About the role

Software Mind is a global digital transformation partner seeking a Lead Data & AI Engineer to drive agentic AI and data pipeline solutions for enterprise clients. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on development using Palantir Foundry and AIP to deliver impactful, production-ready AI applications.

Skills

Palantir Foundry Palantir AIP Data Engineering Data Pipelines Ontology Design Agentic AI Generative AI LLM Workflows Software Engineering Enterprise Data Integration API Integration Solution Design Technical Leadership Client Communication CI/CD

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Company Description

Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.

Job Description

What you'll do

Build and manage Foundry data pipelines, ontology components, and applications
Design semantic and context layers with Palantir's ontology: Object, Link, and Action Types, Interfaces, Property Sets
Build LLM-powered workflows with AIP Logic, AIP Automate, and AIP Assist
Take agentic AI use cases from prototype to production: build, test, deploy, monitor
Serve as the team’s Palantir lead, remaining hands-on while guiding solution design, reviewing code, coaching engineers, and resolving technical blockers.
Own technical delivery of assigned solutions, translating business requirements into clear implementation plans and guiding work through production deployment.
Lead technical discussions with client stakeholders, explaining design decisions, trade-offs, dependencies, and delivery risks.

Qualifications

What we're looking for

Hands-on Palantir Foundry and/or AIP experience on real client or production projects
Experience developing agentic or GenAI applications is strongly preferred.
Strong software engineering and problem-solving skills
Experience integrating AI with enterprise data sources, APIs, and business systems
Solid data engineering background across structured and unstructured data
Comfortable with fast delivery cycles and requirements that change
Strong English and clear communication with both technical and business people
Able to work EST business hours

Nice to have

Solutions deployed to production inside Palantir
Ontology Linter, Data Lineage, CBAC, Foundry Marketplace
Semantic layers, ontologies, or knowledge graphs (Azure, AWS, GCP, Palantir, or Databricks)
Azure, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks / Genie
CI/CD with GitHub, DevOps / DevSecOps tooling
Experience deploying models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or other LLM providers, including model selection and cost optimization
Experience building reusable agent skills, tools, or components that support multiple use cases

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