Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) -Palantir Foundry

C5i; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

C5i is seeking a growth-oriented Forward Deployed Engineer who blends hands-on Palantir Foundry work with deep knowledge of Commercial, Marketing, CRM and Digital Growth. You will translate growth opportunities into data-driven products and workflows, connect data across CRM, sales, social, and campaigns, and rapidly prototype, test, and deploy solutions that drive measurable business impact.

The role requires strong Python/SQL skills, experience with data pipelines and Ontologies in Foundry,

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of digital growth, CRM, customer journeys, social/media analytics, and revenue growth management.
• Ability to identify growth opportunities from data rather than predefined requirements.
• Familiarity with CAC, conversion, funnel performance, engagement, retention, LTV, ROAS, campaign effectiveness, price elasticity, promotion effectiveness, product mix, net revenue, gross margin, trade spend.
• Strong experimentation mindset with hypothesis testing, measurement and iteration.
• Hands-on Palantir Foundry experience, ideally client-facing or business-facing.
• Experience building production solutions with Foundry Ontology, Workshop, data pipelines/transforms, and workflows.
• Strong Python and SQL skills; PySpark preferred.
• Ability to integrate data from CRM, marketing, social, digital and enterprise platforms.
• Experience building data products and applications for business users.
• Exposure to Palantir AIP and AI/LLM-enabled workflows desirable.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Commercial, Growth and Marketing leaders to identify growth opportunities and translate into data-driven products.
• Connect and activate data across CRM, customer, sales, social, media, campaign and transactional platforms.
• Build rapid prototypes and experiments, measure results and iterate quickly.
• Develop data pipelines, ontologies, applications and operational workflows in Foundry.
• Apply analytics and AI to identify opportunities and recommend actions for Sales and Marketing teams.
• Own the idea -> prototype -> deployment -> adoption -> measurable business impact process.
• Maintain an experimentation mindset to explore new data-driven growth avenues.

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Python

SQL

PySpark

Tools

Foundry Ontology

Foundry Workshop

Data pipelines/transforms

Operational workflows

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for a growth oriented Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who combines strong hands-on Palantir Foundry capabilities with a deep understanding of Commercial, Marketing, CRM and Digital Growth.

We are looking for someone who thinks like a growth hacker and builds like an FDE — someone who understands how businesses acquire, engage, convert and retain customers, and can use data, AI and Palantir Foundry to rapidly turn growth ideas into working solutions.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable discussing customer journeys, CRM, social/media performance, campaigns and commercial growth opportunities with business teams and then getting hands-on to build the required data products, applications and workflows in Foundry.

What You Will Do

Partner directly with Commercial, Growth and Marketing leaders to identify opportunities to improve customer acquisition, engagement, conversion and revenue growth. Translate loosely defined growth opportunities into data-driven products and workflows using Palantir Foundry.

Connect and activate data across CRM, customer, sales, social, media, campaign and transactional platforms.

Build rapid prototypes and experiments, put them in the hands of business users, measure results and iterate quickly.

Develop data pipelines, Ontologies, applications and operational workflows within Foundry.

Apply analytics and AI to identify customer opportunities and recommend actions for Sales and Marketing teams. Work across business and technology teams, taking ownership from idea -> prototype -> deployment -> adoption -> measurable business impact.

Bring a strong experimentation mindset — continuously identifying new ways in which data and technology can drive growth.

What We Are Looking For

Growth & Business Acumen

Strong understanding of digital growth, CRM, customer journeys, social/media, marketing analytics, and revenue growth management.

Ability to identify growth opportunities from data rather than simply execute predefined requirements.

Familiarity with key commercial, RGM and marketing concepts/metrics such as CAC, conversion, funnel performance, engagement, retention, LTV, ROAS, campaign effectiveness, price elasticity, promotion effectiveness, product mix, net revenue, gross margin, trade spend etc..

Strong experimentation mindset with the ability to formulate hypotheses, test ideas, measure impact and iterate.

Comfortable working directly with senior Commercial and Marketing stakeholders.

Strong hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, ideally in a client-facing or business-facing environment.

Experience building production solutions using Foundry Ontology, Workshop, data pipelines/transforms and operational workflows.

Strong Python and SQL skills; PySpark experience preferred.

Ability to integrate data from CRM, marketing, social, digital and enterprise data platforms.

Experience building data products and applications that are directly consumed by business users.

Exposure to Palantir AIP and AI/LLM-enabled workflows is highly desirable.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are particularly interested in candidates who sit at the intersection of: Growth /

You might currently be a Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir Consultant, Growth/Data Engineer, Marketing Technology Engineer, Customer Analytics Engineer or Solutions Engineer. Your title matters less than your ability to combine commercial curiosity, growth thinking and hands-on technical execution.

What Great Looks Like

A Commercial or Marketing leader should be able to come to you with a question such as:

“We need to grow this customer segment — where are the opportunities and what should we do differently?”

You should be able to explore the data, develop hypotheses, connect CRM/social/media/customer signals, identify opportunities, rapidly build the solution in Foundry and work with the business to test whether it drives growth.

We are looking for someone who doesn’t stop delivering a dashboard or data pipeline.

They identify the opportunity, build the solution, experiment, measure the outcome and keep iterating.