Talent
Hire AI & ML Engineers
Senior AI talent, fully managed, delivered within days and not months. It is a part of the same team that shipped Fintly, ProcXO & ExpertsHub for clients.
Finding AI/ML engineers who combine model training expertise with production engineering skills is genuinely hard. At Katalyst AI Lab, we have spent years building that bench. 20+ engineers across LLM fine-tuning, RAG systems, computer vision, NLP & MLOps. You can engage our full project team or hire dedicated engineers who work exclusively on your product, under your technical direction.
Profiles Available
Engineer Roles
Select a role to explore skills and experience requirements.
LLM Engineer (Fine-Tuning)
3–7 years experienceCore Skills
LoRAQLoRAPEFTHugging FaceAxolotlRLHFDPOAlignment techniques
LLaMA, Mistral, Phi, Gemma families in production
RAG / Agentic AI Developer
2–6 years experienceCore Skills
LangChainLangGraphLlamaIndexCrewAIPineconeWeaviatepgvectormulti-agent orchestration
At least one production RAG or agent system shipped
MLOps Engineer
3–8 years experienceCore Skills
KubeflowMLflowW&BDockerKubernetesSageMaker PipelinesVertex AIEvidently
CI/CD for models, drift monitoring, production serving
Computer Vision Engineer
3–7 years experienceCore Skills
YOLO v8/v9Detectron2SAMOpenCVEdge deploymentcustom architecture training
Manufacturing, medical imaging, or document understanding preferred
NLP / NLU Engineer
3–6 years experienceCore Skills
spaCyTransformersBERT variantsT5WhisperMultilingual NLPclinical NLP
Information extraction, document classification, entity recognition
ML Data Engineer
2–5 years experienceCore Skills
Annotation pipelinesLabel StudioFeature storesVector embedding pipelineslarge-scale data processing
Building ML training datasets, not just data engineering
Engagement Options
How One Can Work with Us
Dedicated Hire
One or more engineers work 100% on your project under your technical direction. You get offshore talent benefits without recruitment, payroll, or HR overhead.
Minimum: 3 months
Team Augmentation
Katalyst AI engineers join your existing team. Attending your standups, sprints & code reviews. Ramp up or down monthly.
Minimum: 3 months
Managed Project Team
Katalyst AI Lab leads architecture, delivery & QA. You own the outcomes; we own the execution. Best for organisations without an internal AI team.
Fixed-scope or 6-month minimum
Why Us
Why Hire from Katalyst
01
Pre-vetted, production-experienced
Every engineer has worked on at least one production AI system. Not just Kaggle competitions or research papers. You see evidence before you hire.
02
Transparent matching
We share CVs, facilitate technical interviews & let you choose. No opaque supplier model.
03
Fast mobilisation
CVs within 48 hours of your brief. Engineers available within 2–5 business days of agreement.
04
IP protection from day one
All engineers sign client-specific NDAs. IP assignment is contractually clear. What your team builds is yours.
05
Managed HR and payroll
We handle contracts, payroll, benefits, equipment & statutory compliance. You manage work direction.
06
Overlap hours available
Pune-based (IST UTC+5:30). US Eastern overlap available from evening IST; UK overlap from afternoon IST.
FAQ
Questions
Can we interview engineers before committing?
Yes. We provide CVs within 48 hours of your role brief and facilitate technical interviews with shortlisted candidates. You choose who you want, we do not auto-assign.
Are engineers full-time on our project?
Dedicated hire and team augmentation engineers are 100% committed to your project for the duration of the engagement.
What time zones do engineers work in?
Our team is based in Pune, India (IST, UTC+5:30). Most engineers maintain overlap hours with US Eastern (evening IST) or UK business hours (afternoon IST).
What is the minimum engagement?
3 months for dedicated hires and team augmentation. Fixed-scope deliverable for managed projects. There is no minimum for an exploratory conversation.
Send Us Your Brief. Receive CVs in 48 Hours.
Share the role, the tech stack, and the timeline. No recruitment fees, no lengthy process.
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