Senior RAG Data Engineer for DoD & Federal (Remote/Hybrid)

PGTEK; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PPO medical with HSA

Vision plan

Dental insurance

401(k) matching

Pet insurance discount (ASPCA)

Employee Assistance Program

Paid time off and holidays

Education Assistance after 12 months

Job summary

PGTEK is seeking a Sr. RAG / Data Engineer to support our L200 Driving Adoption capability. You will build the knowledge pipeline that yields grounded, traceable, and permission-aware answers for mission-critical applications.

Responsibilities cover ingestion, cleaning, chunking, embeddings, metadata, retrieval, and access filtering. You will work with Python, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI/RAG, and vector search while mentoring teammates and supporting DoD authorization activities.

Qualifications

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

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Python

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Vertex AI/RAG

Embeddings

Vector search

SQL

IAM

Evaluation

Job description

PGTEK is seeking a Sr. RAG / Data Engineer to support our L200 Driving Adoption capability. You will build the knowledge pipeline that yields grounded, traceable, and permission-aware answers for mission-critical applications.

Responsibilities cover ingestion, cleaning, chunking, embeddings, metadata, retrieval, and access filtering. You will work with Python, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI/RAG, and vector search while mentoring teammates and supporting DoD authorization activities.