Senior Ops Systems Engineer: Palantir & MES Architect

Skydio; California (MO); On-site; USD 145,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Skydio, the leading US drone company, seeks a Senior Operations Systems Engineer to scale manufacturing systems across US facilities. You will drive Palantir implementations, build data pipelines, and optimize material flow with cross-functional teams in a fast-growing environment.

You will collaborate with production, supply chain, quality, planning, and engineering, while managing external partners, ensuring on-time delivery, and advancing data-driven manufacturing capabilities across the

Qualifications

• Experience as an implementation lead for Palantir Foundry or similar products.
• Working level knowledge of SQL, Python, and Java to support building and reviewing customized applications and data pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of operations and manufacturing systems and processes, including MES, MRP and PLM.
• Deep understanding of data structures and building data pipelines to support long term, scalable applications.
• Deep understanding of hardware and manufacturing business processes.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements and to make decisions in ambiguity.
• Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships with business stakeholders and third party developers.
• Ability to identify and address challenges proactively.
• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders including production, supply chain, quality, planning, and engineering to conduct thorough problems and needs assessments.
• Conduct make vs buy decisions to best meet the companies needs.
• Manage 3P implementation projects by driving stakeholder engagement, defining project requirements, setting development milestones, and holding our development partners accountable for on-time deliverables.
• Develop and implement applications and tools within Palantir’s product suite to optimize material flow, ECOs, production scheduling, factory execution, and quality.
• Help integrate new data sources while maintaining the Palantir ontology.
• Conduct regular meetings and generate reports on project status, highlighting achievements, challenges, and upcoming milestones to ensure all stakeholders are well-informed.
• Solicit and provide feedback to ensure continuous improvement across systems.

Skills

SQL

Python

Java

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Skydio, the leading US drone company, seeks a Senior Operations Systems Engineer to scale manufacturing systems across US facilities. You will drive Palantir implementations, build data pipelines, and optimize material flow with cross-functional teams in a fast-growing environment.

You will collaborate with production, supply chain, quality, planning, and engineering, while managing external partners, ensuring on-time delivery, and advancing data-driven manufacturing capabilities across the