Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer

The Opportunity:

As an engineering and analytics professional, you're excited at the prospect of unlocking the secrets held by a data set, and you're fascinated by the possibilities presented by IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Your deep engineering and analytics expertise, coupled with an original approach to your work, will guide clients and stakeholders as they make sense of their data and encourage actionable results.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer on our Defense Technology team, you'll introduce innovative methodologies to make a real-world impact on protecting our military. You'll share your skills in data engineering, data science, modeling and technology integration to develop solutions to drive the mission forward. Collaborate with engineers, product owners, analysts, and mission stakeholders to design and develop Foundry-based applications that meet mission needs.

What You'll Do:

• Translate mission problems into technical architectures, workflows, and ontologies.
• Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines using Foundry's Code Repositories and Pipeline Builder with both structured and unstructured dataset inputs.
• Design, develop, and maintain ontologies and create operational workflows and decision-support capabilities.
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and improve existing data pipelines and applications supporting mission-critical operations.
• Work directly with clients to gather requirements, iterate on prototypes, and refine solutions through deployment.
• Implement engineering best practices including version control, testing and documentation.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Travel to and work from client sites as needed for workshops, deployment activities, or embedded support.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 3+ years of experience in software, data analytics or platform engineering, including in a hands on or leadership role
• Experience in Palantir Foundry
• Experience with creating Data Connections, Code Repos, or Pipeline Builders for data ingestion and transformation, debugging and resolving pipeline issues, error and performance bottlenecks, and in programming languages such as Python or Type Script
• Experience in Ontology design and management, designing and developing applications and workflows, and integrating AIP solutions
• Knowledge of the core Foundry Applications and designing solutions to address client challenges
• Ability to engage with stakeholders, define requirements, and translate them into technical solutions, and break down complex mission challenges into implementable solutions
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes while collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience working directly with mission operators, analysts, or stakeholders in embedded or forward-deployed environments for clients in the defense or intelligence sectors
• Experience with Git repositories, CI / CD workflows, or infrastructure automation
• Experience with AI or ML model integration within Foundry applications
• Knowledge of Foundry security models, access control, and compliance frameworks
• Possession of strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Secret clearance
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, or a technology field

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs.

Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $ (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen's total compensation package for employees.

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

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