CI/CD · Palantir
Mid Level Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: Onsite, Arlington, VA
Reports to: Echo (Forward Deployed Strategist)
Direct reports: None
Travel: 0–10%
Pay range: Based on experience
The Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will contribute directly to the development and delivery of Army Vantage capabilities. You will build analytical dashboard features, support CI/CD pipeline tasks, and work within a structured agile environment alongside senior engineers and government stakeholders. You will operate in two-week sprint cycles, contributing to feature delivery from design through deployment.
At our organization, an FDE takes ownership of their work — building reliable features, writing meaningful code, and ensuring each sprint increment is production-ready.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and deliver front-end analytical dashboard views using Foundry’s Workshop/Slate application layer under guidance from senior engineers
- Support CI/CD pipeline configuration tasks, including build scripts, automated tests, and environment promotion workflows
- Implement metric definitions and data transformations aligned to the Foundry Ontology to ensure consistent data interpretation across dashboards
- Produce clear technical documentation, including configuration notes, runbooks, and sprint artifacts
- Participate in sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and demonstrations for government stakeholders
- Conduct testing and validation to confirm dashboards function correctly and data aligns with approved definitions
- Identify integration issues, surface blocker