Hire AI developers
Hire senior AI developers in India, without the agency layers
One senior engineer, or a small team led by our founder, working inside your tools on your clock. You talk to the people writing the code.
In short
Araneux Systems is an AI development studio in Surat, India. You can hire a senior AI engineer who joins your Slack, standups and repository and works on your hours, from $6k a month, or give us a fixed-scope build from $5k. We have 113 of 113 rated Upwork jobs at 5.0, for clients in the US, UK, Europe, the Gulf and Australia.
What they work on
AI engineers who've already shipped this
- 01
AI agents and tool calling
Agents that triage, research, draft and update your systems through typed tools with permissions, built on Claude, OpenAI or open-weight models.
- 02
RAG assistants and LLM features
Assistants that answer from your own documents with sources, and LLM features inside your SaaS with a known cost per user.
- 03
Workflow automation
n8n, Make, Zapier or code on Temporal, with AI steps for the parts of a process that need judgement.
- 04
Evals, guardrails and monitoring
Test sets from your real cases, server-side checks and dashboards for cost and quality, so the system keeps working after launch.
- 05
The product around the AI
Next.js, Python, Node.js, Laravel and mobile apps, so the AI never ends up stranded without a login, billing or an admin panel.
Ways to hire
Pick the shape that fits
Every option starts with a free call and a written plan before anyone is billed.
- Fixed-scope buildOne AI feature, agent or product version with a clear finish line
- From $5k
- Dedicated sprintTeams that need senior AI or full-stack hands right now
- From $6k / month
- RetainerLive AI systems and products that need someone looking after them
- From $1.5k / month
Time zones
Working on your clock from Surat
Our base hours are Mon to Sat, 10:00 to 19:00 IST. Here's how that lines up with yours.
- US East and West
- We move our day later, so your morning standup lands in our evening and reviews happen while you sleep.
- UK and Europe
- Most of our working day overlaps with yours. Standups at 9:30 London time are routine.
- Gulf and Middle East
- Dubai is 90 minutes behind Surat, so we share almost the whole day.
- Australia and APAC
- Our morning is your afternoon. We start early when a launch needs it.
Why hire through us
A senior lead you can actually reach
- Senior people only
- Hussain, our founder, leads every engagement and has shipped software since 2008. When a project needs more hands, they're engineers we've worked with for years.
- Proof you can check
- 113 of 113 rated Upwork jobs at 5.0 and more than 8,190 hours of client work, all public on our Upwork profile.
- Your code, your cloud
- Code goes into your GitHub from the first commit and runs in your AWS, GCP or Azure account. We sign your NDA and IP assignment before kickoff.
- Monthly terms
- Dedicated engineers are booked monthly or quarterly. Scale up or down at the end of any month.
- Projects shipped
- 115
- since 2014
- Clients served
- 53
- US, UK, EU, Middle East, APAC
- Average rating
- 5.0
- 113 of 113 rated jobs
- Years shipping software
- 18
- the founder, since 2008
How it starts
From first call to first commit
- 01
A free 30-minute call
Tell us what you're building and what's stuck. You'll hear honestly whether we're the right fit.
- 02
A short written plan
Who'll work on it, what they'll do first, the hours overlap and the monthly cost, in writing.
- 03
Start in your tools
Usually within one or two weeks: your Slack, your repo, your standups, with a demo at the end of week one.
FAQ
Questions people ask before hiring
How much does it cost to hire an AI developer in India?
Through us, a dedicated senior AI engineer starts from $6k a month on monthly or quarterly terms. Fixed-scope builds start from $5k, and a first live AI agent for one workflow usually costs $5k to $15k. Marketplace freelancer rates vary a lot more, and so does what gets delivered.
Will the developer work in our time zone?
Yes, for the hours that matter. We shift our day so standups, reviews and launches happen on your clock, whether you're in New York, London, Dubai or Sydney.
Are you a freelancer or an agency?
In between, on purpose. The founder leads and builds every project himself, and senior engineers he has worked with for years join when a build needs more hands. You get one accountable lead and a team when you need one.
Who owns the code and IP?
You do, from the first commit. The code lives in your repository and runs in your cloud account, and we sign your NDA and IP assignment before we see anything sensitive.
How quickly can someone start?
Usually within one or two weeks of the first call. Discovery takes about a week, and you'll see a first working version two to four weeks after that.
Which models and tools do your developers use?
Claude, GPT and Gemini, plus open-weight models like Llama and Qwen when data has to stay in your cloud. LangGraph, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP, pgvector and Langfuse, chosen per project. Day to day we build with Claude Code and Codex, and read every line they write.
Start here
Need an AI engineer next month?
Send a few lines about the project and your time zone. Hussain replies within a working day with who could start and when.