Embedded Engineers on Contract

The problem this solves

A funded programme waiting on a hiring round. The plan is signed off and the budget is committed, and the start date now depends on how long it takes to find people.

Or a delivery team short one senior role, with the date unmoved. Or a backlog that needs engineers rather than another roadmap. None of those is a defined output, so buying one as a fixed-scope engagement fits badly.

How it runs

One contract, a minimum of three months, on day rate commercials rather than against a deliverable.

Who turns up
A single senior engineer or a small team, inside your programme. The usual roles are an AI or platform architect, an AI engineer, and a data or platform engineer.
The standard
Every engineer meets the same bar as the rest of the practice: certified on the platforms we build on, or shipped inside a top-tier engineering organisation.
Who directs the work
You do, day to day, in your own backlog and your own stand-ups. We hold the standard and the cover, so a stream never hangs off one person.
Weekly review
One of our architects reviews the work each week, so an embedded engineer is never the only senior pair of eyes on a design.
Swap or scale
Changing a role, or adding one, happens under the same contract rather than through a new procurement round.

What you are left with

The work, in your repositories and your environments, built the way your own engineers build. Nothing depends on a system only we can reach.

A clean handover at the end, or a conversion to a fixed-scope build once the work is defined enough to price against an output.

When a fixed-scope engagement is the better buy

When the outcome is defined, buy the outcome. A feasibility sprint settles what to build, and an architecture and production build ships it. Both are priced against a deliverable rather than a day, which is the cheaper trade whenever the deliverable can be written down.

When what is missing is the technical ownership rather than the hands, a retained architect is the closer fit.

What you get

A named senior engineer, or a team, inside your programme
One contract, from three months, priced per day
Weekly technical review by a 1AYM architect
Work delivered in your repositories, environments and process
Cover across the stream, so no role is a single point of failure
A clean handover, or conversion to a fixed-scope build

Start here if

A funded programme is waiting on a hiring round
A delivery team is short one senior role and the date has not moved
The backlog needs engineers rather than another roadmap
Capacity is the constraint, and the outcome is not yet scoped enough to price

Frequently asked questions

How quickly can somebody start?

Typically weeks rather than a hiring round. We match the roles to the programme first, because a fast start in the wrong discipline costs more than a slower one in the right discipline, and we say plainly when we do not have the right person for a role.

What happens if an engineer is not the right fit?

We swap them, under the same contract. That is the practical difference between a contract with a practice and a direct hire: the cover sits with us, so a stream is never left waiting on one person's notice period or one person's holiday.

Can an embedded engagement become a scoped build?

Often, and it is usually the better buy once it can be. Three months inside the programme is enough to know what the output is worth and what it takes, which is exactly what a fixed-scope statement of work needs before anyone can price it honestly.