What an AI Engineer does on a managed AI engineering team.

Skills and scope are agreed before delivery starts, so the first sprint is productive rather than a ramp-up month. The work runs to the same backlog, the same repositories and the same definition of done as your own team's.

AI Engineer skills and technology we assign for

  • Integrating language models into existing products, with retrieval, structured output and tool use.

  • Building evaluation sets so a prompt change can be measured rather than guessed at.

  • Monitoring cost, latency and output quality after launch, where most AI projects quietly degrade.

  • Building the fallback path for when a model provider is slow or unavailable, so the product degrades rather than fails.

  • Red-teaming prompts against injection and jailbreak attempts before a feature reaches users.

Seniority levels we assign.

Mid to senior. AI work at junior level tends to produce demos rather than production systems. Seniority is one of the inputs behind the committed monthly capacity written into your agreement.

When an AI Engineer is the right assignment.

The most common AI assignment, working on products already in production. On an ongoing roadmap this role is most often assigned alongside an LLM Engineer or an NLP Engineer. All 4 roles in this service line can sit on the same agreement, and capacity moves between them at the monthly cycle rather than requiring a new contract. The work is delivered as part of AI engineering services at Azendo.

160 h
Typical monthly capacity for this role
Fixed
Monthly price, unaffected by leave or holidays
4–6 weeks
From signed scope to delivery starting
Monthly
Cycle to raise or lower committed hours

Questions about assigning an AI Engineer.

Can you work with our existing AI feature?

Yes, and that is most of what we do. Retrofitting evaluation and monitoring onto something already shipped is common.

Which model provider do you recommend?

Whichever fits your constraints. We build so that switching provider does not mean rewriting the product around it.

Assign a AI Engineer to your roadmap.

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