Forward Deployed Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 5+ years of production Foundry experience, including ownership of Ontology architecture, design of multi-source pipeline systems, and shipping Workshop applications for daily client operations.
• Deep Foundry data layer expertise: Transforms (PySpark, Polars, and SQL), Pipeline Builder topology design, Object Storage partitioning strategies, Ontology branch management, and observable data quality patterns.
• Demonstrated AIP delivery in production (AIP Logic chains and AIP agent deployments outside of sandbox), with the ability to articulate tradeoffs between agent architectures and choose appropriate methods (function-backed objects vs. direct LLM calls).
• Proven ability to break down large, ambiguous business problems into concrete Ontology and application designs, identifying what belongs in the Ontology, action types, and Logic functions.
• Fluency with messy organizational data (overlapping source systems, inconsistent entity identifiers, conflicting data owners) and experience building post-engagement governance structures.
• Production Python and SQL code that is maintainable, documented, and structured for reuse.
• Client-facing technical leadership, including running requirements workshops, managing technical relationships with client engineers and architects, and presenting architecture decisions to mixed audiences.
• Engineering judgment under ambiguity, with the ability to make decisions with incomplete information, document assumptions, and know when to escalate or unblock.

Nice To Haves

• Domain depth in financial services (insurance, reinsurance, risk), healthcare (claims, clinical operations, population health), supply chain, or discrete manufacturing.
• Experience with Contour for exploratory Ontology analysis or Slate for custom embedded applications in legacy enterprise environments.
• Palantir Foundry or AIP certification at associate or professional level.
• Experience standing up Foundry in greenfield environments, including Data Connection source configuration and codec development.
• Familiarity with MLflow, PyTorch, or other ML tooling integrated into Foundry Code Repositories for model training and deployment workflows.
• Track record leading cross-functional delivery programs with 3+ engineering contributors.

Responsibilities

• Operate as the primary technical owner on complex engagements, from scoping through production handoff.
• Lead Foundry Ontology design across multi-source enterprise environments, defining object type hierarchies, link type semantics, property type governance, and branch strategies for production data models.
• Architect end-to-end pipeline systems from raw ingestion through semantic layer, connecting 10+ source systems with observable data quality and documented lineage using Transforms and Pipeline Builder.
• Own AIP deployments: design agent architectures in AIP Agent Studio, configure tool registries backed by Foundry functions, and build evaluation harnesses that validate LLM reasoning before any agent touches a production workflow.
• Design and ship AIP Logic chains: multi-step reasoning workflows grounded on Ontology objects, with structured outputs, action types, and writeback patterns that close the loop from insight to operation.
• Drive client-facing technical discovery: lead workshops that map operational processes to Foundry Ontology models, surface integration constraints, and produce architecture decision records that hold up in production review.
• Translate big, ambiguous business problems into Foundry delivery scopes, pushing back on technically solvable but operationally meaningless requirements and advocating for designs that match user decision-making processes.
• Define delivery standards for the practice: author Ontology design guidelines, AIP agent patterns, Workshop architecture principles, and code quality standards for junior engineers.
• Mentor junior FDEs through code review, architecture walkthroughs, and embedded coaching on client engagements.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic life insurance coverage
• 401(k) plan
• 200 hours of paid time off annually
• Twelve paid holidays each calendar year