Senior RAG Data Engineer — Remote, Secret Clearance

PGTEK; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vision Plan

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

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 ingestion, cleaning, chunking, embeddings, and data quality, plus implementing solutions with Python, BigQuery, and Vertex AI/RAG. You will mentor teammates and help with DoD authorization activities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant technical or 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.

Tools

Python

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Vertex AI/RAG

Embeddings

Vector search

SQL

IAM

Data quality

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 ingestion, cleaning, chunking, embeddings, and data quality, plus implementing solutions with Python, BigQuery, and Vertex AI/RAG. You will mentor teammates and help with DoD authorization activities.