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:

23 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

Bachelors or Masters 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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