Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, hybrid, with client site work across the UAE
Employment Type: Full time, permanent
Experience: 6+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering, including 3+ years hands-on with Palantir Foundry in production
Reporting Line: Chief AI Officer
Job Summary
SentraAI is supporting the build and go live of Palantir for a client in the UAE, and we are growing the engineering team behind it.
As a Palantir Engineer at SentraAI you will design, build and run Palantir Foundry and AIP solutions for large, regulated organisations across the UAE. You will own the engineering from data integration and Ontology design to operational applications and AI workflows that business users rely on every day.
You will work alongside our Forward Deployed Engineers and architects, turning agreed use cases into governed Foundry solutions that are secure, auditable, tested and built to be owned long after go-live.
About SentraAI
SentraAI is a specialist enterprise AI firm, focused on helping large, regulated organisations move AI and data platforms from experimentation into production safely and sustainably.
We work inside enterprise run-states, where governance, operational risk, change control, and long-term ownership are integral to delivery. Our teams are trusted to design and deliver systems, platforms, and operating models that can be run, audited, and evolved, not just launched.
We prioritise engineering discipline, architectural clarity, and delivery quality over speed theatre or hype.
Key Responsibilities
Data integration and pipelines
- Connect source systems to Foundry using Data Connection, and build reliable pipelines in Pipeline Builder and Code Repositories (Python and PySpark)
- Design incremental, tested and well documented transforms with clear lineage
- Monitor pipeline health, data quality and build performance, and fix issues at the root
Ontology and applications
- Design and evolve the Ontology: object types, link types, properties and actions that reflect how the business actually works
- Build operational applications in Workshop, with analysis in Contour and Quiver where needed
- Write Functions in TypeScript or Python, and use the Ontology SDK to connect Foundry to other applications
AI and AIP
- Build AIP workflows using AIP Logic and AIP Agent Studio, grounded in the Ontology and governed data
- Evaluate AI outputs for accuracy and safety before release, and keep human approval in the loop where decisions matter
Governance and engineering quality
- Apply Foundry security: projects, roles, markings and purpose based access, in line with client data protection rules
- Manage releases across development, test and production, with peer review, automated checks and change control
- Write clear technical documentation and hand over solutions client teams can run
Required Qualifications
Minimum qualifications
- 6+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering or similar, with solutions shipped to production
- 3+ years hands-on Palantir Foundry delivery in production, not only training or proof of concept work
- Strong Python, PySpark and SQL
- Hands-on Ontology design, including object types, links and actions
- Built at least one Workshop application used by business users in production
Platform and tooling
- Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories and Data Connection
- Functions in TypeScript or Python, and Foundry security and access controls
- Git based development and release management across environments
- Hands-on AIP experience (AIP Logic, Agent Studio or AIP enabled Workshop) within the last 12 months
Advantageous but Not Mandatory
- Palantir Foundry or AIP certifications
- Ontology SDK (OSDK) and external application integration
- Slate, Quiver and Contour
- Experience in energy, government, banking, healthcare or hospitality
- Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or Azure data platform experience
- Arabic language skills
- UAE based, with a valid UAE residence visa
Why Work for SentraAI
Enterprise AI, done properly.
We exist to take AI and data out of experimentation and into production environments that are regulated, scrutinised, and expected to work every day.
Quality is not optional.
SentraAI is built on the belief that engineering discipline, governance by design, and delivery rigour are competitive advantages, not overhead.
Clear ownership and accountability.
You will be trusted with real responsibility, clear mandates, and meaningful outcomes, not diluted roles or performative activity.
Work that survives contact with reality.
We design systems, operating models, and decisions that still stand up months and years after go-live, not just at demo time.
Run-state matters as much as build-state.
We optimise for operability, auditability, and change control from day one, because that is where enterprise value is won or lost.
Substance over hype.
We deliberately avoid delivery theatre, buzzwords, and novelty for novelty sake. Credibility is earned through execution.
Learn from experienced practitioners.
You will work alongside people who have built, broken, fixed, and run enterprise systems, and who care deeply about doing the work properly.
A firm with a point of view.
SentraAI is opinionated by design. We stand for doing fewer things better, and we expect our people to take pride in that standard.
