Senior AI Engineer: Build Production-Ready AI Solutions

Groundswell; North Dakota; On-site; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible Spending Account

401K match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible work schedule

On-site gym & childcare

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking an engineer who can turn ambiguous business problems into working AI solutions, and who recognizes when AI is not the answer. This is a client-facing, hands-on role; you will work with stakeholders to design, build, demonstrate, and deploy production-grade AI capabilities.

The role spans client delivery, internal product development, rapid proofs of concept, and internal enablement, requiring comfort moving between workstreams and being the most AI-literate person in

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and shipping production software.
• 2+ years building apps integrating large language models (Prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, tools, agent patterns).
• Experience evaluating AI system quality with metrics and deployment decisions.
• Strong programming in Python, TypeScript, or SQL with API integration and imperfect data handling.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with business and technical stakeholders to understand workflow and success criteria.
• Define measurable success criteria before building, including accuracy targets and acceptance conditions.
• Recommend against AI when a simpler solution is appropriate (rules, processes, interfaces).
• Select the AI pattern appropriate to the problem (extraction, classification, summarization, retrieval, or agentic).
• Make and defend architecture decisions on where workloads run (quality, cost, latency, security, authorization).
• Build the complete capability (prompt design, retrieval, outputs, APIs, data handling, UI).
• Build evaluation sets and iterate based on results.
• Determine readiness for deployment and production rollout.
• Operationalize capabilities with governance, logging, and traceability.
• Produce documentation covering solution, limitations, validation, and failure handling.
• Monitor quality, cost, latency, and drift; optimize over time.
• Set direction for clients and build proof-based roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers to raise AI capability and judgment.
• Contribute reusable patterns to avoid starting from scratch.
• Move between client delivery, internal product work, rapid POCs, and enablement.

Skills

Production software

LLM integration

Prompt engineering

RAG techniques

API integration

Imperfect data handling

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder comms

Mentoring engineers

Reusable patterns

Education

Master's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Groundswell is seeking an engineer who can turn ambiguous business problems into working AI solutions, and who recognizes when AI is not the answer. This is a client-facing, hands-on role; you will work with stakeholders to design, build, demonstrate, and deploy production-grade AI capabilities.

The role spans client delivery, internal product development, rapid proofs of concept, and internal enablement, requiring comfort moving between workstreams and being the most AI-literate person in