Forward Deployed Engineer

Dataminr; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Global offices

Generous PTO

Job summary

Dataminr is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy First Alert inside customer environments across Europe, including defense and national security contexts. You will own end-to-end delivery, build data pipelines, and craft operator-facing applications on Palantir Foundry.

You’ll travel 25–75% and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders in fast-moving environments, contributing to mission-critical decisions in real time.

Qualifications

• Engineering background in CS/related field.
• Proficiency in Palantir Foundry data pipelines and apps.
• Programming proficiency: Python/Java/SQL/TS/JS/Bash/Go.
• 3+ years delivering production software or solutions engineering.
• Active NATO Secret clearance or willingness to obtain it.

Responsibilities

• Partner with defense and security customers to scope solutions.
• Design, build and deploy First Alert on Palantir Foundry.
• Integrate real-time intelligence into workflows and C2 tools.
• Build custom widgets to operationalize data insights.
• Own end-to-end solutions with minimal supervision.
• Travel to Europe 25–75% for on-site work.

Skills

Strong engineering background

Programming languages (Python, Java, C

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Docker / Podman

Kubernetes / OpenShift

Linux networking / on-prem infra

Job description

See yourself at Dataminr
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you sit at the intersection of our technology and our customers' hardest problems. Working in small teams with a high degree of ownership, you will deploy, build on, and operationalize First Alert inside customer environments — many of them defense, national security, and NATO-aligned organizations across Europe. Projects often begin with an open-ended operational question, and it is your job to translate that into a working solution that gives operators decision advantage in real time.

See yourself at Dataminr
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you sit at the intersection of our technology and our customers' hardest problems. Working in small teams with a high degree of ownership, you will deploy, build on, and operationalize First Alert inside customer environments — many of them defense, national security, and NATO-aligned organizations across Europe. Projects often begin with an open-ended operational question, and it is your job to translate that into a working solution that gives operators decision advantage in real time.

AI Innovation at Dataminr

Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.

The opportunity

• Partner directly with defense and security customers to understand their highest-priority situational awareness and force protection problems, then scope solutions against them.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions on Palantir Foundry that operationalize First Alert — including data pipelines, ontology models, and operator-facing applications.
• Integrate Dataminr's real-time intelligence into customer workflows, common operating pictures, and existing command-and-control tooling, ensuring users with disparate information requirements across the organization are receiving mission-relevant information.
• Build and fine-tune custom widgets where needed to enable customers to best operationalize real-time intelligence.
• Own solutions end to end, working with minimal supervision and making sound technical decisions independently.
• Debug across the full stack — infrastructure, networking, and application layers — often in restricted, disconnected, or on-premise environments.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customer engineers and operators, and channel their feedback back into the Dataminr product.
• Travel to customer sites and operations centers across Europe as needed (approximately 25–75% of the time).

What You Bring

At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.

• A strong engineering background, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Palantir Foundry expertise: hands-on experience building on Palantir Foundry — data pipelines, ontology, Compute Modules, Code Repositories / Workbooks, and application development. This is a core requirement for the role.
• Programming: proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, SQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, or Go.
• Dataminr architecture & use cases: the ability to quickly understand the Dataminr platform architecture, data model, and First Alert defense and public sector use cases, and to reason about how technical decisions affect the operator.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering or forward-deployed / solutions engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Infrastructure: familiarity with containers (Docker / Podman) and orchestration (Kubernetes / OpenShift), plus solid Linux, networking, and on-premise infrastructure fundamentals.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and to thrive in a fast-changing environment with iterative, mission-driven objectives.
• NATO Secret clearance: an active NATO Secret security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one. This is a requirement for the role.
• Willingness to travel approximately 25–75% and to work on-site in secure customer facilities.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying software in classified, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted / disconnected environments.
• Background supporting defense, intelligence, national security, or emergency-management operations.
• Familiarity with geospatial platforms and a common operating picture (e.g., Esri / ArcGIS) or command-and-control systems.
• Experience with front-end frameworks and building data-rich, operator-facing applications.
• Understanding of NATO or national defense customer environments and their accreditation and compliance requirements.
• Proficiency in an additional European language.

About Dataminr

At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts.

Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.

As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here.

We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.

We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form. We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, colour, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status. Dataminr will collect and process your personal data in accordance with Dataminr’s candidate privacy notice available here. By providing your details and applying via our careers website, you acknowledge that you have read our candidate privacy notice. If you have any queries, please contact [e-mail] or [e-mail].