Senior Context Engineer, Digital Transformation & Innovation

Individual contributor role focused on building and maintaining reusable context assets that power BDO Advantage’s AI-native product and process development. Reports to the Context Engineering Manager and operates within the Advantage SDLC, firm policies, and security standards.

Responsibilities

• Context & Knowledge Engineering
  • Builds and maintains reusable context assets—skill files, agent-instruction files (CLAUDE.md and equivalents), and prompt and context patterns—following team standards
  • Encodes BDO domain knowledge into structured, retrievable formats with appropriate metadata and provenance
  • Contributes to context-as-code conventions and applies established inheritance and versioning practices
  • Participates in code and context reviews and incorporates feedback
• Retrieval & Grounding Engineering
  • Implements and maintains retrieval pipelines including chunking, embeddings, indexing, and metadata filtering using Azure AI Search and vector stores
  • Curates retrieval corpora and helps manage freshness, versioning, and quality
  • Writes grounding tests and helps measure retrieval accuracy and quality
• Context Quality & Collaboration
  • Runs context and grounding evaluations and helps improve quality across features
  • Collaborates with AI engineers and product teams to integrate governed context into applications
  • Contributes to team documentation and supports citizen-engineer enablement
• Risk Management
  • Follows firm security, privacy, and compliance standards (SOC 2, PCAOB AS 2201, QC 1000, ISO 27001) when building context assets
  • Ensures sensitive or restricted data does not enter prompts or corpora and maintains traceability of grounded knowledge
• Performs other duties as assigned, including willingly accepting a share of less desirable assignments
• Provides informal guidance to junior engineers, as assigned

Requirements

• Education
  • High School Diploma/GED, required
  • Bachelor’s degree with a focus in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Technology, preferred
• Experience
  • Three (3) or more years of experience in software, data, or AI engineering, or related technology fields, required
  • One (1) or more years of experience building LLM context, retrieval (RAG), or knowledge-management systems, or equivalent project experience, required
  • Experience building reusable components or working within established engineering standards, preferred
  • Experience in professional services, assurance, or accounting industries, preferred
• License/Certifications
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals or Azure AI Engineer Associate, or equivalent, preferred
• Technology
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure AI services including Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search, required
  • Understanding of LLM prompting, retrieval, and grounding concepts, required
  • Experience with retrieval and vector technologies (embeddings, indexing, search), preferred
  • Familiarity with agent-instruction and skill systems (CLAUDE.md and equivalents) and Markdown-based knowledge structures, preferred
  • Experience with Git-based workflows and .NET/C# and/or Python, preferred
• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
  • Solid knowledge of context engineering, retrieval, and grounding fundamentals
  • Ability to work independently on well-scoped problems with general direction
  • Strong problem-solving skills with attention to accuracy and quality
  • Good communication skills and willingness to collaborate and give and receive feedback
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to build relationships across teams
  • Ability to travel up to 10%, no relocation required

Pay

Individual salaries are determined after consideration of numerous factors including qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

• National Range: $95,000 - $125,000
• Maryland Range: $95,000 - $125,000
• NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $95,000 - $125,000

Benefits

BDO provides a comprehensive Total Rewards benefits package, including:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – a qualified retirement plan offering participants a stake in the firm’s success through beneficial ownership
• Additional benefits may be subject to eligibility requirements (see BDO Total Rewards for more information)

About Us

At BDO, we build strong relationships by supporting one another, our clients, and our communities with care, curiosity, and a commitment to helping each other grow and succeed. Our purpose is to be the people our clients count on to grow with confidence and achieve what matters most.

BDO provides assurance, tax, and advisory services to clients across the U.S. and around the world. As an ESOP company, we offer participants a unique opportunity to enhance their financial well-being through ownership in the firm.