Palantir · Foundry
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: Onsite, Rosemead, CA
Schedule: 24/7/365 rotation; 12-hour shifts on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays
Reports to: Echo (Forward Deployed Strategist)
Direct reports: None
Travel: 0–10%
Pay range: Based on experience
The Role
PVM is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as a technical lead for Southern California Edison's environments in Palantir Foundry. These systems support wildfire mitigation, Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) operations, and regulatory reporting.
You will lead architecture, ontology design, application delivery, and overall platform health. You will own complex implementation efforts from design through production support. You will mentor engineers and keep solutions scalable, supportable, and aligned to enterprise governance standards.
What You'll Do
- Serve as technical lead for platform architecture and environment health across PSPS CDP and WiSDM
- Design and govern enterprise ontology objects, relationships, and business logic across multiple operational use cases
- Own complex implementation efforts end to end: architecture, build, test, deployment, and production support
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis during critical operational events
- Set governance processes for ontology lifecycle management, object reuse, and platform scalability
- Lead release management, deployment promotion, and environment governance
- Partner with utility stakeholders, operations teams, and enterprise architecture to turn operational needs into