AI Product Engineer, GovWell
$170-250k
+ Offers Equity
3-5 days a week in office
Modern software for local government
Be an early applicant
Modern software for local government
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-250k
+ Offers Equity
3-5 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build modern software products to help government serve communities better.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software/product engineering experience in high-growth startup environments, building user-facing applications for enterprises and/or consumers
- Hands-on experience building products with generative AI at their core, with strong familiarity in LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval systems
- Product-minded builder: you care as much about usability and impact as you do about technical depth, and you know how to translate AI capabilities into intuitive, reliable workflows
- Iterative problem-solver: you move quickly from prototype to production, using data and customer feedback to refine and improve features
- Mission-driven: motivated by GovWell’s mission to improve government services in America
- Values-aligned: you embody our Core Values
What the job involves
- GovWell is hiring our first AI Product Engineer to help turn cutting-edge generative AI technology into practical, user-facing products for government agencies
- This role reports directly to the CTO and will work closely with the CEO on product strategy
- You’ll play a key role in shaping how we apply AI to solve real-world problems with the potential to grow into a senior product or engineering leadership position
- Design, prototype, build, and launch AI-powered workflow automation products that transform how governments process and deliver services — from AI-powered resident assistants to AI agents that review and approve permits, licenses, and inspections
- Take full ownership of AI product development — from identifying agency and resident needs to shipping production-ready solutions, using techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to handle complex regulatory and compliance data
- Collaborate closely with design, engineering, and government domain experts to turn generative AI into intuitive, reliable, and auditable workflows, including multi-agent orchestration for complex, multi-step approval processes (e.g., construction permitting or business licensing)
- Leverage cutting-edge models and custom LLM systems to ensure accuracy, compliance, and scalability across diverse government use cases
- Use agency feedback and real-world usage data to rapidly iterate and improve automation features, ensuring solutions are trustworthy, transparent, and aligned with regulatory requirements
- Our tech stack:
- RedwoodJS
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
Our take
Govwell creates software for planning and zoning within local governments, simplifying processes and modernising citizen services. With the intention of improving transparency, it is helping all sizes of government serve its communities better.
What stands out about GovWell’s workflow and automation technology is the fact that its platform is customisable. Government sectors, councils and organisations operate their tech in varying ways, and so GovWell serves these varying needs by allowing flexibility of use within its platform. This is facilitated by no-code tools to improve adaptability.
Ultimately, the platform helps local governments complete tasks in a fraction of the time. It’s a breath of fresh air in the sector, which isn’t known for its innovations, and GovWell has been smart to target this niche. It will channel recent funding into expanding its team, enhancing product development and accelerating growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2024
$4.5m
SEED
Apr 2023
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $5.5m
Company benefits
- Equity / stock options
- Up to 100% premiums covered for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited / flexible PTO
Company HQ
Rose Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben Cohen
(CTO)Previously Founder of Cohen Realty & Construction. Was also a Software Engineer at UiPath, Amazon and Uber.
Troy LeCaire
(CEO)Previously Chief of Staff for the CEO of RippleMatch. Was a Campaign Intern for Senator Russ Feingold, Legislative Intern for Senator Tammy Baldwin and Legal Intern at Froelich Law Offices.
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