Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.

Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.

We are seeking an experienced Palantir Foundry Engineer to join our Corporate Technology group and play a key role in shaping how we build data products, pipelines, and ontology-driven applications across the enterprise. This role is ideal for someone who can blend architecture thinking with hands-on engineering—helping us design scalable data models, develop performant pipelines, and leverage Foundry’s application layers to deliver high-value solutions for business teams.

You will partner closely with analysts, data engineers, and application teams to turn complex datasets into actionable insights and reusable data assets.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and develop data pipelines using Foundry’s Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, and Transformations.

• Create scalable and well-structured Ontologies, including upstream object modeling, relationships, and governance patterns.

• Build user-facing applications and workflows using Workshop, Slate/UI tooling, and Foundry’s Action Framework.

• Drive architectural decisions around ontology design, feature pipelines, data lineage, permissioning, and semantic modeling.

• Collaborate with business teams to translate requirements into Foundry-native solutions.

• Optimize existing pipelines for performance, reliability, and operational maintainability.

• Implement data quality rules, monitoring frameworks, and operational alerting within Foundry.

• Participate in code reviews and establish engineering standards for Foundry development.

• Mentor team members and help establish best practices for Foundry development across the organization.

• Partner with platform engineering teams (as needed) on access controls, repository strategy, and workspace organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent experience.

• 6–8 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or application development.

• 2–4 years hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry in an enterprise setting.

• Strong proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL for data transformations.

• Experience designing and maintaining Foundry Ontology models and object relationships.

• Hands-on experience with Workshop, Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, and transformation frameworks.

• Understanding of data engineering fundamentals: data quality, governance, testing, logging, monitoring.

• Experience with Git-based version control and modern CI/CD practices.

• Ability to explain architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving and system design skills.

Bonus Qualifications:

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience building Foundry UI applications (Slate, custom React/TypeScript components).

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Experience with Foundry ML/AI tooling (Functions, Multipass, ML pipelines).

• Exposure to natural language query systems, LLM agents, or RAG-based automation within Foundry.

• Palantir certification(s).

Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between 133,400 - 200,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at [email protected]. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at the present time.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer Aviation does not engage with external recruiting agencies/individual recruiters with whom it does not have a prior written agreement. Archer reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes that it receives and bears no responsibility for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes. If you are a recruiting agency or individual recruiter wishing to do business with Archer, please reach out to [email protected]. All employment processes are managed by the Archer People Team.