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# RAG / Data Engineer

- **Company:** THE PODMILSAK GROUP, INC.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Search Technologies, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Scripting, Google Cloud, SC Clearance
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-rag-data-engineer-active-secret-clearance-washington-dc--01c399c6-9702-498f-b05d-5a3d6fdc4247

## About the Role

* 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., Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Consulting, Data Quality, Engineering, Machine Learning, Mentoring, Python Programming/Scripting Language, SQL (Structured Query Language), Sales Pipeline, Secret Clearance, Software Engineering, United States Department of Defense (DoD), Use Cases, Willing to Travel

## 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., * 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


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