Senior Applied AI Engineer
$149,748–$205,305Remote, hiring in WyomingSenior
View posting at GroundswellAbout the job
Senior applied AI engineer responsible for taking ambiguous client workflows from discovery through production, including selecting the right AI or non-AI approach, building the full application, and operationalizing it.
Summary written from the posting.
What you’ll do
- Lead stakeholder discovery and translate workflows into measurable AI or non-AI solutions.
- Select patterns and make architecture tradeoffs across quality, cost, latency, security, and authorization.
- Build and integrate complete AI applications, including retrieval, tools, APIs, data handling, and interfaces.
- Evaluate, deploy, document, monitor, and optimize production capabilities.
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years building and shipping production software.
- 2+ years building applications integrating large language models, including RAG, structured extraction, tool use, and agent patterns.
- Experience building evaluation sets, defining metrics, and making evidence-based deployment decisions.
- Strong Python, TypeScript, or SQL programming and API integration experience.
Technologies
Python · TypeScript · SQL · large language models · retrieval-augmented generation · AWS Bedrock · Azure OpenAI · Appian · LLM evaluation tooling
About Groundswell
PE-backed federal technology integrator specializing in Appian, SAP, Workday, and UiPath modernization for DoD, IC, and civilian agencies.
Private Late · 200–500 people
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