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# Deployment Strategist, Build to Apply - US Government at Palantir Technologies

- **Company:** Palantir Technologies
- **Location:** Fayetteville, NC
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/3f662628-2877-42fb-8866-a2b709de17ca

## Job description

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.

## What We're About

At its core, this role is about uncovering dots and — without knowing the shape they form — figuring out how to connect them. Our customers come to us with a hunch that the only way to protect their troops, manufacture high-quality products, structure effective healthcare policies, or deliver aid to refugees safely is to make better use of their data. Deployment Strategists are responsible for turning that hunch into reality.

If you believe in the transformational power of data and technology and in your own ability to bring that power to bear against complex problems, we want to meet you.

## What We Do

As a Deployment Strategist, you'll work as part of a driven and creative team of Engineers, Product Designers, and other Deployment Strategists to deploy software against the most challenging problems our world faces. Your mission is to synthesize disconnected streams of thought into a cohesive understanding of what the most important problem is, what the data means, what the product needs, what users are motivated by, and where the impact could be.

Deployment Strategists are self-starters who immerse themselves in our customers' most intricate workflows, partner with customer teams and explore the data, and dive into the product landscape to enable us to scale. A select number of Deployments Strategists may also be deployed to Palantir internal teams and projects. In this role, the problems you'll tackle will require a curious and analytical mindset, a sharp intuition for product, and a strong degree of user empathy to ultimately empower our customers to make better decisions.

No two days are the same, but as a Deployment Strategist you can expect to:

- Go onsite and meet with customer analysts to understand the critical questions they need to answer and locate their biggest pain points
- Identify relevant datasets through deep engagement with customer problems and workflows, and work with Forward Deployed Engineers to integrate the data into a stable and extensible pipeline
- Work with the customer to build bespoke workflows for new user groups
- Lead training sessions to ensure that the product is meeting user needs, and to ensure it is being used widely enough to have concrete impact on our partners' operations
- Present the results of our work and proposals for future work to audiences ranging from analysts to C-suite executives
- Embed with our Software Engineering and Product Design teams to incorporate what you saw in the field into cross-Palantir product offerings
- Build and deliver demos to new and existing customers
- Scope out potential engagements in new industries and in increasingly expanding locations around the world

## What We Value

- We value team members who aren’t satisfied with surface-level answers. We value the desire to dive into the details of the data because that’s the core of our work. And we value low ego because the outcome matters more than who gets the credit.
- Extraordinary ability to take on open-ended problems in unstructured environments
- Adaptive and introspective; willing to learn, teach, lead and follow
- Experience with programming, scripting or statistical packages (e.g. Python, R, Matlab, SQL) is a plus

## What We Require

- Ability to travel 25 – 75% required. Varies by location and team
- Active US Security Clearance at or above the Top Secret level

What is different between Build to Apply and our standard application process?

- You will create potential for expedited consideration by showcasing what you create upfront to the hiring team
- Gain experience with & access to our Foundry product and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP)

Now, let’s Build to Apply!

Objective

- Identify a Problem & Innovate with Data: This is your opportunity to identify a problem you care about and create a solution using our [Foundry](https://www.palantir.com/platforms/foundry/) & [AIP](https://www.palantir.com/platforms/aip/) products. This can be inspired by your professional work, academic projects, current events, a workflow or app you wish you had in life, or anything else you find to be impactful! You are encouraged to bring publicly available data, or create your own notional data, to enrich your project. LLMs, AI, and other technical tools are permitted and encouraged during the building of your project. Your workflow must leverage AIP capabilities in addition to the Foundry platform, and you will be assessed on your ability to integrate these capabilities into your demo.
- Submit a demo video: Showcase your project in a < 5 minute video demonstrating the components of your workflow. This is your chance to show off what you built and explain the how/why behind your solution. We’re looking to understand why you selected the problem, how you approached the use case leveraging our products, and the solution you developed.
- Submission Date: Please submit your application within 7-10 days of when you begin building.

Instructions

- Create a DevTier account with [AIP](https://signup.palantirfoundry.com/signup?signupPermitCode=BUILD_WITH_AIP&tracking-code=build.palantir.com) and use this for your project.
- Familiarize yourself with both Foundry & AIP by following the steps provided in account creation
- Looking for a crash-course in Foundry and AIP? Check out https://learn.palantir.com/
- Find overviews of both of our products hyperlinked: [Foundry](https://www.palantir.com/platforms/foundry/) & [AIP](https://www.palantir.com/platforms/aip/)
- Palantir partner [Ontologize](https://www.youtube.com/@ontologize/videos) provides additional resources and tutorials
- Record your AIP demo and create an unlisted Youtube video.
- Insert your AIP demo in Application Questions below when prompted

Additional Information and Guidance

Questions? Check out and post in our Developer Community: https://community.palantir.com/ Running into technical roadblocks? [Check out the Foundry and AIP docs](https://www.palantir.com/docs/). Looking for a crash-course in Foundry and AIP? Check out https://learn.palantir.com/ Want inspiration? [Check out how Foundry and AIP are used to solve problems across industries](https://aip.palantir.com/#all-solutions). Also see [Impact Studies](https://www.palantir.com/impact/). Want to see what the rest of the AIP community is building? Check out or contribute to our [AIP Community Registry](https://github.com/palantir/aip-community-registry) on Github. Generating notional data? Refer to [product documentation](https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/pipeline-builder/datasets-generated) to learn how to do this in Foundry. Want to know how we use your data? See our [DevTier privacy statement](https://www.palantir.com/privacy-and-security/)and our [Candidate privacy statement](https://www.palantir.com/privacy-and-security/candidate-privacy-notice/).

## About Palantir Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Palantir builds software platforms that empower organizations to integrate their data, decisions, and operations at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: PLTR)
- **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources (widely reported as Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and Stephen Cohen)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Data integration, artificial intelligence, defense & intelligence, commercial analytics
- **Target customers**: Government agencies (defense, intelligence, civil), large commercial enterprises, and regulated industries
- **Mission or purpose**: “Build foundational software for tomorrow” and design technology that helps institutions protect liberty while making human‑driven analysis of real‑world data possible [palantir.com/about]

## Products & Services
- **Palantir Gotham**: Platform for the intelligence and defense community, enabling counterterrorism investigations and operations.
- **Palantir Foundry**: Foundational data operations platform providing data management, logic authoring, ontology development, analytics, and workflow building.
- **Palantir Apollo**: Continuous delivery platform that orchestrates upgrades and manages the infrastructure hosting other Palantir platforms.
- **Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP)**: Generative AI platform with secure connectivity to third‑party LLMs, development toolchain for AI agents, AI‑enabled end‑user applications, and evaluation frameworks for governing AI workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: $100.6 B (as of the search date, approximate)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $4.5 B (latest fiscal year); IPO in 2020
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Public market investors; major U.S. and allied government agencies, commercial clients across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and logistics
- **Growth Signals**: 3,843 employees (+20.2% YoY, +998 people); operations in 12 countries; workforce distributed across 49 countries; continued expansion of AIP and commercial customer base

## Competitive Advantages
- **Engineer‑in‑the‑field model**: Palantir sends engineers directly to customers to deploy products, integrate data, and produce operational results in weeks, not years.
- **Privacy‑by‑design**: Built‑in privacy‑protective capabilities, governance tools, and a strong track record of working with advocacy groups on responsible data use.
- **Platform lock‑in**: Deep integration with customer data and workflows through Ontology and custom applications makes switching costs extremely high.
- **Long‑term government contracts**: Decades‑long relationships with U.S. and allied defense/intelligence agencies provide stable revenue and high barriers to entry.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI leadership**: Making AIP the standard for secure, governed generative AI deployment in regulated industries.
- **Commercial expansion**: Growing the commercial customer base beyond government, especially in supply chain, healthcare, and finance.
- **Continuous delivery**: Leveraging Apollo to ensure rapid, safe updates across all deployments, reducing maintenance overhead for customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission‑driven engineering environment where engineers work directly on the hardest problems for critical institutions. “We’re engineers, not academics.”
- **Autonomy and impact**: New hires are trusted with responsibility from day one and are paired with a mentor. “Palantir trusts our early talent engineers to make an impact from day one.”
- **Flexibility**: Take‑what‑you‑need time‑off policy; offices closed for two weeks in December; flexible working arrangements including remote work when appropriate.
- **Benefits**: Generous paid parental leave, fertility services, adoption assistance, equity programs, mental health support (virtual therapy, meditation), and robust healthcare coverage.
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Equal Employment Opportunity employer; publishes UK Gender Pay Gap Report; strives for “many pathways to success” beyond traditional career ladders. [palantir.com/careers/life-at-palantir]

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/palantir-technologies)
2. [Palantir About Page](https://www.palantir.com/about/)
3. [Palantir Careers – Life at Palantir](https://www.palantir.com/careers/life-at-palantir/)
4. [Palantir Careers – Open Positions](https://www.palantir.com/careers/open-positions/)
5. [SEC Form 10‑K / Annual Report (FY2025)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000132165526000021/fy2025palantirars.pdf)

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