Applied AI Engineer — End-to-End AI Solutions Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

FSA

401K match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking a senior engineer to own AI-enabled capabilities end to end, from discovery through deployment and operation, including when to use AI or a simpler solution. You will lead requirements conversations with business and technical stakeholders, design the approach, build and evaluate, and mentor others while navigating client engagements and internal product work.

The role requires US citizenship and comfort working across government-facing projects; candid documentation and

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and shipping production software.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience building applications that integrate large language models, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, tool use, and agent patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to own a capability end to end, from an ambiguous requirement through to something in production that people rely on.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating AI system quality, including building test sets, defining metrics, and making deployment decisions based on evidence.
• Strong programming ability in a general-purpose language such as Python, TypeScript, or SQL, applied across the full application rather than the AI layer alone.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements conversations with business and technical stakeholders, covering the workflow, the decision being supported, the current standard for acceptable results, and the constraints that were not raised initially.
• Define the technical approach and defend it. Select the AI pattern appropriate to the problem, such as extraction, classification, summarization, retrieval, or an agentic workflow, rather than defaulting to the most sophisticated option available.
• Recommend against AI when a simpler solution is the right one. Rules, process changes, and improved interfaces are often the correct answer, and identifying that early is part of the job.
• Define measurable success criteria before building, including accuracy targets, human review thresholds, acceptance conditions, and the definition of failure.
• Build the complete capability rather than the AI components alone. This includes prompt and retrieval design, structured outputs, tool and function definitions, API integration, data handling, error states, and the user interface.

Skills

Production software

LLM integration

End-to-end ownership

AI evaluation skills

Python/TypeScript/SQL

Stakeholder leadership

Tradeoff judgment

Technical writing

Independent delivery

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Job description

Groundswell is seeking a senior engineer to own AI-enabled capabilities end to end, from discovery through deployment and operation, including when to use AI or a simpler solution. You will lead requirements conversations with business and technical stakeholders, design the approach, build and evaluate, and mentor others while navigating client engagements and internal product work.

The role requires US citizenship and comfort working across government-facing projects; candid documentation and