Senior RAG / Data Engineer - Active Secret clearance
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Required Skills
PythonGCPSQL
Job Description
Sr. RAG / Data Engineer — Federal and DoD Programs
About the Role
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.
Key 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
Requirements
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or Professional Machine Learning Engineer
- Experience taking AI use cases from discovery through adoption measurement
Clearance & Location
Active Secret clearance required; TS/SCI eligibility preferred. Hybrid or remote with travel to customer sites (~10–25%). Washington, DC / Northern Virginia area preferred.
Benefits
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