Client-Facing AI Engineer — Applied AI & POC Prototyping

Groundswell

Georgia

On-site

USD 88,000 - 172,000

Full time

7 days ago
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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 engineer who can take a technical approach to an incompletely defined business need and produce working software. This hands‑on, client‑facing role will work directly with business stakeholders to refine requirements and develop the resulting product.

The role spans client delivery, internal product development, rapid proofs of concept, and internal enablement. You will move between client work and internal development as needed, contributing reusable patterns and

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical background.
  • 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 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 underlying need, and propose approaches.

Responsibilities

  • Take a defined technical approach and build it into production‑quality functionality.
  • Participate in requirements discussions with business stakeholders to understand the workflow and desired outcomes.
  • Contribute ideas and alternative approaches during solution design and simplification where appropriate.
  • Build complete applications that integrate AI capabilities with prompts, retrieval design, structured outputs, API integration, data handling, and user‑facing features.
  • Develop evaluation sets from real data, measure results, and report findings even when results diverge from the chosen approach.
  • Investigate failures and implement fixes to improve capability accuracy.

Skills

Prompt engineering
API integration
Retrieval augmented generation
Structured extraction
Python
TypeScript
SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

APIs
LLM services
Cloud AI services
Low-code platforms

Job description

Groundswell is seeking an engineer who can take a technical approach to an incompletely defined business need and produce working software. This hands‑on, client‑facing role will work directly with business stakeholders to refine requirements and develop the resulting product.

The role spans client delivery, internal product development, rapid proofs of concept, and internal enablement. You will move between client work and internal development as needed, contributing reusable patterns and

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