Remote Knowledge Graph Architect for Construction AI

Eliassen Group; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 138,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k 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 platform.

The role connects historical project and operational data across estimating, scheduling, controls, field execution, equipment, cost, and lessons learned to create a reusable knowledge foundation for AI, GraphRAG, LLM, and agent-based apps.

Qualifications

• Experience in knowledge graphs and ontologies
• Strong background in semantic modeling and graph databases
• Ability to translate complex business concepts into scalable technical architectures
• Experience with enterprise data integration and AI use cases
• Excellent communication across technical and business teams

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop an enterprise ontology and knowledge graph for construction and project data.
• Define relationships across projects, estimates, schedules, cost codes, crews, equipment, rates, risks, changes, outcomes.
• Evaluate standards including IFC, buildingSMART, LandInfra, semantic web standards.
• Integrate data from multiple systems into the knowledge architecture.
• Design GraphRAG, LazyGraphRAG, RAG, and AI agent architectures.
• Establish ontology governance, provenance, entity resolution, cross-system mappings, knowledge quality.
• Partner with domain SMEs, enterprise architecture, data/AI engineering teams.
• Design experiments to test AI answer quality vs traditional RAG/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 & data integration

Cross-functional communication

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 platform.

The role connects historical project and operational data across estimating, scheduling, controls, field execution, equipment, cost, and lessons learned to create a reusable knowledge foundation for AI, GraphRAG, LLM, and agent-based apps.