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An AI Solutions Engineer is the technical pre-sales and post-sales counterpart for AI products: runs custom POCs, integrates AI platforms into customer environments, troubleshoots production issues, and turns customer feedback into product asks. They sit between sales, customer success, and engineering, and the role rewards equal parts technical depth, communication skill, and the ability to ship a working demo on a tight timeline.
AI Solutions Engineer salaries land near the top of the SE market. Expect an average U.S. salary of $13,000 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $5,500 per month, creating potential savings of up to 58%. LatAm has built a strong AI Solutions Engineer bench from engineering and customer-facing technical roles, with engineers supporting U.S. AI vendors and customers remotely.
Yes, AI solutions engineering is fully remote-friendly. South contracts the engineer locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They join your GitHub, CRM, and customer Slack channels day one. Time-zone alignment is critical: customer calls, live demos, and incident response all need synchronous time.
Strong technical chops (Python, model APIs, light infrastructure), excellent communication, and the ability to scope and ship a working POC in days, not weeks. Look for engineers with experience running customer integrations and clear before/after metrics on customer success. Test with a scenario: a customer needs a custom RAG POC for their use case in 5 days. How do they approach it?
Python with FastAPI or TypeScript with Hono. OpenAI, Anthropic, and customer-deployed models. LangChain, LlamaIndex, or homegrown orchestration. Pinecone, Weaviate, or pgvector. Notion or Confluence for customer docs. Zoom and Loom for demos. Familiarity with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and customer-side deployment patterns.
An AI Engineer focuses on building the product: features, infrastructure, evals. An AI Solutions Engineer focuses on customer success with the product: POCs, integrations, troubleshooting, feedback loops. They overlap on technical knowledge. For internal-facing AI work, hire an AI Engineer. For customer-facing AI work, hire a Solutions Engineer.
South vets LatAm AI solutions engineers through technical interviews, take-home POC exercises, and customer-facing role-plays. 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.
