning engineer usually develops and operates the models. Companies may need to hire AI engineers and machine learning engineers together when a product requires model development and product integration, while one engineer may cover both skill sets.

NBS helps you handle local labor law compliance and payroll. As Employer of Record for nearshore staff augmentation, NBS covers employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and monthly invoicing. Employer of Record coverage spans all 12 markets.

NBS replaces your hire free within 90 days if the hire does not work out, and the replacement rate is under 2 percent. A dedicated account manager manages the relationship, and NBS checks in at 30, 60, and 90 days.