Remote Senior AI Data Engineer: NER & Graph Platform Lead

Encora Inc.; Sur; Remote; COP 307,782,000 - 485,972,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a Senior AI Data Engineer to lead data-intensive platform work across entity management, NLP pipelines, and knowledge graphs. You will design scalable data models, implement NER workflows with LLM-based extraction, and drive secure, observable data solutions for enterprise use.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust AI-enabled architectures, onboard new data sources, and ensure high quality code and architecture

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with data-intensive platforms.
• Experience with search platforms (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) and entity resolution.
• Knowledge of graph databases and knowledge graphs (Neo4j, Cypher).
• Applied NLP/NER with LLM-based extraction and open-source models.
• Proficiency in PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and observability tools like Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and enhance entity management, attributes, cross-references, and relationships.
• Build NER pipelines by combining LLMs, gazetteers, patterns, and blacklists.
• Extend NER to new content types, including live streams.
• Improve search and entity discovery via resolution, personalized search, and filtering.

Skills

Data engineering

NLP

NER

Knowledge graphs

Communication

Tools

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Neo4j

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Datadog

Cypher

GitHub Copilot

ChatGPT

Job description

Coforge is seeking a Senior AI Data Engineer to lead data-intensive platform work across entity management, NLP pipelines, and knowledge graphs. You will design scalable data models, implement NER workflows with LLM-based extraction, and drive secure, observable data solutions for enterprise use.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust AI-enabled architectures, onboard new data sources, and ensure high quality code and architecture