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Our esteemed partnerships with industry giants like Palantir, NVIDIA, and OpenAI underscore our commitment to excellence. With over 200 successful projects and a team of 150+ talented professionals across Switzerland, Poland, and Germany, we are now expanding our footprint to the USA.\nUnit8 is dedicated to driving AI adoption in non-digital industries, accelerating their digital transformation. We invest in projects that matter, including pro-bono initiatives and \"engineering for good\" causes.\nRequirements\nAbout You\nFollowing our remarkable growth in Switzerland, Poland, and Germany, Unit8 is expanding into the US market. We are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer who will work directly with customers, owning delivery strategy and implementation.\nWhat You'll do\nAs a core member of our agile project teams, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data solutions and infrastructure. You will work on cutting-edge data and AI topics to solve real-world business problems for our clients.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nDeveloping, deploying, and troubleshooting complex data pipelines and processing systems using a variety of open-source and closed-source technologies, with a strong focus on Foundry.\nDriving optimization, testing, and tooling to ensure exceptional data quality.\nCollaborating with other software engineers, ML experts, and stakeholders in a cross-functional agile environment.\nWorking in multi-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives.\nWhat You Bring\nThe Experience\n Deep Domain Expertise: Minimum 5 years of experience in software/data engineering or data science. You have deep expertise in at least one key domain (Data Engineering, Data Science, Cloud Engineering, or GenAI).\nCommercial Fluency: proven experience in pre-sales, proposal design, or technical advisory where you influenced executive decision-making.\n GenAI/LLM Context: For relevant tracks, you have past experience building solutions with LLMs and a deep understanding of the overall GenAI landscape (Evaluation, Training, Problem Decomposition).\nNice to have: extensive experience in data-related consulting, working on data strategy, architecture design and implementation of large-scale data solutions following client's requirements\nThe Mindset\nYou have an engineering mindset focused on delivering working solutions. You prioritize solving real business problems over theoretical perfection or academic benchmarks. You are animpact-driven problem solver eager to dive into complex client challenges, craft solutions, and see the direct impact of your work on their success.\nYou are comfortable working in a dynamic environment with evolving objectives. You can collaborate efficiently with both technical engineers and non-technical business stakeholders up to C-level.\nYou feel a sense of ownership over the company’s technical reputation and are eager to train those coming up behind you.\nThe Essentials\nExperience with programming/scripting, such as Python and/or PySpark.\nProficiency in Palantir Foundry (nice-to-have)\nStrong foundation in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related engineering fields.\nWillingness to travel (min. 10%) to client sites to drive implementation success and build relationships.\nA desire to drive thought leadership (LinkedIn, Blogs) and willingness to be a part of our newly opened US office and expansion of our strategy and brand.\nStrong client-facing skills: You are comfortable interacting with both business and technical clients, giving presentations, and possess a strong problem-solving mindset.\nLocation: perfectly you're currently located in Denver Colorado; Charlotte, North Carolina or Miami, Florida (or willing to relocate).\nBenefits\nWhat we offer?\nHigh-Stakes Work: You will work on critical projects that transform how major industries operate.\nA \"Builder\" Culture: We are not a slide-deck consultancy. 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