Forward deployed Engineer - Palantir Foundry

C5i; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

C5i in Bengaluru seeks a growth-oriented FDE with strong Palantir Foundry expertise to drive commercial and marketing data solutions. You will partner with leaders to identify opportunities, build production-ready workflows, and deliver measurable business impact.

Responsibilities include translating complex problems into Foundry-based products, integrating CRM and marketing data, and using analytics and AI to influence growth interventions. Immediate joiners preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience with Palantir Foundry and related data products.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with data modeling knowledge.
• Ability to translate business needs into data-driven solutions.

Responsibilities

• Identify customer and revenue growth opportunities with leaders.
• Translate problems into data-driven Foundry applications and workflows.
• Build and productionize data pipelines, ontology, and operational workflows.
• Integrate data across CRM, marketing, sales, and digital platforms.
• Prototype and iterate with business users to gather feedback.
• Suggest analytics and AI-powered actions for growth and optimization.
• Define growth hypotheses and measure outcomes across funnel metrics.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions.
• Drive end-to-end lifecycle from concept to production and impact.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Growth analytics

Experimentation

Stakeholder management

Ambiguity handling

CRM integration

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Foundry Ontology/Workshop

Data pipelines/transforms

PySpark

AI/LLM workflows

Job description

We’re looking for a growth-oriented FDE with strong hands-on Palantir Foundry expertise and experience across Commercial, Marketing, CRM & Digital Growth.

Preferred: Immediate Joiners

Responsibilities

• Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Growth, and Sales leaders to identify customer and revenue growth opportunities.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into data-driven products, applications, and workflows using Palantir Foundry.
• Build and productionize Foundry Ontology, Workshop applications, data pipelines, transforms, and operational workflows.
• Integrate and activate data across CRM, customer, sales, marketing, social, media, digital, campaign, and transactional platforms.
• Develop rapid prototypes and experiments, gather business‑user feedback, and iterate quickly.
• Use analytics and AI to identify customer opportunities, growth levers, and actionable recommendations for business teams.
• Define and test growth hypotheses and measure outcomes across acquisition, conversion, engagement, retention, and revenue.
• Work directly with senior stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive solutions through the full lifecycle from concept and prototype to production, adoption, and measurable business impact.
• Continuously identify new opportunities where data, AI, and technology can improve commercial and marketing performance.

Required Skills

Technical

• Strong hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry.
• Proven experience with Foundry Ontology, Workshop, data pipelines/transforms, and operational workflows.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• PySpark experience preferred.
• Experience integrating data from CRM, marketing, sales, digital, social/media, and enterprise platforms.
• Experience building business‑facing data products and applications.
• Exposure to Palantir AIP and AI/LLM-enabled workflows is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, analytics, and production data solutions.
• Strong understanding of digital growth, CRM, customer journeys, marketing analytics, and commercial analytics.
• Familiarity with metrics including CAC, conversion, engagement, retention, LTV, ROAS, campaign effectiveness, price elasticity, promotion effectiveness, product mix, net revenue, gross margin, and trade spend.
• Strong experimentation and hypothesis‑driven problem‑solving mindset.
• Ability to identify opportunities from data and translate insights into business actions and measurable outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work directly with senior Commercial and Marketing leaders.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast‑paced, client‑facing environments.