Client‑Facing Applied AI Engineer: Build Real AI Solutions

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Flexible Spending Account

401K match

Paid Time Off

Tuition reimbursement and professional

Flexible work schedule

On-site gym and childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell is an engineering partner helping federal agencies solve complex challenges through AI-enabled software. This hands-on role focuses on turning incompletely defined business needs into working software while engaging directly with business stakeholders to refine requirements.

You will participate in requirements discussions, design approaches, and build complete applications that integrate AI capabilities with APIs, data handling, and user-facing functionality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field
• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience building applications that integrate AI capabilities with APIs, data handling, and user-facing functionality

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
• Support client demonstrations and proof‑of‑concepts to help customers understand how AI can be applied to their business challenges
• Seek feedback, ask thoughtful questions, and continuously build your understanding of client needs and AI best practices
• Instrument and document your work, including logging, traceability, intended behavior, known limitations, validation method, and failure handling
• Move between client delivery, internal product work, rapid proofs of concept, and internal enablement as the work requires
• Raise blockers, unclear requirements, and results you do not trust early rather than working around them
• Contribute reusable patterns, prompts, and evaluation harnesses back to the team

Skills

Software development

LLM integration

API integration

Prompt engineering

Data handling

User-facing functionality

Requirements gathering

Communication

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Job description

Groundswell is an engineering partner helping federal agencies solve complex challenges through AI-enabled software. This hands-on role focuses on turning incompletely defined business needs into working software while engaging directly with business stakeholders to refine requirements.

You will participate in requirements discussions, design approaches, and build complete applications that integrate AI capabilities with APIs, data handling, and user-facing functionality.