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Senior AI engineers range from $3,500–$8,500/month. Compared to $180,000–$260,000/year in the US.

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Vivian Ho

Senior DevOps Engineer

Hong Kong

Vivian is a DevOps engineer with strong expertise in cloud-native infrastructure. She has set up production environments for banks, insurers, and fintech startups in Hong Kong.

Terraform Kubernetes AWS GCP Datadog +1

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8+ Years

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Lucy Cheung

Senior Workflow Automation Engineer

Hong Kong

Lucy is a workflow automation engineer who builds the glue layer between SaaS tools. She has shipped no-code and low-code automations powering ops, finance, and customer success at YC and Series A startups.

Zapier Make n8n Airtable Notion +1

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5+ Years

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Marcus Wong

Senior Backend Engineer

Hong Kong

Marcus is a backend engineer specializing in distributed systems for financial services. He has built high-frequency trading and payment infrastructure handling billions in daily volume.

Java Go Spring Boot Microservices Kafka +1

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10+ Years

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David Tan

Senior Product Engineer

Hong Kong

David is a product engineer who has been the first hire at three different startups. He owns the path from product discovery to shipped feature, with strong taste in UX, data, and pricing experiments.

React Next.js TypeScript GraphQL Amplitude +1

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Michelle Yip

Senior Data Engineer

Hong Kong

Michelle is a data engineer with expertise in real-time analytics and data warehousing. She has built data platforms for banking and insurance companies in Hong Kong.

Python Apache Spark dbt BigQuery Airflow +1

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Hannah Wong

Senior ZK Circom Developer

Hong Kong

Hannah is a ZK Circom developer with strong focus on application-layer ZK. She has shipped private payment, attestation, and proof-of-personhood circuits used in production by Web3 identity teams.

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Built for AI-era teams. Engineers who build, not just candidates who apply.

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Guide to Hiring Developers in Hong Kong

Everything you need to know about employment laws, payroll, and compliance when hiring developers in Hong Kong.

Working Hours

No statutory maximum. Typical office hours: 40-44 hrs/week.

Overtime Pay

No statutory OT pay requirement. Negotiated per contract.

Probation Period

Typically 1-3 months. First month: either party can terminate with no notice.

Leave Entitlements in Hong Kong

Leave Type

Entitlement

Annual Leave

7 days (1st year) to 14 days (9+ years).

Sick Leave

2 days/month (first year), then 4 days/month. Accumulates up to 120 days. 80% pay.

Maternity Leave

14 weeks paid at 80%. Must have 40 weeks continuous employment.

Paternity Leave

5 days paid at 80% of average daily wages.

Public Holidays

17 general holidays. Employers must grant 12 statutory holidays minimum.

Notice Period

1 month (standard) or as per contract. 7 days during probation.

Severance Pay

2/3 of monthly wages per year (for 24+ months of continuous service).

Payroll & Tax in Hong Kong

Component

Details

Employer Contributions

MPF 5% (capped at HKD 1,500/mo).

Employee Contributions

MPF 5% (capped at HKD 1,500/mo).

Income Tax

Progressive 2%-17% or flat 15% (whichever is lower).

Minimum Wage

HKD 40/hour (~$5.10). Under review for increase.

13th Month / Bonus

Not mandatory. Double pay (13th month) is customary.

Senior Developer Salary

$4,000-$8,000/mo

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does an AI developer do?

An AI developer builds applications powered by machine learning and large language models — RAG systems, chatbots, content generation, recommendation engines, and intelligent automation. Many also handle model fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment.

How fast can I hire one?

Pre-vetted AI engineers in 24–48 hours.

How much does it cost?

Senior AI engineers range from $3,500–$8,500/month. Compared to $180,000–$260,000/year in the US.

What frameworks do your AI engineers use?

LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant), and orchestration frameworks like LangGraph and CrewAI.

Can they help with both training and serving models?

Yes. We have engineers who specialize in fine-tuning open-source models, serving via FastAPI/Triton, evaluating with frameworks like Ragas and DeepEval, and building production-grade observability with LangSmith.

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