Hybrid Forward Deployed Software Engineer

at Palantir Technologies

• Job title: Forward Deployed Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $135,000 - $200,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Fayetteville, United States

About the role

• Forward Deployed Software Engineer solving complex problems for global clients with Palantir’s software. Driving impactful solutions involving high-level design, prototyping, and data integration.

Responsibilities

• Forward Deployed Software Engineers (FDSEs) understand our customers’ greatest pain points and design end-to-end solutions to address them.
• FDSEs solicit constant feedback on their work from both customers and colleagues, improving our products over time with rapid iteration cycles.
• FDSEs deploy ground breaking technical solutions to solve our customers’ hardest problems.
• Projects often start with a nebulous question like “Why are we losing customers?” or “How can we more effectively identify instances of money laundering?”
• FDSEs lead the way in developing a solution, from high-level system design and prototyping to application development and data integration.
• You work with customers around the globe, where you gain rare insight into the world’s most important industries and institutions.
• We help our customers detect insider trading, improve disaster relief, fight healthcare fraud, and more.
• Each mission presents different challenges, from the regulatory environment to the nature of the data to the user population. You will work to accommodate all aspects of an environment to drive real technical outcomes for our customers.
• Whether you aspire to be an entrepreneur or an engineering leader, we believe Palantir is the best place — with the best colleagues — to learn how. You’ll learn how to unpack a problem and understand the costs and consequences of its solution.
• You’ll learn new technologies and languages, and even develop them yourself. You’ll work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop.

Requirements

• Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.
• You must be located in North Carolina and willing to travel to the Liberty ecosystem and Research Triangle, due to the nature and business needs of this role.

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 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 but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan