Title: Forward Deployed Engineer - Palantir Foundry

Job type: Contract – 6 Months

Location: Bay Area, CA (Hybrid)

Key Skills: Palantir Foundry, Ontology/OSDK, AIP / AIP Logic, and Foundry platform administration.

Nice to Have Skills: SAP data integration

About KPI Partners
KPI Partners is a 5 times Gartner recognized data, analytics, and AI consulting company. We are leaders in data engineering on Azure, AWS, Google, Snowflake and Databricks. Founded in 2006, KPI has over 400 consultants and has successfully delivered over 1,000 projects to our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Senior Palantir Foundry FDE to take technical ownership of production Foundry applications
• The applications cover supply chain use cases: material shortages, inventory, and freight/logistics.
• Own the Ontology, pipelines and automations. Keep them stable, find root causes of failures, and tune performance and compute.
• Run releases end-to-end: branching, packaging, moving changes from Dev to QA to Prod, and rollback.
• Set up monitoring and alerts, and add new AIP and agent features.
• Coach and review the work of our internal developers.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience as a Software engineer
• Hands-on with Foundry, including production ownership: Ontology/OSDK, Pipeline Builder, Python/PySpark transforms, Workshop, Actions and Automate.
• Platform administration: compute and resource management, service accounts, permissions.
• AIP / AIP Logic experience building agents or LLM workflows.

Nice to Have Skills:

• SAP data integration
• Deployment Strategist
• Manufacturing or supply chain domain experience (high-tech preferred).