Forward Deployed Engineer / Palantir Foundry Engineer

Syndicode; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote position

Autonomy in time management

Job summary

Syndicode is seeking a hands-on Palantir Foundry specialist to sustain and evolve an enterprise deployment. The role blends data engineering, software development, and light architecture with direct customer collaboration, owning maintenance, extensions, and improvements of an established Foundry stack.

You will reverse-engineer the current landscape, build data pipelines and integrations, work with Ontology concepts, and develop ops apps with Workshop/OSDK, while ensuring reliability and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry in an existing live environment.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with data modeling and API design experience.
• Ability to read and modify a production codebase and assess change impact.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and cloud/enterprise infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Reverse-engineer the Foundry landscape, pipelines, and ontologies before changes.
• Sustain functionality and add capabilities as business evolves.
• Build/adjust data pipelines, datasets, and integrations, including code components.
• Work with Ontology blocks (Object Types, Link Types, Properties, Actions, Functions).
• Develop and refine operational apps using Workshop and OSDK when relevant.
• Diagnose issues across pipelines and permissions, drive root cause and reliability.
• Clarify requirements with stakeholders and document key architecture decisions.

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Python

SQL

Data modeling

CI/CD

APIs

Cloud/enterprise infra

Communication

Tools

Code Repositories

Workshop

OSDK

Dev Console

Pipelines Builder

Job description

Role overview

This position focuses on an already-live Palantir Foundry deployment inside an enterprise environment, so the work is evolutionary rather than greenfield. The role blends hands-on data and software engineering with light solution architecture and direct customer collaboration, taking ownership of maintenance, extension, and continuous improvement of an established Foundry stack.

Responsibilities

• Reverse-engineer the current Foundry landscape, including data pipelines, the Ontology, applications, integrations, and external dependencies, before proposing or making changes
• Sustain current functionality and add new capabilities as the business evolves, always weighing the impact on production workflows
• Build and adjust data pipelines, transformations, datasets, and integrations, including code-based components living in Code Repositories
• Work with Ontology building blocks such as Object Types, Link Types, Properties, Actions, and Functions, and extend them as new entities or workflows appear
• Develop and refine operational applications in Workshop and related Foundry app tooling, including OSDK-based custom apps when relevant
• Diagnose issues that span pipelines, the Ontology, applications, permissions, and integrations, drive them to root cause, and harden reliability, performance, and data quality over time
• Partner directly with stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements, communicate trade-offs, and turn business needs into well-scoped technical changes
• Capture architecture decisions and important implementation choices so future maintainers can onboard quickly

Requirements

• Commercial, hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, including onboarding into an existing environment without disrupting live workflows
• Working knowledge of the Ontology, Object Types and Link Types, Actions and Functions, Pipeline Builder, Workshop, Foundry permissions and access management, APIs, Developer Console, and OSDK
• At least 5 years of professional software or data engineering experience with strong Python and SQL skills
• Solid data modeling and transformation skills, experience designing or consuming modern APIs, and comfort working with relational databases
• Ability to read and modify an unfamiliar production codebase, debug systems with many moving parts, and assess change impact before implementation
• Familiarity with CI/CD, cloud or enterprise infrastructure, and the realities of shipping reliable production software
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical constraints to non-technical audiences and to run technical discovery independently

Nice to have

• Exposure to Palantir AIP, AIP Logic, and AI-enabled Foundry applications
• React and TypeScript experience for OSDK-based custom application development
• Advanced Python data engineering work in large-scale enterprise environments
• Familiarity with data governance and access-control models
• Prior experience inheriting an existing Palantir implementation from another team, or prior Forward Deployed Engineer, Solution Engineer, or Solutions Architect roles

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote position
• Internal technical meetups and continuous feedback inside the engineering function
• Significant autonomy over time management, with room to participate in decisions and bring forward new ideas
• A fast-moving environment that adapts quickly to customer and market changes