Forward Deployed Engineer - Palantir Foundry

Accenture Federal Services•Washington, DC

9d•$70,500 - $203,400•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Accenture Federal Services (AFS), you will be responsible for helping clients solve their most pressing challenges across various sectors including defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. You will work as part of a small team of engineers, domain experts, and other Deployment Strategists to deploy Palantir software and build tailored solutions that make a measurable impact on client operations. This role involves turning a client’s vision into reality by deploying Palantir software and building tailored solutions that make a measurable impact on their operations. You will iterate quickly, build from scratch, and help organizations transform their operations at uncommon speed, reshaping how entire organizations function by providing powerful tools to those who can drive change.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Experience working in Palantir Foundry, including building and maintaining production‑ready data pipelines, managing data connections, and supporting ontology development.
Demonstrated ability to build production-grade code that leverages both structured and unstructured datasets
Strong foundation in machine learning
Strong programming skills with demonstrated proficiency in Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/ JavaScript, or similar
Ability to travel, dependent on client and team
Must be a US Citizen and ability to obtain federal security clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience building solutions with large language models
Active Federal security clearance

Responsibilities

Partner with engineers, program managers, and domain specialists to conceive, architect, build, and maintain applications that meet AFS clients’ needs.
Understand a client’s most critical objectives and synthesize disparate information into a cohesive vision and actionable roadmap, interpreting what the data signifies and outlining an impact-based plan to rapidly go from use case to prototype to scaled deployment.
Quickly iterate, build from scratch, and help transform clients' operations at uncommon speed.
Develop production-grade solutions that make sense of the client’s data and process it through an actionable workflow that can help clients make better decisions.
Collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues to define solution requirements, iterate on the solution, and ship code.