Remote Generative AI & RAG Engineer for Government

Synectics for Management Decisions Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Synectics for Management Decisions Inc is seeking a Generative AI & RAG Engineer with experience building large-scale enterprise data platforms for a government agency in the Washington DC metro area. This is a remote position, with periodic onsite reporting as required.

The role is contingent upon contract award. You will design and optimize retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, deploy secure AI agents, and integrate GenAI with policy, legal, and operational catalogs.

Qualifications

• 4+ years developing production-grade NLP architectures.
• Deep experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus, Chroma).
• Clear understanding of LLM security vulnerabilities, prompt injection mitigation, and automated filtering safeguards.

Responsibilities

• Architect and fine-tune Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines over multi-thousand-page maritime regulatory documents.
• Deploy autonomous AI agents inside secure guardrails to automate cross-referencing of legal, financial, and logistical catalogs.
• Develop custom prompts, evaluate token efficiencies, and integrate secure APIs with GenAI.mil and platform-level infrastructure.

Skills

NLP architectures

Vector databases

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Prompt security

Tools

Pinecone

Milvus

Chroma

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

Synectics for Management Decisions Inc is seeking a Generative AI & RAG Engineer with experience building large-scale enterprise data platforms for a government agency in the Washington DC metro area. This is a remote position, with periodic onsite reporting as required.

The role is contingent upon contract award. You will design and optimize retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, deploy secure AI agents, and integrate GenAI with policy, legal, and operational catalogs.