Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer — TS/SCI Clearance

Barbaricum; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Barbaricum is seeking a Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer to lead design, development, and optimization of data products within the Palantir Foundry platform for USASOC CDAO. You will translate complex mission requirements into scalable data pipelines, ontologies, and analytics applications, collaborating with data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, and government stakeholders.

The role demands deep Foundry expertise, strong leadership, and a proven track record in mission-critical

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance or ability to obtain/maintain per contract requirements.
• 5+ years in software/data engineering or related field with hands-on Palantir Foundry experience.
• Experience designing and implementing production-grade data pipelines and data products.
• Experience integrating data from multiple structured and unstructured sources.
• Experience with relational and non-relational data technologies.
• Experience working in DoD, federal, or mission-critical environments.
• Experience in Agile software development and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills and ability to mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines, datasets, and data products within Palantir Foundry.
• Develop and optimize Foundry pipelines using Python, SQL, PySpark, and Foundry-native tech.
• Build and maintain Foundry data transformations, workflows, and analytical apps.
• Develop and manage Ontology models representing operational entities and relationships.
• Integrate data from diverse systems into Foundry.
• Define data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality processes.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and mission users to operationalize models.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

Foundry Ontology

Foundry Pipeline Builder

Foundry Workshop

Python

SQL

PySpark

Data transformation

Data modeling

API integration

Data quality

Git

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

REST APIs

Data governance

Troubleshooting

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science / Data Science / related field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Barbaricum is seeking a Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer to lead design, development, and optimization of data products within the Palantir Foundry platform for USASOC CDAO. You will translate complex mission requirements into scalable data pipelines, ontologies, and analytics applications, collaborating with data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, and government stakeholders.

The role demands deep Foundry expertise, strong leadership, and a proven track record in mission-critical