A WorldChanging Company
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
Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organisations around the world use data. As a Software Engineer Intern youll have an opportunity to grow more quickly than you ever envisioned as you contribute highquality code directly to Palantir Gotham Palantir Foundry or Palantir Apollo: products that are deployed at some of the most important institutions across the public and private sectors. Youll create features used by research scientists aerospace engineers intelligence analysts and economic forecasters in countries around the world. Palantirs Product Development organisation is made up of small teams of Software Engineers each focusing on a specific aspect of a product. For example you might join a team that builds a Foundry frontend application or a component of the Gotham release infrastructure. We encourage communication and collaboration among teams to share context skills and experience so youll learn about many different aspects of each product.
Core Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer you are involved throughout the product lifecycle from idea generation design and prototyping to and shipping while also being paired with a mentor dedicated to your growth and success. Youll collaborate closely with technical and nontechnical counterparts to understand our customers problems and build products that tackle them. One of the most effective ways to understand what our users need is to meet them. You may receive an opportunity to tour the assembly line at an automanufacturer or join a counterterror analyst at their desk to really understand their mission and difficulties.
SWE principles include:
Ownership: We see projects through from beginning to end in spite of obstacles we may encounter.
Collaboration: We work internally with people from a variety of backgrounds such as other Software Engineers Product Managers Designers and Product Reliability Engineers. We also partner with our business development teams (Forward Deployed Engineers Deployment Strategists) in order to understand and solve our customers problems.
Trust: We trust each other to effectively handle time and priorities and dont micromanage. We want people to have the space to think for themselves while feeling supported by their team.
Technologies We Use
It doesnt matter what languages you know when you join us but it does matter that you can write clean effective code and learn new languages quickly. Our software is constantly evolving so we need engineers who can do the same. Alongside peers that bring diverse experience whether youre a former university TA switched to CS recently or are a hackathon enthusiast youll build your skills to apply the best technology to solve a given problem. Right now we use:
Varying languages including Java and Go for backend and Typescript for frontend
Opensource technologies like Cassandra Spark Elasticsearch React and Redux
Industrystandard build tooling including Gradle Webpack and GitHub
Offer Deadline
In an effort to build more transparency into our recruitment process wed like to share our offer deadline expectations. By applying to this position you commit to confirming your decision within two weeks of receiving your written offer.
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 process
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reach out and let us know how we can help.