Software Engineer - Frontline

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

As a Frontline Software Engineer at Palantir, you would begin your journey on a short-term assignment where you are embedded with customers. This unique experience lets you work directly with users, gaining firsthand insight into how our products are used and the challenges our customers face. Unlike traditional engineering roles, Frontline immerses you in complex, ambiguous problems, empowering you to deliver impactful solutions across some of the world’s most important industries and institutions.

Many of our most successful products have been built through direct engagement with customers, solutions born from real-world problems that not only address specific needs but can also be applied in broader contexts. By working closely with users, you’ll help create products with immediate impact and long-term value.

Frontliners operate much like a startup CTO, working in small teams to own the end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects. Your responsibilities will range from discussing architecture and coding custom web apps to strategizing with customer executives. Every day will be diverse and impactful. By witnessing how customers engage with Foundry and seeing these pain points firsthand, you’ll gain unique insights that feed directly back into our development process, helping to refine and enhance our products. Upon the completion of your assignment, you would join one of our Software Engineer teams within our Foundry org. 

Within Foundry, there is a broad spectrum of teams, each focused on tackling unique technical challenges and delivering impact across a range of domains. You might work on designing and building scalable systems that power data-driven workflows for organizations worldwide, collaborating closely with teammates to deliver robust APIs and high-performance infrastructure. On other teams, you could be developing the foundational building blocks that ensure our platform is secure, reliable, and performant, addressing challenges in distributed systems, data storage, and application security. You may also have the opportunity to architect and deliver end-to-end user experiences, crafting intuitive interfaces and workflows that empower thousands of users to solve complex, real-world problems. 

It doesn’t matter what languages you know when you join us; what matters is your ability to decompose complex problems into manageable, actionable components, write clean, effective code, and quickly learn new languages, technologies, frameworks, and paradigms. Our software is constantly evolving, so we need adaptable engineers who can evolve alongside it. Whether it's adapting to new technical environments or understanding and integrating into the customer's setup and needs, your adaptability is key. Alongside peers with diverse experiences such as startup founders, industry veterans, university TAs, and more, you'll enhance your skillset to apply the best technology to solve any given problem.