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Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer, United States
The lead build role in the United States: you own the architecture and delivery of client engagements on Foundry and the data ecosystem around it, lead the engineers on them, and work with the client’s executives.
About Ainur Insights
Ainur Insights builds on Palantir Foundry and AIP for large organisations: one model of the business across the systems they already run, with workflows, agents and decisions in production, handed over to the client’s own team.
Role overview
We’re looking for a senior engineer in the United States to lead client engagements from the technical side: the architecture, the build and the handover. You’ll own the design of pipelines, ontology and applications on Palantir Foundry and the platforms around it, lead the engineers working alongside you, and work directly with the client’s technical and executive stakeholders. As a Forward-Deployed Engineer, you’ll embed with client teams and solve their hardest problems; as a senior one, you’ll make sure what we build is right, lands, and is handed over to a team that can run it.
Key responsibilities
Technical leadership
- Own the architecture and technical delivery of client engagements on Foundry and the platforms around it
- Set the standards for pipelines, ontology design, application development and governance, and review the work against them
- Lead and mentor the engineers on the engagement, including associate and early-career colleagues
- Decide what to keep, connect or retire among the systems in scope, and make the case for it
Client engagement & solution design
- Work with technical and executive stakeholders to turn business goals into a delivery plan
- Assess data strategy and governance across the client’s estate and set the roadmap
- Run design reviews and demos with the client
- Lead the handover: documentation, training and the client’s team running what we built
Data engineering & platform development
- Design scalable pipelines in Foundry with Pipeline Builder and Python transforms, and across the client’s lakehouse and warehouse platforms
- Design the ontology: objects, functions, actions and write-back to the systems of record
- Build applications and workflows with TypeScript, Python and AIP
- Integrate streaming and real-time processing where the use case needs it
AI & advanced analytics
- Lead the design and deployment of generative and agentic AI with AIP, with the governance to keep it correct
- Integrate machine learning models into Foundry for operational analytics
Data governance & security
- Design data protection policies, access controls and restricted views
- Own data quality, security and regulatory compliance on the engagement
Required qualifications
Experience & education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field; a Master’s is a plus
- 6+ years in data engineering or software engineering, at least 2 of them leading delivery
- 3+ years of hands-on Palantir Foundry experience in large-scale or mission-critical environments
- At least one Foundry programme delivered end to end, from design to handover
- Authorisation to work in the United States
Technical skills
- Required: expert Foundry, including Pipeline Builder, the ontology, AIP, integrations and application development
- Required: advanced Python and TypeScript
- Required: strong SQL and data modelling
- Cloud data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift) on AWS, Azure or GCP
- Apache Spark, Kafka and streaming architectures
- Git-based repositories, CI/CD and DevSecOps practices
Professional skills
- Leads engineers and grows them
- Clear communication with executives and engineers alike
- Comfortable owning outcomes with a client, including the hard conversations
- Client-facing delivery leadership
- Fluent English; other languages are a plus
Preferred qualifications
- Foundry certifications (Foundry Developer and Foundry Data Engineer)
- Experience with other Palantir platforms
- Work in regulated sectors such as insurance, finance, utilities, energy or government
- Experience training client teams
- Proposal or pre-sales experience
What we offer
Compensation
- Competitive salary
- Performance bonuses and equity opportunities
- Health insurance, 401(k) matching and statutory benefits
Professional development
- Sponsored Palantir certifications
- Learning budget for conferences and training
- A say in how the United States practice grows
- Work on live client projects from the start
Work-life balance
- Flexible remote work with hybrid office options
- Paid time off plus public holidays
- Employee assistance and wellness programmes
- A small team that works closely together
Why join Ainur Insights?
We work on Foundry and the data ecosystem around it, directly with clients. You’ll lead the engineering on engagements across varied projects and industries in the United States, and shape how the practice there grows.
Apply now
Send your CV and a cover letter covering your Foundry experience, the engagements you have led and how they turned out, and your experience leading engineers. Specific examples of architectures you designed and the business results they achieved are especially welcome. Apply using the form, or email info@ainurinsights.com.