AI agent / MCP / RAG developer · China remote
Senior AI agent, MCP server, and RAG specialists from China — Mandarin onboarding, cross-border payment rails, async-friendly schedules.
LangChain / LlamaIndex / MCP / RAG specialists with shipped production deployments. Cohort includes ex-ByteDance, ex-Alibaba, ex-DiDi ML engineers now consulting remote.
What's included in the rate
- Milestone escrow via Stripe Connect (USD ACH / wire) — funds release on your approval
- Wise cross-border payout to freelancer (CNY / HKD / SGD / multi-currency)
- W-8BEN / 1099-NEC tax compliance handled by SpiderGig (year-end docs auto-issued)
- Dispute mediation + arbitration support (ops team in LA, EN + 中文)
- First milestone money-back guarantee if delivery falls below NA benchmark
- 20% flat platform fee — never tiered, never raised
When rates spike vs drop
Q1 (post-LNY hiring), AI conference seasons (May / Nov), and OpenAI dev day post-rush all push rates up 15–20%.
Late summer (Aug) and early winter (Dec) typically softer — engineers want runway between contracts.
Rates are SpiderGig platform first-party data (n = current cohort size, May 2026). NA benchmarks pulled from Glassdoor, Toptal hourly rate guides, Levels.fyi, and Upwork 2026 reports. Updated monthly. All rates exclude SpiderGig 20% platform fee shown above — total brand cost is rate + 20%.
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