Lead Ontologist

Job description

Overview Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is working with our partner Knowledge3 (knowledge3.ai) to search for a Lead Ontologist supporting the delivery of knowledge-first systems for one of our joint projects. We turn fragmented scientific and enterprise data into structured, reusable knowledge assets. These systems are designed to support explainable reasoning, governed analytics, and trustworthy AI. The approach starts with the questions that matter and builds toward the semantics required to address them. We define competency questions as the contract for what a system must be able to answer, design queries that satisfy those questions, and derive schema and data transformations from there. The result is modular, minimal, and grounded systems that can be explained, validated, and extended over time. We are seeking a Lead Ontologist to execute and help shape this approach. This role sits at the boundary between business understanding and technical implementation. You will work with stakeholders to clarify use cases, define competency questions, and translate those into semantic models, schemas, and query patterns. You will design and build models using LinkML and RDF/OWL, define qu...