Lead AI Engineer - End-to-End Gov AI Solutions

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401K match

PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking an AI-enabled software engineer to own capabilities end-to-end, from discovery to deployment, across client delivery and internal product work. You will lead requirements discussions, design robust architectures, and mentor peers in AI patterns while ensuring governance, performance, and security.

The role requires hands-on experience with LLMs, a strong programming background, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with federal-related

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and shipping production software.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience building apps that integrate LLMs.
• Own a capability end to end from ambiguous requirement to production.
• Experience evaluating AI system quality with metrics and test sets.
• Strong programming in Python, TS, or SQL across the full app stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discussions with stakeholders, covering workflow, decisions, and success criteria.
• Define technical approach and defend the chosen AI pattern.
• Advise when simpler non-AI solutions are better, e.g., rules or interfaces.
• Define measurable success criteria before building and establish failure definitions.
• Build the complete capability end-to-end including prompts, retrieval, and APIs.
• Develop evaluation sets from real data and iterate based on results.
• Make architecture decisions considering quality, cost, latency, security, and authorization.
• Operationalize capabilities with governance, logging, and monitoring.

Skills

Production software

LLM integration

Prompt engineering

End-to-end ownership

Evaluation metrics

Python/TypeScript/SQL

Stakeholder communication

Independent work

Mentoring

US Citizenship

Education

Master's degree

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

Job description

Groundswell is seeking an AI-enabled software engineer to own capabilities end-to-end, from discovery to deployment, across client delivery and internal product work. You will lead requirements discussions, design robust architectures, and mentor peers in AI patterns while ensuring governance, performance, and security.

The role requires hands-on experience with LLMs, a strong programming background, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with federal-related