Palantir / AI Data Engineer

Position Summary Nationwide IT Services, NIS, is seeking a Palantir / AI Data Engineer to develop, integrate, and sustain data and AI capabilities across Palantir Foundry, Envision, Maven, Vantage, AskSage, and connected enterprise repositories for a potential opportunity. The engineer will maintain semantic data layers, schemas, vector indexes, and AI-ready data products that enable natural-language, AI/ML, and mission analytics use cases across integrated ANG data sets. Key Responsibilities

• Build, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot data products and workflows in Palantir Foundry and related Envision, Maven, and Vantage environments.
• Structure and maintain semantic data layers, ontologies/data models, schemas, metadata, and vector-index configurations supporting AI/ML query processing.
• Integrate Palantir and AskSage with Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks, Advana/WDP, Power BI, and other CDAO repositories while preserving schema and data integrity.
• Prepare and optimize enterprise data for retrieval, semantic search, vector-based retrieval, prompt/context engineering, and AI-assisted analysis.
• Implement data quality, access control, least-privilege, encryption, lineage, and CUI-handling controls across AI-enabled data products.
• Partner with data engineers and the Technical Lead to develop reliable ingestion and transformation pathways feeding Palantir/AI data products.
• Validate AI data layers against Government-approved business definitions and functional requirements; investigate inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent AI responses attributable to data or semantic-layer issues.
• Support development and sustainment of BI products, analytics solutions, and technical training involving Palantir and AI tools.
• Create technical documentation, configuration guidance, troubleshooting procedures, and training materials for supported Palantir and AI capabilities.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry data engineering, modeling, application/analytics development, or platform administration.
• Experience developing semantic layers, ontology/data models, vector indexes, embeddings/retrieval pipelines, or comparable AI-ready data structures.
• Strong SQL and Python skills and experience integrating heterogeneous enterprise data sources.
• Experience with AI/ML-enabled query, retrieval, prompt/context engineering, or enterprise generative-AI solutions such as AskSage or comparable platforms.
• Understanding of data governance, lineage, access controls, security, and quality controls for enterprise and regulated data environments.
• Must satisfy applicable DoD/DAF security, cybersecurity-awareness, CUI, OPSEC, and access-training requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Palantir Envision, Maven, or Vantage.
• Experience supporting DoD IL4/IL5 cloud environments, Advana/WDP, or Air Force/ANG mission data.

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, a 401(k) plan with employer match, paid holidays, PTO (sick/vacation), commuter benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), educational reimbursement, and pet insurance. Salary range: $138,000 to $189,000 annually The salary range is a general guideline. We consider several factors when determining base salary offers, including the position’s scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s experience, education, and skills, and current market conditions. Powered by JazzHR