Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer, Mid

Booz Allen Hamilton•San Diego, CA

1d•$77,600 - $176,000•Onsite

About The Position

As an engineering and analytics professional, you’re excited at the prospect of unlocking the secrets held by a data set, and you’re fascinated by the possibilities presented by IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Your deep engineering and analytics expertise, coupled with an original approach to your work, will guide clients and stakeholders as they make sense of their data and encourage actionable results. As a Forward Deployed Engineer on our Defense Technology team, you’ll introduce innovative methodologies to make a real-world impact on protecting our military. You’ll share your skills in data engineering, data science, modeling and technology integration to develop solutions to drive the mission forward. Collaborate with engineers, product owners, analysts, and mission stakeholders to design and develop Foundry-based applications that meet mission needs.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in software, data, or platform engineering
1+ years of experience in Palantir Foundry
Experience with creating Data Connections, Code Repos, or Pipeline Builders for data ingestion and transformation, debugging and resolving pipeline issues, error and performance bottlenecks, and in programming languages such as Python or TypeScript
Experience in Ontology design and management, designing and developing applications and workflows, and integrating AIP solutions
Knowledge of the core Foundry Applications and designing solutions to address client challenges
Ability to engage with stakeholders, define requirements, and translate them into technical solutions, and break down complex mission challenges into implementable solutions
Ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes while collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team
Ability to show a passing score on the Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations Quiz
Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, or a technology field

Nice To Haves

Experience working directly with mission operators, analysts, or stakeholders in embedded or forward-deployed environments for clients in the defense or intelligence sectors
Experience with Git repositories, CI/CD workflows, or infrastructure automation
Experience with AI or ML model integration within Foundry applications
Knowledge of Foundry security models, access control, and compliance frameworks
Possession of strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
Secret clearance
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, or a technology field

Responsibilities

Translate mission problems into technical architectures, workflows, and ontologies.
Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines using Foundry’s Code Repositories and Pipeline Builder with both structured and unstructured dataset inputs.
Design, develop, and maintain ontologies and create operational workflows and decision-support capabilities.
Troubleshoot, optimize, and improve existing data pipelines and applications supporting mission-critical operations.
Work directly with clients to gather requirements, iterate on prototypes, and refine solutions through deployment.
Implement engineering best practices including version control, testing and documentation.
Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Travel to and work from client sites as needed for workshops, deployment activities, or embedded support.