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title: 'Content Pipeline Engineer at Black Canyon Consulting'
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# Content Pipeline Engineer at Black Canyon Consulting

- **Company:** Black Canyon Consulting
- **Location:** Bethesda, MD
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blackcanyonconsulting/jobs/8005692003

## Job description

## Overview

We are seeking a Content Pipeline Engineer to design and implement reusable pipelines for extracting, structuring, indexing, and retrieving information from permitting documents, maps, and other unstructured content.

The Content Pipeline Engineer will build document-processing capabilities spanning OCR, document parsing, multimodal extraction, metadata enrichment, vector indexing, semantic retrieval, and agentic workflows. The role will support documents such as PDFs, scanned forms, well files, plats, survey drawings, maps, and legal descriptions and make their content available to downstream applications and AI services.

This position is remote.

Duties & Responsibilities

- Design and implement reusable ingestion and processing pipelines for PDFs, scanned documents, images, forms, maps, and other unstructured content.
- Implement OCR and multimodal document-processing workflows for both standard documents and map-related materials.
- Extract text, tables, metadata, identifiers, and domain-specific attributes from source documents.
- Support extraction of information from plats and survey drawings, including legal descriptions, labels, bearings, distances, and other spatially relevant information.
- Develop document parsing, classification, normalization, chunking, and metadata-enrichment processes.
- Maintain linkage and provenance between extracted information, source documents, originating systems, and related business records.
- Build document and vector indexes using OpenSearch or comparable technologies.
- Implement embeddings, semantic search, and retrieval pipelines.
- Develop APIs and reusable interfaces enabling downstream applications and AI services to search and retrieve document content.
- Implement agentic workflows for activities such as document classification, extraction strategy selection, validation, exception handling, and quality assurance.
- Establish confidence thresholds and human-review processes for uncertain or ambiguous extractions.
- Work with GIS engineers to connect map and document extraction results with georeferenced and vectorized geometry.
- Work with Data Scientists to create evaluation datasets and measure OCR, extraction, retrieval, and classification quality.
- Build automated testing, monitoring, and observability for document-processing pipelines.
- Optimize processing for accuracy, throughput, repeatability, and cost.

Educational Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of software engineering, data engineering, search, document-processing, or related experience.
- Strong Python development experience and experience building production-grade data or content-processing pipelines.
- Hands-on experience processing PDFs, images, scanned documents, and semi-structured content using OCR and document-extraction technologies.
- Experience with document stores, search engines, or vector databases, including embeddings and semantic retrieval.
- Experience with document parsing, classification, chunking, metadata enrichment, and preservation of source provenance.
- Experience with LLM-enabled or agentic document-processing workflows, including extraction, validation, routing, or exception handling.
- Experience building robust pipelines with automated testing, logging, monitoring, error handling, and quality controls.
- Experience evaluating OCR and extraction quality using measurable criteria and confidence thresholds.
- Strong problem-solving skills for working with complex and inconsistent document formats.

Bonus Skills

- Experience with OpenSearch.
- Experience with AWS document-processing, AI, or machine-learning services.
- Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with multimodal models, vision-language models, or LLM-based document extraction.
- Experience building RAG or enterprise semantic-search solutions.
- Experience with maps, engineering drawings, plats, survey documents, or legal descriptions.
- Experience extracting bearings, distances, coordinates, or other geospatial information from documents.
- Experience working in the U.S. Federal Government space.

Experience with permitting, environmental, energy, land-management, or regulatory documents.

## Benefits and Salary

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.

If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

## About Black Canyon Consulting

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is a privately held, woman-owned small business that delivers innovative program and IT management support services to federal research and development programs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Woman-Owned Small Business, SBA-certified WOSB)
- **Headquarters**: Fairfax, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2017 [bccdc.net](https://www.bccdc.net/)
- **Founders**: Manish Salhotra (Managing Director, Co-Founder) and Haley Esser (Principal / CEO) [sba.gov](https://dsbs.sba.gov/search/dsp_profile.cfm?SAM_UEI=WB3LFMA4KM45) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-canyon-consulting-llc)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Federal IT consulting and program management support for life sciences, bioinformatics, tool development, and environmental sciences.
- **Target customers**: U.S. federal government agencies (e.g., NIH, HHS) and other R&D-focused organizations.
- **Mission/purpose**: “Integrity, Impact, Innovation” – providing agile, adaptive, customer-focused support to advance national missions. [bccdc.net](https://www.bccdc.net/)

## Products & Services
- **Program Management Support**: Strategic and tactical program oversight, administrative management, and consulting for federal R&D initiatives.
- **IT Management Support**: Custom computer programming, systems design, cloud engineering, DevOps, data engineering, AI/ML, and cybersecurity services.
- **Proprietary Technologies**: BCC leverages its own IT system tools, workflows, and a distributed network of consulting resources to deliver turn-key enterprise solutions. [bccdc.net](https://www.bccdc.net/)
- **GSA Schedule Holder**: Contract #47QTCA18D00JA, providing a streamlined procurement vehicle for federal clients. [gsaelibrary.gsa.gov](https://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/home.do/contractorInfo.do?contractNumber=47QTCA18D00JA&contractorName=BLACK+CANYON+CONSULTING+LLC&executeQuery=YES)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue not disclosed; total funding not applicable (bootstrapped / organic growth).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors; key certifications include WOSB, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000-1:2018, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, FISMA compliance, and SOC readiness. [bccdc.net](https://www.bccdc.net/)
- **Growth Signals**: LinkedIn reports 42 employees (+75% year-over-year growth), 65 active job postings on Greenhouse, and a +50% increase in job postings monthly/quarterly. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-canyon-consulting-llc) | [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blackcanyonconsulting)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB)**: Provides set-aside contracting advantages in the federal market.
- **Deep Federal R&D Focus**: Over 125 years of combined experience in supporting NIH and other research programs.
- **Compliance & Security**: Holds multiple ISO certifications and FISMA, NIST, and PCI-DSS compliance, enabling work on sensitive government systems.
- **Agile Delivery**: Proprietary workflows and IT tools allow rapid, high-value execution for complex program needs. [bccdc.net](https://www.bccdc.net/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding support for NIH bioinformatics, data platforms (e.g., DailyMed, RxNorm, SRA), and AI/LLM initiatives. Actively hiring for roles like AI/ML Specialist, FHIR API SME, and Platform DevEx Engineer. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blackcanyonconsulting)
- **Growth direction**: Continuing to secure federal contracts, growing the consulting workforce, and deepening capabilities in cloud, DevOps, and data science.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “Integrity, Impact, Innovation” with a collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on supporting national research priorities. [bccdc.net](https://www.bccdc.net/)
- **Work location**: Most roles are based in Bethesda, Maryland (NIH campus) or Fairfax, Virginia. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely on-site or hybrid given federal client requirements.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on high-impact federal R&D programs (e.g., NIH’s National Library of Medicine), professional growth in a rapidly expanding company (75% YoY headcount growth), and exposure to cutting-edge technologies (AI, cloud, bioinformatics). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-canyon-consulting-llc)
- **Engineering culture**: Strong focus on software development, DevOps, data engineering, and AI/ML. Teams are organized into divisions like Software Engineering, Platform & DevOps, and Information Engineering. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blackcanyonconsulting)

## Sources
1. [bccdc.net](https://www.bccdc.net/)
2. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blackcanyonconsulting)
3. [sba.gov](https://dsbs.sba.gov/search/dsp_profile.cfm?SAM_UEI=WB3LFMA4KM45)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-canyon-consulting-llc)
5. [gsaelibrary.gsa.gov](https://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/home.do/contractorInfo.do?contractNumber=47QTCA18D00JA&contractorName=BLACK+CANYON+CONSULTING+LLC&executeQuery=YES)

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