About the position
Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations around the world use data. In this role, you'll have an opportunity to grow more quickly than you ever envisioned as you contribute high-quality code directly to Palantir Gotham, Palantir Apollo, or Palantir Foundry: products that are deployed at some of the most important institutions across the public and private sectors. You'll create features used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters in countries around the world. Palantir's Product Development organization 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 front-end application, or a component of the Gotham release infrastructure. We encourage communication and collaboration among teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll also have the opportunity to learn about other business areas.
Responsibilities
- Involved throughout the product lifecycle - from idea generation, design, and prototyping, to execution and shipping.
- Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand customers' problems and build products that tackle them.
- Meet users to understand their needs, which may include touring assembly lines or joining analysts at their desks.
Requirements
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.
- Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, and Physics.
- Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
- Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
Nice-to-haves
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of individuals, including engineers, users and non-technical team members.
- Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and the ability to ask questions effectively.
Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance.
- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir's basic life, AD&D and disability insurance.
- Commuter benefits.
- Relocation assistance.
- Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based.
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs).
- 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
- Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events.
- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents.
- Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation.
- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child.
- Employees can enroll in Palantir's 401k plan.
