Semantic AI Engineer

Location: North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Salary: $78,500–$141,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops innovative medicines and solutions across immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate AI-driven semantic solutions for Enterprise Product Master Data, Dataverse, and related enterprise platforms through Enterprise Ontology Services.
• Translate ontologies, controlled vocabularies, mappings, semantic contracts, and reference standards into APIs, MCP tools, agents, and reusable software components.
• Enable inference, search, query expansion, normalization, entity resolution, and data integration across enterprise workflows.
• Define implementation patterns, decision processes, and quality gates that embed FAIR data principles into AI-generated software assets.
• Collaborate with platform, product, data, ontology, and governance teams to align semantic services with business and architecture requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation, integration patterns, reusable examples, and operational support practices, including CI/CD.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Informatics, Software Engineering, Semantic Technologies, or a related field with 5 years of experience; or a master’s degree with 4 years of experience.
• Production experience building data, software, AI, or semantic technology solutions, including APIs, MCP tools, agents, services, integrations, or reusable platform components.
• Working knowledge of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, knowledge graphs, OWL, RDF, SPARQL, metadata, mappings, normalization, and FAIR data principles.
• Experience with REST APIs, XML, JSON, and Python libraries such as Pydantic.
• Ability to translate business and governance requirements into scalable technical designs and contribute to reliable CI/CD delivery.
• Fluency in English is required. Strong collaboration and communication skills are required for cross-functional work with scientific and non-scientific stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a global, interdisciplinary organization serving R&D and corporate business teams.
• Collaborate across teams in Illinois, Massachusetts, and Germany.
• Benefits may include paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a 401(k).
• Eligibility for short-term incentive programs.
• Work in an environment focused on scientific curiosity, technical creativity, innovation, responsible AI, data security, and GxP compliance where applicable.