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As a Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer on the Defense Technology team, you will serve as a Forward Deployed Engineer to support military missions. You will translate complex mission problems into technical architectures, workflows, and ontologies while building production-grade data pipelines from structured and unstructured datasets. Your daily responsibilities include designing and maintaining ontologies, creating operational workflows, and troubleshooting existing applications to support critical operations. You will work directly with clients to gather requirements and iterate on prototypes. Key technologies and skills include Palantir Foundry, Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, Python, TypeScript, Git, and CI/CD workflows. You must possess a Secret clearance and experience in data engineering, modeling, and technology integration to solve technical challenges within the defense and intelligence sectors.
Translate mission problems into technical architectures, workflows, and ontologies.
Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines using Foundry’s Code Repositories and Pipeline Builder.
Design, develop, and maintain ontologies and operational workflows.
Troubleshoot, optimize, and improve existing data pipelines and applications supporting critical operations.
Gather requirements directly from clients to iterate on prototypes and refine solutions.
Implement engineering best practices including version control, testing, and documentation.
Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
What we're looking for
3+ years of experience in software, data analytics, project delivery, or platform engineering in a hands-on or leadership role.
Experience in Palantir Foundry.
Experience working directly with mission operators, analysts, or stakeholders in embedded or forward-deployed environments for defense or intelligence sectors.
Ability to translate complex mission challenges into technical architectures, requirements, and implementable solutions.
Experience with ontology design, application development, and integrating AIP solutions (preferred).
Experience with Python, TypeScript, Git, CI/CD workflows, or AI/ML model integration (preferred).
Palantir Foundry
Python
TypeScript
Ontology Design
Data Engineering
Data Science
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
CI/CD
Git
Data Pipelines
Infrastructure Automation
Testing
Version Control
Palantir Foundry
Python
TypeScript
Ontology Design
Data Engineering
Data Science
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
CI/CD
Git
Data Pipelines
Infrastructure Automation
Testing
Version Control