Forward Deployed Engineer - Palantir Foundry
First seen by Alion on Sep 23, 2026.
Role Overview :
We are looking for a growth-oriented Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who combines strong hands-on Palantir Foundry capabilities with a deep understanding of Commercial, Marketing, CRM, and Digital Growth. We are looking for someone who thinks like a growth hacker and builds like an FDE - someone who understands how businesses acquire, engage, convert, and retain customers, and can use data, AI, and Palantir Foundry to rapidly turn growth ideas into working solutions.
What You Will Do :
- Partner directly with Commercial, Growth, and Marketing leaders to identify opportunities to improve customer acquisition, engagement, conversion, and revenue growth.
- Translate loosely defined growth opportunities into data-driven products and workflows using Palantir Foundry.
- Connect and activate data across CRM, customer, sales, social, media, campaign, and transactional platforms.
- Build rapid prototypes and experiments, put them in the hands of business users, measure results, and iterate quickly.
- Develop data pipelines, Ontologies, applications, and operational workflows within Foundry.
- Apply analytics and AI to identify customer opportunities and recommend actions for Sales and Marketing teams.
- Work across business and technology teams, taking ownership from idea to prototype, deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact.
- Bring a strong experimentation mindset - continuously identifying new ways in which data and technology can drive growth.
What We Are Looking For :
Growth & Business Acumen :
- Strong understanding of digital growth, CRM, customer journeys, social/media, marketing analytics, and revenue growth management.
- Ability to identify growth opportunities from data rather than simply execute predefined requirements.
- Familiarity with key commercial, RGM, and marketing concepts/metrics such as CAC, conversion, funnel performance, engagement, retention, LTV, ROAS, campaign effectiveness, price elasticity, promotion effectiveness, product mix, net revenue, gross margin, trade spend, etc.
- Strong experimentation mindset with the ability to formulate hypotheses, test ideas, measure impact, and iterate.
- Comfortable working directly with senior Commercial and Marketing stakeholders.
Palantir / Technical Capability :
- Strong hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, ideally in a client-facing or business-facing environment.
- Experience building production solutions using Foundry Ontology, Workshop, data pipelines/transforms, and operational workflows.
- Strong Python and SQL skills; PySpark experience preferred.
- Ability to integrate data from CRM, marketing, social, digital, and enterprise data platforms.
- Experience building data products and applications that are directly consumed by business users.
- Exposure to Palantir AIP and AI/LLM-enabled workflows is highly desirable.
Ideal Candidate Profile :
We are particularly interested in candidates who sit at the intersection of Growth/Marketing Technologist, Commercial Problem Solver, and Palantir FDE. You might currently be a Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir Consultant, Growth/Data Engineer, Marketing Technology Engineer, Customer Analytics Engineer, or Solutions Engineer.
Skills
Palantir Foundry, Python, SQL, PySpark, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Clinical Data Management, Data Pipeline, Forward Deployment Engineering