Ontology Engineer – Knowledge Graph and Identity

Job overview

The Ontology Engineer – Knowledge Graph and Identity role is hybrid in New York, NY, with compensation of $150,000–$180,000 per year. Samba is a media intelligence company, and this role reports to the Data Science Manager, Knowledge Graph & Identity. The engineer builds and maintains ontology schemas, graph models, and derivation pipelines that support Samba’s measurement and audience intelligence products, helping keep graph data accurate, consistent, and production-ready.

What you'll do

• Implement and extend RDF/RDFS/OWL ontology schemas
• build SHACL validation shapes and triage data-quality issues
• support ontology versioning and documentation
• write SPARQL queries
• contribute to PySpark and Databricks event-to-ontology pipelines
• validate outputs
• write tested and documented Python
• apply embedding-based approaches to entity matching
• collaborate with data engineering, product, and operations teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

ontology engineer

knowledge graph

identity

semantic modeling

python

sparql

rdf

shacl

pyspark

databricks

new york ny

samba

$150k–$180k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Hybrid remote arrangement; hands-on work with semantic web standards, graph data, and high-volume event pipelines under guidance from the Senior Ontologist.

About the employer

Samba is hiring for this role. Industry: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers. Sector: 51.