Meritocracy Fellowship

The role

Fellows complete five weeks of intellectual and software-building work, then join Palantir's development or forward deployed engineering teams and work alongside customers onsite. They are given the responsibility of a full-time engineer on real data and real problems.

What you will do

• Take part in five weeks of seminars, reading and group building
• Join a development or forward deployed engineering team after the first five weeks
• Work alongside customers onsite on real data
• Build, ship and iterate software
• Take on the responsibility of a full-time engineer

Required qualifications

• High school certificate of graduation at the start of the internship
• Not enrolled in an accredited U.S. university
• Never previously earned an undergraduate degree
• Spend fall 2027 exclusively at Palantir
• High degree of agency, autonomy and maturity
• Ability to work on open-ended and ambiguous problems
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with engineers, users and non-technical team members
• Willingness to learn proactively, make decisions independently and ask questions when stuck

Nice to have

• Experience with programming, scripting or statistical packages (e.g. Python, R, Matlab, SQL)

Benefits

• Health and well-being programs across areas of life
• Opportunities tailored to individual strengths, skills and interests

Before you apply

• You must be a high school graduate by the start of the internship and must not be enrolled in a U.S. university
• You will never be asked to pay or share financial information during interviews

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, used by partners to develop drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. It is an Equal Opportunity Employer.