CareerPlan

Senior Data Engineer

McLean, Virginia, United StatesFull-time$115k2026-10-07 → 2026-11-10
Citizens onlySecurity clearance required

Core

Design, build, and deploy cloud-native AI capabilities and agentic AI systems for federal missions, focusing on data integrations for Generative AI and LLM usage.

Role type

Senior IC AI Data Engineer

Builds

Data pipelines, data lakes/warehouses, and operational agentic AI systems

Domain

Federal government / Generative AI & Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ETL/ELT, SQL/NoSQL, Vector databases, Generative AI/LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, IaC

Preferred skills

Python (Pyspark, LangChain, CrewAI), Terraform/CloudFormation, Agentic frameworks (Agent2Agent, Mastra), Federal cybersecurity frameworks

Technologies

AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenSearch, Kafka, Bedrock, Glue, DataBricks, Snowflake, FAISS, PGVector, Pinecone, Hugging Face, LangGraph, CrewAI, Terraform, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, VS Code

Responsibilities

Build and optimize data pipelines for Generative AI; Manage data lake and warehouse architectures; Model and query large-scale datasets; Collaborate on operational agentic AI systems; Automate model deployment workflows; Monitor and tune AI systems post-deployment; Write clean, documented code following federal guidelines

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC