Senior AI & data engineers · Eastern Europe · T&M
Build your AI team in 2 weeks.
No long-term commitment.
Talk to the engineer, not a salesperson. A senior AI engineer helps you scope what to build, then you rent the team to build it — senior, EU-based, on time & material. We are the employer of record. You direct the work.
- Engineer start time
- 14 days
- Below US senior rates
- 50–70%
- Minimum experience
- 7+ years
- GDPR & IP protection
- EU law
Daily rate benchmark · Updated 2026-08
What you pay per day for a senior engineer
Indicative daily rates per engineer across markets. Eastern Europe runs 40–60% below US rates for the same seniority.
| Role | USA | UK | Romania |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Engineer | €803 | €522 | €419 |
| ML Engineer | €1,054 | €768 | €594 |
| AI Engineer | €1,209 | €728 | €409 |
Three disciplines
One model, any AI stack
AI engineers
LLMs, RAG & AI agents
Senior engineers with production AI in their recent history. LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and ML model deployment — not demo builds.
AI development services →Data engineers
Pipelines, warehouses & feature stores
Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Spark. The engineers who build the data infrastructure that makes AI reliable in production.
Data engineering services →Python developers
Backend & AI orchestration
Python as the spine of AI and data work. FastAPI, LangChain, async pipelines, and backend systems. The most-rented discipline.
Hire Python developers →Why Eastern Europe
EU legal, CET timezone, senior cohort
50–70% below US senior rates. Inside the EU legal and data perimeter. CET/EET timezone — full working-day overlap with Western Europe, 2–3 hours with US East Coast.
Not a junior outsourcing market. The senior cohort here has 10–15 years of commercial experience. GDPR-native, enforceable IP assignment, codified labour law.
Read the full breakdown →GDPR-native
EU-to-EU data flows need no transfer mechanism.
CET/EET timezone
4–6 hrs overlap with UK/DE. 2–3 hrs with US East.
Codified labour law
Predictable, not precedent-based. IP is enforceable.
Senior-only network
7+ years minimum. No juniors, no middlemen.
How it works
From brief to engineer in four steps
01
Brief us
Tell us what you're building and the disciplines you need on a free scoping call.
02
Profile match
We send matched engineer profiles within 48 hours. Interview the ones you want to speak with.
03
On your sprint
Engineers start within 2 weeks. They join your standups, work in your repos, integrate with your team.
04
Scale weekly
Add engineers when workload grows, reduce with one week's notice. No penalties, no lock-in.
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Ready to scope it?
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Book a free 30-minute call with a senior AI engineer — get a build plan, a team, and a straight answer on whether we're the right fit.