Roles We Staff
The four engineering roles product teams lose the most time trying to fill
Silicon Development focuses on the engineering roles that are hardest to hire well and most important to get right: software, data, DevOps / cloud, and AI. Vetted engineers who embed directly into your team.
Four disciplines, four different evaluations
Each role is sourced, evaluated, and matched differently. The skills, judgment, and communication patterns that matter are not the same across these disciplines.
Ship product features faster without compromising your engineering bar. You get engineers who contribute inside your sprint cycle, participate in code reviews, and push production-ready code. Not a separate team producing deliverables on a different timeline.
Typical work
- Building and iterating on product features inside your existing codebase and release cycle
- Backend services, API development, and third-party integrations
- Refactoring architecture and resolving performance bottlenecks in production systems
- Paying down technical debt that your team knows about but cannot prioritize
Best fit for
- Your backlog is growing faster than your team can ship, and you need contributors inside the sprint, not on a separate track
- You have tried contractors who could write code but could not participate meaningfully in reviews, planning, or architecture discussions
- You are scaling a product team and cannot wait 3-6 months per local hire without losing roadmap momentum
200+
Engineers placed into US product teams
2-3 weeks
From role scoping to a contributing engineer
2+ years
Average engagement length
80%
Of clients add more roles after the first placement
Where the narrow focus pays off
These are the roles we built the company around. The vetting, the talent network, and the matching process are all designed for this work.
These four roles are all we do
Silicon Development does not staff designers, PMs, support agents, or generalists. The entire vetting process, talent network, and matching infrastructure is built around software, data, DevOps, and AI engineering. Narrow focus means deeper expertise.
Vetting is built for each role
A software engineer and a DevOps engineer require completely different evaluations. Generic staffing firms run the same screen for both. Silicon Development assesses architecture judgment, production reasoning, and domain-specific depth, with evaluations tailored to each role.
Engineers who work in complex environments
Healthcare data, financial compliance, security-sensitive infrastructure, regulated pipelines. These are not edge cases for Silicon Development. They are the environments our engineers are vetted to operate in.
Competing with local hires, not with offshore shops
The benchmark is not "cheaper than your last vendor." It is "as good as the local senior hire you cannot find fast enough." Engineers work from Latin America in US business hours, with native-level English and real-time collaboration. That is what makes the comparison hold.
The talent network compounds
Silicon Development has spent years building a vetted engineering network across Latin America. 200+ engineers placed and two client exits where our engineers were the primary development team. For these four roles, the pipeline is deep.
Is this the right fit?
Silicon Development works best for a specific kind of team and a specific kind of need.
This page is for you if
- You need software, data, DevOps / cloud, or AI engineers who can work inside your product team
- Local hiring is too slow and you cannot wait three to six months per role
- You care about technical depth, communication quality, and team fit, not just filling a seat
- You want to keep control of the roadmap, the architecture, and the engineering standards
A different model may be better if
- You need to staff non-engineering roles like support, design, content, or general operations
- You want to hand off a complete project to an outside team and receive a finished deliverable
- Your primary decision factor is lowest possible cost, regardless of integration or vetting quality
- You need a dedicated AI research lab building foundation models from scratch
Need to fill a specialized engineering role without the long hiring cycle?
Share the role, the stack, and your team context. Silicon Development will tell you whether there is a fit and how quickly a vetted engineer can start.