Forward Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• The Forward Deployed AI Engineer is tasked with the design, development, and implementation of data and AI-driven solutions within Palantir Foundry to enhance mortgage and financial services operations.

• This position merges data engineering, ontology design, application development, and AI workflow facilitation to generate scalable, production-ready data products that boost operational efficiency, decision-making, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

• The role acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, converting complex operational needs into governed, maintainable, and reusable Foundry solutions.

• Design, create, and sustain data ingestion, transformation, and integration pipelines within Palantir Foundry.

• Integrate data from internal systems, external vendors, data warehouses, servicing platforms, CRM systems, and financial applications.

• Ensure the integrity, lineage, reliability, observability, and performance of data across production environments.

• Implement governance measures and operational oversight for enterprise data assets.

• Create and maintain ontology models that depict mortgage and financial services business domains.

• Define business entities, relationships, and semantic structures that facilitate operational workflows and analytical use cases.

• Develop reusable, governed data products that support reporting, analytics, workflow automation, and AI applications.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to align ontology structures with operational procedures and business goals.

• Develop applications, dashboards, operational tools, and workflow solutions based on Foundry.

• Support business activities such as loan origination, underwriting, servicing, portfolio management, risk assessment, compliance monitoring, and customer operations.

• Configure workflow actions, case management processes, exception handling tools, and decision-support applications.

• Partner with business users to pinpoint opportunities for operational enhancements and automation.

• Design and implement AI-driven workflows using Palantir AIP capabilities.

• Develop agent-based and large language model (LLM) solutions that bolster business operations and decision-making.

• Ensure AI implementations adhere to enterprise standards for governance, auditability, security, and regulatory compliance.

• Identify and apply opportunities to enhance operational efficiency through AI-supported processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be accepted.

• 3-5 years of experience; Proven experience in implementing solutions within Palantir Foundry.

• Experience in constructing production data pipelines, data products, or enterprise applications.

• Proficiency in SQL and Python-based data engineering solutions.

• Experience in delivering projects from initial requirements to production deployment.

• Advanced understanding of Palantir Foundry platform functionalities.

• Strong skills in SQL and Python and/or PySpark.

• Knowledge of data engineering, ETL development, and data integration methodologies.

• Familiarity with relational, dimensional, and semantic data modeling techniques.

• Capability to design and execute ontology-based business solutions.

• Experience in developing enterprise applications and operational workflows.

• Robust analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking abilities.

• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders.

• Skill in managing multiple priorities and delivering solutions in dynamic environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity: The organization is dedicated to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants, regardless of race, ethnicity, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

• Americans with Disabilities Act: Applicants and employees who are or become disabled must be able to satisfactorily perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.