GenAI Context Engineer

Job Title: GenAI Context Engineer

Location: Strongsville, OH || Dallas, TX || Pittsburgh, PA (Onsite)

Employment Type: Full Time Role

About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.

Job Description:

Future duties and responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures for GenAI platforms and applications.
• Build and optimize semantic retrieval pipelines, vector search implementations, and contextual grounding frameworks.
• Develop ingestion pipelines for enterprise knowledge sources including SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, APIs, databases, and document repositories.
• Define metadata, taxonomy, ontology, chunking, and embedding strategies to improve retrieval relevance and AI response quality.
• Implement permission aware retrieval and secure knowledge access aligned with enterprise governance and compliance requirements.
• Design and optimize hybrid search architectures combining vector search, keyword search, and knowledge graph capabilities.
• Collaborate with Value Engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to translate enterprise knowledge into scalable AI ready knowledge structures.
• Improve groundedness, citation accuracy, retrieval precision, and hallucination reduction across GenAI solutions.
• Maintain knowledge lineage, auditability, and contextual traceability for enterprise AI workflows.
• Support AI evaluation, observability, and continuous improvement initiatives for retrieval quality and search performance.
• Work closely with governance, security, and compliance teams to ensure responsible and secure enterprise AI knowledge access.
• Contribute to reusable enterprise knowledge engineering patterns and platform accelerators.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• 6+ years of experience in knowledge engineering, enterprise search, data engineering, AI engineering, or platform engineering roles.
• Experience building enterprise AI search or knowledge platforms in banking, financial services, healthcare, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with knowledge graphs, ontology modeling, AI observability, and enterprise governance frameworks.
• Understanding of responsible AI, groundedness evaluation, and enterprise compliance requirements for GenAI systems.
• Hands on experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, embeddings, vector databases, and enterprise knowledge systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with API based integrations.
• Experience with GenAI and retrieval technologies such as:
• Azure OpenAI / OpenAI
• Azure AI Search
• LangChain / Semantic Kernel
• Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
• Vector databases and embedding frameworks
• Experience designing ingestion pipelines, metadata frameworks, chunking strategies, and contextual retrieval systems.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data governance, access control, lineage, and permission aware retrieval. Experience integrating enterprise content systems including SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, document repositories, and enterprise APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform and containerized environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, governance, and business teams.

Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Applicant information will be handled in accordance with VLink''s privacy policy.