Senior RAG & Data Engineer - DoD (Remote)

PGTEK; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PPO medical w/HSA

Vision plan

Dental insurance

Life Insurance

Short/Long-Term disability

Critical Illness insurance

401(k) plan

Pet insurance (ASPCA)

Employee Assistance Program

PTO and Holidays

Education Assistance after 12 months

Job summary

PGTEK seeks a Sr. RAG / Data Engineer to build the knowledge pipeline that delivers grounded, traceable, and permission-aware answers for mission-critical DoD applications.

This role offers hybrid or remote work with travel to customer sites (10–25%). Washington, DC area preferred; active Secret clearance required with TS/SCI eligibility. Join a team focused on adoption and standards across the L200 program.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant technical or engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with Python, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI/RAG, embeddings, vector search, SQL, data quality, IAM, and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Own ingestion, cleaning, chunking, embeddings, metadata, retrieval, citations, access filtering, and data quality
• Implement solutions using Python, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI/RAG, embeddings, and vector search
• Mentor team members and contribute reusable standards
• Support RMF/FedRAMP/DoD authorization activities

Skills

Python

data ingestion

data cleaning

chunking

embeddings

metadata

retrieval

citations

access filtering

data quality

IAM

evaluation

Tools

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Vertex AI/RAG

vector search

SQL

Job description

PGTEK seeks a Sr. RAG / Data Engineer to build the knowledge pipeline that delivers grounded, traceable, and permission-aware answers for mission-critical DoD applications.

This role offers hybrid or remote work with travel to customer sites (10–25%). Washington, DC area preferred; active Secret clearance required with TS/SCI eligibility. Join a team focused on adoption and standards across the L200 program.