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About the role
We are looking for 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 understand a workflow, determine whether an AI capability will meaningfully improve it, design the approach, build it, demonstrate that it works, and remain accountable for it in production. You will work across the full lifecycle rather than handing off between discovery, build, and operations.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years building and shipping production software
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building applications that integrate large language models, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, tool use, and agent patterns
- Demonstrated experience evaluating AI system quality, including building test sets, defining metrics, and making deployment decisions based on evidence
- Proven ability to lead requirements conversations with non-technical stakeholders and translate what you hear into a technical approach
- Sound judgment on tradeoffs between accuracy, cost, latency, and complexity, with the ability to explain those tradeoffs to both engineers and executives
- Excellent written communication. This role produces client-facing documentation and design rationale
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Who Are We?
Groundswell is a premier technology integrator and solution provider, resolutely committed to solving the most complex challenges facing federal agencies today. Our name, Groundswell, represents our commitment to be an unstoppable, seismic change in government. Ours is a small company culture with big company reach and results. Are you ready to be audacious, be bold and drive change at a rapid pace? Join us, where we’ll make a greater impact together.
We are looking for 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 understand a workflow, determine whether an AI capability will meaningfully improve it, design the approach, build it, demonstrate that it works, and remain accountable for it in production. You will work across the full lifecycle rather than handing off between discovery, build, and operations.
The work spans client delivery, internal product development, rapid proofs of concept, and internal enablement. You should be comfortable moving between them, and comfortable being the most AI-literate person in a...
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