Senior Ontologist - Knowledge Graph & Identity
About this role
As Senior Ontologist on Samba TV's Knowledge Graph & Identity team, you will own the design, development, and governance of the semantic data models and ontological frameworks that sit at the foundation of Samba's knowledge graph. You are the domain authority for how Samba represents and relates the entities that matter most to our business - and you ensure that representation is rigorous, scalable, and aligned with industry standards.
This is a hands-on technical role. You will spend the majority of your time designing ontologies, writing SPARQL, building knowledge graph pipelines, and working closely with data engineering and data science peers to put your models into production. You bring enough breadth in ML and AI to leverage embedding-based and LLM-augmented approaches where they strengthen the graph, and you contribute meaningfully to entity resolution and identity linking work that depends on the semantic layer you define.
This role reports to the Data Science Manager, Knowledge Graph & Identity.