Manufacturing Ontology Engineer -1030

Manufacturing Ontology Engineering for Resilient Biomanufacturing PREP0001030

The position is for a manufacturing ontology research engineer. The individual will work with the Data Infrastructure for Biomanufacturing project. The aim of the project is to advance the state of arts in standards, standard development, and standard deployment such that they accelerate the industry adoptions of digital twins, artificial intelligence, and smart manufacturing technologies.  The engineer will engage with NIST staff and industry partners to develop reference ontologies, guidelines to develop and extend the ontologies, and methods and tools for developing, extending, and implementing the ontologies. To achieve that the engineer will engage in activities that include but not limited to participating in industry meetings, visiting industry sites, developing ontologies, developing simulation models, testing ontologies using various technologies such as simulation and SPARQL queries, contributing to standard documents, writing and presenting technical papers, developing software to demonstrate the use of ontologies, and working with project staffs to develop work plans. 

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Provide ontology development expertise.
• Develop information and business process model.
• Develop simulation using software such as AnyLogic.
• Write conference and journal papers.
• Gather industry requirements.
• Develop software for demonstration.
• Develop new guidelines for developing and deploying ontologies.
• Develop new software to facilitate better ontology development and deployment.
• Research and deploy relevant commercial software.
• Research and extend or reuse open-source software.
• Conduct workshops.
• Lead meetings.

Qualifications

• A doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering.
• Five years of relevant experience in ontology research and development.
• Two years of experience in modeling and simulation of systems or processes.
• Two years of experience in leading an ontology standard development working group.
• Experience in leading large multi-stakeholder research project.
• Expert knowledge in ontology-related technologies, including OWL, RDF, SPARQL, and SHACL.
• Expert in the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and other top-level ontologies such as DOLCE.
• Expert in the IOF Core Ontology.
• Experience in software development using languages such Java.
• Experience with AnyLogic.
• Strong oral and written communication skills. 
• Proven track record of publications in the manufacturing ontology domain.