Ontologist, Product Knowledge Ontology

Role Overview

The Product Knowledge Ontology team is dedicated to developing a standardized and richly semantic product knowledge base that is easy to discover, extensible, and applicable across various Amazon platforms. This ontology underpins customer shopping experiences, seller product listings, and internal product data enrichment to create intuitive and feature-rich interactions.

As an Ontologist, you will join a global team tasked with creating world-class ontology and taxonomy models to enhance product discovery on Amazon's web and mobile platforms. Collaborating closely with business partners, data scientists, and engineers, you will deliver knowledge-driven solutions that significantly impact Amazon's customer experience and product knowledge infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design logical, semantically rich, and scalable data models representing Amazon's large product catalog.
• Develop comprehensive ontologies covering diverse product sub-domains, optimized for machine processing and inference generation.
• Conduct research on global Amazon products to create scalable data structures addressing customer needs and improving product discoverability.
• Utilize generative AI tools to create new schema models.
• Enhance data retrieval methodologies leveraging Amazon's extensive product database and query languages.
• Analyze website metrics and product discovery patterns to inform data-driven improvements of knowledge graph models worldwide.
• Contribute to new tools and process development to support the Ontology team's initiatives.
• Champion alignment with ontology modeling best practices and technological standards internally and across Amazon.
• Lead coordination of cross-disciplinary projects involving technical and non-technical teams.

Team and Culture

The team embraces a global, diverse workforce committed to inclusivity and continuous personal and professional growth. New employees receive comprehensive onboarding and ongoing support in a knowledge-sharing environment that values individual contributions.

Required Qualifications

• Experience with computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, or syntax.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
• Familiarity with language annotation and data markup methodologies.
• Experience handling speech and textual language data across multiple languages.
• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of version control systems and agile development approaches.
• Experience designing ontologies, taxonomies, and frameworks for semantic relations.
• Knowledge of grammar writing and finite state transducers (FSTs).
• Familiarity with statistical language modeling techniques.

Equal Employment and Accessibility

Amazon is committed to diversity and equal opportunity, focusing recruitment on applicants' experience and skills. The company values innovation and simplifies processes while prioritizing candidate data privacy and security. Applicants requiring workplace accommodations during the hiring process can access resources through Amazon.

Additional Information

This role is based in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, employing full-time onsite engagement.