Senior Context Engineer, Digital Transformation & Innovation
BDO USA, LLP2 days ago
Grand Rapids, MI, USASenior
Base Salary
$95k - $125k/yr
Responsibilities
- Write, test, review, and ship production C#/.NET and/or Python code integrating governed context, retrieval, and agent capabilities into Advantage applications.
- Build and maintain services, APIs, and tooling that load, validate, version, and serve context assets to agents and applications.
- Create reusable skill files, agent-instruction files, prompt and context patterns, and structured knowledge assets with metadata and provenance.
- Implement and maintain retrieval pipelines using document parsing, chunking, embeddings, indexing, hybrid search, and metadata filtering.
- Curate retrieval corpora, manage freshness and versioning, and write grounding and retrieval evaluation tests measuring accuracy, latency, and cost.
- Collaborate with AI engineers and product teams, contribute to documentation and citizen-engineer enablement, and provide informal guidance to junior engineers.
- Follow security, privacy, compliance, and traceability standards while ensuring sensitive or restricted data does not enter prompts, corpora, or model context.
Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED is required; a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or Information Technology is preferred.
- At least three years of hands-on professional software development experience building, testing, and deploying production applications or services in C#/.NET or Python is required.
- At least one year of experience building production LLM-powered features, such as retrieval-augmented generation, agent tooling, or prompt and context systems, is required.
- Experience deploying and operating services on Microsoft Azure is required.
- Proficiency in C#/.NET or Python, including automated testing, is required.
- Working knowledge of Git workflows, pull-request review, and CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions is required.
- Working knowledge of Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search, plus understanding of LLM prompting, context windows, retrieval, and grounding, is required.
- Experience with retrieval and vector technologies, reusable components, or established engineering standards is preferred.
- Familiarity with agent-instruction and skill systems, Claude Code, Markdown-based knowledge structures, Azure Container Apps, Semantic Kernel, and Dapr is preferred.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals or Azure AI Engineer Associate, or equivalent, is preferred.
- Professional services, assurance, or accounting industry experience is preferred.
- Ability to work independently on well-scoped problems, explain technical decisions, collaborate, manage multiple tasks, and meet deadlines is required.
Benefits
- Ability to travel up to 10%.
- No relocation is required.
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About BDO USA, LLP
BDO USA, LLP provides assurance, tax, and consulting services to middle-market companies, nonprofits, and public sector clients. Operating as the U.S. member firm of the global BDO network, the Chicago-based partnership earns fees for professional services spanning audits, tax compliance and planning, transaction advisory, risk, and technology consulting. Its practices also cover areas like government contracting and private client tax matters.