AI & ML engineering teams
AI-ready engineering teams in Costa Rica.
AI is changing how engineering teams are built: leaner teams, at every level, working with AI from day one. We build those teams in Costa Rica — under your brand, inside your own entity.
The shift
Teams are getting smaller and more senior.
Companies are building leaner teams, with senior people who direct AI tools and own outcomes, and engineers at every level who work with AI every day. Costa Rica is where that talent already is.
71%
of the recent rise in U.S. software engineering job postings is senior roles (Indeed Hiring Lab, 2026)
37%
of that rise comes from roles with “AI” in the title (Indeed Hiring Lab, 2026)
#1
Costa Rica in Latin America for generative AI adoption — 29.7% of the working-age population (Microsoft, Q2 2026)
3rd
Costa Rica in Latin America for AI talent (Latin American AI Index, ILIA 2025)
How we build AI-ready teams
From the first role to a full AI-ready operation.
01
AI team planning
We help you define which AI, ML and data roles you actually need — and which ones you don’t — so the team is right-sized from day one.
02
AI-ready hiring
Every candidate is assessed on how they work with AI coding and productivity tools, on top of technical and cultural assessments.
03
Your entity, your IP
The team is employed by your own Costa Rican entity — your models, data and code stay with your company, not a vendor.
04
AI adoption, ongoing
Teams work with AI tools in their day-to-day, and we support AI adoption across your team as it grows.
Profiles we hire
AI, ML and data roles — from junior to leadership.
- AI & Machine Learning Engineers
- LLMs, generative AI, agents, MLOps and model deployment
- Data Scientists
- Machine learning, statistical modeling and predictive analytics
- Data Engineers
- Pipelines, data warehouses and analytics engineering — the foundation AI runs on
- Business Intelligence
- Dashboards, reporting and data visualization
- AI-ready software engineers
- Full-stack, backend and frontend engineers who build with AI tools every day
- Engineering leadership
- Tech leads and managers who run lean, AI-assisted teams
See salary ranges and a Year-1 estimate for your team in the expansion plan generator.
Proven with AI companies
We already build teams for companies at the front of AI.
- 66degrees — 11+ years building their Costa Rica engineering team. In 2026, 66degrees was named Google Cloud Partner of the Year for Artificial Intelligence, its fourth Partner of the Year distinction.
- Think Unlimited — an AI & sales tech company whose product is built 100% by its Costa Rica team.
Technical leadership
Roberto Fernandez, Partner & CTO
20+ years in software development, data engineering and systems architecture — from developer to Director of Engineering and VP of Product Engineering. Leads technical delivery, engineering hiring and AI strategy & adoption for Crest Partners clients.
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