Engineer - AI at Architecture49 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

We are seeking a Knowledge Engineer to support the development of MAV for structured ingestion, reasoning, and retrieval of complex mining and asset information. The successful candidate will design and implement end-to-end knowledge extraction and ingestion pipelines, transforming unstructured and semi-structured technical documents (PDFs, reports, drawings) into RDF-based knowledge graphs, and enabling graph-native retrieval and reasoning workflows (GraphRAG). This role sits at the intersection of knowledge engineering, AI-driven extraction (LLM + vision), ontology design, and graph analytics.

Responsibilities

Knowledge Extraction & Ingestion

• Design and implement automated extraction pipelines for technical tailings storage facility (TSF) documents (PDFs, scanned reports, tables, figures).
• Apply LLM-based and vision-based extraction techniques (OCR, layout understanding, multimodal models) to identify entities, attributes, relationships, and evidence.
• Develop validation and normalization logic to ensure extracted knowledge meets quality and consistency requirements.

Knowledge Schema & Ontology Design

• Design and evolve domain ontologies and knowledge schemas to support structured storage of TSF, risk, asset, and operational data.
• Implement schemas using RDF/OWL, including classes, properties, constraints, and semantic relationships.
• Align schemas with industry standards and internal MAV data models.

Knowledge Graph Development

• Build and manage RDF-based knowledge graphs in graph repositories (e.g., GraphDB, RDFox, Neptune, or equivalent).
• Implement ingestion workflows that map extracted content into graph structures with traceability to source documents.
• Support versioning, provenance, and evidence linking within the knowledge graph.

Retrieval & GraphRAG Pipelines

• Design and implement graph-native retrieval pipelines, combining SPARQL queries, reasoning, and embeddings where appropriate.
• Develop GraphRAG architectures that leverage structured graph context rather than flat text retrieval.
• Enable natural-language querying over the knowledge graph for downstream AI assistants and analytics tools.

Collaboration & Integration

• Work closely with development team, domain experts, and AI engineers to refine extraction logic and schema requirements.
• Support integration with cloud AI services (e.g., Azure AI, OpenAI models, document processing services).

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Knowledge Engineer, Ontology Engineer, or Knowledge Graph Engineer.
• Strong understanding of RDF, OWL, SPARQL, and semantic data modeling.
• Hands-on experience with RDF-based graph repositories (GraphDB, RDFox, Apache Jena, Neptune, etc.).
• Experience designing automated knowledge extraction pipelines using LLMs.
• Familiarity with vision-based document processing (OCR, layout analysis, multimodal extraction).
• Experience designing retrieval pipelines from structured knowledge graphs.
• Familiarity with Azure-based AI and data platforms.
• Experience with GraphRAG or hybrid graph + LLM architectures.

BGV:

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.
• Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.

About the Company

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Transportation & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, Earth & Environment, Power & Energy, Resources and Industry sectors, as well as offering strategic advisory services. Our talented people around the globe engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

With approximately 4,000 talented people across 3 locations (Noida, Bengaluru & Mumbai offices) in India and more than 73,000 globally, in 550 offices across 40 countries, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

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