Healthcare Ontologist

8 Years

We are seeking a Healthcare Ontologist to develop and manage biomedical ontologies taxonomies semantic frameworks and controlled vocabularies supporting healthcare research and regulatory initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess expertise in semantic reasoning ontology alignment and AI-driven healthcare knowledge representation.

• Develop and manage healthcare and biomedical ontologies.
• Design semantic frameworks and controlled vocabularies.
• Support healthcare AI systems and knowledge representation initiatives.
• Perform ontology alignment and semantic reasoning activities.
• Collaborate with research clinical and technical teams.
• Support graph database and semantic technology implementations.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare and regulatory standards.
• Assist in semantic interoperability and metadata governance initiatives.
• Maintain ontology documentation and taxonomy standards.

• Masters degree preferred in Biomedical Informatics Health Informatics Library Science Information Science Computer Science or related field.
• 8 years of experience in ontology development and semantic technologies.
• Experience supporting healthcare or regulatory environments.
• Strong understanding of biomedical taxonomies and semantic frameworks.

• OWL/RDF
• Protégé
• SNOMED CT
• MedDRA
• UMLS
• NCI Thesaurus
• Semantic Reasoning
• Ontology Alignment
• Graph Databases
• Knowledge Representation
• NLP Support for Healthcare AI Systems

• Stanford Biomedical Informatics Coursework or Certification
• HL7/FHIR Certification

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity at all levels.