Senior AI Ontology & Knowledge Graph Engineer

Lockheed Martin Corporation; City of Syracuse (NY); On-site; USD 123,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Job summary

Lockheed Martin is seeking a Senior AI Engineer focused on ontologies, knowledge graphs, and production AI systems in a New York-area setting. You will transform complex enterprise data into trusted knowledge for AI apps, working directly with users, domain experts, data owners, and platform teams.

This forward-deployed role involves identifying user problems, building solutions, deploying them, and iterating with feedback, owning work from discovery to production support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with experience
• Master's degree with relevant experience acceptable
• Experience developing production software in Python
• Experience building and deploying AI/LLM/agent systems
• Experience designing ontologies or knowledge graphs with RDF/OWL/SPARQL
• Direct work with users or domain experts to translate needs into software deployments

Responsibilities

• Define problems, outcomes, and requirements with users and domain experts
• Convert enterprise concepts into ontologies and semantic models
• Design knowledge graphs linking business meaning to data
• Build AI agent workflows to create and improve ontology artifacts
• Develop evaluation methods for AI quality, traceability, and safety
• Integrate databases, APIs, files, and cloud platforms
• Develop production software across services, APIs, and web apps
• Create tests and controls for AI output and ontology quality
• Deploy software via pipelines, containers, and cloud platforms
• Observe production systems and resolve issues across components
• Present architectural decisions to teams and leaders
• Review designs and mentor engineers
• Apply lessons to reusable platform capabilities

Skills

Python

Ontologies

Knowledge graphs

RDF/OWL/SPARQL

AI agent systems

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

React/TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Master's degree (plus experience)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Helm

CI/CD

Databricks

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

Job description

Lockheed Martin is seeking a Senior AI Engineer focused on ontologies, knowledge graphs, and production AI systems in a New York-area setting. You will transform complex enterprise data into trusted knowledge for AI apps, working directly with users, domain experts, data owners, and platform teams.

This forward-deployed role involves identifying user problems, building solutions, deploying them, and iterating with feedback, owning work from discovery to production support.