Senior Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS
Deloitte · San Diego, CA · 3 days ago
HybridEngineering$156k–$307k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Deloitte AI & Engineering team transforms technology platforms, drives innovation, and makes a significant impact on clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses.
Responsibilities
- Embed with clients to identify business needs and translate high-value GenAI use cases into solutions.
- Partner with leaders, product owners, architects, and engineers to align priorities and delivery.
- Lead working sessions to shape solutions and drive client outcomes.
- Prototype and deliver working AI solutions using industry expertise and emerging capabilities.
- Contribute independently within an FDE pod while mentoring newer team members.
- Coach client teams and end users on platform capabilities and AI enablement, while building trusted relationships, managing expectations, and supporting long-term engagement success.
- 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.
- Develop scalable AI engineering patterns, tool-use approaches, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- 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.
- 7+ 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 platform technologies: 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.
Qualifications
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud) and common platform services (storage, compute, IAM, networking).
- 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.