AI-Native, pre-vetted Agentic AI Specialists who design and ship autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems in production. Matched in 24 hours, $0 upfront, 14-day replacement guarantee.
24 Hours
to get matched
50-70 %
payroll savings
92 %
talent retention rate
4.9
avg client rating
200 +
companies building with us
Dedicated Agentic AI Specialist
🇻🇳Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Khang builds autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems that run reliably in production. He has shipped tool-using agents and orchestration layers for SaaS and fintech teams, with deep focus on evaluation and cost control.
Exp
7+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated Agentic AI Specialist
🇨🇳Shanghai, China
Qing specializes in production agent reliability. She has built evaluation harnesses, step budgeting, and model routing for agent platforms serving enterprise workloads.
Exp
9+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Agentic AI Specialist
🇮🇩Jakarta, Indonesia
Bagus ships multi-agent workflows for automation-heavy products. He has built customer-support and back-office agents that handle real tasks end to end, with strong reliability and monitoring.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated Agentic AI Engineer
🇵🇭Manila, Philippines
Paolo builds agentic features for SaaS startups. He has shipped tool-using assistants and orchestration pipelines, working directly with founders to take agents from demo to dependable.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Agentic AI Specialist
🇲🇾Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hana develops multi-agent systems with a focus on retrieval and memory. She has built RAG-backed agents for knowledge-heavy domains, with careful attention to grounding and accuracy.
Exp
5+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated Agentic AI Engineer
🇸🇬Singapore
Lakshmi designs agentic systems that plan, act, and self-correct. She has built research and ops agents for enterprise teams, owning the full loop from tool design to guardrails and tracing.
Exp
8+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
AI-Native specialists who do the work standard hiring misses, from building agents to running AI-powered sourcing. Pre-vetted, compliant, and matched in 24 hours.
Specialists who do one hard thing well. Agent builders who ship autonomous systems. Sourcing experts who run AI-driven recruiting pipelines end to end.
Portfolio review, a live walkthrough of real past work, and reference checks for the exact specialism you need. Only the top few percent pass.
4-8 hours of daily overlap keeps your team aligned. Asia's top AI specialists, working on your schedule, not against it.
We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance through our Employer of Record. You go from brief to a working specialist inside a week.
6
Specialists hired
8
Engineers hired in Vietnam across five requisitions.
14
Developers hired across five role types in 18 months.
70%
Jump in productivity after building the team.
$1.5B
Exit via acquisition by a major automotive marketplace.
70%
Reduction in labor costs across store operations.
70%
Increase in business efficiency after the build.
50%
Productivity boost after scaling the engineering team.
3
Role types staffed for the group's technology team.
3 days
To source and onboard their first sales hire.
2 mo
Of hiring time saved on their lead engineer search.
Matched in 24 hours. Pre-vetted for your exact specialism. Transparent pricing.
Tell us the specialism, the outcome you need, your stack, budget, and timezone overlap.
24-hour shortlist of pre-vetted specialists with real portfolio work. Interview the ones you like.
We handle EOR, payroll, and compliance. Your specialist delivers real output in the first week.
Thanks to Second Talent, Open Campus quickly built a skilled tech team of 10 within two months, boosting productivity by 70% and accelerating our Web3 platform's development.
This success has strengthened our role in decentralized education and fueled our market expansion, highlighting our leadership in Web3 innovation.
Jonah L.
Head of Portfolio (raised US$100m)
Second Talent helped Beyond Cars (acquired by Carro) swiftly build a top-tier tech team in just a month, accelerating our platform's development and boosting productivity.
This success allowed us to expand into new markets, ultimately leading to our acquisition by a major automotive e-commerce company.
Garry Y.
Co-Founder (acquired by Carro)
Partnering with Second Talent has been a game-changer for our tech expansion.
Their ability to source top-tier talent from Vietnam helped us scale rapidly while maintaining quality. Their pre-vetted candidates integrated seamlessly, and their account management ensured smooth onboarding.
Tom F.
Co-founder (#1 US Real Estate Coach)
Second Talent played a key role in our tech expansion, quickly providing high-quality frontend talent that integrated seamlessly into our projects.
Their pre-vetted candidates, smooth onboarding process, and excellent support helped us build a strong, cost-effective team that drives our success.
Marco A.
Co-founder & CTO
Second Talent built our team of pre-vetted engineers who made our hiring decisions straightforward.
Once onboarded, our tech team saw a significant boost in productivity and development speed. Their excellent account management and responsive customer service also ensured smooth handling of all post-onboarding HR matters.
Jack N.
Director of IT (10,000+ employees)
Second Talent helped us rapidly scale by sourcing top-quality SDR talent from Indonesia.
Their pre-screened candidates fit perfectly, and their smooth onboarding and support built a strong, cost-effective team that helped to test and experiment sales with another market.
Leo W.
Co-founder (raised US$5m)
Human feedback, code, expert knowledge, and native language data. Pick a role to see profiles, rates, and a hiring guide.
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TL;DR: Hire a pre-vetted Agentic AI Specialist from across Asia for $2,500–$6,500/mo, up to 70% below US rates. Someone who ships reliable autonomous agents in production, not demos. Shortlist in 24 hours, $0 upfront.
Building an AI agent that demos well is easy. Building one that runs reliably in production is not. Agentic systems fail in ways normal software does not: tools time out, models loop, costs spike, and a single bad step can cascade through a multi-agent workflow. An Agentic AI Specialist is the person who has shipped these systems before and knows where they break.
This is a distinct craft from general software work. It sits at the intersection of LLM orchestration, tool design, evaluation, and good old-fashioned distributed-systems thinking. Most teams that try to staff it with a general backend engineer lose months to trial and error.
Through Second Talent you skip that. We match you with specialists who have already built agents end to end, and you only pay when you make a hire.
A strong specialist owns the full agent lifecycle:
Asia delivers senior agent-building talent at 60–70% below US cost. Monthly ranges for 2026:
| Level | Monthly (Asia) | Typical US Equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | $1,500–$2,500 | $7,000–$10,000 |
| Mid | $2,500–$4,000 | $10,000–$14,000 |
| Senior | $4,000–$6,500 | $14,000–$20,000 |
| Lead | $6,500+ | $20,000+ |
Rates vary by market. See the Asia Tech Salary Index for a country-by-country breakdown.
Agent work rewards judgement, not just coding speed. Our process includes a portfolio review of real shipped agents, a live walkthrough where the candidate explains why a past system was built the way it was, a practical exercise on tool design and failure handling, an English communication check, and reference checks. Only the top few percent pass.
We look for people who can talk clearly about what went wrong in a past project and how they fixed it. That signal predicts production reliability better than any take-home test.
The flow is simple. Share your brief: the use case, your stack, the outcome you want, and your timezone. We send a shortlist of pre-vetted Agentic AI Specialists within 24 hours. You interview the people you like. We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance through our Employer of Record service, so there is no local entity to set up.
Most clients go from first call to a working specialist in under a week. If the fit is wrong, our 14-day replacement guarantee covers a re-match at no extra cost.
If your need is broader than agents alone, you may also want an AI Developer or to browse all AI specialists.
Tell us what you want your agents to do. We will deliver a pre-vetted shortlist within 24 hours. Book a free consultation to begin.
$0 upfront. 14-day replacement guarantee. We handle payroll and compliance.
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