Platform Knowledge Graph & Ontology Lead (AI)

Bain & Company, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 226,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company, Inc. is seeking a Head of Ontology within Growth AI Performance System in Chicago. You will own the knowledge layer, design the ontology, and lead a small team of AI and Data Engineers to deliver production-grade knowledge graphs and retrieval systems.

The role requires strong engineering background in data and AI, experience with entity resolution, and collaboration with client stakeholders on architecture and ontology improvements.

Qualifications

• Must-have: deep hands-on engineering across data and AI engineering.
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Responsibilities

• Own the knowledge graph and ontology design for Growth AI Performance System.
• Build production entity resolution and retrieval systems.
• Oversee data pipelines (Databricks, Airflow, dbt) and ensure data quality.
• Lead Ontology and Knowledge team and mentor engineers.
• Engage with senior client stakeholders to explain architecture and ontology decisions.

Skills

Data engineering

AI engineering

Knowledge representation

Ontology design

Entity resolution

Retrieval systems

NLP/ML

SpaCy/HF

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Info Sci/Data Eng

Tools

Neo4j

Snowflake or Databricks

Spark/PySpark

Job description

Bain & Company, Inc. is seeking a Head of Ontology within Growth AI Performance System in Chicago. You will own the knowledge layer, design the ontology, and lead a small team of AI and Data Engineers to deliver production-grade knowledge graphs and retrieval systems.

The role requires strong engineering background in data and AI, experience with entity resolution, and collaboration with client stakeholders on architecture and ontology improvements.