Remote Knowledge Graph Architect for Construction AI

Eliassen Group; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 138,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental

Vision

401(k) with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Knowledge Graph Architect to lead the architecture and technical strategy for a construction-focused ontology, knowledge graph, and AI knowledge platform. You will connect historical project data across estimating, scheduling, cost codes, equipment, and lessons learned to enable AI, GraphRAG, LLM, and agent-based applications.

This remote, contract role requires expertise in enterprise knowledge graphs, ontologies, and semantic modeling, with a focus on scalable

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise knowledge graphs and ontologies for complex data.
• Hands-on knowledge graph, ontology, semantic modeling, or graph databases.
• Understanding of RAG/GraphRAG, LLMs, AI agents, and enterprise data integration.
• Experience mapping across multiple, disparate enterprise data sources.
• Ability to translate business/operational concepts into scalable architectures.
• Strong communication across technical teams and business SMEs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop an enterprise ontology and knowledge graph for complex construction and project data.
• Define relationships across projects, activities, estimates, schedules, cost codes, crews, equipment, quantities, production rates, risks, changes, and outcomes.
• Evaluate and incorporate relevant standards, including IFC, buildingSMART, LandInfra, and semantic web standards.
• Integrate enterprise data from multiple operational and project systems into the knowledge architecture.
• Design and guide GraphRAG, LazyGraphRAG, RAG, and AI agent architectures.
• Establish standards for ontology governance, provenance, entity resolution, cross-system mappings, and knowledge quality.
• Partner with domain SMEs, enterprise architecture, data engineering, AI engineering, and technology teams.
• Design experiments to evaluate whether structured enterprise knowledge improves AI answer quality compared with traditional RAG and LLM approaches.

Skills

Knowledge graph architecture

Ontology development

Semantic architecture

Knowledge engineering

Enterprise/data architecture

AI/ML architecture

Graph databases

RAG/GraphRAG

LLMs

AI agents

Tools

IFC

buildingSMART

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Knowledge Graph Architect to lead the architecture and technical strategy for a construction-focused ontology, knowledge graph, and AI knowledge platform. You will connect historical project data across estimating, scheduling, cost codes, equipment, and lessons learned to enable AI, GraphRAG, LLM, and agent-based applications.

This remote, contract role requires expertise in enterprise knowledge graphs, ontologies, and semantic modeling, with a focus on scalable