Scale your AI engineering capacity when your roadmap demands it.
AI staff augmentation from Commit Offshore, the Israeli-led offshore hiring division of COMMIT, adds senior AI engineers to your existing team in Israel. They work in your standups and codebase under your roadmap, while Commit Offshore employs them and handles contract, payroll and equipment. The first vetted CV usually arrives within 48 hours; engineers are typically onboarded within 2 weeks.
Updated 3 November 2026
Staff augmentation, on-demand or a dedicated team?
| Criteria | AI staff augmentation | On-Demand AI talent | Dedicated AI team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Adding 1+ AI engineers long-term | A short AI sprint | Building a whole AI product |
| Start | First CV usually in 48h, onboard in 2 weeks | Available specialists; start date confirmed with the profile | First CVs usually in 48h, pod typically live in about 2 weeks |
| Commitment | 3-month minimum | None beyond the sprint | 6-month minimum (3 engineers plus a tech lead) |
| You manage | Day-to-day work | Scope and deliverables | Day-to-day work |
| Pricing | Monthly per engineer | Per sprint | Monthly per engineer |
Typical all-in monthly cost for a senior engineer: $5,200–$8,750 in our Eastern European, Caucasus, African and Philippine hubs, against a $14,500 Tel Aviv benchmark (estimates, October 2026). AI and LLM specialists are quoted per role. See the cost calculator for each location.
Roles we add
AI/ML engineers · LLM engineers · MLOps engineers · RAG engineers · AI agent engineers · AI data engineers · AI QA/automation
Why teams keep them
Engineers we place stay 4.3 years on average, so you don't lose the knowledge you've built. If one doesn't work out, we replace them at no cost within the first 60 days.
How AI staff augmentation works
- Who employs the engineer: Commit Offshore does, and handles the contract, payroll and equipment. The engineer works in your team, under your roadmap.
- Pricing and minimum: monthly per engineer. One engineer has a 3-month minimum; a pod of 3 engineers plus a tech lead has a 6-month minimum.
- Replacement: if an engineer doesn't work out, we replace them at no cost within the first 60 days.
- IP and confidentiality: IP is assigned to you in every engagement contract, and we sign an NDA on request before the first CV.
- Team size: one senior engineer or a pod of 3 to 12.
How long each step takes
These are typical targets, not guarantees. Each number means something different, so we keep them apart.
| Milestone | Usual timing | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| First vetted CV | Usually within 48 hours | Counted from a confirmed brief. A candidate profile, not a start date. |
| Finalists to interview | 2 to 3 per role | Staff Augmentation. Tech Recruitment & Placement sends a shortlist of 5 to 8, usually within 72 hours. |
| Start date | Typically about 2 weeks after you choose | Subject to the engineer's notice period. |
| Bench start | Within 48 hours of sign-off, case by case | Only for bench specialists who are free at that moment, subject to access and NDA. |
What you receive with every candidate
- The CV, checked by a senior recruiter who has read it and run a screening call
- The score from a recorded technical exam built for your role, scored against a rubric you can review
- The exam recording, so your engineers can see how the candidate works
- The recruiter's notes
- An AI-ready level from 1 to 5
Candidates who have not passed the recorded exam are never sent. The full process is on how we vet engineers.
Proof
Lunar.dev used Commit Offshore engineers as an extension of their team: technical talent and cloud expertise on demand.
Questions we get asked most.
Two ways to start. Both reach Lee directly.
Book a 30-minute call to talk it through, or send the role and get your first CV, usually within 48 hours. Either way, Lee replies the same business day.