Senior Context Engineer - AI Knowledge & Retrieval Leader

BDO USA, LLP; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA, LLP is seeking an Experienced Senior Context Engineer to design and build reusable context assets powering the AI-native BDO Advantage platform. You’ll own complex knowledge libraries, agent-instruction standards, and retrieval-grounding corpora, while mentoring junior engineers and aligning with product teams.

You will ensure governance, accuracy, and security in line with firm standards. You will lead context and knowledge engineering, retrieval pipelines, and grounding evaluation,

Qualifications

• Requires 5+ years in software, data, AI engineering or related tech
• 3+ years building LLM context, retrieval-augmented generation, or knowledge-management systems
• Experience defining reusable engineering assets, patterns, or standards
• Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers
• Experience delivering AI/knowledge solutions in professional services, assurance, or accounting preferred

Responsibilities

• Designs and builds complex, reusable context assets and prompt patterns for across products
• Establishes conventions, inheritance, and versioning standards for context engineering
• Codifies assurance domain knowledge into structured, retrievable knowledge with provenance
• Owns retrieval pipelines and corpus lifecycle management
• Builds grounding evaluation and quality metrics for retrieval-augmented features
• Mentors junior and mid-level engineers
• Ensures compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards

Skills

Context engineering

Retrieval design

Grounding for production LLMs

Mentorship

Azure AI services

Communication

Travel availability

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor’s in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

CLAUDE.md

Markdown knowledge structures

Job description

BDO USA, LLP is seeking an Experienced Senior Context Engineer to design and build reusable context assets powering the AI-native BDO Advantage platform. You’ll own complex knowledge libraries, agent-instruction standards, and retrieval-grounding corpora, while mentoring junior engineers and aligning with product teams.

You will ensure governance, accuracy, and security in line with firm standards. You will lead context and knowledge engineering, retrieval pipelines, and grounding evaluation,