Forward Deployed Engineer - Real-Time Intelligence & Foundry

Dataminr, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Offices all over the world

Generous PTO and sick leave

Job summary

Dataminr seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to turn open-ended questions into working solutions for customers, deploying and operationalizing First Alert in customer environments, including sensitive U.S. defense and national security missions.

You will design data pipelines and ontology models on Palantir Foundry, integrating real-time intelligence with customer data, and delivering end-to-end solutions with minimal supervision. Expect 25–75% travel and advanced technical collaboration.

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 25–75% of the time).

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

TypeScript/JavaScript

Bash

Go

Containers

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Cloud

Palantir Foundry

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Dataminr seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to turn open-ended questions into working solutions for customers, deploying and operationalizing First Alert in customer environments, including sensitive U.S. defense and national security missions.

You will design data pipelines and ontology models on Palantir Foundry, integrating real-time intelligence with customer data, and delivering end-to-end solutions with minimal supervision. Expect 25–75% travel and advanced technical collaboration.