Full-time ML engineers from Latin America who put models into production, not just notebooks. Shortlist in about 5 days. Flat 20% of what you pay.
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See how it works →A mid-level machine learning engineer in the United States sits around $12,500 per month (2026 salary table). ML engineers with Teilur start at $5,500 all-in, work your hours, and join one team full-time.
Feature pipelines, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring that catches drift. The engineering half is usually larger than the modeling half. This is production ML, not a research scientist.
Data scientists investigate. ML engineers make it run reliably at scale. Many teams hire the first and then wonder why nothing reached production.
Strong STEM education, and because the field moved fast, engineers in the region started at the same time as everyone else. The US salary premium for this skill has not reached LATAM yet.
Every engineer is evaluated for English before you see a profile.
Starting at $5,500 all-in for mid-level. You pay this; 80% goes to the engineer and 20% is our fee. No subscription.
In 2026, a senior Machine Learning Engineer in Latin America costs $8,250 to $9,500 a month all-in, versus $16,750 in the US: up to 51% less. Mid-level starts at $5,500.
Country
Mid-level
Senior
Argentina
$5,500
$8,250
Brazil
$6,125
$9,125
Colombia
$5,500
$8,250
Mexico
$6,375
$9,500
United States
$12,500
$16,750
Monthly cost in USD, all-in: what you pay, of which 80% goes to the talent and 20% is Teilur's fee, from our 2026 rates. The United States row shows what the same role typically costs there.
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