RAG Application Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton3 days ago
Fort Meade, MD, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$69k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain RAG runtime application logic for embedding generation, hybrid retrieval, reranking, citation assembly, and request-level guardrails.
- Develop API endpoints, orchestration workflows, service routing, and integrations with AI models and search systems.
- Implement authentication, authorization, retries, backoff, timeouts, and robust error handling.
- Containerize applications and deploy services using Docker, ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
- Build telemetry using structured logs, metrics, and traces.
- Collaborate with Cloud, Security, Data, Search, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to optimize retrieval behavior and service reliability.
Requirements
- Experience building backend or platform services using Python or Java.
- Experience designing or integrating RAG workflows involving embeddings, hybrid retrieval, vector search, and reranking.
- Experience implementing API request pipelines, orchestration logic, and service routing for AI model and search calls.
- Experience enforcing authentication and authorization in service logic.
- Experience developing resilient services and collaborating with data, search, cloud, and security engineers.
- Experience containerizing applications with Docker and deploying to ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
- Experience building telemetry with structured logs, metrics, and traces.
- TS/SCI clearance is required, with eligibility for access to classified information.
- High school diploma or GED is required.
- Preferred experience includes Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch with BM25 and vector search, citation assembly, grounding validation, model guardrails, API gateways, rate limiting, caching, Kafka, Amazon SQS, Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Candidates must complete the required skills assessment and meet the minimum proficiency threshold.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care support are available.
- Recognition awards may be provided for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in benefit programs, with select offerings for those below the threshold.
- The posting describes remote, hybrid, and onsite work models; remote employees may occasionally work at a Booz Allen or customer facility, while hybrid and onsite expectations depend on leadership and role needs.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).