Senior AI Data Platform Engineer – Vector Search & RAG

Red Arch Solutions, Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 270,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

PTO

401K

Bonus

Tuition reimbursement

529 plan

Holiday pay

Job summary

Red Arch Solutions is seeking a senior AI/ML Data Engineer to design and lead enterprise-scale data platforms powering vector search, RAG, LLM applications, and Agentic AI initiatives. You will partner with data scientists, engineers, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure, scalable AI infrastructure and guide leadership on operational impact and risks associated with AI technologies.

The role requires deep experience in cloud-native data systems, data governance, and end-to-end delivery of

Qualifications

• Clearance: Active, current Top Secret / SCI with Polygraph is mandatory.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 20+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, data engineering, distributed systems, cloud architecture, or AI/ML platform development.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale AI, machine learning, generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions.
• Demonstrated success architecting and implementing production cloud-native data systems supporting advanced analytics and AI workloads.
• Proven experience working within complex enterprise environments managing security, infrastructure, technology dependencies, governance requirements, and competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain enterprise-scale data platforms supporting vector databases, semantic search, RAG, Agentic AI systems, and LLM apps.
• Establish data quality, lineage, source attribution, prompt/context traceability, explainability, and evaluation of AI outputs.
• Lead architectural decisions for AI-supporting data infrastructure balancing performance, scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and cost.
• Partner with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Architects, Cybersecurity, and Software Engineers to translate AI requirements into production-grade capabilities.
• Translate technical AI concepts into operational impacts, risks, and implementation considerations for senior leadership.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

MLOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Vector databases

Retrieval frameworks

Job description

Red Arch Solutions is seeking a senior AI/ML Data Engineer to design and lead enterprise-scale data platforms powering vector search, RAG, LLM applications, and Agentic AI initiatives. You will partner with data scientists, engineers, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure, scalable AI infrastructure and guide leadership on operational impact and risks associated with AI technologies.

The role requires deep experience in cloud-native data systems, data governance, and end-to-end delivery of