Technical Lead – Knowledge Graph Engineer

Technical Lead – Knowledge Graph Engineer

Prophecy is the world's most advanced data integration platform, designed to make complex data work simple and powerful. Designed natively for modern cloud data platforms, Prophecy uniquely serves the needs of business analysts while ensuring enterprise-grade governance and compliance, giving organizations the confidence to innovate. Our AI-driven platform simplifies and automates data preparation, accelerating AI and analytics across Fortune 500 companies in banking, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, and technology. By enabling secure, self-service data transformation within a robust governance framework, Prophecy empowers every data user to develop, deploy, and monitor cloud-native data pipelines with ease. Today, Prophecy supports tens of thousands of pipelines, delivering clean, trusted, and timely data at scale to power the most demanding AI and analytics workloads.

Must-Have Skills:

• Expertise in building and managing knowledge graphs, including entity extraction, linkage, and ontology design.
• Experience integrating knowledge graph with AI systems for retrieval, reasoning, and agent context (e.g., enriching with LLM).
• Tech lead experience: owning end-to-end KG projects, from design to deployment, with leadership in cross-functional teams.
• Versatile software developer: fluency in Python, REST APIs, microservices in public cloud; some experience with Go, AWS, k8s, java, Scala.
• Hands-on experience in developing, optimizing, and operating neo4j or similar graph databases.
• Builder mentality: demonstrated experience taking ideas to production.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• ML/LLM work in code generation (e.g., Codex, text-to-SQL), semantic extraction, or knowledge graphs (e.g., Neo4j, Neptune).
• Experience with big-data engines like Spark.
• Compiler development for languages like SQL, Python, or Scala.
• Optimization of ML models for low-latency, high-throughput production use.
• Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects (e.g., Hugging Face, PyTorch).
• Expertise in retrieval systems or vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate).
• Skill in evaluating tech and driving build/buy decisions

Seniority: Senior to Staff Level

Experience: 5+ years in industry

Compensation: $250,000–$350,000

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

Benefits and Perks:

• Prophecy covers 99% of employee health insurance and 75% for dependents
• We offer $200 per month towards wellness, gyms, massages, facials, and more!
• Celebrate your birthday and anniversary with a day off!
• Flexible PTO
• Prophecy provides employees with a $500 professional development reimbursement every year
• Company sponsored Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
• FSA/HSA
• Ability to have your fingerprint on an innovative platform
• End-to-end ownership of your projects
• And more!

*Benefits and perks may vary per country

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Prophecy, we hire for merit and foster an inclusive culture where people from diverse backgrounds can excel and do their best work. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Prophecy are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and any other protected characteristics under applicable laws.