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Senior Associate – Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer

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$123,000–$161,000Reston, VAHybridSenior

Partner with business users to translate operational challenges into technical solutions

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At a glance

Posted base pay

$123K–$161KBelow the median

The work

Builds for teams inside the company

Balance

  1. Mostly building
  2. Mixed
  3. Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

  1. Pre-sales (not covered)
  2. Proof of concept
  3. Implementation
  4. Operations
Coding
Writes production code
Builds for
Internal teams
Level
Senior
Role
Individual contributor

What they ask for

Experience

  • 2+ yearssoftware engineering, data engineering, analytics, or consulting

Background

  • Software engineering
  • Implementation and data engineering
  • Consulting

Tools

  • Palantir Foundry
  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • AWS
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Spark/PySpark
  • REST APIs
  • Ontology Modeling
  • Git

Less common in FDE jobs

  • Who you build for: Internal teams14%
  • Company stage: Public32%
  • Hybrid38%
  • Company size: About 5,000+ people38%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

The job description from Fannie Mae

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Senior Associate - Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), partners with business stakeholders, engineers, and data teams to design, develop, and deploy solutions using the Palantir Foundry platform. This role combines software engineering, data engineering, analytics, and customer engagement skills to solve complex business challenges and deliver operational outcomes.

  • Partner directly with business users to understand operational challenges and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Design, build, and maintain Palantir Foundry pipelines, workflows, applications, and data models.
  • Integrate structured and unstructured data from enterprise systems using APIs, SFTP, databases, and cloud services.
  • Develop data transformation logic, business rules, and analytics to support investigations, compliance, risk management, and operational processes.
  • Configure and enhance Foundry applications, Ontology objects, operational workflows, and reporting capabilities.
  • Rapidly prototype solutions and iterate with stakeholders using Agile methodologies.
  • Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, architects, and business SMEs to deliver end-to-end solutions.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and optimize performance, scalability, and data quality.
  • Support testing, user training, deployment activities, and business adoption.
  • Document technical designs, implementation approaches, and operational procedures.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences:

  • 2 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, analytics, or consulting.
  • Experience working with large-scale enterprise datasets.
  • Experience implementing investigative, compliance, fraud, risk, or operational solutions.
  • Exposure to Palantir Foundry, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, or similar modern data platforms.

Desired Experiences:

  • Bachelor degree or equivalent
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Spark/PySpark
  • Data Modeling
  • ETL/ELT Development
  • REST APIs
  • AWS Cloud Services
  • Git/Version Control
  • Data Warehousing Concepts
  • Business Intelligence and Analytics
  • Palantir Foundry
  • Ontology Modeling

Target Pay Range: $123,000.00 - $161,000.00 a year

Internal Job Title: Corporate Functions Technology - Software Engineering - Senior Associate

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Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at Fanniemae.com/careers.

For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process, please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

Requisition compensation:

123000

to

161000

View posting at Fannie Mae

About Fannie Mae

Government-sponsored enterprise that provides liquidity to U.S. housing markets by buying mortgages from lenders, packaging them as MBS, and guaranteeing credit risk for single-family and multifamily loans.

Public · 5000+ people

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$123,000–$161,000
Pay details

Target Pay Range: $123,000.00 - $161,000.00 a year

Location
Reston, VA
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Remote work restrictions
Regular onsite work at the designated Reston, Virginia office; in-office cadence is determined by the manager.
Experience requirements
  • 2+ years: software engineering, data engineering, analytics, or consulting (required)