Senior AI Platform Engineer — Knowledge Graph & NLP

encora10; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is hiring a Senior AI Platform Engineer to advance our entity management and knowledge-graph platform. You will shape governance, cross-references, and business context discovery while extending NER pipelines with LLMs and open-source models.

You will integrate data from multiple sources, enhance search with entity-aware capabilities, and design graph-based relationships. Strong engineering judgment and collaboration across domains are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience on data-intensive platforms in production environments.
• Strong Elasticsearch and/or OpenSearch, information retrieval, and entity resolution techniques.
• Hands-on experience with graph databases and knowledge graphs, including Neo4j and Cypher.
• Solid experience in Applied NLP and NER using Gemma, Llama, GLiNER, spaCy, and LLM-based extraction techniques.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and observability tools such as Datadog.
• Proven ability to model complex business domains and relationships; systems-thinking mindset.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT).
• Ability to evaluate and improve AI-generated outputs with sound engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and enhance a core platform focused on entity management, governance, cross-references (XREFs), relationships, and business context discovery.
• Design, develop, and improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) pipelines using LLMs, open-source NLP models, gazetteers, pattern matching, and blacklist-based approaches.
• Extend entity extraction capabilities to additional content sources, including streaming and real-time content.
• Improve search experiences through entity resolution, personalized search, metadata filtering, and relationship-driven exploration.
• Design and maintain graph-based relationship models that support traversal, visualization, and advanced business context mapping.
• Implement entity-level security and access control across retrieval, search, and exploration workflows.
• Integrate new data sources and connect with downstream applications and business platforms.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable AI-powered solutions and workflows.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools while validating generated code and architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple domains to define priorities and shape platform evolution.
• Contribute to team onboarding, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Skills

Knowledge Graphs

Neo4j

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Entity Resolution

NLP

NER

LLMs

Gemma

Llama

GLiNER

spaCy

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Datadog

AI-Assisted Development

Data Modeling

Tools

Cypher

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Coforge is hiring a Senior AI Platform Engineer to advance our entity management and knowledge-graph platform. You will shape governance, cross-references, and business context discovery while extending NER pipelines with LLMs and open-source models.

You will integrate data from multiple sources, enhance search with entity-aware capabilities, and design graph-based relationships. Strong engineering judgment and collaboration across domains are essential.