Applied AI Engineer — Client-Facing, Production-Ready

Groundswell; North Dakota; On-site; USD 88,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Flexible Spending Account

401K Match (immediate vesting)

Paid Time Off

Tuition reimbursement and professional

development

Flexible work schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking an engineer to take incomplete business needs and translate them into working software. This client‑facing role involves refining requirements with stakeholders, proposing improved approaches, and delivering production‑quality AI‑enabled solutions.

You will contribute to end‑to‑end development, balancing client delivery with internal product work, rapid proofs of concept, and enablement. The role requires curiosity, communication, and bias‑toward action.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on experience building applications that integrate AI capabilities and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Take defined technical approach and build production‑quality functionality.
• Engage with business stakeholders to refine requirements and propose solutions.
• Design solutions that integrate AI features with prompts, retrieval, APIs and UI.
• Build and evaluate AI components using real data and report findings clearly.
• Collaborate across client delivery, internal product work, and rapid proofs of concept.

Skills

Software development

Requirements gathering

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Job description

Groundswell is seeking an engineer to take incomplete business needs and translate them into working software. This client‑facing role involves refining requirements with stakeholders, proposing improved approaches, and delivering production‑quality AI‑enabled solutions.

You will contribute to end‑to‑end development, balancing client delivery with internal product work, rapid proofs of concept, and enablement. The role requires curiosity, communication, and bias‑toward action.