Dataminr
Forward Deployed Engineer
$165K–$220K
US Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems in a team setting.
- Visa sponsorship
- Active U.S. security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one, is required.
About the job
Build and deploy Palantir Foundry solutions that combine Dataminr’s real-time intelligence with customer data and workflows for defense and security missions.
What you'll do
- Partner with defense and security customers to define situational-awareness and force-protection needs, then scope technical solutions.
- Design, build, integrate, and deploy Foundry data pipelines, ontology models, and operator-facing applications; own solutions end to end.
- Debug across infrastructure, networking, and application layers, advise customer engineers and operators, and relay feedback to Dataminr’s product team.
What they ask for
- Hands-on Palantir Foundry expertise, including pipelines, ontology, Compute Modules, Code Repositories, and app development.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, SQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, or Go.
- Comfort with containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux, and on-prem infrastructure.
- Active U.S. security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one; strong communication skills and willingness to travel to secure customer sites.
Nice to have
- Top Secret clearance; experience in classified, air-gapped, or disconnected environments, or in defense, intelligence, or national security operations.
- Familiarity with Esri/ArcGIS or command-and-control systems; front-end operator-facing application experience.
Pay
$165,000 - $220,000 USD base salary
Tools
Palantir Foundry, Python, Java, SQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, Go, Kubernetes/OpenShift
AI focus
Deploy Dataminr’s AI-powered real-time intelligence in customer workflows; the posting also describes ReGenAI, Intel Agents, and multimodal AI capabilities, but does not specify building these AI systems as a core job duty.
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