Applied AI Engineer — Client-Facing LLM Solutions

Groundswell; New York (NY); On-site; USD 88,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking an engineer to translate incompletely defined business needs into working software. This hands-on, client-facing role collaborates with business stakeholders to refine requirements and design solutions.

You will contribute to product development, proofs of concept, and internal enablement, spanning deployment to demonstrations for clients. The role emphasizes building AI-enabled applications, with opportunities to define architecture, retrieval design, and integration

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent demonstrated ability.
• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on experience building apps that integrate LLMs (prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, or tool use).
• Experience integrating AI capabilities with APIs, data handling, and user-facing functionality.
• Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, or SQL; experience with APIs and imperfect data.

Responsibilities

• Take a defined technical approach and build production-quality functionality.
• Participate in requirements discussions with business stakeholders to understand workflow and outcomes.
• Contribute to solution design and identify simplifications or reductions of AI components.
• Build complete applications that integrate AI capabilities with APIs, data handling, and user-facing features.
• Develop evaluation sets from real data and report findings honestly, including negative results.
• Investigate failures to identify causes and implement fixes.
• Support client demonstrations and concept validations for AI applications.
• Ask thoughtful questions and continuously align with client needs and AI best practices.

Skills

Software development

LLM integration

Prompt engineering

APIs & data handling

Communications

Requirements gathering

Ambiguity management

Citizenship required

Honesty about limits

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

LLM observability tools

Job description

Groundswell is seeking an engineer to translate incompletely defined business needs into working software. This hands-on, client-facing role collaborates with business stakeholders to refine requirements and design solutions.

You will contribute to product development, proofs of concept, and internal enablement, spanning deployment to demonstrations for clients. The role emphasizes building AI-enabled applications, with opportunities to define architecture, retrieval design, and integration