Senior AI Engineer: Ontologies & Knowledge Graphs

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 88,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental Leave

EAP

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Corporation is seeking a Senior AI Engineer focused on ontologies, knowledge graphs, and production AI systems. You will turn complex enterprise data into trusted knowledge that AI applications can understand and use, working directly with users, domain experts, data owners, and platform teams.

The forward-deployed role involves identifying user problems, building solutions, deploying them, and iterating through direct feedback.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or related STEM field with five years of relevant experience.
• Master’s degree with three years of relevant experience can satisfy education and experience.
• Experience developing production software in Python, including services, APIs, data pipelines, or distributed applications.
• Experience building and deploying AI, ML, LLM, or agent-based systems beyond prototype.
• Experience designing ontologies or knowledge graphs with RDF, OWL, SPARQL.
• Experience working directly with users or domain experts to translate needs into deployed software.

Responsibilities

• Define problems, outcomes, and technical requirements with users and domain experts.
• Convert enterprise concepts into clear ontologies and semantic models.
• Design knowledge graphs linking business meaning to data sources.
• Build AI agent workflows to create, evaluate, and improve ontology artifacts.
• Develop evaluation methods for AI quality, traceability, and reliability.
• Integrate databases, APIs, files, cloud platforms, and enterprise data systems.
• Develop production software across services, APIs, backgrounds jobs, and web apps.
• Create tests and controls for AI output and data mappings.
• Deploy software through automated pipelines and cloud platforms.
• Observe production systems and resolve failures across components.
• Present technical decisions to engineers and business leaders.

Skills

Python development

Knowledge graphs

Ontology design

APIs

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

User collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant STEM field

Master's degree considered

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

PostgreSQL

Redis

Databricks

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Lockheed Martin Corporation is seeking a Senior AI Engineer focused on ontologies, knowledge graphs, and production AI systems. You will turn complex enterprise data into trusted knowledge that AI applications can understand and use, working directly with users, domain experts, data owners, and platform teams.

The forward-deployed role involves identifying user problems, building solutions, deploying them, and iterating through direct feedback.