Senior AI Solutions Engineer — End-to-End, Government

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401K match

Flexible Spending Account

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking an AI-focused software engineer who can own complex capabilities from discovery to production, including design, build, evaluation, and operation. You will bridge engineers, executives, and end users, mentoring others and maintaining current AI knowledge.

The role emphasizes practical decision-making about when AI adds value and when simpler solutions are preferable. You will lead requirements conversations, defend technical approaches, and define success criteria with

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and shipping production software.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience building apps integrating large language models.
• Ability to own a capability end to end from ambiguous requirement to production.
• Experience evaluating AI system quality with metrics and evidence.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements conversations with business and technical stakeholders, covering workflow, decisions, and acceptance criteria.
• Define the technical approach and defend it; select the AI pattern appropriate to the problem.
• Recommend against AI when a simpler solution is enough (rules, processes, interfaces).
• Define measurable success criteria before building, including accuracy targets and human review thresholds.
• Build the complete capability end-to-end: prompts, retrieval, APIs, data handling, UI, and deployment.
• Develop evaluation sets from real data and measure results, iterating as needed.
• Make architecture decisions considering quality, cost, latency, security, and authorization.
• Operationalize capabilities in client environments with governance, logging, and drift monitoring.
• Mentor engineers new to AI through code review and guidance on patterns.
• Maintain current knowledge of models, tooling, and reusable patterns for the team.
• Produce documentation covering solution scope, validation, and failure handling.

Skills

AI system evaluation

Python/TypeScript/SQL

Requirements gathering

Leadership/mentoring

Client-facing communication

Decision making under constraints

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Appian

OutSystems

Mendix

Power Platform

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Job description

Groundswell is seeking an AI-focused software engineer who can own complex capabilities from discovery to production, including design, build, evaluation, and operation. You will bridge engineers, executives, and end users, mentoring others and maintaining current AI knowledge.

The role emphasizes practical decision-making about when AI adds value and when simpler solutions are preferable. You will lead requirements conversations, defend technical approaches, and define success criteria with