Forward Deployed Engineer, AI & Analytics at Virtasant
Austin, TX
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Aug 17, 2026
Austin, TX
Aug 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Forward Deployed Engineer role embedded with a US healthcare workforce client to take a Palantir Foundry analytics and AI proof of concept into full production. The engineer owns data pipelines, ontology, application layer, governance, and observability end-to-end, while also running discovery sessions, training client engineers, and being measured against adoption or business KPIs. Suits a generalist builder with strong client-facing skills and prior platform delivery experience.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,200–21,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role title is 'Forward Deployed Engineer, AI & Analytics' — no seniority level appears in the title, so advertised seniority is Unspecified, though the requirements clearly support a Senior-level bar (6+ years, senior ownership of production systems, client-facing leadership).
Palantir Foundry is the primary required platform, but the posting explicitly accepts 'deep experience on a comparable platform such as Databricks or Snowflake with evidence of fast platform ramp' as a substitute — those alternatives are captured accordingly.
Palantir AIP is listed as 'a strong plus' within the Foundry requirement sentence, but is treated as preferred rather than a hard gate since it is framed as additive.
TypeScript and Java are explicitly called out as 'a plus' in the must-have section, so they are marked preferred.
Consulting or client-embedded delivery experience and clear executive-level communication are stated as must-haves but name no specific technology or tool, so they are not emitted as skills per extraction rules.
Compensation is described only as 'competitive and set by experience and location' — no figures are provided.
The engagement is a contract through the Gigster network with full-time dedication expected; employment type is set to Contract.
No specific work location is stated; the role appears to be client-embedded (forward deployed) but no city or metro is named. Location is left blank.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role spans software/data engineering, AI/ML, and solutions consulting. 15-1252 (Software Developers) is chosen as the primary because the core deliverable is shipping production code and pipelines; 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is the runner-up given the ML/LLM and analytics platform depth required.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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