Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Title: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Duration: Full-Time

Location: Remote - United States, with travel to client sites up to 3 days per week

Salary Range: $175,000-$200,000

Job Summary: Matlen Silver is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to support a highly visible data platform modernization initiative. This is a senior, hands‑on engineering position focused on evaluating an existing Palantir Foundry environment and rebuilding equivalent data, ontology, workflow, and application capabilities on Databricks. The ideal candidate has significant hands‑on experience building within Palantir Foundry and understands the platform deeply enough to reverse‑engineer existing implementations, including Ontology, Workshop applications, Actions, Functions, pipelines, and code repositories.

This individual must also have strong production Databricks experience and be comfortable translating existing Foundry capabilities into scalable Databricks‑based solutions using PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, workflows, Python, and SQL. This is a client‑facing role requiring an engineer who can work directly with business and technical stakeholders, lead working sessions, explain technical trade‑offs, challenge requirements when appropriate, and remain deeply involved in hands‑on implementation.

• Assess and reverse-engineer existing solutions built within Palantir Foundry.
• Analyze Foundry Ontology implementations, including object types, links, Actions, and Functions.
• Evaluate existing Workshop applications, Pipeline Builder implementations, and Code Repositories.
• Translate existing Foundry functionality and business workflows into solutions built on Databricks.
• Design and build production data pipelines and workflows using Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake, and related technologies.
• Develop scalable data models that support business workflows and application requirements.
• Rebuild or replace existing application and workflow capabilities currently operating within Foundry.
• Develop solutions using Python and SQL.
• Work directly with client stakeholders to understand existing processes, requirements, and technical constraints.
• Lead technical working sessions and clearly communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs.
• Partner with engineering, data, application, and business teams throughout the migration.
• Remain hands‑on throughout design, development, migration, testing, and implementation.

• 12+ years of overall technology, software engineering, data engineering, or related professional experience.
• Significant hands‑on experience with Palantir Foundry in a production environment.
• Previous experience as a Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Deployment Strategist, or substantial client‑side experience building directly on Foundry.
• Deep hands‑on experience with Foundry Ontology, including:
  • Object types
  • Links
  • Actions
  • Functions
• Hands‑on experience with Palantir Workshop applications.
• Experience with Foundry Pipeline Builder and Code Repositories.
• Strong production Databricks experience.
• Strong experience with:
  • Py Spark
  • Delta Lake
  • Unity Catalog
  • Databricks workflows and pipelines
• Advanced Python and SQL skills.
• Experience designing data models and translating business processes into working technical applications.
• Ability to analyze an existing Foundry implementation and determine how its capabilities can be recreated on Databricks.
• Strong hands‑on engineering ability. This is not a purely architectural or advisory position.
• Excellent client‑facing communication skills and the ability to run technical working sessions.
• Ability to explain technical trade‑offs, challenge assumptions, and communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to…