JD: Senior Ontologist / Knowledge Engineer
Location: Bangalore (on-site / hybrid) Type: Full time Level: Senior / Staff Reports to: Founding team
About Us
We are a Bangalore based networking startup building an agentic net-ops system to improve network reliability and reduce time to action for our customers. The founding team has a cumulative 45 years of experience in the networking industry.
Role Overview
As a Senior Ontologist you will bring the experience of building ontologies to the computer networks and operations field. You will work with the founding team, network specialists and a group of software engineers to apply ontology design and modelling techniques to the agentic NetOps system. You will be responsible for the efficacy of the system and will drive the product evolution.
This is a founding-level technical role. You will not be handed a specification — you will be the person who decides what the knowledge layer of this product looks like, proves it is better than what exists today, and defends that choice with evidence.
What You'll Do
· Prove the thesis.
Our system runs on a property graph today. Show us — measurably, against a baseline — that a formal ontology improves it.
· Build the MVP. Design and ship the ontology and knowledge graph underneath our agentic netops system, including the interfaces our agents query.
· Model the domain. Devices, interfaces, links, topologies, services, configuration, policy, telemetry, alarms, incidents — and the causal relationships between them.
· Bridge two teams. Turn our network specialists' undocumented operational expertise into formal models our engineers can build against.
· Scale deliberately. Expand coverage and use-cases in increments through modularization and versioning, without breaking what already works.
· Set the standards. Naming and IRI policy, constraint validation, ontology CI/CD, release process, provenance, and governance.
· Work with customers. Apply ontology engineering directly to their pro
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