Senior AI Context Engineer — Knowledge & Retrieval

BDO USA; United States; On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA is seeking a Senior Context Engineer to build and maintain reusable context assets that power the BDO Advantage AI-native product and processes. You will develop skill files, agent-instruction files, prompt patterns, and grounding corpora, following team standards and security policies.

You will work independently on well-scoped problems, collaborate with AI engineers and product teams, and contribute to high-quality, reusable context infrastructure across the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in software, data, or AI engineering.
• One or more years of experience building LLM context, retrieval (RAG), or knowledge-management systems.
• Experience building reusable components or working within established engineering standards.
• Experience in professional services, assurance, or accounting industries (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains reusable context assets—skill files, agent-instruction files (CLAUDE.md and equivalents), and prompt and context patterns—following team standards.
• Encodes BDO domain knowledge into structured, retrievable formats with metadata and provenance.
• Implements retrieval pipelines including chunking, embeddings, indexing, and metadata filtering using Azure AI Search and vector stores.
• Collaborates with AI engineers and product teams to integrate governed context into applications.
• Runs context and grounding evaluations and supports citizen-engineer enablement.
• Follows security, privacy, and compliance standards when building context assets.

Skills

LLM prompts

RAG retrieval

Context engineering

Git workflows

Python

Azure AI

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Git

Python

C#

Job description

BDO USA is seeking a Senior Context Engineer to build and maintain reusable context assets that power the BDO Advantage AI-native product and processes. You will develop skill files, agent-instruction files, prompt patterns, and grounding corpora, following team standards and security policies.

You will work independently on well-scoped problems, collaborate with AI engineers and product teams, and contribute to high-quality, reusable context infrastructure across the SDLC.