[OWD] Lead Data & AI Engineer (Palantir Foundry/AIP)
Software Mind San José, Costa Rica
IT Services and IT Consulting · 1,001-5,000 employees
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About the role
You will lead the design and deployment of enterprise AI solutions using Palantir Foundry and AIP, taking projects from prototype to production. You will also provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers, managing data pipelines, and communicating directly with client stakeholders.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry or AIP and a strong background in software engineering and data engineering. Experience developing agentic or GenAI applications is strongly preferred, along with excellent communication skills in English.
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Company Description
About the role
We're putting together a senior team for a global consulting client building and deploying enterprise AI solutions at a fast pace. You'll take business problems from idea to production on Palantir Foundry and AIP, combining hands-on development with technical leadership. You'll guide solution design, work directly with client stakeholders, and help other engineers become productive on the platform.
Job Description
What you'll do
- Build and manage Foundry data pipelines, ontology components, and applications
- Design semantic and context layers with Palantir's ontology: Object, Link, and Action Types, Interfaces, Property Sets
- Build LLM-powered workflows with AIP Logic, AIP Automate, and AIP Assist
- Take agentic AI use cases from prototype to production: build, test, deploy, monitor
- Serve as the team’s Palantir lead, remaining hands-on while guiding solution design, reviewing code, coaching engineers, and resolving technical blockers.
- Own technical delivery of assigned solutions, translating business requirements into clear implementation plans and guiding work through production deployment.
- Lead technical discussions with client stakeholders, explaining design decisions, trade-offs, dependencies, and delivery risks.
Qualifications
What we're looking for
- Hands-on Palantir Foundry and/or AIP experience on real client or production projects
- Experience developing agentic or GenAI applications is strongly preferred.
- Strong software engineering and problem-solving skills
- Experience integrating AI with enterprise data sources, APIs, and business systems
- Solid data engineering background across structured and unstructured data
- Comfortable with fast delivery cycles and requirements that change
- Strong English and clear communication with both technical and business people
- Able to work EST business hours
Nice to have
- Solutions deployed to production inside Palantir
- Ontology Linter, Data Lineage, CBAC, Foundry Marketplace
- Semantic layers, ontologies, or knowledge graphs (Azure, AWS, GCP, Palantir, or Databricks)
- Azure, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks / Genie
- CI/CD with GitHub, DevOps / DevSecOps tooling
- Experience deploying models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or other LLM providers, including model selection and cost optimization
- Experience building reusable agent skills, tools, or components that support multiple use cases
