Amazon

Ontologist, Product Knowledge

Amazon$82K — $144K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic relation frameworks
  • Degree in Library Science, Information Systems, Linguistics, or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of relevant work experience in ontology and/or taxonomy roles
  • Proven skills in data retrieval and research techniques
  • Ability to simplify complex processes for clear communication
  • Skilled in conveying requirements to technical and non-technical teams
  • Familiarity with Semantic Web technologies, query languages, and validation standards
  • Knowledge of ontology engineering editors like Protégé and TopQuadrant

Responsibilities

  • Develop semantic, scalable data models for Amazon's product catalog
  • Ensure ontologies allow for machine ingestion and inference
  • Research global understanding of Amazon products for model development
  • Create schema using generative AI models
  • Enhance data retrieval methods utilizing product catalogs and queries
  • Analyze website metrics to drive data-driven decisions for models
  • Contribute to the development of tooling and process improvements
  • Coordinate projects across various technical and non-technical teams

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts available
  • Mental health support and resources
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units
Full Job Description
As an Ontologist, you work on a global team of knowledge builders to deliver world-class, intuitive, and comprehensive taxonomy and ontology models to optimize product discovery for Amazon web and mobile experiences. You collaborate with business partners, data science and engineering teams to deliver knowledge-based solutions to enable product discoverability for customers. In this role, you will directly impact the customer experience as well as the company's product knowledge foundation.

Key job responsibilities

* Develop logical, semantically rich, and extensible data models for Amazon's expansive product catalog

* Ensure our ontologies provide comprehensive sub-domain coverage that are available for machine ingestion and inference

* Research worldwide understanding of Amazon products to develop scalable data models that solve customer problems and enhance product discoverability

* Create new schema using Generative Artificial Intelligence (generative AI) models

* Expand existing data retrieval techniques by utilizing our extensive product catalog and query languages

* Analyze website metrics and product discovery behaviors to make data-driven decisions on optimizing our knowledge graph data models globally

* Contribute to the development of new tool features and processes for the Ontology team

* Drive alignment to ontology modeling and technology best practices and principles within our organization and across Amazon

* Coordinate cross-functional projects with a broad range of technical and non-technical teams

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic relation frameworks

- Degree in Library Science, Information Systems, Linguistics or equivalent professional experience

- 3+ years of relevant work experience working in ontology and/or taxonomy roles

- Proven skills in data retrieval and data research techniques

- Ability to quickly understand complex processes and communicate them in simple language

- Ability to communicate knowledge-based requirements and needs to engineering and retail teams

- Familiarity with Semantic Web technologies (RDF/s, OWL), query languages (SPARQL) and validation/reasoning standards (SHACL, SPIN)

- Knowledge of open-source and commercial ontology engineering editors (e.g. Protégé, TopQuadrant products, PoolParty)

- Detail-oriented problem-solving, ability to work in fast-changing environment and manage ambiguity

- Proven track record of strong communication and interpersonal skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master's degree in Library Science, Information Systems, Linguistics or other relevant fields

- Experience building ontologies in the e-commerce and semantic search spaces

- Experience working with schema-level constructs (e.g. higher-order classes, punning, property inheritance)

- Familiarity with software engineering life cycle

- Familiarity with ontology manipulation programming libraries

- Exposure to data science and/or machine learning, including graph embeddings

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 144,700.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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