AI Data & Knowledge Engineer
innovapptive
Job Description
1. Architect the AI Knowledge and Data Layer
- Design and implement data ingestion and embedding pipelines to convert structured and unstructured content into vectorized representations.
- Build a unified data schema connecting maintenance, production, and safety data across SAP, Maximo, OSI PI, and SCADA systems.
- Integrate vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or Chroma) into the AI Platform (MCP) to enable context-aware retrieval.
- Optimize query efficiency and relevance through hybrid search (semantic + keyword) and metadata tagging.
2. Operationalize RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- Implement document chunking, embedding, and retrieval pipelines for PDFs, work orders, shift logs, and incident reports.
- Develop automated retraining and re-indexing mechanisms to ensure freshness of data.
- Collaborate with AI Platform Architect to link retrieval flows into agent orchestration layers.
- Validate precision, recall, and latency metrics for semantic retrieval using real production workloads.
3. Build AI Data Governance and Observability
- Define data lineage, quality metrics, and access control for AI knowledge repositories.
- Embed telemetry for data latency, embedding drift, and retrieval accuracy into Datadog/Sentry dashboards.
- Partner with the Chief AI Architect to enforce compliance, explainability, and prompt context versioning standards.
4. Collaborate Across Product and Engineering
- Work with Product Managers and Solution Architects to identify key use cases for AI-driven search and knowledge retrieval.
- Partner with QA to build automated test frameworks for semantic accuracy and retrieval reliability.
- Collaborate with industrial data teams to extract and normalize sensor, historian, and SAP data for RAG integration.
5. Drive Continuous Innovation
- Evaluate emerging frameworks for knowledge graphs, embeddings, and contextual caching (e.g., LlamaIndex, LangChain, FAISS).
- Tune embeddings and hybrid retrieval strategies for domain-specific industrial vocabulary.
- Mentor developers on data preparation and retrieval design for AI-integrated product features.