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Data Engineer

McLean, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time💰 $115,000–$115,000🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and deploy data-driven solutions, specifically data pipelines for generative AI and LLM usage, within federal AI and Automation practices.

Role type

Mid-Level AI Data Engineer

Builds

Cloud-native AI capabilities, data pipelines, and agentic AI systems for federal missions.

Domain

Federal government, AI/ML, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

ETL/ELT pipeline design, SQL/NoSQL database management, vector databases and embeddings, generative AI/LLM integration, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Python, cloud platform engineering (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Preferred skills

Agentic AI frameworks (CrewAI, LangGraph, Agent2Agent), Python data libraries (Pyspark, Pandas), Terraform/CloudFormation, federal cybersecurity frameworks

Technologies

AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Kafka, Bedrock, Glue, DataBricks, Snowflake, S3, RDS, EBS, Glacier, FAISS, PGVector, Pinecone, Hugging Face, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, VS Code, FastAPI, LangChain, Terraform

Responsibilities

Build and optimize data pipelines for generative AI; manage data lakes and warehouses using medallion architecture; model and query large-scale datasets; collaborate on operational agentic AI systems; automate model deployment workflows; monitor and tune AI system performance; write documented code following federal guidelines.

Seniority

Mid-Level, hands-on IC

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