engineering
Posted Jul 29, 2025Forward Deployed Software Engineer - US Government
at Palantir
San Diego, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- You’ll learn how to unpack a problem and understand the costs and consequences of its solution.
Benefits
- We help our customers detect insider trading, improve disaster relief, fight healthcare fraud, and more.
Additional details
- 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 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.
- As an FDSE, you leverage everything around you: Palantir products, open source technologies, and anything you and your team can build to drive real impact.
- You work with customers around the globe, where you gain rare insight into the world’s most important industries and institutions.
- 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.