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Hire the remote team behind your AI company
Keep your roadmap moving. Pavago matches you with vetted AI, ML, data and full-stack engineers in under a minute.
What role do you want to hire for?
- Free to browse
- Get matches in under a minute
- Skip weeks of sourcing
Businesses like Pool-ology, Celebrate Dental, Anzenna, Press Advantage, Wraith Brokerage, Ride The Wave, Alarm Masters, HireApp, BuildCasa, FLLR Consulting, Metro Wireless, Theta, Indio Management, Eversite, Rig Hut, ActionTrac, Basis Health, Tenant Planet hire on Pavago.
Top talent for your AI company
Muhammad
$2.5k–$3k/mo
Senior AI & Automation Developer
- Based in
- Pakistan
- Experience
- 2 years
- Works US hours
- Yes
- Skills
- Python,Machine Learning,Soft Skills,API Integration,Version Control (Git)
Alan
$1k–$1.5k/mo
Full Stack Engineer
- Based in
- Mexico
- Experience
- 7 years
- Works US hours
- Yes
- Skills
- JavaScript,React,Next.js,Node.js,AI & Machine Learning
Alexander
$5k–$5.5k/mo
Senior Marketing Systems Engineer
- Based in
- Poland
- Experience
- 10 years
- Works US hours
- Yes
- Skills
- APIs and Webhooks,Python,Next.js,Data Integration,Machine Learning
What AI companies struggle to hire
The model work gets the attention. The engineering around it is what slows teams down. Hire AI developers and engineers to clear it.
ML engineers
Taking models from a notebook to something that runs in production and stays up.
See ML engineersData engineers
Building the pipelines and clean datasets every model depends on.
See data engineersFull-stack developers
Turning model output into features customers actually use.
See full-stack developersQA engineers
Testing releases and outputs so quality doesn't depend on a founder's spot checks.
See QA engineersCustomer success managers
Onboarding customers to a product that changes every month.
See customer success managers
!Most AI teams cover this with the founders and one or two senior engineers, until the roadmap stalls.
Why remote works for AI companies
The questions are skill level, your stack, and access to your code and data.
- Seniority
Can they do senior engineering work?
You see each person's experience, skills and rates before you message anyone, and you run the technical interview yourself.
- Stack
Will they know our stack?
Your tools work the same from anywhere, and each profile shows what the person has used.
- Python
- PyTorch
- AWS
- GCP
- Docker
- Access
What about our code and data?
Your team controls repo and data access, as with any hire.
Most engineering teams already work across time zones. This just widens who you can hire.
Roles AI companies hire
Most AI companies build their team from some mix of these. Each links to live candidates.
AI Engineer
They build and ship product features on top of AI models.
ML Engineer
They train, deploy and monitor models in production.
Data Engineer
They build the pipelines and datasets your models depend on.
Data Analyst
They turn your data into reports and answers.
Full-Stack Developer
They build features across the front end and the back end.
Backend Developer
They build the APIs, services and databases behind your product.
DevOps Engineer
They run your infrastructure, deploys and uptime.
QA Engineer
They test every release so bugs don't reach customers.
Customer Success Manager
They onboard customers and keep them renewing.
How Pavago makes hiring frictionless for you
- Step 1 of 4
Search.
Describe the role like you'd say it out loud. Get matched candidates in under a minute.
- Step 2 of 4
Review.
See profile previews with experience, skills and rates, watch intro videos, and message anyone directly.
- Step 3 of 4
Interview.
Book and run the calls yourself, on your own read.
- Step 4 of 4
Hire.
Pick someone and send a locally compliant contract for e-signature inside Pavago. Payroll runs through Plane, free for the first 60 days.
Pricing
Searching is free, and so are profile previews and intro videos with an account. To message and interview candidates, it's $99 a month. The $1,999 placement fee is charged only when your hire signs. No retainer, no obligation, cancel anytime.
Get StartedScoutOS vs the alternatives
Compare with
Traditional recruiter
- Cost
- 15–30% of salary, $15k–$30k on a $100k hire
- Time to shortlist
- 1–4 weeks
- Who vets
- The recruiter
- Who picks
- The agency
- If it fails
- Sometimes a replacement
- Lock-in
- Retainer or contract
Job boards
- Cost
- Free to post, costly in time
- Time to shortlist
- Days of sorting
- Who vets
- Nobody
- Who picks
- You
- If it fails
- Start over
- Lock-in
- None
Hiring locally
- Cost
- $90k–$130k/yr salary
- Time to shortlist
- Weeks
- Who vets
- You
- Who picks
- You
- If it fails
- You eat it
- Lock-in
- Full salary
ScoutOS
- Cost
- 7 days free, then $99/mo + $1,999 flat when you hire
- Time to shortlist
- Matched candidates in under a minute
- Who vets
- Done. ~1 in 300 makes it on
- Who picks
- You
- If it fails
- Free replacement for 60 days, then on the $149/mo plan
- Lock-in
- Cancel anytime
A recruiter's fee scales with the salary, so the better the hire, the more it costs you. On ScoutOS it's flat $1,999 whether the person earns $40,000 or $120,000.
Common questions
Almost all of them. ML and AI engineers, data engineers, full-stack and backend developers, DevOps, QA and customer success all work remotely every day.
Pavago candidates are pre-vetted before you ever see a profile, so you're not sorting through a job board. You see real work samples, rates, and message directly, no recruiter middleman slowing things down.
Every candidate goes through a skills review, portfolio check, and reference verification before appearing in the pool. Roughly 1 in 300 applicants makes it through.
Our talent pool spans LATAM, Africa, South Asia, and Europe. You can filter by region when searching.
In the first 60 days, your replacement is free: no additional placement fee. After that, replacements stay free for as long as you keep the $149/mo plan for that hire, which you can cancel anytime.
Your hire’s contract and offer letter come from a locally compliant template, sent for e-signature inside Pavago. Payroll runs through our partner Plane (plane.com), which pays contractors in 240+ countries. You pay your hire directly from your own Plane account, so Pavago never touches the money. Using Plane costs you nothing for the first 60 days (Pavago covers it), and after that an optional $149/mo per hire keeps it running, cancel anytime. The Plane account stays yours even if you leave Pavago, and you can always run payroll yourself instead.
Searching is free, and a free account adds profile previews (experience, skills, rates) and intro videos. Messaging and interviews are $99/mo, month-to-month. A flat $1,999 placement fee is charged only when your hire signs, and after the first 60 days an optional $149/mo per hire keeps payroll and free replacements going.
You get matched candidates in under a minute. Interviews and offers typically happen within days, not weeks.
