Senior Foundry Platform Lead: Ontology & Ops Excellence

PVM, Inc.; Rosemead (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and on-site positions available

Unlimited PTO

Peer bonus program

Growth opportunities

Job summary

PVM, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to act as technical lead for Southern California Edison environments in Palantir Foundry. You will guide architecture, ontology design, deployment, and platform health to deliver scalable, governance-aligned solutions.

You will own end-to-end implementations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with enterprise architecture to meet regulatory and safety objectives in wildfire mitigation, PSPS, and reporting contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field; plus at least 6 years of software engineering or systems integration experience, or 10+ years’ experience in lieu of degree.
• Deep expertise with Palantir Foundry Ontology Manager, Workshop, Actions, Pipeline Builder, and operational application development.
• Experience designing enterprise ontologies and governing reusable data models across multiple applications.
• Experience supporting production operational platforms with strict uptime and response requirements.
• Strong grasp of operational governance, release management, and platform support models.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for platform architecture and environment health across PSPS CDP and WiSDM.
• Design and govern enterprise ontology objects, relationships, and business logic across multiple use cases.
• Own complex implementation efforts end to end: architecture, build, test, deployment, and production support.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis during critical operational events.
• Set governance processes for ontology lifecycle management, object reuse, and platform scalability.
• Lead release management, deployment promotion, and environment governance.
• Partner with utility stakeholders, operations teams, and enterprise architecture to turn operational needs into scalable Foundry solutions.
• Mentor engineers on ontology design and Foundry best practices
• Provide performance feedback on Junior and Mid-Level engineers

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Ontology design

Platform governance

Release management

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

10+ years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Foundry Ontology Manager

Workshop

Actions

Pipeline Builder

Job description

PVM, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to act as technical lead for Southern California Edison environments in Palantir Foundry. You will guide architecture, ontology design, deployment, and platform health to deliver scalable, governance-aligned solutions.

You will own end-to-end implementations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with enterprise architecture to meet regulatory and safety objectives in wildfire mitigation, PSPS, and reporting contexts.