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Role Description

This role involves working as a Knowledge Engineer – Ontologist with a focus on RDF, OWL, ontology design, and tools like Protégé.

• Leading workshops to explore ontological domains and concepts.
• Providing leadership and expertise on areas of biology, chemistry, and clinical trials.
• Modelling concepts and relationships between concepts in areas of biology, chemistry, and clinical trials.
• Working closely with scientists, researchers, and other subject matter experts to clarify concepts.
• Comparing ontology to existing standard/published ontologies and aligning where possible.
• Creating core and domain ontologies, leveraging upper ontologies where possible.
• Utilizing tools such as Protégé to design and build ontologies in OWL format following best practice patterns.
• Creating ontology inference rules.
• Creating SHACL shapes for validation.
• Creating SPARQL queries to answer competency questions based on the built ontology.
• Working with data architects and engineers to map ontology concepts to data for ingestion into a knowledge graph and advising on integration of different data sources.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Knowledge Engineer – Ontologist.
• Hands-on experience in RDF, OWL, ontology design, and tools like Protégé.
• Strong domain understanding in F&B R&D/biochemistry.

Requirements

• Experience working with RDF and OWL, including logical & reasoning terminology: IRIs, triples, classes, properties, restrictions, equivalence, disjointness, etc.
• Experience working with ontology in a tool such as Protégé and understanding typical ontology design patterns, architecture, workflow, versioning, etc.
• Semantic modelling experience including considerations around data integration, mapping/alignment to other ontologies.
• Requirement elicitation, communication & workshopping skills.
• Domain background in the domain being modeled (in this case F&B R&D, so biochemistry).

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade.
• Company paid holidays.
• Personal Days.
• Sick Leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada).
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada).
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.