Forward Deploy Engineer

Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer - Boutique AI/Data Consultancy

Remote-first (occasional Switzerland travel)

The consultancy

A specialist Foundry & AIP consultancy built by people who've actually shipped on the platform - the founding team came up through Palantir itself. Small, senior, and focused: they solve hard operational problems for clients using Foundry rather than generic data tooling, and they move fast doing it.

Why this role exists

They need someone who can own delivery end to end - not a pipeline builder who hands off to someone else for the client conversation, and not a client-facing consultant who leans on others for the technical build. Both, in one person.

You'd be running strategic client engagements: designing the Foundry workflow, building it, and sitting across the table from the CxOs and product leads who need to trust the outcome. You'd also have real input into how the team delivers - this isn't a role where process gets handed to you, it's one where you help write it.

What the work actually looks like

• Designing and building Foundry workflows end to end - from raw data integration through to tools people actually make decisions with
• Running client relationships directly, across seniority levels, from technical data teams up to CxOs
• Taking ownership of high-visibility engagements from kickoff to delivery, including leading other engineers on them
• Feeding into how the consultancy operates - delivery approach, engineering standards, where the business goes next

What you'll need

• Solid engineering foundation - Python, Spark, TypeScript
• Real depth in Foundry and/or Databricks, ideally both, including how data modelling and ontologies actually work in practice, not just in theory
• Comfort leading engineers through complex, sometimes ambiguous client environments
• The ability to switch registers - technical enough for a data team, commercial enough for a CxO, often in the same day
• A genuinely independent working style - no one's checking in on you daily

On experience: they'd rather see two years touching a wide range of Foundry use cases - data connection through to ontology-driven applications - than five years of narrow pipeline work in one place. Range beats tenure here.

Setup

Remote-first. Some travel expected for team gatherings in Switzerland and time on client sites.