Municipal and county governments in 40+ states use GovWell's AI operating system to deliver better services, work smarter, and build public trust. Backed by Insight.
About the role
GovWell already has AI in production doing real work inside government: Our AI AutoCheck reviews permit applications against local building codes, and our AI Community Assistant automatically answers resident and staff questions about permitting and licensing. Both are live, both are improving fast, and both are still early enough that the engineers who join this team now will define the kind of impact that AI can have at GovWell.
What they're looking for
- You've built with LLMs beyond prompt-wrapping — retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation harnesses, or reliability/hallucination mitigation in a system real users depended on
- You know the difference between a demo that impresses in a meeting and a system reliable enough that a government reviewer will actually trust its output — and you're energized by closing that gap, not just building the demo
- You're comfortable owning ambiguity: there's no existing playbook for "AI reviewer for municipal permitting," and part of the job is writing it as you go
- You have real product judgment — you can help decide what GovWell's AI surface area looks like next, not just implement a spec
- Strong full-stack ability: you're shipping UI, API, and the retrieval/model infrastructure underneath it, not working purely in a notebook
- Values-aligned : you embody our Core Values
More about this role
We the people — and the taxpayers — deserve good government. Yet today, interacting with government services is often frustrating and inefficient. GovWell is building the AI operating system transforming how governments serve communities, starting with local agencies.
GovWell replaces legacy software for municipalities and counties, empowering public servants to radically streamline public services and cut internal processing time for permits and licenses by up to 95%.
Founded in 2023, GovWell powers 5,000+ mission-critical processes for agencies in 35+ states serving millions of residents. The company has raised $35M in funding from Insight Partners, Work-Bench, and Bienville Capital, and the team works in person at GovWell HQ in New York City. Read more about our founding story in TechCrunch .
GovWell already has AI in production doing real work inside government: Our AI AutoCheck reviews permit applications against local building codes, and our AI Community Assistant automatically answers resident and staff questions about permitting and licensing. Both are live, both are improving fast, and both are still early enough that the engineers who join this team now will define the...
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