Senior AI Data Foundation Architect

Sapience AI Corporation; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Early stage equity

Job summary

Sapience AI is recruiting a Senior AI/ML Data Model Architect in the United States (Oregon) to shape data models, schemas, and representations that powers the KO graph, COGENT architecture, and MINERVA. You will ensure coherence across models, retrieval, and reasoning while governing data quality and privacy.

You’ll own the data foundation across communities and systems, collaborating with Knowledge Graph Engineering, Applied AI, and Research to drive scalable, trustworthy AI capabilities and

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in data architecture, data modeling, or a closely related field.
• Experience designing data models and representations for ML or AI systems.
• Strong grounding in schema design, data modeling, and knowledge representation.
• Experience with features, embeddings, and representations for models and retrieval.
• Strong understanding of data lineage, quality, and governance.
• Fluency across relational, graph, and vector data paradigms.
• Ability to align many teams around a shared foundation.

Responsibilities

• Design data models and schemas that represent a community’s knowledge for AI.
• Own representations for models, retrieval, and graphs to support AI systems.
• Architect data flow and lineage from raw sources to models and reasoning.
• Set standards for data consistency and quality across the platform.
• Incorporate privacy, governance, and trust into data design.
• Collaborate with Knowledge Graph Engineering, Applied AI, ML Infra, and Research.
• Evolve data models to scale with platform growth and milestones.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

ML/AI systems

Knowledge representation

Data lineage

Governance

Cross-team alignment

Tools

SQL

Python

Graph query languages

Job description

Sapience AI is recruiting a Senior AI/ML Data Model Architect in the United States (Oregon) to shape data models, schemas, and representations that powers the KO graph, COGENT architecture, and MINERVA. You will ensure coherence across models, retrieval, and reasoning while governing data quality and privacy.

You’ll own the data foundation across communities and systems, collaborating with Knowledge Graph Engineering, Applied AI, and Research to drive scalable, trustworthy AI capabilities and