Associate Scientist, Data II (Knowledge Graph Engineering)

Location: Onsite in North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Salary: $65,500–$125,500 per year

Company

hirify.global discovers and delivers innovative medicines and healthcare solutions across areas including immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics.

What you will do

• Design and refine labeled-property and RDF graph models representing entities, relationships, properties, and constraints.
• Build, test, and maintain batch and incremental ingestion pipelines from relational, document, and file-based sources.
• Write, optimize, and document Cypher queries for data loading, validation, entity resolution, and downstream retrieval.
• Implement data quality rules, constraints, entity-resolution checks, and automated tests.
• Monitor graph performance, tune indexes and queries, and support environment management across development, validation, and production.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, analysts, infrastructure teams, service providers, and subject-matter experts while documenting models, lineage, and design decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of experience, or a master’s degree with no additional experience.
• Exposure to the software development lifecycle, including Git, testing, and basic CI/CD workflows.
• Exposure to at least one graph database, such as Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, TigerGraph, or an RDF triple store, and its query language.
• Exposure to data-analysis programming languages such as SQL, Python, Apache Spark, SAS, or R.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data.

Nice to have

• Exposure to entity resolution, record linkage, knowledge graph construction, vector databases, embeddings, RAG, or graph-RAG patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees.
• 401(k) benefits for eligible employees.
• Eligibility for short-term incentive programs.