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 AI Automation Engineer builds workflows that combine LLMs with traditional automation: triggering on a Slack message, drafting a CRM update, summarizing a call transcript, generating outbound emails. They work in n8n, Make, Zapier, or custom code, and they sit at the intersection of RevOps, Ops, and engineering. The good ones save real headcount cost by automating workflows that used to need human attention.
AI Automation Engineer salaries depend on whether the role is no-code or full-code. Expect an average U.S. salary of $12,500 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $5,000 per month, creating potential savings of up to 60%. LatAm has produced strong AI automation talent from RevOps and engineering backgrounds, with engineers shipping production automations for U.S. SaaS and services companies.
Yes, automation work is fully remote-friendly. South contracts the engineer locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They join your automation platform, Slack, and stakeholder Notion day one. Time-zone alignment is helpful for stakeholder discovery interviews and live workflow testing.
Strong workflow design instinct (knowing what to automate and what not to), API and webhook fluency, and the discipline to build error handling and observability into every flow. Look for someone who has shipped production automations and can walk through real failures and recoveries. Test with a scenario: automate a sales handoff workflow with five integrations.
n8n, Make, or Zapier as the orchestrator. OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source model APIs. Python or TypeScript for custom logic. PostgreSQL or Airtable for state. Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, and Gmail APIs as common integration targets. Pipedream or Cloudflare Workers for serverless functions. Datadog or Sentry for monitoring.
An AI Integration Specialist focuses on plumbing AI into existing tools: model APIs, vendor connectors, light scripting. An AI Automation Engineer is broader: full workflow design, custom integrations, error handling, and ongoing maintenance. They overlap on tooling. For deep workflow ownership, hire an Automation Engineer. For project-based AI integration, an Integration Specialist is enough.
South vets LatAm AI automation engineers through technical interviews, take-home automation exercises, and reviews of prior workflows. 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.
