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Engineering Lead, CoreMesh Ontology and Knowledge Graph

Ford Motor Company Redford, MI Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$115,500-$218,100 per year

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Description

Shape the Future of Manufacturing with Advanced Industrial Technology and Platforms (ATP) at Ford Motor Company. As an Engineering Lead, CoreMesh Ontology and Knowledge Graph, you will play a crucial role in redefining how the world moves by building and scaling industrial platforms, technologies, and capabilities that unlock Ford's competitive advantage in manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

  • Model Manufacturing: Collaborate with plant experts to define canonical concepts, relationships, identifiers, and terminology. Map source systems into the ontology and resolve records from different systems into one entity. Set versioning, ownership, provenance, validation, and change control for ontology assets.
  • Serve It to Agents and Apps: Provide interfaces for retrieval, agent workflows, and applications. Build quality checks for ambiguity, duplicates, gaps, and the impact of changes. Explain modeling decisions so consuming teams use the services correctly.
  • Lead the Work: Guide engineers and data scientists who extend the ontology. Partner with teams that build on the ontology, including ATP's AI agents for production issues and its in-house model of factory operations.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years in ontology engineering, knowledge graphs, semantic modeling, or master data, including technical leadership.
  • Strong data and software engineering skills, including APIs and systems integration.
  • Experience turning complex domain knowledge into maintainable models.
  • Familiarity with metadata, lineage, entity resolution, and data quality practices.

Benefits:

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • manufacturing
  • industrial
  • complex operational domain experience
  • OWL/RDF
  • property graphs
  • GraphQL
  • data contract standards
  • Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, AlloyDB/PostgreSQL)

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