Applied AI Engineer - Build Production-Ready, Client-Facing Solutions

Groundswell

South Dakota

On-site

USD 150,000 - 205,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401K match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement and professional

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking an experienced AI engineer to turn ambiguous business problems into production AI solutions. You will work with stakeholders to define workflows, assess AI viability, design approaches, build and demonstrate working systems, and own them in production.

You will operate across discovery, build, and operations, collaborating with engineers, executives, and end users. You will mentor peers and deliver reusable patterns, contributing to client delivery and internal product

Qualifications

7+ years building and shipping production software.
Two+ years building apps integrating large language models (prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction).
Experience evaluating AI system quality and deployment decisions.

Responsibilities

Lead discovery with stakeholders to understand workflow and success criteria.
Define measurable success criteria before building and specify acceptance conditions.
Recommend against AI when a simpler solution suffices; identify proper patterns.
Select appropriate AI pattern (extraction, classification, summarization, retrieval, agentic).
Make architecture decisions for where workloads run, balancing quality, cost, latency, and security.
Build complete capabilities including prompts, retrieval design, APIs, data handling, and UI.