Serves as the technical lead responsible for the architecture, ontology design, application delivery, operational support, and overall platform health
Partners directly with utility stakeholders, operational users, and engineering teams to deliver and sustain mission-critical operational capabilities
Independently owns complex implementation efforts from design through production support
Mentors junior engineers to ensure solutions remain scalable, supportable, and aligned to enterprise governance standards
Designs, implements, and maintains ontology-driven applications within Palantir Foundry supporting PSPS operations and utility decision making
Develops and enhances Workshop applications, operational dashboards, workflows, and actions used by field operations, customer operations, and executive leadership
Implements and maintains data pipelines integrating various operational systems

Deep expertise with Palantir Foundry Ontology Manager, Workshop, Actions, Pipeline Builder, and operational application development
6 + years of software engineering or systems integration experience
Experience supporting production operational platforms with strict uptime and response requirements
Experience with Python, TypeScript, or Java within Foundry development workflows
Familiarity with utility operations, wildfire mitigation, public safety operations, outage management, asset management, customer operations, or regulatory reporting environments
Experience designing enterprise ontologies and governing reusable data models across multiple applications
Experience integrating ERP, GIS, operational, and enterprise systems into Foundry
Experience supporting utility, energy, infrastructure, emergency management, public safety, or other operational environments
Strong understanding of operational governance, release management, and platform support models
Ability to own full feature lifecycle: architecture → build → test → deployment

Forward Deployed Engineer

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