Job Description
Our Client is building the first Policy Decision Engine for government. We're hiring an Ontology Architect to lead the structuring of Delaware's unemployment insurance statutes, regulations, and operational policies into a machine-readable ontology. You don't need to be a UI policy expert — the state is providing subject matter experts for that. You need to be exceptional at extracting what they know and turning it into structured decision logic.
What the role covers:
Knowledge Extraction — Sit with state adjudicators, caseworkers, and policy experts. Ask the right questions. Pull out the operational knowledge that lives in their heads — the exceptions, the edge cases, the it depends logic that isn't written down anywhere.
Policy-to-Logic Translation — Take statutes, regulations, and the SME knowledge you've captured and structure it into a machine-readable ontology. Map eligibility criteria, exceptions, disqualification conditions, and the relationships bet...