About the position
Forward Deployed Software Engineers (FDSEs) understand our customers’ greatest pain points and design end-to-end 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 high-level 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 world’s 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. Whether you aspire to be an entrepreneur or an engineering leader, we believe Palantir is the best place — with the best colleagues — to learn how. You’ll learn how to unpack a problem and understand the costs and consequences of its solution. You’ll learn new technologies and languages, and even develop them yourself. You’ll work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop.
Responsibilities
- Understand customer pain points and design end-to-end solutions.
- Solicit feedback from customers and colleagues to improve products.
- Develop solutions from high-level system design to application development.
- Integrate data and deploy technical solutions to solve complex problems.
- Work with global customers to gain insights into various industries.
- Accommodate regulatory and data challenges to drive technical outcomes.
Requirements
- Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
- Strong engineering background, preferably in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
- Experience with logistics, materiel, sustainment, aviation, or readiness analysis is a plus.
- Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, and front-end frameworks.
- Strong coding skills in programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in diverse teams.
- Demonstrated ability to learn continuously and work independently.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with distributed data storage and parallel computing technologies.
- Familiarity with Postgres, Cassandra, Hadoop, and Spark.
- Experience with web technologies like React, Leaflet, and d3.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance.
- Commuter benefits.
- Take what you need paid time off.
- 2 weeks paid time off at the end of each year.
- 10 paid holidays throughout the year.
- Supportive leave of absence program.
- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care.
- Fertility and family building benefits.
- 401k plan enrollment.
