Engineering Lead, CoreMesh Ontology and Knowledge Graph
Ford Motor2 days ago
Base Salary
$116k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define canonical manufacturing concepts, relationships, identifiers, and terminology with plant experts.
- Map source systems into the ontology and resolve records from different systems into unified entities.
- Establish versioning, ownership, provenance, validation, and change control for ontology assets.
- Provide interfaces for retrieval, agent workflows, and applications such as the InZone supervisor mobile app.
- Build quality checks for ambiguity, duplicates, gaps, and the impact of ontology changes.
- Explain modeling decisions to consuming teams and guide engineers and data scientists extending the ontology.
- Partner with teams building production-issue AI agents and an in-house model of factory operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in ontology engineering, knowledge graphs, semantic modeling, or master data, including technical leadership.
- Strong data and software engineering skills, including APIs and systems integration.
- Experience turning complex domain knowledge into maintainable models.
- Familiarity with metadata, lineage, entity resolution, and data quality practices.
- Preferred experience includes manufacturing, industrial, or complex operational domains; OWL/RDF, property graphs, GraphQL, or data contract standards; semantic services supporting AI retrieval or agent applications; and Google Cloud Platform with BigQuery and AlloyDB/PostgreSQL.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
- Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, paid community-service time, vacation, sick/personal time, and paid holidays.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite attendance four or more days per week.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles for consumers and businesses, and provides financing through Ford Credit. A public company headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan and listed on the NYSE, it operates globally under the Ford and Lincoln brands, including electric and connected vehicles such as the F‑150 Lightning and Mustang Mach‑E. Founded in 1903, it also offers software-driven fleet, mobility, and aftersales services.