Dataminr is the leading AI platform for real-time event, threat, and risk intelligence. Trusted by Fortune 50 leaders and over 100 U.S. government agencies, we deliver the instant clarity needed for faster, more informed decisions to protect what matters most. Backed by IVP.
About the role
Partner directly with defense and security customers to understand their highest-priority situational awareness and force protection problems, then scope solutions against them. Design, build, and deploy solutions on Palantir Foundry that operationalize First Alert — including data pipelines, ontology models, and operator-facing applications.
What they're looking for
- At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed
- A strong engineering background, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field
- Palantir Foundry expertise: hands-on experience building on Palantir Foundry — data pipelines, ontology, Compute Modules, Code Repositories / Workbooks, and application development. This is a core requirement for the role
- Programming: proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, SQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, or Go
- Dataminr architecture & use cases: the ability to quickly understand the Dataminr platform architecture, data model, and First Alert defense and public sector use cases, and to reason about how technical decisions affect the operator
- 3+ years of professional software engineering or forward-deployed / solutions engineering experience delivering production systems
More about this role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you sit at the intersection of our technology and our customers' hardest problems. Working in small teams with a high degree of ownership, you will deploy, build on, and operationalize First Alert inside customer environments — many of them defense, national security, and NATO-aligned organizations across Europe. Projects often begin with an open-ended operational question, and it is your job to translate that into a working solution that gives operators decision advantage in real time.
A defining part of this role is building on Palantir Foundry. You will design data pipelines, ontologies, and applications in Foundry that fuse Dataminr's real-time intelligence with the customer's own operational data — sensor feeds, asset and troop locations, and mission context — then own that solution end to end, from first whiteboard sketch to a system operators rely on in the field or the operations center. Your week might span debugging infrastructure and networking issues, discussing data architecture with fellow engineers, integrating Dataminr APIs, and sitting with customer stakeholders to shape what to build next.
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