South helps growing companies find, hire, and pay top Latin American talent. Build high-performing teams in 21 days or less.
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An Agentic AI Engineer builds production-grade autonomous agents: research agents, support agents, coding agents, ops agents, and the orchestration that makes them reliable in real workflows. They own the planner-executor architecture, tool-use schema, error recovery, memory, evals, and the cost discipline that makes autonomous systems viable. The role is the deepest specialty in the AI engineering market right now.
Agentic AI Engineer salaries sit at the very top of the AI hiring market. Expect an average U.S. salary of $15,000 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $6,500 per month, creating potential savings of up to 57%. LatAm has built a small, elite agentic engineering bench from ML, software, and AI research backgrounds, with engineers shipping autonomous systems for U.S. AI-native companies.
Yes, agentic engineering is fully remote-native. South contracts the engineer locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They join your GitHub, observability stack, and Slack day one. Time-zone alignment matters since debugging autonomous systems often requires synchronous trace review and prompt iteration.
Strong Python or TypeScript, deep familiarity with agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen) and homegrown orchestration, and obsessive eval discipline. Look for engineers who have shipped multi-step autonomous agents with real failure-mode analysis. Run a system-design interview on a real agentic workflow with edge cases.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source model APIs. LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, or AutoGen for orchestration. LlamaIndex or LangChain for retrieval. Pinecone, Weaviate, or pgvector for memory. Braintrust, LangSmith, or Promptfoo for evals. Python with FastAPI or TypeScript with Hono. Datadog, Honeycomb, or Helicone for observability.
An AI Agent Developer ships agents in product. An Agentic AI Engineer is the deeper-spec equivalent: builds the agent platform, orchestration, eval harness, and the underlying primitives. They share the title in many shops. For shipping a single agent feature, hire an Agent Developer. For platform-level agentic work, hire an Agentic AI Engineer.
South vets LatAm agentic AI engineers through technical interviews, take-home agent design exercises, and reviews of prior production agents. You see a shortlist in seven to ten days, run your own interviews, and onboard inside two to three weeks. South handles the contract, monthly payments, and a replacement guarantee. Schedule a free call here to get started!
The region has the perfect mix of everything you want in remote employees: English skills, shared time zones, hard-working, and depth of talent. They are already accustomed to working remotely for top US startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The US and Latin America have basically the same time zones. No Latin American city is more than two hours ahead of EST.
Every hire is sourced based on your exact needs. They will arrive ready to support your business right away. They can do basically any tasks done remotely, but we recommend starting them as support so your team has more bandwidth for high-value strategic tasks.
All types of roles - customer service, executive assistant, sales, accounting, email marketing, lead generation, content writers, operations, social media marketing, and more!
You can pay directly through us (most popular) or we can connect you with one of our payroll partners.
You don't have to deal with any American labor laws / taxes when hiring full-time remote contractors. They aren't US-based, so no visas or sponsorships to deal with either.
We recommend market pay which varies for each role. See our salary guide and success stories for some ideas.
Then, we have two different models:
Staffing (most popular) - We charge a small monthly fee for each employee's monthly salary to make the process hassle-free. The fee covers sourcing, recruiting, admin, payroll, compliance, ongoing support, and a free replacement if necessary at any point. There are no cancellation fees or minimum commitments. You only pay if you make a hire.
Headhunting - A one-time simple fee once we've found the perfect candidate. This comes with a 120-day replacement guarantee.
For both options, you only pay something if we find you someone great that you want to hire.
Yes, we only recruit for full-time and we strongly recommend full-time hiring if you can. Stability (full-time & long-term) is highly sought after abroad. The top caliber candidates are only looking for full-time work.
You're also going to spend time training and getting them up to speed on your processes. It would be a waste to do that over and over again with new people all the time.
We recommend training new hires on one thing at a time.
For example, once they get up to speed on lead generation, you can add the next role writing blog posts or whatever you'd like. You can definitely overlap roles until you have enough work for multiple people.
The cost of living is much less in Latin American countries. Many of our employees are able to own homes, raise families, provide for their parents, and have in-home help of their own with their salaries.
If you aren't happy with your hire in the first 120 days, we will work with you to conduct a second round of search for the same role for free.
Just email us at Hello@HireInSouth.com and we will get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
