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Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

AI summary of the role

Sr FDE builds and supports Palantir Foundry ontology apps for SCE's PSPS and WiSDM environments serving utility wildfire mitigation operations.

What you’ll do

  • Design and implement ontology-driven Foundry apps for PSPS operations.
  • Develop Workshop apps, dashboards, workflows for field and exec users.
  • Integrate data pipelines from SAP, OMS, GIS, weather systems.

Technologies

Palantir Foundry · Ontology Manager · Workshop · Actions · Pipeline Builder · Python · TypeScript · Java · SAP · OMS · GIS

About PVM

Veteran-founded SDVOSB delivering forward-deployed Palantir (Foundry, Gotham, AIP) implementation services to U.S. government agencies in national security, readiness, and space.

Bootstrapped · 50–100 people

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

Remote: Must reside in or near Los Angeles, CA - Will need to go onsite occasionally Reports to: Echo Direct reports: None. Delta’s provide performance feedback on other engineers and participate in company peer mentorship program. Travel: 0-10% The Role The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Sr FDE) serves as the technical lead responsible for the architecture, ontology design, application delivery, operational support, and overall platform health of SCE's PSPS CDP and WiSDM Foundry environments. The Sr FDE partners directly with utility stakeholders, operational users, and engineering teams to deliver and sustain mission-critical operational capabilities supporting wildfire mitigation, Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) operations, and regulatory reporting requirements. The Senior FDE independently owns complex implementation efforts from design through production support,
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Remote: Must reside in or near Los Angeles, CA - Will need to go onsite occasionally Reports to: Echo Direct reports: None. Delta’s provide performance feedback on other engineers and participate in company peer mentorship program. Travel: 0-10% The Role The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Sr FDE) serves as the technical lead responsible for the architecture, ontology design, application delivery, operational support, and overall platform health of SCE's PSPS CDP and WiSDM Foundry environments. The Sr FDE partners directly with utility stakeholders, operational users, and engineering teams to deliver and sustain mission-critical operational capabilities supporting wildfire mitigation, Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) operations, and regulatory reporting requirements. The Senior FDE independently owns complex implementation efforts from design through production support, mentors junior engineers, and ensures solutions remain scalable, supportable, and aligned to enterprise governance standards. Key Responsibilities Design, implement, and maintain ontology-driven applications within Palantir Foundry supporting PSPS operations and utility decision making Develop and enhance Workshop applications, operational dashboards, workflows, and actions used by field operations, customer operations, and executive leadership Design and govern enterprise ontology objects, relatio [... source excerpt omitted ...] and business logic supporting multiple operational use cases Implement and maintain data pipelines integrating SAP, OMS, GIS, weather, customer, and operational systems Support production operations, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis during critical operational events Participate in operational readiness exercises, tabletop events, and production support activities Collaborate with stakeholders to translate operational requirements into scalable Foundry solutions Develop governance processes supporting ontology lifecycle management, object reuse, and platform scalability Support deployment promotion, release management, testing coordination, and env [... source excerpt omitted ...] runbooks, architecture diagrams, and support procedures Mentor engineers on ontology design, Workshop development, operational architecture, and Foundry best practices Preferred Qualifications Deep expertise with Palantir Foundry Ontology Manager, Workshop, Actions, Pipeline Builder, and operational application development 6+ years of software engineering or systems integration experience Experience supporting production operational platforms with strict uptime and response requirements Experience with Python, TypeScript, or Java within Foundry development workflows Familiarity with utility operations, wildfire mitigation, public safety operations, outage management, asset manag

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