Novartis

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Data42 (Palantir Foundry)

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6 days ago
Basel, SwitzerlandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with domain teams to understand workflows, define success criteria, and deliver capabilities from discovery through production.
  • Build end-to-end data pipelines, transformations, ontology models, and application workflows on Palantir Foundry.
  • Develop user-facing applications, integrate upstream and downstream systems, and support deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement.
  • Ingest, transform, and model datasets while defining data quality checks and documenting assumptions and limitations.
  • Partner with product, data science, data engineering, governance, and platform teams to align scope, timelines, and standards.
  • Create reusable templates, components, playbooks, and delivery standards while mentoring teammates.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in biology, bioengineering, bioinformatics, biostatistics, or a related discipline.
  • 8+ years of experience in biomedical research, bioengineering, bioinformatics, or a related domain.
  • Hands-on experience building and operationalizing Palantir Foundry solutions, including pipelines, ontology, applications, and access controls.
  • Experience partnering with stakeholders, defining solutions, and delivering proof-of-concepts and production software, data, or analytics products.
  • Strong programming skills across data and application layers, with the ability to prototype rapidly and execute through production.
  • Strong user empathy, workflow orientation, communication, stakeholder management, reliability, and operational discipline.
  • Preferred experience with regulated or sensitive-data environments, product discovery, analytics, AI, or machine learning enablement.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of CHF 129,500 to CHF 240,500, plus potential performance-based bonus.
  • Insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources, and global recognition programs.
  • Flexible and hybrid working options, with the role based in Basel and requiring three days per week in the office.
  • Minimum 14 weeks of paid parental leave.

Tech Stack

PandasPythonRSQL

Categories

Forward Deployed
Novartis

About Novartis

10,000+ employees

Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide. Find out more at https://www.novartis.com See our community guidelines: https://go.novartis.social/3Nboxki

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