Shipping an AI agent without evals means your customers find the failures first. AI evaluation specialists build test suites, guardrails and red-teaming runs that give US companies proof before launch.
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AI Evaluation Specialist
🇮🇩Working remotely at a US SaaS
Rama specializes in measuring and improving AI output quality. He has shipped automated eval suites and red-team programs for RAG and agent systems, with a focus on safety and accuracy.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated AI Evaluation Specialist
🇵🇭Working remotely at a US Fintech
Marco makes AI systems dependable through rigorous evaluation. He has built regression and red-team suites for chatbots and agents, working with founders to set quality bars that hold up in production.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated AI Evaluation Specialist
🇨🇳Working remotely at a US Healthtech
Wen builds evaluation and observability for production AI. She has owned grading pipelines, tracing, and quality dashboards for large language model platforms serving enterprise workloads.
Exp
9+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
AI Evaluation Specialist
🇸🇬Working remotely at a US Healthtech
Mira designs eval frameworks that catch quality regressions before users do. She has built LLM-as-judge graders, golden datasets, and guardrail layers for enterprise AI teams.
Exp
8+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
AI Evaluation Specialist
🇲🇾Working remotely at a US E-commerce
Sabrina builds eval and guardrail systems for LLM-powered products. She has shipped golden datasets, automated graders, and safety checks that keep AI features accurate and on-policy.
Exp
5+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated AI Evaluation Specialist
🇻🇳Working remotely at a US Healthtech
Hieu builds evaluation harnesses and guardrails that make LLM and agent systems reliable. He has set up offline and online eval pipelines, regression suites, and red-team programs for AI products in production.
Exp
7+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated AI training specialists who produce the human data your model learns from. Pre-vetted, compliant, and matched in 24 hours.
Specialists who work on your project only, learn your guidelines deeply, and hold the same quality bar week after week. Your data stays in your own tools.
Every candidate applies a real rubric to tasks with known answers. We score agreement, read every rationale, and check references. Only the top few percent pass.
Engineers, scientists, finance, legal, and medical professionals, plus native speakers of Vietnamese, Thai, Bahasa, Filipino, Malay, and Chinese.
We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance through our Employer of Record. You go from brief to a working specialist inside a week.
Faster hires, lower burn, more shipped.
$200K
saved in hiring costs
A social polling platform that hired 2 senior engineers in 24 days on average, weeks after launch.
$27M
Series A raised
An industrial AI company that hired 6 specialists across 3 roles from one pipeline, then raised its Series A.
8
engineers hired
The freight company behind the internet's first load board, adding data, full-stack and mobile engineers in 22 days on average.
14
developers hired
A real-estate coaching company that built its first engineering team in Vietnam, across 5 role types, at 60 to 70% less than US hiring.
70%
productivity boost
A Web3 education platform that hired 10 engineers in Vietnam in two months to speed up its roadmap.
$1.5B
acquisition outcome
A machine-learning car marketplace that grew its Taiwan engineering team 70%, entered 3 new markets and was acquired by Carro.
70%
labor cost saved
A luxury jeweler with 870 stores across Asia that staffed its e-commerce push from Malaysia and lifted efficiency 30%.
70%
efficiency gain
A digital health platform that hired 5 developers and ops staff across Vietnam and Malaysia without slowing delivery.
50%
productivity uplift
A Bitcoin restaking platform that grew its team 20% with frontend and product hires and lifted technical capability 40%.
3
role types staffed
A luxury retail group that stood up a 10-engineer team in Vietnam in two months and doubled its development speed.
3 days
to first SDR hire
An omnichannel chat platform that built a team of 3 SDRs in Indonesia to drive lead generation.
2 mo
hiring time saved
A blockchain wellness platform that hired the lead engineer in Hong Kong to anchor its offshore team.
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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.
Founders and engineering leaders on hiring with Second Talent.
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
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)
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)
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TL;DR: Hire a pre-vetted AI Evaluation Specialist from across Asia for $2,500–$6,500/mo. Someone who makes LLM and agent systems reliable through rigorous evals, guardrails, and red-teaming. Shortlist in 24 hours, $0 upfront.
Shipping an AI feature is easy. Knowing whether it actually works, and catching it when it breaks, is not. LLM and agent systems fail quietly: a prompt change tanks accuracy, a model update shifts behavior, an edge case slips a harmful response into production. An AI Evaluation Specialist is the person who builds the measurement and safety layer so your AI quality is something you track, not something you hope for.
This is a distinct discipline. It combines test engineering, data work, and a deep understanding of how language models fail. Most teams bolt evaluation on too late, after quality problems are already in front of users. Hiring a specialist early means you ship AI you can trust.
Through Second Talent you skip the search. We match you with people who have built eval systems for production AI, and you only pay when you make a hire.
A strong evaluation specialist owns the quality layer for your AI:
Asia delivers senior AI evaluation 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.
Evaluation work rewards rigour and judgment. Our process includes a portfolio review of real eval systems, a live walkthrough where the candidate explains how they measured and improved a past AI product, a practical exercise on grader and guardrail design, an English communication check, and reference checks. Only the top few percent pass.
We look for people who can reason clearly about what a metric does and does not capture. That signal predicts real quality improvement better than any take-home test.
The flow is simple. Share your brief: the AI system, where quality matters most, and your stack. We send a shortlist of pre-vetted AI Evaluation 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 90-day replacement guarantee covers a re-match at no extra cost.
Evaluation is one part of AI training. For the data your model learns from, look at RLHF Specialists, Coding AI Trainers, or Domain Expert AI Trainers. Building the agents that need evaluating? See an Agentic AI Specialist, or browse all AI training specialists.
Tell us what AI system you need to make reliable. We will deliver a pre-vetted shortlist within 24 hours. Book a free consultation to begin.
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$0 upfront. 90-day replacement guarantee. We handle payroll and compliance.
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