Software Engineer - Applied AI, Defense Applications

The role

You will design and build AI agents that help defense and intelligence users investigate complex questions, analyze operational data, and produce actionable work. You will own features from early experimentation through production and work directly with users, designers and engineers.

What you will do

• Design and build AI agents for defense and intelligence users
• Improve agent experience through data-driven evals across memory, tools, skills, context management and fine-tuning
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve user workflows
• Build interfaces that let users direct agents, follow progress, inspect evidence, review proposed actions and refine results
• Own features from experimentation through production deployment
• Optimize applications for speed and scalability with high-scale, complex data

Required qualifications

• Experience coding in languages such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript or similar
• Strong software engineering skills and experience delivering production applications
• Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript
• Background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or a similar field
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance

Nice to have

• Strong product instincts and attention to detail in complex software
• Experience building applications with LLMs, including tool design, context management, agent workflows or evaluation
• Curiosity about emerging AI capabilities

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance, plus voluntary life insurance
• Basic life, AD&D and disability insurance covered automatically
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Flexible paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off at the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Leave of absence program, including military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care
• Fertility and family building benefits
• Stipend for expenses of a new child
• 401k plan

Before you apply

• Active US Security clearance or eligibility, and willingness to obtain one, is required
• Interview process will never ask you to submit payment or financial information

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, used by partners for purposes such as developing drugs, forecasting supply chain disruptions and locating missing children. It is an Equal Opportunity Employer.