# Senior Data Scientist - Ontology

Hiring organization: [Vendormate](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/vendormate)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2032201c-fe18-47f0-bfca-7a5bce6b93d7

Listed on Vendormate's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Office Location or Remote - USA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 128000 – 170000 USD per year

## Summary

This role designs and maintains formal ontological architectures that enable data alignment across healthcare organizations with different systems and schemas. It suits experienced knowledge engineers who are comfortable with description logics and OWL, and who can translate between formal correctness and operational constraints.

_Our summary, not Vendormate's wording._

## Skills named

Python

## Required

- Greater than 4 years of experience in knowledge engineering or ontology development
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining domain ontologies in Protégé or equivalent with reasoner validation
- Experience with ROBOT or ODK for ontology lifecycle management
- Expertise in SPARQL and/or Cypher for querying ontology-aligned data
- Ability to interpret data profiling output and translate to formal ontological claims
- Experience directing or evaluating LLM-assisted knowledge extraction pipelines
- Proficiency in Python or similar for ontology tooling and pipeline scripting
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams integrating formal and domain knowledge

## Nice to have

- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Information Science, or related hard science
- Familiarity with category theory as applied to data integration
- Experience with LinkML
- Healthcare supply chain domain knowledge
- Experience with BFO 2.0 and OBO Foundry principles
- Familiarity with provenance models and their implementation
- Experience with production-scale graph database platforms
- Passion for staying current with knowledge representation and AI-assisted ontology engineering

Apply on Vendormate's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/globalhealthcareexchangeinc/jobs/4707747005