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Skip the hassle of sifting through resumes and meet 3 handpicked candidates who are the perfect fit technically and culturally, so you can focus on building great products.

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Benefit from personalized support throughout the onboarding process, talent integration, and ongoing performance monitoring with a dedicated account executive and expert talent matcher.

What Our AI Automation Engineers Build

Index.dev connects you with top 1% AI automation engineers from LATAM and CEE who are human-vetted through our rigorous 5-stage process.

Build AI Agent Workflows

Our top 1% AI automation engineers, human-vetted from 30,000+ engineers from LATAM and CEE, build autonomous agents that handle multi-step business processes. They work with LangChain, LangGraph, and OpenAI and Claude APIs to build agents that research, decide, and act with human approval gates where it matters.

Automate Business Workflows with n8n, Make, and Zapier

Connect your CRM, helpdesk, billing, and internal tools into one automated flow. Our human-vetted engineers from LATAM and CEE build production-grade workflows with error handling, retries, and monitoring, not fragile one-off zaps. Matched in 48 hours with 40-60% cost savings.

Deploy LLM-Powered Internal Tools

Give your team AI copilots for support, sales, and ops. Our top 1% engineers, drawn from a pool of 2.5 million professionals, build internal tools on GPT, Claude, and open-source models, with your data connected safely through RAG.

Automate Document Processing

Extract, classify, and route invoices, contracts, and forms with OCR plus LLM pipelines. Our human-vetted engineers from LATAM and CEE replace manual data entry with automated pipelines that include validation and human review steps for accuracy.

Build Customer Support Automation

Deploy AI support agents that resolve tier-1 tickets and hand off cleanly to humans. Built by top 1% engineers with a roughly 1.2% acceptance rate, integrated with Zendesk, Intercom, or your own stack.

Automate Sales and CRM Operations

Lead enrichment, scoring, follow-up sequences, and pipeline hygiene, automated end to end. Our engineers from LATAM and CEE connect HubSpot, Salesforce, and outbound tools so your team sells instead of updating fields.

Build RAG Systems on Your Data

Turn internal docs, tickets, and wikis into accurate AI answers. Our human-vetted engineers build retrieval pipelines with vector databases, evals, and guardrails, including for regulated environments through our Specialized AI & STEM Labs.

Set Up MLOps and AI Pipelines

Automate model deployment, retraining, and monitoring with CI/CD for AI. Our top 1% engineers, matched in 48 hours, build pipelines that keep models reliable in production instead of decaying quietly.

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AI Automation Engineer Market Insights

$107K

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$136K

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23%

projected job growth for AI-related computing roles, 2023 to 2033, Source - US Bureau of Labor Statistics, via 365 Data Science

$206K

average AI engineer salary in 2026, up $50K in one year, Source - 365 Data Science, analysis of 1,000 job postings

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How does Index.dev vet AI automation engineers?

  • 5-stage human-led vetting process
  • Only top 1% accepted, roughly 1.2% acceptance rate
  • Hands-on validation of LLM, agent, and workflow automation skills
  • Background and integrity checks plus live screening

How quickly can I hire an AI automation engineer?

  • Matched in 48 hours
  • 3 hand-picked, interview-ready candidates, not a long list
  • 4-8x faster recruitment for repeat hires

What are the rates for hiring AI automation engineers?

  • 40-60% cost savings vs local hiring
  • No upfront fees, pay only for successful hires
  • $80M+ saved by clients to date

Can I hire a full AI automation team?

  • Yes, full engineering pods available
  • Specialized AI & STEM Labs for LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and regulated environments
  • Scale from one engineer to a dedicated team

How does matching work?

  • AI-first platform matches to your stack, industry, and team setup
  • Human experts validate every match
  • Sourced from 30,000+ human-vetted engineers from a 2.5M+ pool

What if the engineer doesn't work out?

  • 30-day trial with a full refund if the match doesn't work out
  • Fast replacement included
  • 97% of clients return for a second engagement

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