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Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively - anytime, anywhere, securely. We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.\nSkyePoint Decisions is seeking an experienced AI Engineer with Azure OpenAI experience to design and implement aAI inference and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline for Department of State. This role is responsible forprovisioning and configuring Azure OpenAI Service on Azure Government, building the RAG pipeline that grounds AI responses in agencyplaybooks and live vulnerability feeds, and implementing the confidence scoring mechanism that drives the human validation queue. 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