Hire machine learning engineers in Brazil

U.S. figure: BLS median for software developers ($133,080, May 2024) adjusted by our estimated multiplier for Machine learning (1.35×), plus 25% for payroll tax and benefits. The BLS figure is official; the multiplier is our estimate. Full methodology.

Why Brazil for Machine learning

Brazilian ML talent concentrated in credit scoring and fraud, because that is where the money was: a country with a thin credit bureau and high fraud rates forced fintechs to build models that had to work. Engineers from that world are strong on imbalanced data, drift monitoring and the unglamorous half of ML — the half that decides whether a model survives contact with production.

What a Machine learning engineer will own

• Take a model from notebook to a served endpoint with monitoring attached
• Feature pipelines and the training/serving skew that quietly ruins them
• Retraining, drift detection and knowing when a model should be retired
• Evaluation design — the offline metric that actually predicts the business outcome

How we screen machine learning engineers

Every candidate goes through the same three checks before you see the profile.

1. An offline metric that improved while the business metric fell — what happened
2. Design a monitoring plan for a model in production
3. Handle a class imbalance problem without reaching for SMOTE by reflex

Stack they typically work with

PythonPyTorch / scikit-learnMLflowAirflowSageMaker / Vertex AIDocker

Related skills

Teams that hire machine learning engineers usually pair them with one of these. The rate is the same for all of them.