Forward Deployed Software Engineer - US Government
AI summary of the role
Forward Deployed Software Engineer for US Government, based in Honolulu, HI, requiring an active Top Secret clearance.
What you’ll do
- Design and deploy end-to-end technical solutions to address customers' hardest problems, from system design and prototyping to application development and data integration.
- Work directly with customers and colleagues to solicit constant feedback and improve products through rapid iteration cycles.
- Leverage Palantir products, open-source technologies, and custom-built applications to drive real impact.
- Accommodate regulatory, data, and user environments to drive technical outcomes for customers.
What you’ll bring
- Active US Security Clearance at or above Top Secret level.
- Strong engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or similar.
- Strong coding proficiency in Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
- Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, and front-end frameworks.
Technologies
Postgres · Cassandra · Hadoop · Spark · Java · Groovy · TypeScript · React · Leaflet · d3 · Python · AWS EC2
About Palantir
Enterprise software (Gotham, Foundry, AIP, Apollo) that operationalizes data and AI for defense, intelligence, and Fortune 500 commercial clients via embedded forward-deployed engineers.
Public
Source and classification
Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:
A World-Changing Company 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. The Role 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
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A World-Changing Company 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. The Role 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 di [... source excerpt omitted ...] om 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. Technologies We Use Core Palantir [... source excerpt omitted ...] er. Collaboration: We work internally with people from a variety of backgrounds — such as other FDSEs, product teams, and Deployment Strategists. We also work externally with our customers, often on site, to understand and solve their problems. Trust: We trust each other to effectively manage time and priorities—we don't micromanage. We want to give people the space to think for themselves. Growth: We push ourselves and our peers to improve themselves and the world around them. Learning: We often face entirely novel problems, where we need to pick up a lot of new information and learn how to use it to make progress. What We Value Strong engineering background, preferred in
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