Meet this month’s AI-native engineers
Every profile passed our two-round verification. Engineers marked ★ AI-Native certificate also passed our AI skills assessment. Pick one and we set up an interview within 48 hours.
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Backend Engineer
8 yrs Works in your time zone Available now
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Hire AI-native talent
Pick your roles and we match verified engineers within 24 hours.
How it works
Brief, interview, a one-week trial, then scale month to month.
- Step 1
Brief
Send a role, a job description or the outcome you need to ship. We shortlist 2–3 matched engineers, or a ready squad, within 24 hours.
- Step 2
Interview
Review each CV and AI-Native certificate where held, then interview your favourites this week in your own format. No fee.
- Step 3
Trial
The engineer you chose works one week on your real codebase, in your Slack and repo, with a daily log of what shipped. Not convinced? You don't continue, or we replace them within 3 business days.
- Step 4
Scale
Go month to month. Add engineers or a full AI squad anytime. Cancel with 30 days' notice.
No recruiting fee. No minimum term after the trial. One contract, one invoice, one accountable partner.
Stop waiting 3 months to hire. Start this week.
Time to start, cost, AI skills and how fast you can scale, compared.
2–3 months to start
- Full-time · per month$16,000+*
- Part-time · per hour$100–200 / hour (contractor)
- AI skills verifiedRarely
- Skills kept currentYour training budget
- Full AI squad on demandMonths to assemble
- Long-term fractional top talent at optimized costNo
- Trial before you commitNo
- Notice to stopSeverance
- What’s includedSalary only; tools, benefits and recruiting are extra
1–2 weeks to start
- Full-time · per month$10,000–15,000
- Part-time · per hour$60–150 / hour
- AI skills verifiedVaries
- Skills kept currentVaries
- Full AI squad on demandSometimes
- Long-term fractional top talent at optimized costNot stable; outcome not managed
- Trial before you commitSometimes
- Notice to stopVaries
- What’s includedVaries by vendor
This week to start
- Full-time · per monthFrom $3,000
- Part-time · per hourFrom $25 / hour
- AI skills verifiedRecorded & certified
- Skills kept currentRe-certified every 12 months
- Full AI squad on demandYes, matched to your outcome
- Long-term fractional top talent at optimized costFully managed outcome, long-term commitment
- Trial before you commit1 week, always
- Notice to stop30 days
- What’s includedTrial, replacement, work log, NDA and IP, all covered
See your real savings
Pick your country and one to compare with.
Monthly cost of one engineer in each market.
$3,000 – $4,500
/ month
$36,000 – $54,000 / year
- Flat monthly rate, no recruiting fee
- 1-week trial
- Replacement in 3 business days
- Daily work log, NDA and IP
- AI-Native certified option
$15,000 – $20,500
/ month
$180,000 – $246,000 / year
- Salary, taxes, benefits
- Recruiting fee and 2–3 months to hire
$11,000 – $17,500
/ month
$132,000 – $210,000 / year
- Local hire or agency
- AI skills not verified
Indicative cost per engineer per month; savings use the middle of each range. In-house includes salary, taxes, benefits and recruiting; other countries are typical local or agency rates.
Verified on real AI work before you meet them
A fit round, a recorded AI delivery round, then the TalentX AI certificate.
Round 1
Fit
- English interview with our team
- CV, references and background check
- Communication, ownership and work-log habits
Round 2
AI delivery, recorded
- 60 minutes shipping on a real codebase with Claude Code or Cursor
- Reviewing AI-generated code with planted bugs
- Security interview: safe use of AI tools with your code and data
Result
The TalentX AI certificate
Proof that an engineer ships production code with AI coding agents and passed our recorded AI skills round. Renewed every 12 months, with a public verification page.
Client stories
What founders and CTOs say after hiring their first AI-native engineers.
AI-native SDLC at scale, with security and compliance built in
John Osborne, Founder & CEO
Bylateral Inc · United States
A lean AI-native team, and the engineering leadership around it
Morné Maritz, Co-Founder & CEO
Cogniate AI
Integrated seamlessly, like part of our own team
Ollie Ralph, Co-Founder
Obello Inc · United States
Behind every TalentX team: DigiEx Group’s AI-native delivery playbook — SDLC setup, AI Gateway policy control, QA automation, engineering management and CTO-as-a-service.
Squads on demand
Example squads, each matched to an outcome and run under one contract.