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# Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems C2 at Palantir Technologies

- **Company:** Palantir Technologies
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-01-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/0edf7365-49f0-4263-818a-19409ec4f430

## 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.

## The Role

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to join a newly-formed team focused on developing advanced Command and Control (C2) Software for Autonomous Systems for use in operational and tactical missions. This role involves building, integrating, and deploying state-of-the-art, full-stack solutions that combine sensors, effectors, UxVs, and intelligent decision-making systems to enable users to effectively execute and manage a variety of mission profiles that employ autonomous systems. You will work alongside other experts in sensing, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering to build and deliver solutions that redefine complex military and civilian mission scenarios in the real world.

Core Responsibilities

- Build, test, integrate, and deploy mission-critical full-stack software solutions for C2 of multi-modal autonomous systems
- Integrate full-stack Autonomy C2 solutions into Palantir platform and with AI and autonomy software solutions such sensor and data fusion services, agentic decision making engines, and robotic control systems
- "Make things work" on the in the cloud, on-prem, and in hybrid-cloud environments, including tackling challenges in deployment, integration, security, and user experience
- Partner with multidisciplinary teams, including experts in sensing and fusion, artificial intelligence, systems engineering, user experience, and hardware and robotics experts to deliver well integrated solutions

## What We Value

- Proven experience in software development of user-facing full-stack systems, ideally (but not required) experience with developing user interfaces for graphical, textual, and/or verbal AI and large generative models
- Knowledge of software deployment and CI, handling streaming/real time data, design and front-end development, are all helpful
- Ability to manage complexity, take initiative in problem solving, and think critically under pressure
- Experience deploying and maintaining robust production systems

## What We Require

- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of experience integrating and deploying software to edge or autonomous systems (e.g. drones, self-driving, on-prem/edge servers)
- Strong proficiency in JS/TS, Python, Rust, or Java
- Experience with front-end frameworks like REACT
- Strong integration skills and experience with software deployment, CI and automation tools, navigating APIs and documentation, networking, security and authentication, Linux/GNU
- Bachelor's/Master's (or significant relevant work experience) in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
- Ability to travel 25-75%, varies by location and team

## 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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