Senior AI Ontology Engineer for Knowledge Graphs

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental Leave

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Corporation in Denver seeks a Senior AI Engineer focusing on ontologies, knowledge graphs, and production AI systems to turn enterprise data into trusted knowledge that AI applications can understand.

You will work directly with users and domain experts, own projects from discovery to production, deploy software through automated pipelines and containers, and mentor fewer engineers while improving platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with five years of relevant experience.
• Master’s degree with three years of relevant experience can satisfy the education/experience requirement.
• Experience developing production software in Python, including services, APIs, data pipelines, or distributed applications.
• Experience building and deploying AI, machine learning, LLM, or agent-based systems beyond a prototype.
• Experience designing ontologies or knowledge graphs with RDF, OWL, and SPARQL.
• Experience working directly with users or domain experts to convert unclear needs into deployed software.

Responsibilities

• Define problems, outcomes, and technical requirements with users and domain experts.
• Convert enterprise concepts into ontologies and semantic models.
• Design knowledge graphs connecting business meaning to source data.
• Build AI agent workflows for ontology artifacts.
• Develop evaluation methods for AI quality and traceability.
• Integrate databases, APIs, files, cloud platforms, and enterprise data systems.
• Build production software across services, APIs, and web applications.
• Create tests and controls for AI output and production behavior.
• Deploy software through automated pipelines, containers, and cloud platforms.
• Observe production systems and resolve failures across components.
• Present technical decisions to teams and leaders.
• Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and improve practices.
• Apply lessons from engagements to platform capabilities.

Skills

Python development

Knowledge graphs

Ontology design

AI system deployment

User collaboration

Production software

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science/Applied Mathematics

Master's degree with 3 years relevant experience

Tools

Django

REST APIs

Celery

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Lockheed Martin Corporation in Denver seeks a Senior AI Engineer focusing on ontologies, knowledge graphs, and production AI systems to turn enterprise data into trusted knowledge that AI applications can understand.

You will work directly with users and domain experts, own projects from discovery to production, deploy software through automated pipelines and containers, and mentor fewer engineers while improving platform capabilities.