What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward-Deployed Engineer (Palantir Foundry / AIP) position at Stellar IT Solutions?
Forward-Deployed Engineer (Palantir Foundry / AIP)
Location: Onsite - Atlanta, GA
Long Term Contract
Travel: 10-30% (approx. 2-6 nights/month; may vary by project phase)
Role Overview
This forward-deployed position partners directly with FD client teams to operationalize solutions, ensuring long-term sustainability, performance, and business adoption. The engineer will own productization and lifecycle management, monitor solution health, and drive user enablement while supporting deployment and release activities.
Key Responsibilities
-
Collaborate with FD client teams to sustain productionalized solutions and ensure business uptake.
-
Develop and manage productization and lifecycle plans (versioning, dependencies, sunset criteria).
-
Monitor solution health using Palantir Foundry and AIP observability tooling; proactively address performance degradation.
-
Partner with business units to drive adoption, build confidence, and identify expansion opportunities.
-
Create enablement materials (documentation, training guides, reusable templates) to reduce reliance on CoE engineering.
-
Support recurring value realization processes, including dashboards and value reporting.
-
Identify scalability constraints and provide architectural feedback to platform leads.
-
Coordinate deployment and release management with platform teams.
Required Skills & Competencies
-
Strong expertise with Palantir Foundry operational tooling (monitoring, observability, pipeline health, lifecycle management).
-
Hands-on experience with productization practices: release management, versioning, dependency tracking, and runbooks.
-
Ability to configure and interpret AIP Observability and Evals tooling for agent performance assessment.
Experience & Qualifications
-
4-10 years in software engineering, platform operations, or technical product management.
-
Background in regulated industries (insurance, finance, healthcare) preferred.
-
Prior experience with Palantir Foundry or similar enterprise data platforms strongly desired.
-
Bachelor s or Master s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
-
Optional: Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
Salary : $45 - $50