MSS Developer Engineer – Palantir Analytics

Job overview

The MSS Developer Engineer – Palantir Analytics is an onsite role at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA, with an annual salary range of $135,000–$165,000. Agile Defense supports national missions through advanced technologies and integration. The engineer builds mission-focused dashboards, applications, data pipelines, and workflows that help operators explore data and make informed decisions. Reliable data foundations, useful visualizations, and platform performance support operational analytics and mission needs.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain operator-facing dashboards and applications
• create self-service data capabilities and automated workflows
• develop data pipelines, ontology, and access controls on MSS and Palantir
• integrate external data sources
• support AI/AIP workflows
• create visualizations, interactive tools, alerts, and monitoring
• optimize data models and queries
• provide operator support
• document data sources and analytical methods.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

mss developer engineer

palantir

data engineering

dashboards

data pipelines

python

sql

arlington va

onsite

$135k–$165k/year

active secret clearance

scif

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance at minimum, with ability to obtain and maintain higher clearances if assigned. Requires 4+ years of software or data engineering experience, including 1.5+ years with Palantir Foundry, Gotham, AIP, or MSS; onsite work in a SCIF.

About the employer

Agile Defense is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Sector: 54.