Principal Consultant, Data & AI Engineer (Atlanta)

Summary

The Principal Consultant designs and deploys scalable data and AI solutions using Palantir Foundry and AIP. They work directly with clients to build production-quality AI applications, manage data pipelines, and implement agentic AI workflows.


Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and deploy scalable data and AI solutions using Palantir Foundry, emphasizing Foundry data pipelines, data modeling, and operational workflows.
  • Develop and prototype GenAI- and LLM-powered solutions using Palantir AIP and related enterprise AI capabilities.
  • Embed with client teams to identify high-value use cases and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Lead working sessions with senior stakeholders.
  • Build production-quality data and AI applications using testing, CI/CD, version control, logging, documentation, and performance optimization.
  • Develop agentic AI workflows, tool-use patterns, and human-in-the-loop controls while balancing quality, safety, latency, cost, and model risk.
  • Integrate Palantir solutions with enterprise systems, cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, and data sources.
  • Lead project workstreams and mentor team members.
  • Create reusable Palantir assets, implementation patterns, documentation, and reference solutions.
  • Collaborate with client executives, business leaders, product owners, architects, engineers, data teams, Palantir-focused delivery teams, and Thought Logic consultants and technical leaders.
Requirements
  • Professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, data science, or a related technical discipline.
  • Hands-on Palantir experience, including meaningful implementation experience with Palantir Foundry and/or Palantir AIP.
  • Experience building and deploying production GenAI/LLM-powered solutions and translating business problems into practical AI use cases.
  • Strong data engineering fundamentals including SQL, Python or another scripting language, ETL/ELT, data modeling, data integration, and data quality.
  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud and modern data technologies such as Spark, Airflow/dbt, streaming, or similar platforms.
  • Ability to lead client-facing workstreams, communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, and operate successfully in ambiguous, fast-paced consulting environments.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Ability to legally work for any employer in the U.S. without sponsorship.
  • Palantir certifications, advanced Foundry experience, or experience with Palantir AIP, Maven, or other Palantir products.
  • Experience developing ontology-driven applications, operational workflows, or applications directly within the Palantir Foundry ecosystem.
  • Experience with MLOps/LLMOps, including model evaluation, monitoring, prompt management, experimentation, and model risk considerations.

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