[Hiring] Senior AI/ML Data Model Architect @Sapience AI Corporation

Role Description

This role owns the shape of the data that AI learns from and reasons over. You design the data models, schemas, and representations that connect a community’s knowledge to the models, the KO graph, and the COGENT architecture.

You work where data architecture meets machine learning: how knowledge is modeled, how features and embeddings are represented, and how data flows from raw sources to the systems that reason over it.

You are the person who makes sure the data foundation is coherent, so everything built on top of it, from retrieval to reasoning to models, has something solid and consistent to stand on.

Areas of Responsibility

• Data modeling and schema architecture: Design the data models and schemas that represent a community’s knowledge for AI. Keep the models coherent across communities and across the systems that use them. Balance flexibility with the structure that reasoning and trust require.
• Representations for models and reasoning: Design how knowledge is represented for models, retrieval, and the KO graph. Own the feature and embedding representations that AI systems depend on. Align representations so neural and symbolic systems can work together.
• Data flow and lineage: Architect how data flows from raw sources to models, the graph, and reasoning. Own lineage and provenance so data can be traced and trusted. Make the flow observable and reliable.
• Consistency and quality by design: Set the standards that keep data consistent and high quality across the platform. Prevent fragmentation and duplicated, divergent models. Make correctness a property of the design.
• Governance, privacy, and trust: Design data models that protect sensitive community knowledge and support governance. Build privacy and access into the structure of the data. Support the trust members and organizations place in the platform.
• Partnership across data and AI teams: Partner with knowledge graph, applied AI, infrastructure, and research on shared representations. Align teams around a common data foundation rather than local models. Resolve the hard cross-team data questions.
• Evolution and scale: Evolve the data models as the platform, communities, and AI systems grow. Design for scale and for change without constant rework. Keep the foundation coherent through each GR/GA milestone.

What this role is not

• This is not a pipeline-implementation-only role. You own the architecture and models, partnering with engineers who build the pipelines.
• This is not a knowledge-graph-only role. You own data models across models, retrieval, and the graph, in partnership with graph engineering.
• This is not a business-analytics role. You architect data for AI systems, not reporting and dashboards.
• This is not a research role. You are accountable for a production data foundation, not open-ended exploration.

What success looks like

• A coherent foundation.
• Data models stay consistent across communities and systems.
• AI that works.
• Retrieval, reasoning, and models perform well because the representations are sound.
• Traceable data.
• Lineage and provenance let data be trusted and traced.
• Quality by design.
• Consistency and correctness are structural, not patched.
• Trust and governance.
• Sensitive knowledge is protected and governed by design.
• Durable scale.
• The foundation evolves with growth without constant rework.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in data architecture, data modeling, or a closely related field.
• Experience designing data models and representations for ML or AI systems.
• Strong grounding in schema design, data modeling, and knowledge representation.
• Experience with features, embeddings, and representations for models and retrieval.
• Strong understanding of data lineage, quality, and governance.
• Fluency across relational, graph, and vector data paradigms.
• The ability to align many teams around a shared foundation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with knowledge graphs and neuro-symbolic systems.
• Experience architecting data for retrieval-augmented and reasoning systems.
• Experience with privacy, governance, and sensitive data by design.
• Familiarity with CRM, AMS, or knowledge-platform data.
• Experience carrying a data architecture through significant growth.

Skills & Competencies

• Data modeling and schema architecture for AI.
• Representations for models, retrieval, and graphs.
• Data flow, lineage, and provenance.
• Consistency, quality, and correctness by design.
• Privacy, governance, and trust in data architecture.
• Cross-team alignment on shared foundations.
• Evolving architecture for scale and change.

Services & Tools Experience

• Relational, graph, and vector data systems.
• Data modeling and schema tooling.
• Feature and embedding stores.
• Data lineage, catalog, and governance tools.
• SQL, Python, and graph query languages.
• Cloud data platforms and storage.
• Architecting the data behind the KO graph, COGENT architecture, and MINERVA.

Prior Experience & Background

• Prior data architecture or data modeling roles for ML or AI systems.
• Experience owning a data foundation used by many teams.
• A track record of coherent, scalable data architecture.
• Experience with graph and vector data is strongly preferred.

Cross-functional partners

You work most closely with Knowledge Graph Engineering, Applied AI, ML Infrastructure, Neuro-Symbolic AI, and Research, and you partner with the Principal AI Systems Architect. You own the data models and representations behind the KO graph, the COGENT architecture, and MINERVA.

How we hire

We review every application, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not match every line above. Research shows that talented people, especially those from underrepresented communities, often hold back when they do not meet every qualification. If that is the only thing holding you back, apply anyway.

Sapience AI is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a workplace where everyone, regardless of background, has a voice in building what comes next.

Compensation

• Base Salary: $204,000 - $216,000 + early stage equity
• Generous health and wellness benefits