Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Title: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer Duration: Full-Time Location: Remote - United States, with travel to client sites up to 3 days per week Salary Range: $175,000-$200,000 Job Summary: Matlen Silver is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to support a highly visible data platform modernization initiative. This is a senior, hands-on engineering position focused on evaluating an existing Palantir Foundry environment and rebuilding equivalent data, ontology, workflow, and application capabilities on Databricks. The ideal candidate has significant hands-on experience building within Palantir Foundry and understands the platform deeply enough to reverse-engineer existing implementations, including Ontology, Workshop applications, Actions, Functions, pipelines, and code repositories. This individual must also have strong production Databricks experience and be comfortable translating existing Foundry capabilities into scalable Databricks-based solutions using PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, workflows, Python, and SQL. This is a client-facing role requiring an engineer who can work directly with business and technical stakeholders, lead working sessions, explain technical trade-offs, challenge requirements when appropriate, and remain deeply involved in hands-on implementation.

Project Details:

Assess and reverse-engineer existing solutions built within Palantir Foundry.

Analyze Foundry Ontology implementations, including object types, links, Actions, and Functions.

Evaluate existing Workshop applications, Pipeline Builder implementations, and Code Repositories.

Translate existing Foundry functionality and business workflows into solutions built on Databricks.

Design and build production data pipelines and workflows using Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake, and related technologies.

Develop scalable data models that support business workflows and application requirements.

Rebuild or replace existing application and workflow capabilities currently operating within Foundry.

Develop solutions using Python and SQL.

Work directly with client stakeholders to understand existing processes, requirements, and technical constraints.

Lead technical working sessions and clearly communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs.

Partner with engineering, data, application, and business teams throughout the migration.

Remain hands-on throughout design, development, migration, testing, and implementation.

Must Haves

12+ years of overall technology, software engineering, data engineering, or related professional experience.

Significant hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry in a production environment.

Previous experience as a Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Deployment Strategist, or substantial client-side experience building directly on Foundry.

Deep hands-on experience with Foundry Ontology, including: Object types

Links

Actions

Functions

Hands-on experience with Palantir Workshop applications.

Experience with Foundry Pipeline Builder and Code Repositories.

Strong production Databricks experience.

Strong experience with: PySpark

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Databricks workflows and pipelines

Advanced Python and SQL skills.

Experience designing data models and translating business processes into working technical applications.

Ability to analyze an existing Foundry implementation and determine how its capabilities can be recreated on Databricks.

Strong hands-on engineering ability. This is not a purely architectural or advisory position.

Excellent client-facing communication skills and the ability to run technical working sessions.

Ability to explain technical trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.

Willingness to travel to client sites up to 3 days per week as needed.

Desired Skills

Previous experience migrating workloads from Palantir Foundry to another data or application platform.

Palantir AIP experience.

Databricks Mosaic AI, AI agents, or other production GenAI experience.

Knowledge graph, semantic modeling, or semantic layer experience.

Experience building application layers with Databricks Apps, React, Streamlit, or similar technologies.

Experience modernizing highly integrated enterprise data platforms.

Experience working across both data engineering and application development.

Manufacturing, retail, product data, or similar domain experience.

Experience operating in highly visible, client-facing engineering roles.

Ability to independently move between discovery, architecture, hands-on development, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication.

About Matlen Silver Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works. Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: info@matlensilver.com // 908-393-8600