Senior AI Platform Engineer: Vector Search & Agentic AI

Red Arch Solutions; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid healthcare

Annual training budget

Elite technical community

Job summary

Red Arch Solutions is seeking an experienced AI/ML Data Engineer to architect and implement enterprise-scale data platforms powering vector search, RAG, and LLM applications for Agentic AI initiatives.

You will lead data engineering, governance, and platform integration across stakeholders, ensuring security, reliability, and scalable performance in Reston, VA. The role demands clear communication with senior leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret / SCI with Polygraph clearance is mandatory.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or related quantitative discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, data engineering, distributed systems, cloud architecture, or AI/ML platform development.
• Proven experience 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, governance requirements, and priorities.
• Extensive experience designing data pipelines for ML models, vector databases, semantic search capabilities, and generative AI applications.
• Proven experience delivering complex technical solutions from strategic requirements through deployment with balance of schedule, performance, cost objectives.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise AI Platform Engineering: Architect, build, and maintain enterprise-scale data platforms for vector databases, semantic search, RAG, and LLM applications.
• Data Architecture & Strategy: Establish controls for data quality, lineage, source attribution, prompt and context traceability, explainability, and evaluation of AI outputs.
• AI Data Governance: Implement controls for data quality and explainability across AI workflows.
• Cross-Functional Integration: Collaborate with Data Scientists, ML engineers, Architects, Cybersecurity, and Software Engineers to translate AI requirements into production-grade capabilities.
• Executive Communication: Translate AI concepts into clear operational impacts, risks, and implementation considerations for senior leadership.
• Enterprise Coordination: Align AI initiatives across organizations to maximize reuse and avoid duplication.
• Operational Excellence: Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting for reliable AI-supporting data platforms.
• Technology Evaluation: Assess AI technologies, vector databases, retrieval frameworks, and engineering approaches.

Skills

Leadership & communication

Stakeholder management

Architectural design

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science

Tools

Python

SQL

Azure

AWS

GCP

Data pipelines

Vector databases

MLOps

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Job description

Red Arch Solutions is seeking an experienced AI/ML Data Engineer to architect and implement enterprise-scale data platforms powering vector search, RAG, and LLM applications for Agentic AI initiatives.

You will lead data engineering, governance, and platform integration across stakeholders, ensuring security, reliability, and scalable performance in Reston, VA. The role demands clear communication with senior leadership and cross-functional collaboration.