Senior Independent AI Engineer / Architect

Senior Independent AI Engineer / Architect

Remote | Americas, Europe, or Israel

Most AI engineers can find work.

Finding work worth doing is harder.

A.Team is an invite-only network of senior AI engineers, ML engineers, and AI architects working on production AI systems for startups, scale-ups, and global companies.

Since 2020, builders in the network have earned more than $200M working with companies including Lyft, Google X, HCA, Unilever, Sightful, D-ID, and others.

The Work

You'll join small teams tackling problems that matter.

Not demos.

Not prototypes that never ship.

Not another chatbot wrapper.

Real systems. Real users. Real outcomes.

Recent work has included:

• LLM-powered products and workflows

• Agent architectures and orchestration systems

• Retrieval, evaluation, and reliability infrastructure

• Enterprise AI deployments

• AI-native products built from zero to one

• Machine learning platforms operating at scale

You'll work directly with founders, CTOs, and product leaders, helping shape both the technical approach and the outcome.

Why Builders Join

Most independent engineers eventually run into the same problem:

The best opportunities rarely make it to the open market.

A.Team exists to solve that.

No bidding.

No prospecting.

No competing with thousands of other freelancers.

Just access to ambitious companies, difficult problems, and experienced peers.

Who Thrives Here

People who have already shipped.

Engineers who have deployed AI systems into production, understand the tradeoffs behind the hype, and know how to turn research into business value.

You might be an:

• AI Architect

• AI Engineer

• MLOps

• Deep Learning Engineer

• Data Scientist

• Applied AI Engineer

• ML Engineer

• AI Researcher

• Staff+ Engineer focused on AI

• Technical founder with deep AI experience

What matters is a track record of building and shipping.

The Details

• Typical rates: $120-$170/hr

• Remote (almost all roles)

• You keep 100% of your rate

Not a Fit

• Early-career engineers

• People without production AI experience

• Small gig seekers

• Developers focused primarily on simple AI wrappers or templated implementations

Apply

Tell us what you've built.

We'll take it from there.

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