Industry playbook
Remote hiring for AI & ML
AI talent is the tightest market in tech, and US salaries reflect it. India has a fast-growing pool of ML and AI engineers — many trained on the same open-source stack and research as their US peers — who can build production RAG systems, fine-tune models, and stand up data pipelines at a fraction of onshore cost.
2× specialists per dollar vs US onshore
Why India works here
- Genuine LLM/RAG and MLOps experience, not just notebook demos
- Strong data-engineering foundation to feed the models
- Cost leverage that lets you hire two specialists instead of one
What to watch for
- Vet for production shipping, not just Kaggle or coursework
- Set up evals and guardrails as part of the hire’s remit