Senior RAG Data Engineer (Remote/Hybrid, DoD)

PGTEK; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance and PPO

Dental insurance

Vision plan

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with matching

Pet insurance discount

Employee Assistance Program

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

This role requires 3+ years of relevant experience, hands-on work with Python, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI/RAG, embeddings, and vector search. Active Secret clearance is required; TS/SCI eligibility is preferred.

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.
• Clearance: Active Secret; TS/SCI eligibility preferred.

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

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Vertex AI

RAG

Embeddings

Vector search

SQL

IAM

Evaluation

Tools

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Vertex AI

IAM

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-a aware answers for mission-critical applications.

This role requires 3+ years of relevant experience, hands-on work with Python, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI/RAG, embeddings, and vector search. Active Secret clearance is required; TS/SCI eligibility is preferred.