Remote Senior AI Data Engineer — NER, Graphs & LLMs

Encora; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a Senior AI Data Engineer to evolve the entity management platform, enhance NER pipelines, and extend graph-based knowledge structures. This remote role supports teams across the Americas and beyond.

Candidates should have 7+ years in data-intensive software, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, graph databases like Neo4j, NLP/NER, and proficiency in Python or Java. Remote work with international teams is offered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in data-intensive platforms.
• Experience with search platforms such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, information retrieval, and entity resolution.
• Knowledge of graph databases and knowledge graphs, such as Neo4j and Cypher.
• Applied NLP and NER experience, including LLM-based extraction and open-source models such as Gemma, Llama, GLiNER, or spaCy.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and observability tools such as Datadog.
• Experience with data ingestion and synchronization from multiple source systems.
• Strong systems thinking, architecture, and data modeling skills, with experience modeling complex business domains.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, and agentic workflows.
• Ability to critically evaluate, validate, and correct AI-generated outputs using sound engineering judgment.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge of permission-aware data access and security filtering.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, or another language.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the core platform for entity management and governance, including entity types, attributes, cross-references (XREFs), and relationships.
• Build and improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) pipelines for text and files by combining LLM-based models, gazetteers, pattern matching, and blacklists.
• Extend NER capabilities to new content types, including live-stream content.
• Improve search and entity discovery through entity resolution, personalized search, filtering, and relationship navigation.
• Design and query graph-based relationship models to support traversal, visualization, and connected business context.
• Implement entity-level security and access controls across data retrieval and exploration.
• Onboard new data sources and support integrations with consuming applications.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and AI workflows, critically validating AI-generated code and designs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across business domains to shape and prioritize the platform roadmap.
• Support team onboarding and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Data Engineering

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Knowledge Graphs

Neo4j

NLP

NER

LLMs

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AI-Assisted Development

Python

Java

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude

ChatGPT

Agentic workflows

Job description

Coforge is seeking a Senior AI Data Engineer to evolve the entity management platform, enhance NER pipelines, and extend graph-based knowledge structures. This remote role supports teams across the Americas and beyond.

Candidates should have 7+ years in data-intensive software, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, graph databases like Neo4j, NLP/NER, and proficiency in Python or Java. Remote work with international teams is offered.