Forward Deployed Engineer

Dataminr; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

PTO and sick leave

Job summary

Dataminr is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy and operationalize First Alert inside customer environments, including sensitive U.S. defense and national security missions. You design data pipelines, ontologies, and operator-facing apps, integrating Dataminr's real‑time intelligence with customer data.

You own the solution end to end, work across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments, and communicate effectively with stakeholders. Travel to customer sites 50–75% is expected.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Hands-on Palantir Foundry expertise: pipelines, ontology, modules, app development.
• Strong programming skills: 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.
• Top Secret clearance preferred.
• Willingness to travel 50–75% to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Design data pipelines, ontologies, and applications that combine Dataminr's real‑time intelligence with the customer's data.
• Own solutions end to end, from first sketch to finished system for operators.
• Debug across the full stack: infrastructure, networking, and applications, in cloud or on‑prem environments.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customer engineers and operators; channel feedback to product.
• Travel to customer sites and operations centers as needed (50–75%).
• Collaborate with defense/security customers to scope and deploy First Alert in their environments.

Skills

Software engineering

Palantir Foundry

Python

Java

SQL

JavaScript

Go

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Linux

Security clearance

Travel readiness

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

See yourself at Dataminr As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will help Dataminr's technology meet our customers' hardest problems. You'll join small teams with real ownership, deploying and operationalizing First Alert inside customer environments, including sensitive U.S. defense and national security missions. Your job is to turn open-ended questions into a working solution that gives operators an edge in real time. Palantir Foundry is central to this role. You'll design data pipelines, ontologies, and applications that combine Dataminr's real-time intelligence with the customer's own data. You own the solution from the first sketch to the finished system operators depend on, whether that's in the field or an operations center. Some days you're debugging infrastructure. Other days you're deep in data architecture with fellow engineers, building out API integrations, or sitting with customer stakeholders to figure out what to build next.

AI Innovation at Dataminr

Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold.

Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground.

Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages).

The opportunity

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 25–75% of the time).

What you bring

• 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.

Nice to Have

• Experience in classified, air‑gapped, or disconnected environments.
• Background in defense, intelligence, or national security operations.
• Familiarity with geospatial tools (Esri/ArcGIS) or command‑and‑control systems.
• Front‑end experience building operator‑facing applications.

About Dataminr

At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real‑world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events.

Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI‑powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold.

Trusted by two‑thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts.

Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real‑time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’

Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.

As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees.

Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy.

We believe our differences give us strength.

Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.

We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity.

We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form.

We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality.

We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.

The base salary range for this position is $165,000 - $220,000.

Actual salary will be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, applicant skills, and prior relevant experience.

In addition to the benefits set forth above, the compensation package for this role also includes an annual discretionary bonus.

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.

Dataminr will collect and process your personal data in accordance with Dataminr’s candidate privacy notice available here.