# Senior Applied AI Engineer at Groundswell

- Company: Groundswell
- What the company does: Groundswell builds community power to improve local resilience for everyone and cut electricity bills in half for our neighbors who need savings the most. We use community solar, resilience hubs, and energy efficiency to preserve affordable housing,... Backed by GV.
- Company website: https://groundswell.org
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: 51 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://groundswell.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/groundswell/job/Remote---Virginia/Senior-Applied-AI-Engineer_JR101094
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/groundswell-senior-applied-ai-engineer/

## 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