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Were looking for our first Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our company and help build this function from the ground up.
This is a highly technical, hands-on, and customer-facing role. Youll be based in Israel, working closely with our Product and Engineering teams, while traveling regularly across the U.S. to work on-site with our enterprise customers.
Youll work directly with customers to understand their business processes, technical environments, and operational challenges, and translate them into AI-powered solutions. Youll own projects end-to-end - from discovery and requirements gathering through technical design, development, deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
As our first FDE, youll have a unique opportunity to define how our company works with customers from a technical perspective, build the processes and best practices for this function, and play a key role in how we scale customer delivery.
Were looking for a strong engineer with a product mindset who enjoys navigating ambiguity, working directly with customers, and turning complex business problems into scalable technical solutions.
our Values
Ownership - We take responsibility and move decisively.
Clarity - We simplify complexity to deliver meaningful impact.
Accuracy - Precision matters in everything we do.
Velocity - We move fast and execute with purpose.
Partnership - We succeed by working closely together.
What Youll Do
Partner directly with enterprise customers, both remotely and on-site across the U.S., to deeply understand their business processes, technical architecture, data flows, and operational challenges.
Lead technical discovery sessions, gather business and product requirements, and translate complex customer needs into scalable AI-powered solutions.
Design, build, configure, and deploy production-ready AI agents, integrations, and workflows that operate reliably within customer environments.
Work hands-on with APIs, enterprise systems, structured and unstructured data, and customer infrastructure to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Own customer engagements from technical discovery through implementation, deployment, adoption, and continuous optimization.
Validate solutions using real customer data, troubleshoot technical challenges, and continuously improve system performance and business outcomes.
Drive measurable business impact by identifying new use cases, increasing platform adoption, and helping drive growth and expansion within customer accounts.
Work closely with Product and Engineering in Israel to influence product direction based on customer feedback, implementation learnings, and real-world use cases.
Act as the technical owner throughout the customer engagement, building trusted relationships with both technical and business stakeholders.
Create reusable implementation playbooks, tools, and best practices that help scale the FDE function as our company grows.

our company builds the production-grade AI backbone for top-tier enterprises. We don't just wrap LLMs. Our platform autonomously handles mission-critical workflows, replacing operational friction with seamless, predictive experiences. We are a lean, engineering-driven company working directly with the biggest players in the market.
An FDE at our company is a customer-embedded engineer who owns the technical success of an AI deployment end to end. You don't advise and hand implementation to someone else. You are the implementation owner. You take an ambiguous business problem, break it into solvable technical components, build the solution on our platform, and stay with it until it works reliably in production.
What You'll Do
Own deployments end-to-end. From signed deal to production go-live and stabilization. No hand-offs.
Build production AI agents. Design and ship agent flows on our platform: prompt engineering, orchestration, edge cases, and the testing discipline that makes them production-grade.
Integrate into brownfield reality. Legacy systems, APIs, CRMs, telephony and customer infrastructure, while navigating security, compliance and incomplete requirements.
Debug in environments you don't control. When production misbehaves inside the customer's stack, you find it and fix it.
Push back with judgment. Challenge poor requirements, find creative alternatives, and align technical and business stakeholders behind them.
Be embedded with customers. On-site several days a week during active deployments, often as the most senior technical person in the room. On-site days carry dedicated compensation on top of your salary, and every production go-live carries a milestone bonus.

We're looking for our **first Forward Deployed Engineer**. You'll sit directly with our customers' engineering teams and get their workloads onto Impala - from the first scoping conversation to a production endpoint carrying real traffic, at a cost and latency profile they couldn't hit anywhere else.
This is an engineering role. You will write code every day, in customer repos and in ours. It also carries pieces of solutions architecture, product management, and pre-sales, and you should want that mix rather than tolerate it. Ambiguous business goals come in; observable, benchmarked, production services go out.
As the founding FDE you also define the function: what a POC looks like, what we promise and measure, which patterns get productized, and how the field feeds the roadmap. The next FDEs will work from what you build here.
What You'll Do
- **Own customer outcomes end to end:** problem framing, evaluation design, migration, deployment, benchmarking, monitoring. You're the technical owner from first call through expansion.
- **Win the POC:** turn a vague objective into a tight spec and a working proof of concept fast, with explicit quality, latency, throughput, and cost-per-token targets - and hit them.
- **Tune serverless inference for real workloads:** model and engine selection, batching strategy, KV cache behavior, speculative decoding, quantization, parallelism, cold-start and autoscaling behavior under bursty traffic. Diagnose regressions down to the inference engine.
- **Migrate workloads onto Impala:** move customers off OpenAI-compatible APIs, self-managed vLLM, SageMaker, or their own GPU fleets - and prove out the quality and cost delta with numbers.
- **Guide model strategy:** advise on open-weight model selection, distillation, and fine-tuning for specific tasks; help customers get from a general-purpose frontier model to a smaller, faster, cheaper one that holds quality.
- **Close the product loop:** bring the field back into the roadmap - write the PRDs, land the PRs, and turn one-off customer work into platform features.
- **Be the technical anchor in the room:** support sales on complex evaluations, run technical onboarding, earn trust with staff engineers and CTOs.

We are hiring Senior Forward Deployed Engineers - the Technical Builders, responsible for deciding that leads who design, build, and deploy the most complex agentic AI solutions directly inside enterprise customer environments. You'll lead technical delivery on your team, mentor the next wave of engineers, and set the engineering standards that define how agentic AI gets deployed at scale. Partnering closely with a Deployment Strategist (Strategic Builder - a customer-facing advisor who shapes AI strategy and drives adoption), you'll own outcomes end-to-end, from architecture decision to production. Your passion for well-crafted software that solves real problems will be supported by best-in-class AI tools and a team of talented builders around you.

The Senior Builder Experience

Technical Ownership: Partner with a Deployment Strategist to own customer outcomes end-to-end. You're the senior technical authority in the room, ensuring deliverables meet the highest engineering standards, whether it was generated by an AI tool by a colleague or written by you directly.

AI-Supported Engineering: Cursor, Claude, and Salesforce coding products like Vibes are embedded in your daily workflow. The conventions and patterns you develop tend to propagate through the team because other Builders look to your work as reference.

Roadmap Influence: Your field experience routes directly to Product and Engineering. The gaps you hit and the edge cases you encounter in real life customer environments become the features they ship. Senior Forward Deployed Engineers are the most credible voice in agentic AIproduct evolution.

Continuous Innovation: You're expected to stay at the forefront - piloting emerging AI tools, experimenting with new models and frameworks, and sharing what you learn with your team and customers.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at our company, you'll work at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and our customers. You'll use your engineering experience to help enterprise customers deploy AI systems into production, solve complex technical challenges, and deliver solutions with real business impact.
What youll do:
Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their business and technical challenges.
Translate open-ended problems into practical AI solutions.
Build production-grade integrations, workflows, and automations across customer systems, APIs, and data sources.
Build and ship customer-facing solutions, not just prototypes or technical designs
Deploy, test, and iterate in real customer environments.
Own customer implementations from discovery through production.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering to improve the platform.
Design and implement LLM-powered workflows and agentic systems for real enterprise use cases.

We are hiring Deployment Strategists - Strategic Builders who are customer-facing advisors, who define AI strategy, shape agentic solutions, and drive measurable adoption for enterprise customers. You'll work as part of a delivery team alongside Forward Deployed Engineers, translating complex business challenges into agentic AI deployments that go live and generate real value. Engagements are focused and time-bound - typically 12 weeks or less - and may span a single strategic account or multiple customers simultaneously. Your impact isn't just getting to deployment. It ensures customers realise lasting, scalable value from the solutions your team builds.

Key Responsibilities

Full Lifecycle Ownership: Lead end-to-end customer engagement across the complete value lifecycle - Identify → Commit → Deploy → Consume - owning outcomes at every stage, not just discovery or deal closure

AI Strategy & Architecture: Define the customer's Agentic AI strategy and roadmap. Lead design workshops, agent design sessions, and jobs-to-be-done analysis. Architect solutions spanning Salesforce's agentic AI platform, Data Cloud, and enterprise systems, with responsible AI governance baked in from the start.

Deployment Oversight & Program Management: Manage engagement delivery end-to-end timelines, stakeholder communication, risk escalation, and progress reporting. You are the operational backbone of your delivery team, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

Adoption & Consumption: Own adoption, consumption, and expansion metrics within your engagement scope. Identify blockers early and develop strategies to drive measurable value realization

Delivery Team Coordination: Partner closely with the Forward Deployed Engineers on your team to align strategy with technical execution. Keep the team focused, unblocked, and on track to hit delivery milestones.

AI-Supported Development: You'll be developing real customer solutions supported by leading-edge AI tools: Including

Cursor, Claude, and our coding products like Vibes, to accelerate development.

Customer Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary customer-facing contact, building trust-based relationships with senior stakeholders and present proposals, decisions and outcomes in terms of business value, not just technical detail.

AI Readiness: Assess customer readiness for AI adoption and guide change management and process transformation to maximise the benefits of intelligent agents.

Product Feedback Loop: Synthesise field insights and translate them into actionable product feedback that influences Salesforce's Agentic AI platform roadmap.

As an FDSE, your responsibilities look similar to those of a startup CTO: youll work in small teams with minimal supervision and own end-to-end execution of high stakes projects. Your day might span discussing architecture with fellow engineers, wrangling massive-scale data, coding a custom web app, speaking with customer executives, or establishing strategy for your team.

Whether you aspire to be an entrepreneur or an engineering leader, we believe Palantir is the best place - with the best colleagues - to learn how. Youll learn how to unpack a problem and understand the costs and consequences of its solution. Youll learn new technologies and languages, and even develop them yourself. Youll work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop.
Our Principles
Impact: We take on meaningful and challenging projects that change the world for the better.
Ownership: We see projects through from beginning to end, working through any obstacles we may encounter.
Collaboration: We work internally with people from a variety of backgrounds - such as other FDSEs, product teams, and Deployment Strategists. We also work externally with our customers, often on site, to understand and solve their problems.
Trust: We trust each other to effectively manage time and priorities and give people the space to think for themselves.
Growth: We encourage ourselves and our peers to seek new challenges and opportunities for growth, as well as find new ways to innovate and share knowledge.
Learning: We often face entirely novel problems where we need to pick up a lot of new knowledge and learn how to use it to make progress. We believe experiential learning is one of the best teachers.

We are looking for a Software Engineer - Customer Solutions to help customers successfully integrate, configure, and deploy our platform. You will work directly with customers to understand their technical requirements, build integrations, and troubleshoot issues across APIs, data, authentication, and enterprise systems.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining hands-on engineering with customer interaction. We are looking for strong technical fundamentals, curiosity, clear communication, and a practical approach to solving real-world problems.
What Youll Do:
Work directly with customers to understand their technical workflows and integration needs.
Build and configure integrations between our platform and customer systems.
Develop backend services, scripts, APIs, data transformations, and automation workflows.
Investigate technical issues involving APIs, databases, authentication, customer data, and infrastructure.
Participate in customer implementation meetings and help translate business requirements into technical tasks.
Test, deploy, monitor, and support customer-facing solutions.
Document integrations, troubleshooting steps, and implementation decisions.
Work closely with senior engineers and product teams to turn customer-specific needs into reusable capabilities.
Gradually take ownership of increasingly complex customer projects.

We are looking for a Senior II Software Engineer to join the CX Platform team, the foundational engineering team powering our entire Customer Experience group. This is a high-impact, hands-on role at the intersection of backend engineering, AI infrastructure, and customer-facing product.

You'll work across the full platform stack (backend services, data pipelines, security, cost, and scale) with a meaningful and growing focus on AI infrastructure. We own the agentic platform for the entire Product Offering group: from building the LLM infrastructure and agentic workflows to ensuring they're reliable, observable, and safe in production.

What you'll be doing:
Own AI infrastructure for the Product Offering group. Design, build, and evolve the shared AI platform (agentic workflows, LLM integrations, observability, and guardrails) that CX product teams build on.
Ship agentic features end to end. Lead development of AI-driven capabilities using LangChain, LangFuse, and AWS Bedrock, from architecture through production deployment and monitoring.
Drive platform architecture. Set the technical direction for the CX backend (services, data pipelines, API patterns) with an eye for scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
Own core data foundations. Design resilient data-access patterns across Snowflake, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, and MySQL; keep pipelines fast, fresh, and reliable.
Mentor and elevate. Help engineers across the CX group grow in backend craft, AI engineering, and system design thinking.
Collaborate cross-functionally. Work with product, design, and customer-facing teams to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped, high-quality solutions.