Staff augmentation
From $45/hrAdd a remote specialist from Latin America or Europe to your team. You direct the priorities, tools and delivery.
- Month-to-month engagement
- Two-week trial under agreed terms
- Working-hour overlap confirmed upfront
Senior remote talent. US-based partner.
From $45/hr · month-to-month staff augmentation

Engineering partner for growth-stage companies
Start with the work
An LLM integration, a forecasting model and a computer vision pipeline require different experience. Share the use case, available data and current stack. We shape the shortlist around the part of the system the engineer will own.
Bring examples of acceptable results, failure cases and the cost or latency limits that matter. Review candidates’ evaluation approach and comparable production work. Agree on acceptance criteria before treating a prototype as ready for customers.
Include data pipelines, deployment, monitoring and human review where the application needs them. Discuss how the engineer investigates failures and manages model or data changes. Confirm access, working-hour overlap across EU or LATAM time zones and ownership with your team.
Technical fit
Tell us which skills are essential and which can be learned on the job. We match the search to your responsibilities, then your team evaluates the shortlist.
Odesa company-reported figures across engagements. Interview timing is an average; availability and your hiring process determine the start date.
Client relationships

“We started seeing strong engineer profiles from Odesa within days, and the process from tech interview to onboarding was smooth and straightforward. The remote team Val built for us now feels like part of our in-house team and has contributed to multiple product rollouts over the past year.”

“Val came through for us big time. He provided us with top-tier engineers very quickly.”

“We were impressed with their cost, speed, and having a US-based interface.”
From brief to working together
Share your stack, delivery goals, budget and working-hour needs.
Review relevant project experience and conduct your role-specific interviews.
Confirm the rate, hours, start date and trial terms before work begins.
Your team directs delivery. Odesa remains your point of contact for the engagement.
Engagement options
Add a remote specialist from Latin America or Europe to your team. You direct the priorities, tools and delivery.
On-site, hybrid or remote. We coordinate sourcing and interviews; you hire the person directly.
Final rates depend on experience, responsibilities and availability. Your US agreement with Odesa.co defines trial, notice, billing and replacement terms. For a defined delivery project or release review, explore custom development or Human QA.
Cost comparison
Compare a local hire with a remote engineer working offshore. These presets are not live salary data, a quote or guaranteed savings.
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Fill in your team details and hit "Calculate" to see an illustrative annual cost comparison with Odesa's talent network.
Planning assumptions: staff costs use preset salary × location factor × 1.30, compared with hourly rate × 2,080 hours. Recruitment compares an assumed $25,000 agency fee with Odesa’s $7,999 fee per hire; compensation is excluded. This is not a quote or guaranteed saving.
Your product context
AI-powered features, recommendation engines, personalization, search ranking
Clinical workflow support, document processing, model evaluation
Document processing, anomaly detection, risk-analysis support
Product recommendations, demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, visual search
Computer vision, sensor fusion, path planning, robotics
Generative AI, content moderation, video analysis, speech recognition
Before you decide
AI/ML staff augmentation starts at $45/hr on month-to-month terms. The final quote depends on experience, responsibilities and the agreed schedule. Direct recruitment is a separate $7,999 service per successful hire; compensation is additional. Confirm scope and included services before hiring.
Odesa reports an average of 4.2 days from contract to first interview across engagements. Timing depends on your requirements, candidate availability and interview process. Agree on shortlist criteria and a target start date during the brief; the average is not a guaranteed onboarding date.
Yes. Share your data sources, access requirements, expected tasks and evaluation examples. We match on relevant retrieval, integration and deployment experience. Review how candidates test answer quality, manage sensitive inputs and investigate failures; a framework alone does not establish fit.
Yes. Staff augmentation adds a remote specialist to the team you manage, working offshore from the EU and Eastern Europe or nearshore from Latin America (LATAM). Define tools, responsibilities, coding standards and working-hour overlap before the engagement. Your team directs priorities and delivery, with Odesa as a point of contact throughout the engagement.
Include the production work explicitly: data handling, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and ongoing support. Review experience with a comparable application and agree on acceptance criteria. Some projects need both ML and backend or data engineering skills; we can help clarify the role boundaries. For apps built quickly with AI coding tools, see forward-deployed engineers.
Staff augmentation includes a two-week trial under agreed terms. Review fit, communication and delivery against the initial goals. Confirm notice, billing and replacement terms before work begins. Direct recruitment has a separate 90-day replacement guarantee defined by the agreement.

A personal conversation
Share the role, your current stack and the work ahead. We’ll discuss the right experience, availability and next steps.