Hybrid Palantir Foundry Engineer

at Unit8

• Job title: Palantir Foundry Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PySpark, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Frankfurt, Germany

About the role

• Foundry Engineer at Unit8 responsible for designing and maintaining data solutions leveraging the Foundry platform. Collaborating in agile teams to solve complex client challenges.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining robust data solutions and infrastructure.
• Developing, deploying, and troubleshooting complex data pipelines and processing systems with a focus on Foundry.
• Driving optimization, testing, and tooling to ensure exceptional data quality.
• Collaborating with software engineers, ML experts, and stakeholders in an agile environment.
• Working in multi-functional agile teams to experiment, iterate, and deliver on new product objectives.

Requirements

• **What You’ll Do**
• As a core member of our agile project teams, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data solutions and infrastructure. You will work on cutting-edge data and AI topics, leveraging the full potential of the Foundry platform to solve real-world business problems for our clients.
• Your responsibilities will include:
• Developing, deploying, and troubleshooting complex data pipelines and processing systems using a variety of open-source and closed-source technologies, with a strong focus on **Foundry**.
• Driving optimization, testing, and tooling to ensure exceptional data quality.
• Collaborating with other software engineers, ML experts, and stakeholders in a cross-functional agile environment.
• Working in multi-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives.
• **About You**
• We are looking for an experienced **Foundry Engineer** with a passion for data and solving complex client challenges. You should be a skilled professional who has:
• *** Foundry Platform Knowledge **
• Demonstrated experience with **AIP, Workshop, Code repository, and Pipeline Builder**.
• A solid understanding of **security concepts** within Foundry, including restricted views and markings.
• Knowledge of **Ontology** and **Data connection**.
• We're interested in the technical details of what you've built and how you approached the architecture of your Foundry use-cases.
• *** Programming Skills - **proficiency in **Python** and **PySpark**.
• *** Data Skills (Nice-to-have) - **knowledge of **data modeling** and basic concepts of **data science** (classification, clustering, regression).
• *** Professional Experience**
• A minimum of **1 year of experience** working with the Foundry platform, ideally within a larger company where you may have had a focused but deep exposure.
• **Strong client-facing skills:** You are comfortable interacting with both business and technical clients, giving presentations, and possess a strong problem-solving mindset.
• *** Other**
• You are willing to travel to meet with our clients and the team (up to 10% of your time).

Benefits

• **What We Offer**
• The opportunity to shape the expansion of one of the leading Swiss data & AI consultancies.
• A competitive compensation package, including a base salary and a yearly bonus based on both individual and company performance.
• Above-the-norm flexibility regarding when and from where you work.
• Work on cutting-edge data, AI & analytics topics that have a real impact across industries.
• Dedicated time and budget for continuous learning, training, and pro-bono projects.
• Frequent cross-office/company-wide events (off-site or online) as well as a quarterly budget for team activities.
• Please be advised that we offer a remote mode of work in 2025. From 2026, we expect employees to work in a coworking space 1-2 days every two weeks.