Software Engineer - Applied AI, Defense Applications
About The Position
Palantir’s Defense Applied AI product team builds products that help modern warfighters use AI for mission-critical work. The Software Engineer will help own the end-to-end agent experience, ensuring the products deliver value to users and meet a high bar for quality. The role involves adapting to user needs and technical challenges, including refining workflow experiences and improving performance for low-latency or more accurate operational outcomes. Working in a small Product Development team, the engineer will build cross-functional capabilities, streamline user workflows, and improve software efficiency and reliability. The position focuses on developing reliable, performant, scalable AI products that address real-world problems and support both developers and end users.
Requirements
- Experience coding in programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience delivering production applications.
- Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript.
- Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar field.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporate feedback, and maintain a high bar for quality.
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building applications with LLMs, including tool design, context management, agent workflows, or evaluation.
- Strong product instincts and attention to the details that make complex software intuitive and useful.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with engineers, users, and non-technical team members.
- Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, ask questions effectively, iterate directly with users, and own core outcomes.
- Curiosity about emerging AI capabilities and sound judgment about where they can solve real user problems.
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI agents that help defense and intelligence users investigate complex questions, analyze operational data, develop plans, and produce actionable work.
- Improve agent experience through data-driven evaluations of memory, tool and skill design, context management, fine-tuning, and related areas.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve user workflows and ensure seamless experiences across product boundaries.
- Build interfaces that let users direct agents, follow their progress, inspect supporting evidence, review proposed actions, and refine resulting work.
- Own features from early experimentation through production deployment, working with users, designers, and engineers to turn mission needs into reliable, reusable product capabilities.
- Optimize applications for speed and scalability through performance analysis and work with high-scale, complex data.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus voluntary life insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
- Basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance coverage.
- Commuter benefits.
- Relocation assistance.
- Paid time off that is not accrual-based.
- Two weeks of paid time off built into the end of each year, subject to team and business needs.
- Ten 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 adoption, surrogacy, and preservation support.
- Stipend to help with expenses associated with a new child.
- 401(k) plan.
- Restricted stock units, sign-on bonus, and other potential future incentives may be included in total compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
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