--- title: "Nearshore Software Engineering Teams | Cheesecake Labs" description: "Senior squads in your time zone with a US presence, embedded with your team or owning delivery end to end." url: "https://cheesecakelabs.com/services/nearshore-engineering" locale: "en" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T18:57:55.539Z" --- # Nearshore Software Engineering Teams | Cheesecake Labs > Senior squads in your time zone with a US presence, embedded with your team or owning delivery end to end. ## Senior engineers, embedded where you need them. Frontier AI labs call it forward-deployed engineering: senior engineers embedded in your team, systems, and workflows from kickoff through launch. We’ve worked this way for 13 years. ## Schedule a call › ### Senior talent, stronger economics Senior by default and AI-accelerated. Nearshore economics let the same budget fund more of your roadmap without lowering the bar. ### Cultural values & communication The team flexes around the work: nearshore for daily collaboration, on site at critical moments, and US-based when the role requires it. ### Strong collaboration, where the work happens Inside your standups, tools, codebase, and customer workflows, from kickoff through launch. ## How embedded engineering works ## Embed a senior, AI-accelerated squad when delivery cannot wait. One senior AI hire can take months and cost $300K. ## Talk to us about your team › ## Our work ## Assess your AI readiness › ### What is nearshore software development? Senior engineering teams working from your time zone instead of 10 hours away. Our squads work US hours with a US presence, so collaboration happens in your meetings, not in overnight handoffs. You get the cost structure of an offshore team without the offshore tax. ### What does forward-deployed mean? Our engineers work inside your team — your standups, your tools, your codebase — and on-site when the problem calls for it. It is the model we run for tech partners whose customers need custom integrations: the engineer is deployed where the work happens, not behind a ticket queue. ### Why embed a squad instead of hiring? Hiring a $300K senior AI engineer can take six months you may not have. An embedded squad gives you senior capacity in weeks, already used to shipping together, and it scales up or down with the roadmap instead of locking in headcount. ### How fast can engineers start? Weeks, not quarters. We staff from a senior bench that already works together, so a squad can be embedded with your team within a few weeks of the first conversation — including an on-site kickoff when it helps. ### What's the minimum engagement? Engagements are shaped around the problem, not a fixed seat count: a single embedded engineer, a dedicated pod around a roadmap, or a function owned end to end under SLAs. Most teams start with one squad and adjust from there. ### Do your engineers work with AI? Yes — AI-accelerated is the default. 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