Junior Graph Data Engineer

About the Organization

Now is a great time to join Redhorse Corporation. We are a solution-driven company delivering data insights and technology solutions to customers with missions critical to U.S. national interests. We’re looking for thoughtful, skilled professionals who thrive as trusted partners building technology-agnostic solutions and want to apply their talents supporting customers with difficult and important mission sets.

Now is an exciting time to join Redhorse Corporation.

We are redefining how the U.S. Government transforms data into operational advantage through artificial intelligence, graph analytics, and mission-driven software engineering. Our teams work alongside the Department of Defense to build secure, scalable capabilities that enable analysts and decision-makers to move faster, reason better, and operate with greater confidence.

Our approach combines human-centered design, modern software engineering, graph technologies, artificial intelligence, and agile delivery to solve some of the nation’s most challenging problems.

About the Role

We are seeking an analytical, forward-thinking Junior Graph Data Engineer to help build, scale, and maintain the Enterprise Semantic Map — our ontology-grounded metadata graph.

In this role, you will help move the enterprise beyond traditional, static cataloging by supporting an automation-first approach. You will develop programmatic data and API integrations, help configure graph database structures, and support emerging agentic workflows that discover and catalog disparate data sources across the enterprise. Working alongside graph, data, and engineering teams, you will help align these assets to enterprise semantic and provenance layers so data is discoverable, understandable, trusted, and dynamically composable for human analysts, applications, and downstream AI agents.

Success in this role requires foundational coding skills and a systems-thinking mindset: an ability to understand how data pipelines and tool integrations affect the broader enterprise architecture, search and discovery, and downstream agentic research workflows and use cases.

Key Responsibilities

Required Experience/Clearance

• Bachelor’s Degree with 1+ of relevant professional experience or equivalent.
• Active TS SCI Clearance.
• Core Technical Skills: Foundational proficiency across the following areas, demonstrated in any comparable technology:
• Programming and scripting for automation (e.g., Python, Java, or a comparable general-purpose language)
• Relational database querying (e.g., SQL)
• Structured and semi-structured data formats (e.g., JSON, XML, YAML)
• Knowledge graph concepts, including nodes, edges, relationships, and metadata schemas
• Foundational Data Engineering: Basic understanding of data structures, databases, and how data moves through pipelines or ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes.
• Systems-Thinking Mindset: Ability to understand how individual data pipelines connect to and support a broader enterprise ecosystem.
• Attention to Detail: Precision in aligning metadata terms, formatting data endpoints, and maintaining technical schemas.
• Collaboration & Communication: Ability to take direction from senior engineers, document work clearly, and explain technical decisions to non-specialist stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

The salary range provided for this position represents the anticipated base salary for successful candidates. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, education, certifications, skills, security clearance level, geographic location, market conditions, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may participate in Redhorse's comprehensive benefits programs and may be eligible for performance-based or other incentive compensation, where applicable.

Redhorse Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Redhorse Corporation shall, in its discretion, modify or adjust the position to meet Redhorse’s changing needs. This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in Redhorse’s sole discretion.

Compensation: USD 85,000 – 105,000 per year salary