Senior Palantir Data Engineer (AI)

Location: Singapore

Company

hirify.global is a global open market distributor of electronic components operating a production data and intelligence platform on Palantir Foundry, with RMS as its internal system of record.

What you will do

• Extend the Palantir Foundry ontology with object types, properties, and relationships for companies, parts, offers, and demand signals.
• Build and maintain ingestion from RMS and internal or third-party APIs, including transforms, pipelines, automations, quality gates, freshness checks, and data tests.
• Optimize query plans, indexes, materialization, caching, and other performance-critical database paths.
• Implement reliable write-backs to RMS, including scores, enrichment, resolved entities, and operational flags, with transactional integrity, idempotency, conflict handling, and reconciliation.
• Design versioned APIs for Web RMS UIs and build custom applications using Foundry data.
• Build AIP Logic functions and production agent workflows for RFQ triage, pricing-signal extraction, and offer-anomaly detection.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on Palantir Foundry experience in production, including ontology modeling, pipelines in Code Repositories or Pipeline Builder, AIP Logic, and shipping a used application.
• 8+ years of software development experience, weighted toward backend and data engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent qualification.
• Expert SQL and deep relational database experience; SQL Server is used. Ability to read execution plans, design indexes for load, and assess normalized models.
• Experience writing back into a system of record, including transactional integrity, idempotency, and reconciliation.
• Experience designing stable APIs for external applications and shaping API contracts around UI requirements.
• End-to-end delivery experience from idea and proof of concept through build, iteration, and release, with product input.
• Performance engineering and caching experience, including explaining changes that improved slow systems.
• Production LLM and AI-agent experience, including evaluation, guardrails, cost, latency, failure analysis, and post-release operation.
• Experience building auditable systems with reliable lineage, versioned parameters, and outputs that non-engineers can challenge; clear written communication.

Nice to have

• Python and PySpark.
• Dimensional modeling and schema design judgment.
• Entity resolution, master data, taxonomies, or knowledge graphs.
• React and the Palantir Ontology SDK.
• Palantir Machinery, process mining, Jira integrations with Claude or other AI tools, ERP integration, Kafka or CDC, and Azure.
• Electronics distribution, supply chain, or industrial B2B data experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, open environment with experienced professionals and focused mentorship.
• Attractive salary package with medical and dental benefits.
• Modern open-concept working environment and supportive management.
• Collaborative and motivated team culture with smart casual dress code.
• Workplace conveniently located near Buona Vista MRT station.