Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer

- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on site
- Employment type: Full time
- Reports to: Chief Technology Officer

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on site, embedded at client sites across the UAE with occasional GCC travel
Employment Type: Full time, permanent
Experience: 5+ years in software, data or solutions engineering, including 2+ years delivering Palantir Foundry or AIP directly with clients
Reporting Line: Chief AI Officer

Job Summary

SentraAI is supporting the build and go live of Palantir for a client in the UAE, and we are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to work embedded with the client's teams.

As a Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer at SentraAI you will work side by side with the client's operations and leadership teams. You will find the problems that matter most, shape them into Foundry and AIP use cases, and build working solutions quickly with the client in the room.

You will be the bridge between the business and the build: framing the problem, prototyping in days, proving value with real data and users, and then working with our Palantir Engineers to take each solution through to go live.

About SentraAI

SentraAI is a specialist enterprise AI firm, focused on helping large, regulated organisations move AI and data platforms from experimentation into production safely and sustainably.

We work inside enterprise run-states, where governance, operational risk, change control, and long-term ownership are integral to delivery. Our teams are trusted to design and deliver systems, platforms, and operating models that can be run, audited, and evolved, not just launched.

We prioritise engineering discipline, architectural clarity, and delivery quality over speed theatre or hype.

Key Responsibilities

Client discovery and problem framing
- Work on site with client teams to understand their operations, decisions and pain points
- Turn business problems into clear use cases with measurable outcomes and success criteria
- Run workshops and demos with users, managers and executives

Rapid build and proof of value
- Build end to end prototypes in Foundry and AIP: data integration, Ontology, Workshop applications and AIP workflows
- Get working solutions in front of real users within days, and iterate on their feedback
- Prove value with real data and track the outcomes agreed with the client

Path to production
- Work with SentraAI Palantir Engineers and architects to harden prototypes into secure, tested, governed production solutions
- Apply Foundry security, markings and access controls in line with client data protection rules
- Plan rollout, adoption and handover so client teams can own and extend what is built

Account growth and trust
- Spot the next highest value use cases and shape them into proposals with the client
- Act as the trusted technical point of contact on site, and represent SentraAI with senior client stakeholders

Required Qualifications

Minimum qualifications
- 5+ years in software, data or solutions engineering, with solutions shipped to production
- 2+ years delivering Palantir Foundry or AIP directly with clients, ideally embedded on site
- Hands-on Ontology, Workshop and pipeline building in Foundry
- Strong Python and SQL; PySpark and TypeScript a plus
- Proven ability to run workshops, frame problems and present to senior stakeholders

Platform and tooling
- Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories and Data Connection
- AIP Logic or AIP Agent Studio within the last 12 months
- Foundry security and access controls
- Comfortable working on client sites full time and travelling within the UAE and GCC

Advantageous but Not Mandatory
- Former Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer, Deployment Strategist or Palantir partner delivery role
- Palantir Foundry or AIP certifications
- Experience in energy, government, banking, healthcare or hospitality
- Consulting or client facing delivery background
- Arabic language skills
- UAE based, with a valid UAE residence visa

Why Work for SentraAI

Enterprise AI, done properly.
We exist to take AI and data out of experimentation and into production environments that are regulated, scrutinised, and expected to work every day.

Quality is not optional.
SentraAI is built on the belief that engineering discipline, governance by design, and delivery rigour are competitive advantages, not overhead.

Clear ownership and accountability.
You will be trusted with real responsibility, clear mandates, and meaningful outcomes, not diluted roles or performative activity.

Work that survives contact with reality.
We design systems, operating models, and decisions that still stand up months and years after go-live, not just at demo time.

Run-state matters as much as build-state.
We optimise for operability, auditability, and change control from day one, because that is where enterprise value is won or lost.

Substance over hype.
We deliberately avoid delivery theatre, buzzwords, and novelty for novelty sake. Credibility is earned through execution.

Learn from experienced practitioners.
You will work alongside people who have built, broken, fixed, and run enterprise systems, and who care deeply about doing the work properly.

A firm with a point of view.
SentraAI is opinionated by design. We stand for doing fewer things better, and we expect our people to take pride in that standard.