A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
The Role
As a Data Engineer, you will help to build and maintain the data foundations, reporting workflows, and automations that support Recruiting and Hiring Operations. This role will work cross-functionally with Hiring Operations, Recruiters, Data, Security, Privacy, and other technical and non technical partners to turn complex recruiting processes into reliable datasets, dashboards, and operational tools. The ideal candidate enjoys working at the intersection of data engineering and business operations. You will be expected to understand how recruiting workflows generate data and build practical solutions that improve day to day operations.
This role is well suited for someone who can move fluidly between building a pipeline, debugging an integration, creating a dashboard, documenting an operating procedure, and helping stakeholders understand how to use the resulting tool.
Core Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and improve datasets and pipelines supporting Recruiting
- Integrate data from systems such as Lever, Workday, Foundry, and other recruiting systems
- Develop reporting datasets and dashboards for recruiting performance, candidate pipelines, recruiting programs, and operational audits
- Evaluate existing data integrations for opportunities to reduce latency and implement necessary changes
- Partner with central Data and platform teams on warehouse connections, schema changes, API behavior, and source-system migrations
- Support integrations between recruiting systems and internal tools including writeback of data updates
- Design data access and reporting solutions that respect confidentiality, role-based permissions, and regional or organizational access boundaries
- Create clear documentation for sensitive workflows and ensure that operational users understand the limitations of the data
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve reporting and workflows as recruiting processes change
- Partner with team members, engineering, product and business leaders to understand current user behavior and patterns across our platform
- Monitor pipelines for stability, suggest and implement efficiency initiatives
What We Value
- Proven ability to build and maintain data pipelines, datasets, and analytics data products
- Hands-on experience with Foundry, Contour, or comparable data and analytics platforms
- Background working with Recruiting, HR, People, CRM, ATS, or other operational data; Lever experience preferred
- Proficiency integrating APIs, data warehouses, and SaaS systems
- Familiarity with workflow automation, writeback processes, and event-driven integrations
- Working knowledge of data governance, privacy, retention, access controls, and compliance-related workflows
What We Require
- Degree in Data Science, Finance, Math, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Business or other quantitative fields
- 1+ years of experience in a data analytical role
- Expertise in Python and data manipulation to answer complex questions. Experience with pySpark, pandas, or polars is a plus.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational or structured data.
- Proficiency with BI tools, SQL, and the organization and analysis of data
- Fluency in TypeScript, or another general-purpose programming language
- Ability to create reusable data models, testing frameworks, and data quality checks
Salary
The salary range for this position is estimated to be $100,000 - $145,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual's relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.
Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.
Benefits
• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan
Life at Palantir
We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at
Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.
In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.
If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process
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