Software Engineer - Defense Applications

The Role

Palantir’s software forms the operating system for the militaries of the United States and her allies, driving outcomes and enhancing capabilities across the full spectrum of operations, intelligence, and support activities. Our defense applications are the tip of that spear, powerful tools used daily by thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines to perform critical work at home and abroad from the Pentagon to the front lines. The engineers who build, maintain, and extend these applications are responsible for wielding the immense technical potential of Palantir’s data modeling and AI platforms to create exquisite domain-specific workflows and interfaces that modernize, extend, and revolutionize the capabilities of the warfighter.

This is a front-end engineering role focused on marrying Palantir’s Foundry and AIP platform technologies, application specific backend services, and modern web technologies with domain expertise. These teams are nimble and select the right tool for the task in front of them rather than adhering to a rigidly defined tech stack, but the most common setups are React for standard DOM rendering, Maplibre and/or Three js for geospatial and 3D rendering, Redux (in various flavors) for state management, Conjure for API management, and OSDK for interaction with the foundry platform.

Core Responsibilities

• Own user-facing feature additions and enhancements end-to-end.
• Spend time hands-on with customers and forward-deployed engineers to design solutions that deliver rapid value in ever-changing environments.
• Deliver across shorter project cycles with high individual ownership, flexibility, and practicality.
• Transition from mentee to mentor as you build expertise in specific applications and features.
• Form strong convictions quickly and hold them weakly, ready to adapt based on new ideas and data.

What We Value

• Autodidacticism: Constantly learning new things and pushing boundaries.
• Collaboration: Working in small teams solving hard problems and playing off each person’s strengths.
• Creativity and Problem Solving: Working towards objectives and goals rather than blueprints and instructions.
• Dependability: Owning outcomes and communicating proactively when confronted with the unexpected.

What We Require

• 2+ years of frontend software engineering experience.
• Strong frontend coding skills with proficiency in JavaScript and an understanding of how web technologies work.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent understanding of algorithms, performance, and systems design.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.