Ontology / Knowledge Graph Engineer (Life Sciences)

Scientific Knowledge Engineer, Ontology & Data Modeling This role is responsible for maximizing the value of our data assets over a lifetime to bring purpose to data by acting as translators of highly technical information from domain experts into an appropriate data model - complete with significant ontology and vocabulary - that can be utilized to effectively structure and index the data. Specifically working with Product managers and R&D subject matter expertise to define the language (data models, ontology, standards, etc.) of science into data products by acting as the voice of "Knowledge base" and interoperability/value of asset. Key responsibilities include: Definition of schemas/ontology and data models of scientific information required for the creation of value adding data products. This includes accountability for the quality control and mapping specifications to be industrialized by data engineering and maintained in platform provisioned tooling. Accountable for the quality control (through validation and verification) of mapping specifications to be industrialized by data engineering and maintained in platform provisioned tooling - e.g., models, schemas, controlled vocab. Working with Product managers/engineers confidently convert business need into defined deliverable business requirements to enable the integration of large-scale biology data to predict, model, and stabilize therapeutically relevant protein complex and antigen conformations for drug and vaccine discovery. Collaborate with external groups to align data standards with industry/ academic ontologies ensuring that data standards are defined with usage/analytics in mind. Provides bespoke subject matter expertise for R&D data to translate deep science into data for actionable insights Contribute to and maintain documentation of data standards, ontology decisions, and mapping rationale to support organizational knowledge transfer and auditability

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: Masters degree in Bioinformatics, Biomedical Science, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, or Computer Science (with a life science application focus) 6+ years of relevant work experience Specific experience contributing to Knowledge Graph development efforts, including entity modeling, relationship design, and schema governance Hands-on experience with open-source ontology tools and languages: Protégé, SPARQL, OWL, SKOS, SHACL, RML, RDF/Turtle Working knowledge of major life sciences ontologies: Gene Ontology (GO), OBO Foundry ontologies (CL, UBERON, HPO, MONDO, CHEBI, EFO, CLO), MeSH, SNOMED CT, UMLS Familiarity with linked data principles and semantic web technologies Experience with industry-standard tools for building data serialization protocols (e.g., JSON Schema, LinkML) Proficiency in at least one programming language - preferably Python - for scripting vocabulary mappings, building data models, automating QC, and prototyping pipelines Preferred Qualifications: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: Experience with data governance and data quality tooling (e.g., Ataccama, Informatica, Talend, OpenRefine, Great Expectations, dbt) Experience with at least one programming language - e.g. Python - for scripting vocabulary mappings, building data models, etc Experience supporting LLM integration or AI-readiness workflows - including metadata enrichment, entity linking, embedding pipelines, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures Understanding of vector databases and their role in semantic search and knowledge retrieval (e.g., Weaviate, Chroma) Familiarity with cloud data platforms and infrastructure relevant to large-scale biological data (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) Familiarity with graph database technologies (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Stardog, GraphDB, TigerGraph)