A specialist data and AI engineering programme in Abu Dhabi, UAE is seeking a highly experienced Palantir Foundry & AIP Engineer with hands-on experience across the full Foundry ecosystem and Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). This is a full-time senior role requiring 10+ years of IT/Data experience, 5+ years as a Data Platform Engineer, 2+ years in the Palantir Foundry ecosystem, and 1+ year of hands-on AIP experience — including design and deployment of copilots, retrieval workflows, decision-support agents, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and OAG (Ontology-Augmented Generation) use cases. Abu Dhabi or MENA region experience is a strong advantage. This role goes beyond data engineering — you will operationalise AI-powered workflows, agents, and applications that drive tangible business outcomes.
About the Project — Abu Dhabi AI & Data Platform Programme
Context: Strategic AI and data platform programme — Abu Dhabi, UAE government or enterprise sector
Platform: Palantir Foundry and AIP as the core enterprise AI and data operating system
Scope: End-to-end delivery — design, build, operationalise AI-powered workflows, agents, and applications
Users: Direct stakeholder engagement — translating complex business needs into scalable technical solutions
Governance: Data quality, AI governance, and responsible AI use — embedded throughout all solution design
Palantir Foundry & AIP Technical Ecosystem
Foundry: Data integration · Ontology design · Pipeline engineering · Application development
AIP: Copilots · Retrieval workflows · Decision-support agents · RAG · OAG
AI Techniques: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) · OAG (Ontology-Augmented Generation) · vector/embedding search
Engineering: Python · PySpark · SQL · Data modelling · Scalable pipeline design
Advantage: Abu Dhabi / MENA region experience is a nice-to-have and practical advantage
Position Overview
The Palantir Foundry & AIP Engineer in Abu Dhabi is a rare and senior specialist role at the intersection of enterprise data engineering and AI agent design on Palantir’s platform ecosystem. Unlike a conventional data engineering role, this position requires you to design, build, and operationalise AI-powered copilots, retrieval workflows, decision-support agents, and ontology-driven operational AI applications — using Palantir’s AIP as the delivery medium, grounded in Foundry’s ontology as the knowledge and action layer, and connected to data pipelines that you also own and maintain.
You will engage directly with business stakeholders to capture requirements, translate complex operational needs into Foundry and AIP solutions, support the adoption of AI workflows by non-technical users, ensure governance and responsible AI standards are met, and identify opportunities to expand AIP value across the organisation. The right candidate is a self-starter with deep Palantir platform expertise, genuine AIP and AI agent design experience, and the confidence to operate independently in a high-visibility Abu Dhabi programme context where Palantir’s full capability is being deployed to drive measurable business outcomes.
Why Palantir Foundry & AIP Engineers in Abu Dhabi Are Exceptionally Rare and Valuable in 2026: Palantir Foundry is not a widely deployed enterprise platform — it is a specialist system used by a relatively small number of large governments, defence organisations, and major enterprises globally, making engineers with genuine production Foundry experience genuinely scarce. Palantir AIP engineers — who can design RAG and OAG workflows, build decision-support agents, and ground AI logic in the Foundry ontology — are rarer still. Abu Dhabi’s active deployment of Palantir for major government and enterprise programmes makes this one of the most technically prestigious and professionally consequential Palantir engineering roles available in the MENA region in 2026.
Key Responsibilities
Data & Workflow Engineering — Palantir Foundry
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable pipelines, transformations, and applications within Palantir Foundry — building and owning the data engineering layer that ingests, transforms, models, and serves the data that powers both operational business applications and AI-enabled use cases across the Abu Dhabi programme
- Design and maintain the Foundry ontology — developing and extending the semantic data model that represents the organisation’s key entities, relationships, actions, and domain logic within Foundry’s ontology layer, ensuring the ontology is well-structured, accurately reflects operational reality, and effectively supports both application delivery and AIP agent grounding
- Build and maintain Foundry applications and workflow automation — using Foundry Workshop and associated tooling to develop the data-driven applications and automated workflows that make insights actionable for business users across the programme
AIP & AI Enablement — Agents, Copilots & RAG/OAG
- Support the design and deployment of AIP use cases including copilots, retrieval workflows, and decision-support agents — applying hands-on AIP engineering experience to build AI-powered capabilities that help business users make faster, better-informed operational decisions, drawing on data and logic held within the Foundry ontology and connected data sources
- Ground agents and logic flows using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) — connecting AI agents to relevant data sources within Foundry, implementing embedding and vector search workflows, and integrating ontology content into retrieval chains to ensure that AI agent responses are grounded in accurate, current, and contextually relevant enterprise data rather than model-only knowledge
- Apply OAG (Ontology-Augmented Generation) for operational decision-making — designing AI workflows where logic, data, actions, and entity relationships embedded in the Foundry ontology are used to ground and constrain AI-generated recommendations, ensuring that AI outputs are consistent with organisational data, policies, and operational constraints
- Collaborate with senior engineers on agent design, instructions, and evaluation using AIP’s native features — contributing Foundry and AIP engineering expertise to the design of agent instruction sets, evaluation frameworks, and performance assessment methodologies that ensure deployed AIP agents meet quality, accuracy, and safety standards
End-to-End Delivery, Stakeholder Engagement & Governance
- Work with stakeholders to capture requirements, design solutions, and deliver working Foundry and AIP applications — engaging directly with business and operational teams to understand their data and AI needs, translating these into technical solution designs, and delivering functional applications and AI workflows that stakeholders can use immediately to drive business value
- Provide training and support for business teams adopting Foundry and AIP — developing training materials, conducting user onboarding sessions, and providing ongoing technical support to ensure that non-technical business users can effectively use Foundry applications and AIP-enabled tools in their daily work without requiring constant engineering intervention
- Ensure solutions meet standards for data quality, governance, and responsible use of AI — applying data quality management practices, AI governance frameworks, and responsible AI principles to all Foundry and AIP solution development, ensuring that deployed solutions meet the organisation’s regulatory, ethical, and quality standards
- Identify opportunities to expand AIP adoption and improve workflow automation — proactively assessing the organisation’s operational processes for additional AIP use case potential, recommending new copilot or agent deployments, and contributing to the continuous improvement of Foundry and AIP engineering processes, tools, and procedures
Mandatory Skills & Experience
Essential Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of experience in IT/Data — with a broad technology and data engineering background that provides the engineering depth and professional maturity required for a senior specialist role on a high-visibility Abu Dhabi programme
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer or Data Engineer — with direct hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, data models, and data platform solutions across enterprise data environments
- 2+ years of professional experience with the Palantir Foundry ecosystem — covering data integration, ontology design and management, pipeline engineering, and Foundry application development; general data engineering experience without Foundry-specific production work is not sufficient for this role
- 1+ year of hands-on experience with Palantir AIP — specifically including supporting the design and deployment of AIP use cases (copilots, retrieval workflows, decision-support agents), grounding agents using RAG with ontology content and vector/embedding search, applying OAG for operational decision-making, and collaborating on agent design using AIP’s native features
- Strong technical skills in Python, PySpark, SQL, and data modelling — with the engineering proficiency to build, maintain, and optimise data pipelines, transformations, and models within the Foundry environment and in adjacent Python-based data engineering tooling
- Ability to work independently and engage directly with non-technical business users — combining technical depth with the communication and stakeholder management skills to bridge the gap between complex Palantir platform capabilities and the practical operational needs of business users
Nice-to-Have
- Experience in Abu Dhabi or the broader MENA region — particularly with UAE government or enterprise sector digital transformation programmes, where knowledge of local regulatory requirements, organisational culture, and the specific context of UAE data and AI programme delivery is a practical and material advantage
Why Palantir Foundry & AIP Engineer Roles in Abu Dhabi Are Exceptional in 2026
Abu Dhabi has emerged as one of the most ambitious and well-resourced markets for enterprise AI and data platform deployment in the world — with major government, energy, and infrastructure programmes actively implementing Palantir Foundry and AIP as the operating system for data-driven decision-making and AI-enabled operational transformation. For the small global pool of engineers who have built genuine, production-level expertise across both the Foundry ecosystem and Palantir AIP — including hands-on RAG and OAG agent design — Abu Dhabi in 2026 represents a genuinely exceptional professional opportunity.
The combination of Palantir’s specialised platform expertise, deep AI agent engineering capability, and the Abu Dhabi programme context this role provides is rare by any global standard. If your engineering career has led you through serious Foundry and AIP work — if you have deployed copilots and decision-support agents, designed RAG workflows grounded in Foundry ontologies, and worked independently with business stakeholders to drive AI adoption — this Abu Dhabi role is one of the most technically and professionally significant Palantir engineering positions available in the MENA region in 2026. Apply now.
Who Should Apply?
- Palantir Foundry Engineers with AIP Production Experience: With 2+ years of production Foundry experience and 1+ year of hands-on AIP work — including actual deployment of copilots, retrieval workflows, or decision-support agents using RAG and OAG techniques grounded in the Foundry ontology — not Foundry exposure without genuine AIP delivery
- Enterprise Data Platform Engineers with AI Agent Design Capability: With 10+ years of IT/data background and 5+ years of data platform engineering experience — who have extended into Palantir’s AI capabilities and can design, build, and operationalise end-to-end AIP solutions that connect data pipelines, ontology, and AI logic into deployable business applications
- RAG and OAG Workflow Specialists on the Palantir Platform: With specific hands-on experience designing retrieval-augmented generation pipelines within Foundry — connecting to data sources, implementing embedding and vector search workflows, and applying OAG to ground AI decision-making in live ontology data and relationships
- Self-Starter Data Engineers Comfortable with Business Stakeholder Engagement: Who can operate independently on a high-visibility Abu Dhabi programme, engage directly with non-technical business users, translate operational requirements into Foundry and AIP solutions, and own delivery end-to-end without requiring constant technical supervision
- UAE/MENA Region Data and AI Engineering Professionals: With existing Abu Dhabi or UAE programme experience — particularly in government, energy, or enterprise sector digital transformation — ready to apply their Palantir platform expertise to one of the region’s most technically sophisticated and strategically significant AI and data programme environments in 2026
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