Government AI Data Engineer — Secure Pipelines (Hybrid)

Precise Software Solutions, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Precise Software Solutions, Inc. seeks an AI/ML Data Engineer to design and govern data foundations for secure AI-enabled government applications. You will own AI-ready datasets, manage ingestion, quality controls, privacy, lineage, and retrieval-quality measurement to ensure auditable AI outputs from trusted sources.

The role requires DC-area onsite work with hybrid arrangement; citizenship/permanent residency is required along with eligibility for public trust clearance.

Qualifications

• - Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• - 5+ years of hands-on data engineering or database development experience (SQL, ETL/ELT).
• - Strong Python skills with experience in data processing frameworks (pandas, Spark) and Airflow.
• - 1+ year of experience preparing data for Generative AI (embeddings, vector databases, RAG data).
• - Experience implementing data quality, lineage, metadata management, and data governance controls.
• - Experience protecting sensitive data (PII) including masking and access controls.
• - Experience with a major cloud data platform (AWS/Azure/GCP), Git, and CI/CD.
• - Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident; Washington DC metro on-site.
• - Must obtain/maintain a Public Trust background investigation.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines for AI training, evaluation, and operations.
• Curate, version, and lineage datasets; maintain metadata inventories and logs.
• Implement automated data-quality checks and scorecards; monitor dataset quality and drift.
• Design data models, vector stores, and embedding schemas for RAG knowledge bases.
• Measure retrieval/model quality using metrics like precision/recall, MRR, NDCG, relevance.
• Produce data-related deliverables (model cards, pipeline docs, RAG evaluation reports).
• Build secure data access for AI apps (NL-to-SQL with role-based controls) and support dashboards.
• Monitor pipelines, troubleshoot failures, and ensure FedRAMP-compliant encryption in cloud regions.
• Support Responsible AI by evaluating outputs for bias, accuracy, and hallucination; document results.
• Secure data paths from sources to prompts/logs; support AI risk testing.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data governance

Pandas

Spark

Airflow

Generative AI data prep

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Git

CI/CD

pgvector

OpenSearch

Job description

Precise Software Solutions, Inc. seeks an AI/ML Data Engineer to design and govern data foundations for secure AI-enabled government applications. You will own AI-ready datasets, manage ingestion, quality controls, privacy, lineage, and retrieval-quality measurement to ensure auditable AI outputs from trusted sources.

The role requires DC-area onsite work with hybrid arrangement; citizenship/permanent residency is required along with eligibility for public trust clearance.