Applied AI Engineer — Client-Facing AI Solutions

Groundswell; Connecticut; Vor Ort; USD 88.000 - 172.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Flexible Spending Account

4% 401K Match (immediate vesting)

Paid Time Off

Tuition reimbursement and professional

Flexible work schedule

On-site gym and childcare option

Zusammenfassung

Groundswell in Connecticut seeks an engineer who can turn an incompletely defined business need into working software. This hands-on, client-facing role collaborates with stakeholders to refine requirements and design solutions that combine AI with production‑quality code.

You will move between client delivery, internal product work, rapid proofs of concept, and enablement activities, applying a range of AI techniques and continuously questioning and improving designs to meet customer outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent demonstrated ability.
• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on experience building applications that integrate large language models, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, and/or tool use.
• Experience contributing to applications that integrate AI capabilities with APIs, data handling, and user-facing functionality
• Familiarity with a general‑purpose language such as Python, TypeScript, or SQL, with experience integrating APIs and working with imperfect data.
• Ability to conduct a requirements conversation with a non-technical stakeholder, identify the underlying need, and return with a proposed approach.
• Willingness to question a design, including one you have been given, and to make the case for an alternative.
• Ability to work through ambiguous requirements with guidance, ask thoughtful questions, and drive assigned work to completion.
• Clear written and verbal communication. This role produces documentation and materials that clients read.
• Candor about the limits of your knowledge and a willingness to ask rather than assume.
• U.S. Citizenship required. Ability to obtain and maintain any federal government background investigation, suitability determination, or security clearance required by assigned client engagements.

Aufgaben

• Take a defined technical approach and build it into production‑quality functionality.
• Participate in requirements discussions with business stakeholders to understand the workflow, business need, and desired outcome
• Contribute ideas and alternative approaches during solution design, including identifying opportunities to simplify the solution or reduce the AI component where appropriate.
• Contribute to building complete applications that integrate AI capabilities with prompt and retrieval design, structured outputs, tool and function definitions, API integration, data handling, error handling, and user‑facing functionality.
• Build evaluation sets from real data, measure results against them, and report findings accurately, including results that do not support the chosen approach.
• Investigate failures by identifying where a capability produced an incorrect result, characterizing the cause, and implementing a fix.
• Support client demonstrations and proof‑of‑concepts to help customers understand how AI can be applied to their business challenges.
• Seek feedback, ask thoughtful questions, and continuously build your understanding of client needs and AI best practices.
• Instrument and document your work, including logging, traceability, intended behavior, known limitations, validation method, and failure handling.
• Move between client delivery, internal product work, rapid proofs of concept, and internal enablement as the work requires.
• Raise blockers, unclear requirements, and results you do not trust early rather than working around them.
• Contribute reusable patterns, prompts, and evaluation harnesses back to the team.

Kenntnisse

Software development

LLM integration

Requirements elicitation

APIs integration

Data handling

User-facing functionality

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Python

TypeScript

SQL

APIs

Jobbeschreibung

Groundswell in Connecticut seeks an engineer who can turn an incompletely defined business need into working software. This hands-on, client-facing role collaborates with stakeholders to refine requirements and design solutions that combine AI with production‑quality code.

You will move between client delivery, internal product work, rapid proofs of concept, and enablement activities, applying a range of AI techniques and continuously questioning and improving designs to meet customer outcomes.