Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Palantir Foundry/AIP

SHI International Corp; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SHI International Corp. is hiring foundational Forward Deployed Engineers to deliver AI and data solutions. You will work inside customer environments, with their data and their stakeholders, to ship production outcomes on Palantir Foundry and AIP.

This is a hands-on delivery role. You will own technical execution on customer engagements, working alongside an Account Strategist and under the direction of a Technical Lead. You will not be managing a team.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of direct, hands-on experience building and shipping production solutions in Palantir Foundry or AIP
• Experience inside customer environments with customer data and customer stakeholders
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
• Experience integrating enterprise data sources via APIs and connectors
• Ability to design and operate scalable data pipelines and production workflows
• Comfort with AI and ML concepts including LLM-powered workflows, ontology design, and agentic application patterns
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and operational customer stakeholders
• Experience operating in fast-moving environments with minimal oversight
• Based in Texas or willing to relocate

Responsibilities

• Deliver production workflows, ontologies, pipelines, and AIP-powered applications inside customer Foundry environments
• Integrate customer data sources (ERP, CRM, legacy systems, APIs) into Foundry and build operational workflows on top of them
• Partner with the Account Strategist to translate business priorities into concrete deployment plans
• Execute rapid-value deployments in the first 90 days of every engagement
• Contribute to reusable templates and delivery patterns that scale across customers and verticals
• Work directly with customer operational leaders and subject matter experts to refine and operate solutions
• Support account expansion by surfacing new use cases during delivery
• Work across priority verticals including manufacturing and industrial products, logistics and supply chain, financial services, and healthcare and life sciences

Skills

Python

SQL

APIs

Data pipelines

AI/ML

Communication

Adaptability

Collaboration

Time management

Problem solving

Initiative

Analytical thinking

Customer environment

Tools

Palantir Foundry

AIP

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

SAP

Salesforce

ServiceNow

Job description

SHI International Corp. is hiring foundational Forward Deployed Engineers to deliver AI and data solutions. You will work inside customer environments, with their data and their stakeholders, to ship production outcomes on Palantir Foundry and AIP.

This is a hands-on delivery role. You will own technical execution on customer engagements, working alongside an Account Strategist and under the direction of a Technical Lead. You will not be managing a team.