Data Engineer - Talent Acquisition Operations

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve datasets and pipelines supporting Recruiting
• Integrate data from recruiting systems including Lever, Workday, Foundry, and other sources
• Develop reporting datasets and dashboards for recruiting performance, candidate pipelines, recruiting programs, and operational audits
• Evaluate existing integrations 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 operational users understand data limitations
• Proactively identify improvements to reporting and workflows as recruiting processes evolve
• Partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to understand user behavior and patterns across the platform
• Monitor pipelines for stability and suggest or implement efficiency initiatives

Requirements

• 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 and data organization and analysis
• Fluency in TypeScript, or another general-purpose programming language
• Ability to create reusable data models, testing frameworks, and data quality checks

Technologies

• Python, pySpark, pandas, polars
• SQL, TypeScript
• Lever, Workday, Foundry, Contour
• BI tools

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and eligible dependents), plus voluntary life insurance
• Basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance automatically provided
• 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 adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• 401k plan enrollment option

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

Life at Palantir

• Employees are encouraged to work from the offices to foster connectivity and innovation
• Many teams offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week)
• If a role allows for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis, you must work from the state in which you are employed
• For this role, the posting is Onsite, so you are required to work from an office