Lead Palantir Application Engineer

Technical Competencies

• Palantir Foundry Leadership: Guide application teams in the use of Foundry capabilities such as Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns.
• Solution Architecture: Lead solution design for complex applications, integrations, workflows, and data models. Identify technical risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend practical approaches that can be supported over time.
• Engineering Standards: Establish and reinforce standards for code quality, testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, and operational support across Foundry application teams.
• Application Engineering: Develop and review maintainable solutions using modern engineering practices and technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, APIs, Git, automated testing, and CI/CD concepts.
• Data and Integration: Guide data modeling, transformation, integration, data quality, and connection patterns for enterprise systems, files, databases, APIs, and Foundry-based solutions.
• Technical Mentorship: Coach engineers through design decisions, implementation challenges, code reviews, troubleshooting, and adoption of consistent engineering practices.
• Agentic Development: Experience using different LLMs. Knowledge of different models, experience working with MCP, and familiarity with different agentic coding frameworks.

What You Will Need

• Experience: 5 years relevant experience required. 8 years of relevant experience preferred.
• Experience: Experience developing enterprise applications, workflows, integrations, or platform-based solutions preferred.
• Experience: Experience providing technical direction for complex application engineering efforts preferred.
• Experience: Experience reviewing technical designs, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices preferred.
• Experience: Experience with Palantir Foundry preferred.
• Agentic development experience.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.

Benefits

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