Field-Ready Engineer: Real-Time Intelligence & Foundry

Dataminr; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Dataminr is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join small teams and own deployments inside customer environments, including field or operations centers, turning open-ended questions into working solutions.

You will design data pipelines and applications on Palantir Foundry, integrate real-time intelligence, and travel to customer sites 50-75% while collaborating with stakeholders to shape the next build.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems in a team setting.
• Hands-on Palantir Foundry expertise: pipelines, ontology, Compute Modules, Code Repositories, and app development.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, SQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, or Go.
• Comfort with containers, orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift), Linux, and on-prem infrastructure.
• Active U.S. security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one required.
• Top Secret clearance preferred.
• Strong communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, with willingness to travel 50-75% to secure customer sites.

Responsibilities

• 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, along with custom widgets as needed.
• Integrate Dataminr's real-time intelligence into customer workflows, common operating pictures, and existing command-and-control tooling, ensuring users with different information needs across the organization get mission-relevant intelligence.
• Own solutions end to end, working with minimal supervision and making sound technical decisions independently.
• Debug across the full stack, including infrastructure, networking, and application layers, including in cloud, hybrid, restricted, disconnected, or on-premises environments.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customer engineers and operators, channeling their feedback back into the Dataminr product.
• Travel to customer sites and operations centers as needed (approximately 50-75% of the time).

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

TypeScript/JavaScript

Bash

Go

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Linux

Job description

Dataminr is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join small teams and own deployments inside customer environments, including field or operations centers, turning open-ended questions into working solutions.

You will design data pipelines and applications on Palantir Foundry, integrate real-time intelligence, and travel to customer sites 50-75% while collaborating with stakeholders to shape the next build.