Applied AI Engineer — Client‑Facing, Production‑Ready

Groundswell; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 88,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical dental vision

401K match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking an AI software engineer to transform unclear business needs into production‑quality software. This client‑facing role blends delivery, internal product work, and rapid proofs of concept across AI capabilities, prompts design, and API integration.

You will work directly with stakeholders to refine requirements, propose improved approaches, and document outcomes. The role emphasizes curiosity, candor about knowledge limits, and a willingness to question existing designs

Qualifications

• Requires a technical degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Take defined technical approach and deliver production‑quality functionality.
• Participate in requirements discussions with stakeholders.
• Contribute to solution design and simplifications.
• Build apps integrating AI with prompts, retrieval, APIs, and UI.
• Create evaluation sets and report results, including negative findings.
• Investigate failures and implement fixes.
• Support client demos and proof‑of‑concepts.
• Seek feedback and learn client needs and AI practices.
• Document work with logs, validation, and limitations.
• Move between client delivery, product work, and internal enablement.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

1+ years software dev

LLM integration

APIs & data handling

Python/TypeScript/SQL

Requirements elicitation

Question design

Ambiguity handling

Communication skills

US Citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Tools

Appian

OutSystems

Mendix

Power Platform

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Job description

Groundswell is seeking an AI software engineer to transform unclear business needs into production‑quality software. This client‑facing role blends delivery, internal product work, and rapid proofs of concept across AI capabilities, prompts design, and API integration.

You will work directly with stakeholders to refine requirements, propose improved approaches, and document outcomes. The role emphasizes curiosity, candor about knowledge limits, and a willingness to question existing designs