Hiring

Roles, ratios and sequencing for a small applied AI team inside a capability centre, including the evaluation ownership most teams forget and the hiring order that matters.

Agentic systems fail differently from conventional software. The roles a team needs to build and operate them, including the evaluation and safety ownership most plans omit.

How to compare AI engineering cost between the US and India on a like for like basis: what to include, why salary comparisons mislead, and the costs that decide the outcome.

A structural comparison of three markets for senior applied AI engineering: depth of pool, production experience, time zone fit, retention dynamics and what each is genuinely best for.

AI roadmaps are constrained by senior hiring, not by budget or tooling. Why the shortage is concentrated at the senior end, and the structural options for working around it.