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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir

Deloitte · Chicago, IL · 3 days ago
HybridEngineering$156k–$307k/yrFull-time

About the role

Deloitte seeks forward deployed engineers (FDE) who can help clients transform AI ambitions into impactful enterprise-scale solutions. This role combines product, engineering, problem-solving, and client impact, focusing on rapid prototyping and delivering high-impact GenAI-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with clients to understand business needs and develop high-value GenAI use cases.
  • Partner with leaders, product owners, architects, and engineers to align priorities and deliver solutions.
  • Lead working sessions to shape solutions and drive client outcomes.
  • Prototype and deliver working AI solutions using industry expertise and emerging capabilities.
  • Mentor newer team members and coach client teams and end users on platform capabilities and AI enablement.
  • Drive end-to-end sales and delivery support by developing demos/POCs, contributing to proposals and orals, articulating business value, and documenting solutions for smooth client handoff and knowledge transfer.
  • Strengthen team and organizational impact by mentoring other FDEs through design/code reviews and feedback, while contributing reusable components to intellectual capital.
  • Build AI-enabled solutions, agentic platforms, and workflows across enterprise AI platforms.
  • Apply architecture decisions that balance quality, safety, latency, cost, and model risk.
  • Deliver production-quality code using strong practices in testing, CI/CD, logging, versioning, and documentation.
  • Design extensible functionality, support sprint sizing, and align solutions with senior team members.
  • Contribute reusable assets including code, prompt libraries, runbooks, and reference implementations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science or Engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.
  • 1+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client or production environments.
  • 1+ years of experience with Palantir, including hands-on experience with one of the following key platforms: Foundry, AIP, Maven.
  • 1+ years of experience leading project workstreams/engagements and translating business problems into AI solutions.
  • 1+ years of experience building reliable, maintainable, and well-documented code.
  • Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud) and common platform services (storage, compute, IAM, networking).
  • Demonstrated ability to work directly alongside client technical teams and program stakeholders in fast-paced, ambiguous delivery environments.
  • Data engineering experience with Spark, Airflow/dbt, streaming, data modeling or ML/data science background feature engineering, experimentation or model evaluation.
  • Experience with MLOps/LLMOps practices: evaluation frameworks, model monitoring, and prompt management.
  • Experience integrating LLM solutions with enterprise systems via APIs, microservices, or event-driven architectures.
  • Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance considerations.

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