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
Forward Deployed Software Engineers (FDSEs) understand our customers greatest pain points and design endtoend solutions to address them. FDSEs solicit constant feedback on their work from both customers and colleagues improving our products over time with rapid iteration cycles.
FDSEs deploy ground breaking technical solutions to solve our customers hardest problems. Projects often start with a nebulous question like Why are we losing customers or How can we more effectively identify instances of money laundering FDSEs lead the way in developing a solution from highlevel system design and prototyping to application development and data integration. As an FDSE you leverage everything around you: Palantir products open source technologies and anything you and your team can build to drive real impact.
You work with customers around the globe where you gain rare insight into the worlds most important industries and institutions. We help our customers detect insider trading improve disaster relief fight healthcare fraud and more. Each mission presents different challenges from the regulatory environment to the nature of the data to the user population. You will work to accommodate all aspects of an environment to drive real technical outcomes for our customers.
Core Responsibilities
FDSEs responsibilities look similar to those of a startup CTO: youll work in small teams and own endtoend of high stakes projects. A day might span discussing architecture with fellow engineers wrangling massivescale data coding a custom web app speaking with customer executives or establishing strategy for your team.
Do you aspire to be an entrepreneur or an engineering leader If yes we believe Palantir is the best place with the best colleagues to learn how!
What We Value
Strong engineering background preferred in fields such as Computer Science Mathematics Software Engineering Physics or relevant experience.
Familiarity with data structures storage systems cloud infrastructure frontend frameworks and other technical tools.
Understanding of how technical decisions impact the user of what youre building.
Ability to work effectively in teams of technical and nontechnical individuals.
Skill and comfort working in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
Demonstrated ability to continuously learn work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.
What We Require
1 years of relevant postcollege work experience.
Strong engineering background preferred in fields such as Computer Science Mathematics Software Engineering Physics and Data Science.
Strong coder with shown proficiency in programming languages such as Python Java C TypeScript/JavaScript or similar.
Ability to travel 25 75 required. Varies by location and team.
Security clearance or the ability to obtain a clearance.
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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