Ontologist
Core
Develop, refine, and maintain domain-specific ontologies to support structured data integration, semantic search, and AI-assisted decision support for a DoD customer.
Role type
Senior IC Ontologist (Semantic Technologies)
Builds
Federated data ecosystem with interoperable ontologies and metadata alignment
Domain
Defense / Geospatial / Semantic Web
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Ontology design, SPARQL query development, W3C OWL, Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), Common Core Ontologies (CCO), Java, Python, Bash scripting, ArcGIS, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines
Preferred skills
W3C RDF, SHACL, Databricks Unity Catalog, GIS metadata systems
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain domain-specific ontologies; Enforce W3C standards and metadata alignment; Collaborate with data scientists on ontology-driven tagging and entity resolution; Submit Ontology Governance & Standardization Reports
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC