Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer: Foundry & AI Solutions

Accenture; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 87,000 - 316,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Palantir Business Group seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to turn a client’s vision into reality by deploying Palantir software and building tailored solutions that improve operations.

You will join a small team of engineers, domain experts, and Deployment Strategists to deliver production-grade data engineering and AI-enabled applications across government, healthcare, energy, financial services, and manufacturing sectors.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years hands-on experience in data engineering, including ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing, and large-scale data integration.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience with Palantir Foundry building data pipelines, managing datasets, and deploying applications within Palantir Foundry and/or Palantir Gotham
• Minimum of 3 years experience prompt engineering and applied AI techniques within Palantir (AIP, model deployment, feature engineering)
• Minimum of 5 years working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Python OR PySpark OR Java
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 8 years work experience

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineers, program managers, and domain specialists to design, build, and support client-facing applications.
• Gather requirements, analyze data and workflows, and define a roadmap from prototype to scaled deployment.
• Build from scratch when needed, validate with users, and iterate rapidly based on feedback.
• Ship reliable pipelines and applications that turn client data into operational workflows and decision support.
• Write clear requirements, share progress with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and drive work to release.

Skills

Data engineering

Palantir Foundry

Prompt engineering

Cloud platforms

Python

PySpark

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Palantir Gotham

AIP

Git

Job description

Accenture Palantir Business Group seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to turn a client’s vision into reality by deploying Palantir software and building tailored solutions that improve operations.

You will join a small team of engineers, domain experts, and Deployment Strategists to deliver production-grade data engineering and AI-enabled applications across government, healthcare, energy, financial services, and manufacturing sectors.