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Book a vetted, AI-native AI engineer on Cadence. Auto-matched, 48-hour free trial, weekly billing, replace anytime.

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Engineers available
Joining weekly
Median weekly rate
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Min, Max
$500 – $2,000/wk
Time to first commit
48 hours

AI engineering in 2026 is less about training models and more about plumbing, RAG pipelines, eval harnesses, agent orchestration, structured-output guardrails, observability of token streams. The discipline is closer to backend engineering than to data science: ship, monitor, iterate.

Cadence AI engineers come from the production-LLM side: people who've shipped chat features that don't hallucinate the wrong customer's data, agents that don't loop forever, RAG systems that beat vanilla GPT on the eval set. Most AI bookings start at the Senior tier ($1,500/wk).

We're matching ai engineers to bookings every week. Submit a request and we'll surface a shortlist within hours.
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How hiring works on Cadence.

How fast can I hire a AI engineer on Cadence?
You can have a 30-min intro call within hours and a working engineer in 48 hours via the free trial. The booking → shortlist → intro calls → trial flow runs in under a day end-to-end.
What does a AI engineer cost on Cadence?
Weekly tiers: junior $500, mid $1,000, senior $1,500, lead $2,000. Engineers self-select their tier based on capability; we honor it. You see the rate before you book, no negotiation.
What happens if the engineer isn't a fit?
Mid-trial (first 48 hours): release with one click, no charge. Post-trial: hit "Replace at week-end", they wrap by Friday and we shortlist 4 new engineers Monday.
Are these engineers actually AI-native?
Every engineer passes a voice interview specifically scoring AI-native fluency: Cursor / Claude / Copilot use, prompt-as-spec discipline, verification habits, multi-step prompt ladders. The 50/100 threshold filters generalists out.
Do I sign a contract?
No long-term contract. Stripe-style weekly subscription, cancel any week. Standard SaaS-style terms apply; engineers are independent contractors via Cadence so IP belongs to your company.

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