Data Engineer: AI-Driven Defense Data Pipelines

Agile Defense, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Short-term Disability

Long-term Disability

Retirement benefits

Learning and Development opportunities

Job summary

Agile Defense, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer for the CDAO Central program. The role focuses on designing scalable data pipelines and AI-enabled data solutions to support DoD missions.

You will work with PMs, developers, and platform engineers to turn raw data into actionable insights in secure environments. The ideal candidate has 3+ years in data or software engineering, strong Python/SQL skills, and experience with Palantir Foundry and distributed data frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Data Engineering or related field; master's preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering.
• Experience designing and managing complex data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable data pipelines and AI-enabled data solutions.
• Develop pre-processing workflows and feature engineering strategies.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to transform raw data into insights and decision-support tools.
• Support reproducibility, testing, and continuous delivery in agile environments.

Skills

Palantir MSS Workshop

Palantir Slate

Python

SQL

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Spark

Databricks

PySpark

Job description

Agile Defense, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer for the CDAO Central program. The role focuses on designing scalable data pipelines and AI-enabled data solutions to support DoD missions.

You will work with PMs, developers, and platform engineers to turn raw data into actionable insights in secure environments. The ideal candidate has 3+ years in data or software engineering, strong Python/SQL skills, and experience with Palantir Foundry and distributed data frameworks.