Palantir
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Forward Deployed Software Engineer
On-Site: Grafenwohr, Germany – ACTIVE TS/SCI Clearance required
Reports to: Echo
Direct reports: None. Delta’s provide performance feedback on other engineers and participate in company peer mentorship program.
Travel: 0-10%
At PVM, we serve those who serve, as a Palantir ally for mission impact. We are a veteran-founded, Palantir Vanguard partner — and the only small business providing services in that tier. We help our government partners tackle real problems in National Security, Readiness, and Space — not building shelfware.
The Role
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), 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 docume