Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer

Travel Required: Up to 10%

Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, configure, and maintain data integration, analytics, and operational solutions using Palantir Foundry and related enterprise data platforms.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, transformations, and reusable data products supporting operational reporting, advanced analytics, AI, and decision support.
• Develop and maintain Palantir Ontology models, business objects, relationships, actions, and workflows that support operational and analytical use cases.
• Design and develop user-facing applications using Foundry Workshops and other Palantir application development capabilities.
• Integrate data from cloud platforms, enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and external data sources using scalable and secure integration patterns.
• Develop and optimize solutions using Python, SQL, and other modern programming languages for large-scale data processing and analytics.
• Implement data quality, validation, metadata management, lineage, and governance practices to ensure trusted, reusable, and well-documented data assets.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, data scientists, analysts, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate mission and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Support Agile software development activities including sprint planning, backlog refinement, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Prepare technical documentation including system diagrams, data flow diagrams, solution documentation, standard operating procedures, and implementation guides.
• Support technical modernization initiatives involving cloud platforms, enterprise data ecosystems, and AI-enabled analytics solutions.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher federal security clearance, as required.

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DHS "Public Trust"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their Public Trust prior to onboarding. Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field; in lieu of degree, four (4) additional years of experience is required.
• Four (4) or more years of experience developing solutions using Palantir Foundry, including data pipelines, transformations, data products, and application development.
• Experience developing Foundry Workshops and operational applications.
• Experience designing and implementing Ontology models supporting operational or analytical workflows.
• Experience with SQL and Python (particularly PySpark).
• Experience integrating structured and unstructured data from multiple enterprise data sources.
• Experience implementing data quality, validation, testing, and governance processes.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google cloud services) and modern enterprise data architectures.
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and DevSecOps best practices.

Nice to Have

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment while delivering high-quality technical solutions.
• Experience implementing enterprise data governance, metadata management, lineage, and role-based access controls.
• Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed organizations.
• Experience with Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP).
• Experience integrating Palantir with Databricks, Apache Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Microsoft Fabric, or AWS services.
• Experience supporting AI/ML, natural language processing, knowledge graphs, semantic search, or advanced analytics solutions.
• Experience supporting public health, healthcare, life sciences, biomedical research, or epidemiology programs.
• Experience working with health data and health data standards such as HL7, laboratory, and surveillance data.
• Experience supporting federal agencies such as CDC, HHS, NIH, CMS, FDA, or VA.
• Experience in consulting environments supporting multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Palantir Foundry, Palantir AIP, Azure, AWS, Databricks, or related technical certifications.

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus