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# AI Engineer, Ontologies & Knowledge Graphs

- **Company:** Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Royal Oak, MI, United States
- **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $235,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Graph Database, Design of User Interfaces, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Parsing, Simple Data Format, Unstructured Data, Large Language Models, Indexer, Information Technology, Restful APIs, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us1f861fc56771d5483bb465c4247a79d3/eaa

## About the Role

* BS/MS in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or similar.
 * Strong Python; experience building and consuming REST APIs.
 * Experience building data pipelines (ETL/ELT) over structured and unstructured data.
 * Familiarity with graph databases and/or semantic/ontology modeling (RDF, OWL, property graphs, or equivalent).
 * Experience with at least one agent framework (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar).
 * Understanding of how LLMs consume context and call tools (retrieval, RAG, embeddings).
 * Exposure to CAE/FEA/CFD or a related physical-simulation or engineering domain.
 * Comfortable working within unfamiliar or undocumented codebases.
 * Systems thinker - able to decompose a complex legacy workflow into discrete, callable steps.

Additional Skills/Preferences
Nice to have:

 * Vector databases.
 * Data-access and API interface development.
 * Parsing structured file formats.
 * Surrogate modeling or related numerical methods.

Deliberately not required:

 * Deep or specialist domain expertise beyond working familiarity - domain engineers provide that.
 * No PhD or ML research background required.

## Description

* Build ETL/ELT pipelines that extract data from source code, APIs, file formats, and documentation and load it into a structured knowledge store.
 * Design and maintain schemas and semantic data models capturing entities, relationships, and capabilities.
 * Construct and maintain knowledge graphs over heterogeneous product data.
 * Develop source and metadata parsers (including source-code/AST parsing) to extract structure automatically.
 * Build typed programmatic interfaces and data-access layers over the knowledge layer.
 * Implement retrieval and indexing layers (e.g., embeddings, RAG) over product knowledge.
 * Work with domain engineers to decompose complex product workflows into discrete, callable operations.
 * Assess data sources for coverage, quality, and schema completeness across multiple products., * Works across multiple products, building structured knowledge and interfaces over their capabilities.
 * Collaborates closely with domain engineers who provide subject-matter expertise.
 * Works with data pipelines, graph databases, and product API surfaces.
 * Travel is not an expectation for this role. Occasional travel may occur for broad team alignment workshops, but these are infrequent.

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