Forward-Deployed Engineer (Palantir Foundry / AIP)

Forward-Deployed Engineer (Palantir Foundry / AIP)

Location: Onsite - Atlanta, GA

Long Term Contract

Travel: 10-30% (approx. 2-6 nights/month; may vary by project phase)

Role Overview

This forward-deployed position partners directly with FD client teams to operationalize solutions, ensuring long-term sustainability, performance, and business adoption. The engineer will own productization and lifecycle management, monitor solution health, and drive user enablement while supporting deployment and release activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with FD client teams to sustain productionalized solutions and ensure business uptake.
• Develop and manage productization and lifecycle plans (versioning, dependencies, sunset criteria).
• Monitor solution health using Palantir Foundry and AIP observability tooling; proactively address performance degradation.
• Partner with business units to drive adoption, build confidence, and identify expansion opportunities.
• Create enablement materials (documentation, training guides, reusable templates) to reduce reliance on CoE engineering.
• Support recurring value realization processes, including dashboards and value reporting.
• Identify scalability constraints and provide architectural feedback to platform leads.
• Coordinate deployment and release management with platform teams.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Strong expertise with Palantir Foundry operational tooling (monitoring, observability, pipeline health, lifecycle management).
• Hands-on experience with productization practices: release management, versioning, dependency tracking, and runbooks.
• Ability to configure and interpret AIP Observability and Evals tooling for agent performance assessment.

Experience & Qualifications

• 4-10+ years in software engineering, platform operations, or technical product management.
• Background in regulated industries (insurance, finance, healthcare) preferred.
• Prior experience with Palantir Foundry or similar enterprise data platforms strongly desired.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Optional: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.