Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer

• Tech Level: Senior

• Language Proficiency: Upper-Intermediate

• FTE: 5

• Employment type: Full time

• Candidate Location:  EU, USA

• Working Time Zone: CET, PST (overlap for several hours)

• Start: April 2026

  Project Description:

The project focuses on the integration of leading data and AI platforms into an insurance delivery framework to create a unified, data-driven, and AI-enabled insurance operations platform.

Project Phase: Active development

Soft Skills:

• Stakeholder management

• Strong communication with technical and non-technical users

• Business and product thinking

• User empathy

• Ability to work in ambiguous environments

• High ownership and accountability

• Comfort working under pressure

• Willingness to travel and work on-site

Hard Skills / Must Have:

• 2–3+ years of hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, including proven production deployment and customer implementation cases

• Strong proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL; experience with Java or Scala is a plus

• Experience building and operating distributed data pipelines (Spark, large-scale ETL/ELT, data modelling)

• Experience integrating enterprise systems via REST APIs, JDBC, SFTP, and cloud data platforms

• Experience with or strong understanding of AI-enabled applications, LLM workflows, and RAG systems

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field

• Certification: Palantir Certified Data Engineer or Application Developer is highly preferred

Responsibilities and Tasks:

•  Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines in Palantir Foundry

• Integrate data from ERP, CRM, financial, operational, and external systems

• Build and maintain the Enterprise Ontology (Object Types, Link Types, Actions)

• Develop operational applications and dashboards using platform-specific tools

• Build AI-powered workflows using AI platforms (RAG, LLM agents, evaluations)

• Work directly with customer stakeholders (business, operations, IT, leadership)

• Translate business problems into data models, applications, and AI solutions

• Support production deployments, performance tuning, and scaling

• Work on-site with customers as required

Technology Stack: Palantir Foundry and AIP, Python, PySpark, SQL, Spark, REST/JDBC, industry-standard insurance software, cloud data platforms, AI/LLM systems, TypeScript, React
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