Forward Deployed Engineer

PVM Inc•San Diego, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Sr FDE) serves as the technical lead responsible for the architecture, ontology design, application delivery, operational support, and overall platform health of SCE's PSPS CDP and WiSDM Foundry environments. The Sr FDE partners directly with utility stakeholders, operational users, and engineering teams to deliver and sustain mission-critical operational capabilities supporting wildfire mitigation, Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) operations, and regulatory reporting requirements. The Senior FDE independently owns complex implementation efforts from design through production support, mentors junior engineers, and ensures solutions remain scalable, supportable, and aligned to enterprise governance standards.

Requirements

Deep expertise with Palantir Foundry Ontology Manager, Workshop, Actions, Pipeline Builder, and operational application development
6+ years of software engineering or systems integration experience
Experience supporting production operational platforms with strict uptime and response requirements
Experience with Python, TypeScript, or Java within Foundry development workflows
Familiarity with utility operations, wildfire mitigation, public safety operations, outage management, asset management, customer operations, or regulatory reporting environments
Experience designing enterprise ontologies and governing reusable data models across multiple applications
Experience integrating ERP, GIS, operational, and enterprise systems into Foundry
Experience supporting utility, energy, infrastructure, emergency management, public safety, or other operational environments
Experience participating in on-call rotations or supporting mission-critical production systems
Strong understanding of operational governance, release management, and platform support models
Ability to own full feature lifecycle: architecture → build → test → deployment
Experience supporting Palantir Foundry implementations exceeding 50+ ontology objects and multiple operational applications
Experience conducting ontology reviews, governance assessments, and platform architecture evaluations
Experience working directly with executive stakeholders, operations teams, and enterprise architecture organizations

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain ontology-driven applications within Palantir Foundry supporting PSPS operations and utility decision making
Develop and enhance Workshop applications, operational dashboards, workflows, and actions used by field operations, customer operations, and executive leadership
Design and govern enterprise ontology objects, relationships, and business logic supporting multiple operational use cases
Implement and maintain data pipelines integrating SAP, OMS, GIS, weather, customer, and operational systems
Support production operations, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis during critical operational events
Participate in operational readiness exercises, tabletop events, and production support activities
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate operational requirements into scalable Foundry solutions
Develop governance processes supporting ontology lifecycle management, object reuse, and platform scalability
Support deployment promotion, release management, testing coordination, and environment governance
Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, and support procedures
Mentor engineers on ontology design, Workshop development, operational architecture, and Foundry best practices