Client-Facing Applied AI Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Flexible Spending Account

4% 401K Match (immediate vesting)

Paid Time Off

Tuition reimbursement, certification,

Professional development

Flexible work schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell is hiring an engineer who can take vague business needs and translate them into working software through AI-enabled solutions. This hands-on, client-facing role involves refining requirements with stakeholders, proposing improved approaches, and delivering end-to-end functionality that blends AI capabilities with APIs and data handling.

You will move between client delivery, internal product work, rapid proofs of concept, and ongoing enablement, building reusable patterns and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent demonstrated ability.
• 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 the underlying need, and return with a proposed approach.
• Willingness to question a design, including one you have been given, and to make the case for an alternative.
• Ability to work through ambiguous requirements with guidance, ask thoughtful questions, and drive assigned work to completion.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Candor about the limits of your knowledge and a willingness to ask rather than assume.
• U.S. Citizenship required. Ability to obtain and maintain any federal government background investigation, suitability determination, or security clearance required by assigned client engagements.

Responsibilities

• Take a defined technical approach and build it into production‑quality functionality.
• Participate in requirements discussions with business stakeholders to understand the workflow, business need, and desired outcome
• Contribute ideas and alternative approaches during solution design, including identifying opportunities to simplify the solution or reduce the AI component where appropriate.
• Contribute to building complete applications that integrate AI capabilities with prompt and retrieval design, structured outputs, tool and function definitions, API integration, data handling, error handling, and user‑facing functionality.
• Build evaluation sets from real data, measure results against them, and report findings accurately, including results that do not support the chosen approach.
• Investigate failures by identifying where a capability produced an incorrect result, characterizing the cause, and implementing a fix.

Skills

Software development

LLM integration

Prompt engineering

APIs

Requirements analysis

Client facing

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Appian

OutSystems

Mendix

Power Platform

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Job description

Groundswell is hiring an engineer who can take vague business needs and translate them into working software through AI-enabled solutions. This hands-on, client-facing role involves refining requirements with stakeholders, proposing improved approaches, and delivering end-to-end functionality that blends AI capabilities with APIs and data handling.

You will move between client delivery, internal product work, rapid proofs of concept, and ongoing enablement, building reusable patterns and