Enterprise Ontology Leader: AI-Driven Data Strategy

LEAR CORPORATION; Southfield (MI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Lear Corporation, Southfield, MI, seeks an Enterprise Ontology Leader to architect and govern Lear’s global ontology within Palantir Foundry and AIP. You will define reusable ontology objects, semantic layers, and data frameworks to support analytics, automation, and AI/ML workloads across manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering.

Lead and mentor a global ontology team, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and drive a single source of truth across the organization to enable faster,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Data Science, Knowledge Engineering, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in ontology development, semantic modeling, enterprise data architecture, or knowledge graph design.
• Proven hands-on expertise with Palantir Foundry ontology.

Responsibilities

• Design, own, and continuously enhance Lear’s enterprise-wide ontology, including semantic models, entity relationships, and shared data objects.
• Architect semantic layers and feature sets within Palantir Foundry to support data ingestion, transformation, and operational applications.
• Enable AIP use cases through well-architected ontology objects supporting AI agent workflows, grounding, and automated reasoning.
• Partner with business leaders, product owners, data engineers, data scientists, and manufacturing teams globally to translate needs into ontology designs.
• Serve as enterprise expert and evangelist for semantic modeling, data standards, and ontology best practices.
• Mentor and guide a growing internal ontology team and cross-functional data contributors.

Skills

Ontology development

Semantic modeling

Data architecture

Entity-relationship design

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Data Science, Knowledge Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Palantir AIP

Job description

Lear Corporation, Southfield, MI, seeks an Enterprise Ontology Leader to architect and govern Lear’s global ontology within Palantir Foundry and AIP. You will define reusable ontology objects, semantic layers, and data frameworks to support analytics, automation, and AI/ML workloads across manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering.

Lead and mentor a global ontology team, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and drive a single source of truth across the organization to enable faster,