Solutions Engineer, Real-Time Intelligence Platforms for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Henegouwen; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG in Mons, Belgium is seeking an experienced engineer to design and deploy Palantir Foundry solutions for defence and national security customers. You will shape data pipelines, ontologies, and operator-facing apps, owning the implementation from concept to live operation.

This role combines field work across Europe with hands-on coding in Python, Java, SQL, and front-end tools, plus Docker, Kubernetes, and on-premise environments.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background in CS, software, math, or physics.
• Hands-on Palantir Foundry work: pipelines, ontology, Compute Modules, and Workbooks.
• Fluency in Python, Java, SQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, or Go.
• 3+ years of professional software or forward‑deployed solutions engineering.
• Ability to quickly grasp platform architecture and data models for operators.
• Experience with Docker/Podman and Kubernetes/OpenShift; solid Linux and networking.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site at secure customer facilities.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Meet defence and security users to understand mission-critical needs for situational awareness.
• Design, build and deploy Palantir Foundry data pipelines, ontology, and operator apps.
• Integrate live intelligence into workflows and existing command-and-control tools.
• Create custom widgets to meet user requirements.
• Own end-to-end solutions with minimal supervision.
• Debug across stack in restricted, disconnected or on-premise environments.
• Serve as a trusted technical adviser and feed feedback to product.
• Travel to customer sites across Europe as needed.

Skills

Palantir Foundry experience

Programming languages

3+ years experience

Platform architecture

Travel readiness

Linux & Networking

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

Location: Mons, Belgium — hybrid — three days on site every second week.

Who can apply: candidates with the right to work in the EU, and UK-based candidates.

An engineering seat on a real-time intelligence platform used by defence, national-security and NATO-aligned organisations across Europe. Small team, a great deal of ownership: an operational question arrives open-ended, and your job is to turn it into something operators genuinely rely on — in the field or in an operations centre.

The heart of the work is Palantir Foundry. You design the pipelines, the ontology and the applications that bring live intelligence together with the customer's own operational data — sensor feeds, asset and unit positions, mission context — and you own the result from the first sketch on a whiteboard to a system people depend on.

What You Would Be Doing

• Sitting with defence and security users to understand what matters most to them in situational awareness and force protection, then scoping solutions against it.
• Designing, building and deploying on Palantir Foundry — data pipelines, ontology models and operator-facing applications.
• Bringing live intelligence into the workflows, common operating pictures and command-and-control tooling already in use, so that people with very different information needs each receive what is relevant to their mission.
• Building and tuning custom widgets where that is what the user actually needs.
• Owning solutions end to end, with little supervision and sound technical judgement of your own.
• Debugging across the whole stack — infrastructure, networking, application — often in restricted, disconnected or on-premise settings.
• Being the technical adviser the customer's engineers and operators trust, and carrying their feedback back into the product.
• Travelling to customer sites and operations centres in Europe, roughly a quarter to three quarters of the time.

What you would bring

• A strong engineering background — computer science, software engineering, mathematics, physics or something equally technical.
• Hands-on Palantir Foundry work: pipelines, ontology, Compute Modules, Code Repositories and Workbooks, application development. This one is core to the role.
• Fluency in at least one of Python, Java, SQL, TypeScript or JavaScript, Bash, Go.
• Three years or more of professional software or forward-deployed / solutions engineering, shipping systems into production.
• The knack of picking up an unfamiliar platform architecture and data model quickly, and of reasoning about how a technical decision lands on the operator.
• Containers (Docker or Podman) and orchestration (Kubernetes or OpenShift), with solid Linux, networking and on-premise fundamentals.
• Ease with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike, and with objectives that shift as the mission does.
• Willingness to travel and to work on site in secure customer facilities.

Nice to have

• Software delivered in classified, air-gapped or otherwise disconnected environments.
• A background supporting defence, intelligence, national-security or emergency-management work.
• Geospatial platforms and common-operating-picture tooling (Esri, ArcGIS), or command-and-control systems.
• Front-end frameworks, and data-rich applications built for operators.
• A feel for how NATO and national defence customers handle accreditation and compliance.
• A second European language.