Palantir builds the worlds leading software for datadriven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving forecast supply chain disruptions locate missing children and more.
The Role
The Palantir Design Team is responsible for the human experience of using our software. Our team is growing rapidly but were committed to creating a tightknit team environment that fosters trust integrity empathy and growth. We work together in realising a shared product vision and regularly give feedback and critique to each other.
Designing at Palantir is a varied experience. On a given day you might be: leading a design sprint for your product team; designing a microinteraction to make a complex analytical task feel simple; and/or advocating for UX consistency by creating flexible reusable UI components.
Core Responsibilities
As a Product Design intern your responsibilities look similar to a fulltime designer with the resources stability and mentorship of an established tech company. Youll work on product teams with minimal supervision and own endtoend of real product features. You will work with fellow Designers Product Managers Developers and Forward Deployed Engineers to refine and evolve the quality of Palantir products.
Interaction and visual design. Youll be involved at every stage of design work. Youll help define early product concepts flesh out the highlevel workflow and microinteractions of a feature and execute on a crisp and effective visual design. You should have experience designing and prototyping using tools such as Figma.
User research. We frequently do informal user research and value people who can be flexible with research processes and methodologies to achieve the right outcome. Youll often visit customer offices to interview and learn from the users we serve. Youll pair qualitative methods (e.g. scripted usability tests and contextual inquiry) with quantitative information like product and usage metrics.
Deliver and communicate designs in close collaboration. We work closely with product and forward deployed engineers to realise our design ideas. Youll treat engineers and product managers as partners and collaborate with them to prototype and build out products.
Awareness of how software interfaces are built. Familiarity with HTML CSS Javascript and Typescript is appreciated. You dont need to be an expertjust fluent enough to collaborate with engineers and know whats possible with frontend technologies.
What We Value
Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to build great relationships with engineers PMs and other stakeholders and convey and debate design rationale.
High empathy and dedication to the user striving to understand and empower them.
Strong ability to iterate through the design process give and receive critiques and rapidly incorporate feedback.
Willingness to learn and make decisions independently and the ability to ask questions when needed.
What We Require
Must be planning on graduating in 2026. This should be your final internship before graduating.
A portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project. If parts of your portfolio are passwordprotected please include your portfolio password under Additional Questions when applying.
Life at Palantir
We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes thats why we celebrate individuals strengths skills and interests from your first interview to your longterm growth rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians lives is just one of the ways were investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.
In keeping consistent with Palantirs values and culture we believe employees are better together and inperson work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week) allowing our employees to strike the right tradeoff for their personal productivity. Based on business need there are a few roles that allow for Remote work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles you must work from the city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite you are required to work from an office.
If you want to empower the worlds most important institutions you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring processplease reach out and let us know how we can help.
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