How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
The Foundry Solutions Engineer develops advanced analytics, machine learning, and decision-support solutions that enable data-driven operational and strategic decisions across TechOps. This role exists to transform complex maintenance, workforce, reliability, and operational data into scalable intelligence products, predictive models, and AI-enabled applications that improve planning accuracy, resource utilization, and business performance.
- Develop and deploy advanced analytics, machine learning, and decision intelligence solutions that improve operational planning, workforce forecasting, maintenance strategy, and business performance across TechOps.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data products, data pipelines, semantic models, and applications within the Palantir Foundry ecosystem to support enterprise decision making.
- Develop predictive, prescriptive, and optimization models that evaluate operational scenarios, forecast future demand, and identify opportunities to improve resource utilization and operational efficiency.
- Partner with maintenance, engineering, operations, finance, workforce planning, and technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into analytical solutions and actionable insights.
- Evaluate and implement emerging analytics, machine learning, automation, and artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance operational performance and decision quality.
- Present analytical findings, recommendations, and model outputs to business leaders and stakeholders, supporting data-driven strategic and operational decision making.
- Ensure data quality, model integrity, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement of analytical tools, applications, and decision-support capabilities.
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
- Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
- Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
- Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum 2 years of experience developing advanced analytics, machine learning, forecasting, optimization, decision-support, or data science solutions in a complex business or operational environment.
- Experience using SQL, Python, and modern data platforms to acquire, transform, analyze, and model large datasets.
- Experience translating ambiguous business problems into analytical solutions, data products, and actionable recommendations.
- Experience developing and deploying scalable analytical applications, reports, dashboards, models, or decision-support tools.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and quantitative reasoning skills with the ability to evaluate complex business challenges and identify data-driven solutions.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and analytical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes through data and analytics.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience developing machine learning, forecasting, optimization, decision science, or advanced analytics solutions to support business and operational decision-making.
- Experience building analytical applications, data products, and decision-support solutions using Palantir Foundry or similar enterprise analytics platforms.
- Experience supporting workforce planning, resource optimization, operational planning, maintenance planning, or other large-scale planning functions.
- Experience applying artificial intelligence, automation, simulation, or scenario modeling techniques to solve complex business challenges.
- Experience working in aviation, transportation, maintenance, logistics, supply chain, or other operationally complex environments.
Benefits And Perks To Help You Keep Climbing
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
- New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)
- In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year
- Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
- Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
- Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
- Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
- Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
- World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
- Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
- Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
- Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare
