Associate Scientist, Data II

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 66,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Information Research is seeking an Associate Data Scientist specializing in Knowledge Graph Engineering. You will design and maintain semantic data infrastructure, translating diverse data into interlinked graph structures, and develop pipelines to load and validate data.

Collaboration with domain experts and platform teams is essential to deliver reliable knowledge graphs. The role emphasizes graph modeling, query engineering with Cypher or SPARQL, and ensuring data quality across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years’ experience; or Master’s Degree equivalent education.
• Exposure with software development lifecycle including Git, testing, and basic CI/CD workflows.
• Exposure with at least one graph database and its query language (Cypher or SPARQL).
• Exposure with data analysis programming languages (SQL, Python & Spark, SAS & R).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain semantic data infrastructure that connects information across domains.
• Translate data into well-modeled, interlinked graph structures and write pipelines to populate them.
• Write Cypher queries for loading, validation, and retrieval and support graph-backed apps.
• Ensure data quality, constraints, and automated tests for the graph ecosystem.
• Collaborate with domain experts and cross-functional teams to document models and decisions.

Skills

Git & CI/CD

Graph databases

SQL

Python & Spark

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Cypher

SPARQL

Graph DBs

Job description

• Compensation: USD 65,500 - USD 125,500 - yearly

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

Job Description

AbbVie Information Research is seeking an Associate Data Scientist with focus on Knowledge Graph Engineering to design, build, and maintain the semantic data infrastructure that connects information across our domains. In this role you will translate complex source data into well-modeled, interlinked graph structures, write the queries and pipelines that populate and validate them, and collaborate with domain experts, and platform teams to make our knowledge graph a reliable, query able source of truth. This role collaborates with solution architects, product owners, program managers, business analysts, infrastructure teams, and service providers to deliver data and analytic solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Graph data modeling. Contribute to Design and refine labeled-property and/or RDF graph models — nodes, relationships, properties, and constraints — that accurately represent entities and their connections across source systems.
• Pipeline development. Build, test, and maintain ingestion pipelines that extract data from relational, document, and file-based sources, transform it, and load it into the graph using batch and incremental patterns.
• Query engineering. Write, optimize, and document Cypher queries for data loading, validation, entity resolution, and downstream retrieval, including support for graph-backed and retrieval-augmented applications.
• Data quality and validation. Implement constraints, validation rules, entity resolution (e.g., SHACL or property checks), and automated tests that keep the graph consistent, traceable, and trustworthy.
• Performance and operations. Monitor graph performance, tune indexes and queries, and assist with environment management across development, validation, and production tiers.
• Collaboration and documentation. Partner with cross functional teams, analysts, and domain subject‑matter experts to gather requirements; document data models, lineage, and design decisions clearly for technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years’ experience; or Master’s Degree equivalent education with no additional experience.
• Exposure with software development lifecycle including Git, testing, and basic CI/CD workflows.
• Exposure with at least one graph database (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Tiger Graph, or an RDF triple store) and its query language (Cypher or SPARQL).
• Exposure with any data analysis programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python & Apache Spark, SAS & R) including structured and unstructured data.

Preferred:

• Exposure working with entity resolution, record linkage, knowledge graph construction, vector databases and embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or graph-RAG patterns is preferred.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employer remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.