Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer - Fort Bragg, NC

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines, datasets, and data products within the Palantir Foundry platform.
• Develop and optimize Foundry pipelines using Python, SQL, PySpark, and Foundry-native technologies.
• Build and maintain Foundry data transformations, workflows, datasets, and analytical applications supporting USASOC mission requirements.
• Develop and manage Ontology models that represent operational entities, relationships, actions, and mission data.
• Integrate data from disparate enterprise, operational, and mission systems into Foundry.
• Design data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality processes to ensure reliable and trusted data products.
• Work with data scientists, analysts, and mission users to operationalize analytical models and workflows within Foundry.
• Develop reusable data products and services that support CDAO analytics and decision-making capabilities.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data quality issues, performance problems, and integration challenges.
• Optimize Foundry pipelines and data products for scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Support the development and deployment of Foundry applications and workflows that provide actionable insights to mission stakeholders.
• Apply data governance, access controls, security requirements, and data management practices within the platform.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and systems engineering teams to ensure data solutions operate within applicable security and authorization requirements.
• Participate in technical design reviews and translate mission requirements into technical implementation plans.
• Document data architectures, pipeline designs, integrations, dependencies, and operational procedures.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on Foundry development, data engineering, and platform best practices.
• Support continuous improvement of CDAO's data engineering architecture, development standards, and engineering practices.
• Participate in Agile development activities, including sprint planning, stand-ups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Coordinate directly with government technical leads and mission stakeholders to identify requirements, resolve technical issues, and prioritize development efforts.

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI (TS/SCI) security clearance, or the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI per contract requirements.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data platform engineering, or a related technical discipline, including demonstrated hands-on development within Palantir Foundry.
• Experience designing and implementing production-grade data pipelines and data products.
• Experience integrating data from multiple structured and unstructured sources.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational data technologies.
• Experience supporting data engineering solutions in DoD, federal, or other mission-critical environments.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments.
• Experience collaborating directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate mission requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong communicator able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and government stakeholders, translate ambiguous operational requirements into practical solutions, and serve as a mentor and technical leader who raises engineering standards across the team.

Required Technical Skills

• Palantir Foundry
• Foundry Ontology
• Foundry Pipeline Builder
• Foundry Workshop and/or Slate
• Python
• SQL
• PySpark
• Data transformation and pipeline development
• Data modeling
• ETL/ELT development
• API and system integration
• Data quality and validation
• Git / version control
• CI/CD concepts and practices
• Cloud-based data platforms
• REST APIs
• Data governance and access controls
• Troubleshooting and performance optimization

Certifications (Dod 8140)

Must hold a current DoD 8140-compliant certification appropriate for this position. Approved examples include:

• CSC
• CSSLP
• GCSA
• GSEC

Desired Qualifications

• Direct experience supporting USASOC, USSOCOM, or another Special Operations Forces organization.
• Previous experience supporting a Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) or comparable enterprise data organization.
• Experience developing Foundry solutions for DoD mission, intelligence, operations, logistics, or command-and-control use cases.
• Experience working with Foundry in classified or air-gapped environments.
• Experience with Foundry Ontology development and operationalization.
• Experience building Foundry applications using Workshop, Slate, or similar Foundry application-development capabilities.
• Experience integrating Foundry with enterprise APIs, databases, message queues, cloud services, and external applications.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience deploying machine learning or advanced analytics capabilities into operational data workflows.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or other cloud environments.
• Familiarity with DoD data standards, enterprise data architectures, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Experience working in TS/SCI or other classified environments.
• Experience supporting systems subject to RMF/ATO requirements.
• Palantir Foundry certification or demonstrated equivalent platform expertise.