Palantir Platform Lead

CHAOS Industries; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits fully paid

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch

401k with company match

Job summary

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco seeks a talented Software Engineer to design and build data workflows that support our engineering efforts. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams, leveraging Palantir Foundry to optimize data management across various platforms.

The ideal candidate will possess at least 2 years of software development experience, with proficiency in Python and SQL. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $130,000 to $220,000, along with comprehensive health benefits and perks like unlimited PTO and free lunches.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in professional software development.
• Experience building, testing, and supporting major systems in production.
• Experience with designing data flows in enterprise data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Foundry-based data pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data flows.
• Mentor other engineers as the team grows.

Skills

Python

SQL data warehouses

No-SQL systems

Building data pipelines

Object-oriented software development

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Azure

React

Job description

CHAOS Inc. is a global technology company delivering next generation capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. Founded in 2022 by a seasoned leadership team, CHAOS has quickly become the place where world-class multi-disciplinary engineers come to build mission-critical technologies. CHAOS has a mission-focused culture, dedicated to solving the toughest technical challenges. Its unique agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping, while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world solutions.

Role Overview

CHAOS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our team supporting our product engineering. This is a highly collaborative role which will allow you to wear multiple hats and work very closely with our product. As a member of our engineering team, you will also have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product line.

A key aspect of this role will be leveraging Palantir Foundry as CHAOS's internal data operating platform - building, maintaining, and optimizing end-to-end workflows and pipelines that manage sensor, operational, and enterprise data across the company. You will work across teams to ensure our data infrastructure and workflows are reliable, scalable, and directly enable mission outcomes. This role will be central to delivering the CHAOS Operating System in Foundry - a unified data backbone that connects engineering, operations, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Foundry-based pipelines and workflows, enabling ingestion, transformation, and delivery of data for both engineering and operational users
• Define major parts of our data and backend architecture, including choice of frameworks and systems
• Build and maintain our data infrastructure, real‑time data processing, data transportation, and backend services
• Collaborate closely with product, system, software, and hardware engineers to integrate data flows into mission workflows
• Mentor other engineers as the team grows, and work with engineering leadership to define longer term roadmaps

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in professional, object‑oriented software development
• Experience with Python, SQL data warehouses, and no‑SQL systems
• Experience building, testing, and supporting major systems in production
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or workflows in Palantir Foundry or other enterprise data platforms

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Palantir Foundry
• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms
• Experience with 2D and 3D Visualization ideally in defense use cases
• Experience with additional frameworks such as React

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Your medical, dental and vision benefits will be 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits: life, FSA, HSA, 401k (+ Company match), and more
• Our Perks: free daily lunch, No meeting Fridays, unlimited PTO, casual dress code
• Compensation Components: competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance + (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Company Size: 150 employees and counting!

Salary Range

Salary Range: $130,000 - $220,000

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.

As set forth in CHAOS Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.