Senior RAG & Data Engineer — Remote, DoD Clearance

PGTEK; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (PPO with HSA)

Vision plan

Dental insurance

Life Insurance

Short and Long-Term disability

Critical Illness insurance

401(k) matching

Pet insurance discount

Employee Assistance Program

PTO & Holidays

Education assistance

Job summary

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

The role includes owning data ingestion, cleaning, and quality, implementing vector search and embeddings using Vertex AI/RAG, and ensuring DoD RMF/FedRAMP compliance. Hybrid or remote work with travel to customer sites in the DC area is expected.

Qualifications

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

3+ years experience

Education

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

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 gives Gemini grounded, traceable, and permission-aware answers for mission-critical applications.

The role includes owning data ingestion, cleaning, and quality, implementing vector search and embeddings using Vertex AI/RAG, and ensuring DoD RMF/FedRAMP compliance. Hybrid or remote work with travel to customer sites in the DC area is expected.