Junior AI Prompt Engineer: Build AI Workflows & Adoption

Ignite IT, LLC; Ashburn, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with matching

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health savings account

Life insurance

Short Term Disability

Long Term Disability

AD&D

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible schedule

Flexible spending account

Referral program

Job summary

Ignite IT, LLC seeks a Junior AI Prompt Engineer to support CBP by identifying AI opportunities, refining prompts, and designing AI-enabled workflows that improve mission operations.

The role focuses on helping users adopt and apply AI technologies, with collaboration across stakeholders and technical teams. The ideal candidate has analytics, problem-solving skills, and experience with prompt design for generative AI platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience applying AI tools to solve business, operational, academic, or technical problems.
• Experience designing, testing, or refining prompts for generative AI platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to gather requirements and translate business needs into practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to understand business processes, gather requirements, identify operational pain points, and evaluate opportunities for AI adoption.
• Design, test, refine, and document reusable prompts and prompt workflows for approved large language model platforms.
• Develop and support AI-enabled workflows that improve operational efficiency and automate manual processes.
• Support demonstrations, training sessions, and user adoption activities that help stakeholders effectively leverage AI capabilities.
• Use approved AI platforms to assist stakeholders with research, summarization, reporting, analysis, and development of decision-support content.
• Evaluate and validate AI-generated outputs to ensure accuracy, reliability, and alignment with mission requirements.
• Research emerging AI capabilities and identify practical use cases that support mission objectives.
• Support rapid prototyping, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement of AI solutions.
• Document AI use cases, workflows, findings, lessons learned, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with technical teams to support deployment and integration efforts.
• Identify opportunities for advanced AI capabilities, automation, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic AI solutions and coordinate with technical teams as needed.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience applying AI tools to solve business, operational, academic, or technical problems.
• Experience designing, testing, or refining prompts for generative AI platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to gather requirements and translate business needs into practical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Skills

Prompt engineering

AI adoption

Workflow automation

Business analysis

Software development

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

n8n

Make.com

Zapier

LangFlow

APIs

Job description

Ignite IT, LLC seeks a Junior AI Prompt Engineer to support CBP by identifying AI opportunities, refining prompts, and designing AI-enabled workflows that improve mission operations.

The role focuses on helping users adopt and apply AI technologies, with collaboration across stakeholders and technical teams. The ideal candidate has analytics, problem-solving skills, and experience with prompt design for generative AI platforms.