Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer

Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer - W2/1099

Remote

About the role

Our client is currently on Palantir Foundry. We're proposing to migrate them off Palantir and rebuild equivalent capabilities on Databricks. We need a senior, hands-on engineer who knows Foundry deeply enough to reverse-engineer what's been built, and can rebuild it on Databricks. This is a client-facing, high-visibility role, not a back-office dev position.

Must have

• 15+ years total experience needed

• Worked at Palantir as an FDE/FDSE/Deployment Strategist, or worked on the client side building on Foundry for a meaningful period (not just exposure)

• Hands-on with Foundry Ontology (object types, links, actions, functions), Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories, and Workshop apps

• Strong Databricks experience: PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, workflows/pipelines

• Strong Python and SQL

• Has designed data models and translated business workflows into working applications

• Comfortable in front of client stakeholders: can run working sessions, explain trade-offs, push back when needed

Nice to have

• Prior Foundry-to-other-platform migration experience

• AIP / Databricks Mosaic AI, agents, or GenAI use cases in production

• Knowledge graph or semantic layer experience

• App-layer build experience (Databricks Apps, React, Streamlit)

• Manufacturing, retail, or product data domain background