Secret-Cleared AI Data Engineer for Government Data

Nationwide IT Services, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid holidays

PTO (sick/vacation)

Commuter benefits

EAP

Educational reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Nationwide IT Services seeks a Palantir / AI Data Engineer to develop, integrate, and sustain data and AI capabilities across Palantir Foundry, Envision, Maven, Vantage, and AskSage for ANG data ecosystems. The engineer will maintain semantic data layers and AI-ready data products enabling AI/ML and mission analytics across ANG datasets.

The role requires hands-on Palantir Foundry experience, strong SQL/Python skills, and the ability to collaborate with bar-raising technical leads while adhering

Qualifications

• Hands-on Palantir Foundry data engineering, modeling, or analytics development experience.
• Experience with semantic layers, ontologies, vector indexes, embeddings, or AI-ready data structures.
• Strong SQL and Python skills; integrating diverse data sources.
• Experience with AI/ML-enabled query, retrieval, prompt engineering, or generative AI like AskSage.
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, access controls, security, and quality for regulated data.
• DoD/DAF security and CUI training requirements compliance.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot data products and workflows in Palantir Foundry, Envision, Maven, and Vantage.
• Structure and maintain semantic data layers, ontologies/data models, schemas, metadata, and vector-index configurations for AI/ML queries.
• Integrate Palantir and AskSage with Azure, Databricks, Advana/WDP, Power BI, and other CDAO repositories while preserving data integrity.
• Prepare and optimize data for retrieval, semantic search, vector-based retrieval, prompt/context engineering, and AI analysis.
• Implement data quality, access controls, encryption, lineage, and CUI-handling across AI-enabled data products.
• Collaborate with data engineers and Tech Lead to build ingestion and transformation pathways for Palantir/AI products.
• Validate AI data layers against government definitions; investigate AI responses due to data/semantic issues.
• Support development of BI products, analytics solutions, and training for Palantir and AI tools.
• Create technical documentation, guidance, troubleshooting procedures, and training materials for Palantir/AI capabilities.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data integration

Tools

Palantir Foundry

AskSage

Azure Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Nationwide IT Services seeks a Palantir / AI Data Engineer to develop, integrate, and sustain data and AI capabilities across Palantir Foundry, Envision, Maven, Vantage, and AskSage for ANG data ecosystems. The engineer will maintain semantic data layers and AI-ready data products enabling AI/ML and mission analytics across ANG datasets.

The role requires hands-on Palantir Foundry experience, strong SQL/Python skills, and the ability to collaborate with bar-raising technical leads while adhering