Associate Scientist, Data II (Knowledge Graph Engineering)

Location: North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Salary: USD 65,500–125,500 per year

Company

hirify.global discovers and delivers medicines and solutions across therapeutic 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 for relational, document, and file-based data sources.
• Write, optimize, and document Cypher queries for data loading, validation, entity resolution, and downstream retrieval.
• Implement data constraints, validation rules, entity-resolution checks, and automated tests to maintain graph quality and traceability.
• Monitor graph performance, tune indexes and queries, and support environment management across development, validation, and production.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, program managers, analysts, infrastructure teams, service providers, and domain experts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least two years of experience, or a master’s degree with no additional experience required.
• Exposure to software development lifecycle practices, 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, such as Cypher or SPARQL.
• Exposure to data analysis programming languages and tools, including SQL, Python, Apache Spark, SAS, or R, for structured and unstructured data.

Nice to have

• Experience with entity resolution, record linkage, knowledge graph construction, vector databases, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, or graph-RAG patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid time off, including 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.
• Equal opportunity employment with a commitment to integrity, innovation, and community service.