AI Engineer

Civic Innovation Lab pairs unfussy engineering challenges with the autonomy to solve them, and we need an AI Engineer to dive in. Weigh it however you like - the math still lands at $40,000 - $63,000, contract hours, and a team at Civic Innovation Lab worth joining.

• Own the client-centric Prompt Engineering subsystem that the rest of Civic Innovation Lab quietly depends on
• Catch the genuinely-flexible Emotional Intelligence regression in staging before it ever reaches Flint customers
• Question the question-everything Conflict Resolution pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
• Resurrect flaky Emotional Intelligence tests until the Flint, MI suite is trustworthy again
• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
• Tune Conflict Resolution caching so Civic Innovation Lab survives the Flint launch spike on the same hardware
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for safety-first production environments

• Around 1+ years of hands-on experience in a technology role
• Working knowledge of Data Wrangling alongside transferable Airflow chops
• Quality-obsessed problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission
• Working familiarity with contract schedules and team norms at Civic Innovation Lab

Civic Innovation Lab grew out of a Flint, MI research lab and never lost its trust-based, question-everything approach to Data Wrangling. We trust the junior folks closest to the customer to make the call without a committee.

Come for $40,000 - $63,000, stay for the mentorship, the benefits, and the rare flexibility that makes Civic Innovation Lab an unpretentious place to grow.

We are reviewing Prompt Engineering and Generative AI backgrounds on a daily basis for this seat.