# Expert RAG Engineer

We are looking for an Expert RAG Engineer to design, build, and own the retrieval-augmented generation systems behind our AI products. Your core work will be architecting production-grade RAG pipelines end to end: ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, evaluation, and serving on top of open-source LLMs (Ollama, llama.cpp) in cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. This is a senior, hands-on role. You’ll define RAG architecture standards, make the key technical decisions on retrieval quality, latency, and cost, and provide technical guidance to AI Developers on the team. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and client stakeholders to turn complex knowledge sources into reliable, measurable, and secure AI features. Key Responsibilities RAG Architecture & Engineering (core focus) Design and own end-to-end RAG architectures, from document ingestion to grounded, cited responses. Build advanced retrieval strategies: hybrid search (dense + BM25/sparse), reranking (cross-encoders), query rewriting/expansion, metadata filtering, and multi-step or agentic retrieval. Define chunking and indexing strategies for diverse sources, including structured and sem

- **Id**: 3839192
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salvo-software-expert-rag-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US, MX
- **Hiring countries total**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T22:04:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T13:33:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3924
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 7930
- **Name**: Salvo Software
- **Domain**: salvosoftware.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/salvo-software>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0.333
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **GGUF** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **GraphRAG** — Optional: no
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **llama.cpp** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Milvus** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Ollama** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Qdrant** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no
- **Weaviate** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Mexico** — Iso: MX; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T22:04:03Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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