LLM Application Engineer
Build production features on top of foundation models: retrieval, tool use, evaluation and cost control.
- Typical band
- USD 4,000 – 8,500 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
Owned entities and governed partners across all of Latin America, compliance, consultancy and implementation under one contract, SILA, a Gracemark company
Careers, AI tracks
The AI work is moving to Latin America. We hire the people who do it.
SILA places AI engineering, data, evaluation and AI-operations professionals with US and global companies, employed compliantly in your own country, paid on time, in your currency or in USD. Twenty one tracks, all of Latin America, one recruiter who answers you.
21 AI positions we recruit for
Bands are the monthly ranges we typically see for these tracks across the region. The final offer depends on the client, the market and your level, and we tell you the number before you interview.
AI engineering
Machine Learning Engineer
Train, fine-tune and ship models with real serving constraints and measurable business outcomes.
- Typical band
- USD 4,000 – 8,000 /mo
- Markets
- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
Computer Vision Engineer
Detection, OCR, video analytics and edge inference for industrial, retail and logistics use cases.
- Typical band
- USD 3,800 – 7,500 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Brazil, Colombia
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
NLP Engineer
Spanish and Portuguese language systems: classification, extraction, summarization and speech pipelines.
- Typical band
- USD 3,800 – 7,500 /mo
- Markets
- Colombia, Brazil, Peru
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
AI Solutions Architect
Translate business problems into model, data and integration architecture with a defensible cost model.
- Typical band
- USD 5,500 – 10,000 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina
- Mode
- Remote or hybrid
AI platform
MLOps Engineer
CI/CD for models, feature stores, monitoring, drift detection and inference cost governance.
- Typical band
- USD 3,500 – 7,500 /mo
- Markets
- Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
AI Platform Engineer
Internal tooling, GPU scheduling, orchestration and developer experience for AI teams.
- Typical band
- USD 3,800 – 7,800 /mo
- Markets
- Brazil, Chile, Mexico
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
Data
Data Engineer
Ingestion, transformation and warehouse design so models train on data that can be trusted.
- Typical band
- USD 3,000 – 7,000 /mo
- Markets
- All of Latin America
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
Analytics Engineer
Modeled metrics, semantic layers and reporting that survive audit and executive scrutiny.
- Typical band
- USD 2,800 – 6,000 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Colombia, Argentina
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
Data Scientist
Experiment design, forecasting and causal analysis tied to a commercial decision, not a dashboard.
- Typical band
- USD 3,500 – 7,000 /mo
- Markets
- Brazil, Chile, Mexico
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
AI operations
Prompt & Context Engineer
Prompt systems, context assembly, regression suites and measurable output quality.
- Typical band
- USD 2,200 – 4,500 /mo
- Markets
- Colombia, Mexico, Peru
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
AI Quality & Evaluation Specialist
Human review of model output, hallucination and safety checks, escalation and scoring rubrics.
- Typical band
- USD 1,200 – 2,600 /mo
- Markets
- Colombia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
Data Annotation Specialist
Bilingual labelling for text, image, audio and video datasets with documented quality gates.
- Typical band
- USD 800 – 1,800 /mo
- Markets
- Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
RLHF / Preference Data Trainer
Spanish and Portuguese preference data, comparison ranking and reasoning-trace authoring.
- Typical band
- USD 1,000 – 2,400 /mo
- Markets
- Argentina, Brazil, Mexico
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
AI Red Teamer
Adversarial testing, jailbreak discovery and safety documentation for regulated deployments.
- Typical band
- USD 1,800 – 4,000 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Chile, Brazil
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
Bilingual AI Support Specialist
Tier 1 and 2 support for AI products, with feedback loops back into evaluation datasets.
- Typical band
- USD 1,000 – 2,200 /mo
- Markets
- Colombia, El Salvador, Dominican Republic
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
AI product
Conversation Designer
Bilingual assistant flows, escalation logic and tone standards for customer-facing AI.
- Typical band
- USD 2,000 – 4,200 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
AI Product Manager
Own the roadmap where model capability, cost and user trust intersect.
- Typical band
- USD 4,500 – 8,500 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Argentina, Brazil
- Mode
- Remote or hybrid
Automation & Agent Engineer
Agentic workflows, integrations and back-office automation with human-in-the-loop controls.
- Typical band
- USD 3,200 – 6,500 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
Governance
AI Governance & Compliance Analyst
Model inventories, data-protection mapping and audit evidence for enterprise AI programs.
- Typical band
- USD 2,500 – 5,000 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Brazil, Chile
- Mode
- Remote across LATAM
AI Delivery Lead
Run nearshore AI pods end to end: scope, staffing, delivery cadence and client reporting.
- Typical band
- USD 4,500 – 9,000 /mo
- Markets
- Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia
- Mode
- Remote or hybrid
What working through SILA means
- A legal contract in your country. Employment or compliant contracting, with statutory benefits, not an informal arrangement.
- Paid on schedule. Payroll runs on our infrastructure, so payment does not depend on a client's finance calendar.
- You know the client and the scope. No blind placements, no undisclosed rates games at interview stage.
- Career continuity. When an assignment ends, you stay in the network and we work on the next match.