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title: 'Offensive Security Engineer at Palantir Technologies'
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# Offensive Security Engineer at Palantir Technologies

- **Company:** Palantir Technologies
- **Location:** Washington, DC
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/5614a901-ef96-4b9c-928d-4a9c338c8aad

## 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

Palantir's Offensive Security team probes our own products, infrastructure, and cloud environment the way a real attacker would. As an Offensive Security Engineer, you will test internal applications and infrastructure, chain findings into realistic attack paths, and work directly with the engineers responsible for the affected systems to get issues closed.

A growing part of the team’s work is also developing agentic offensive security tooling: LLM-driven systems that encode operator tradecraft and apply it continuously. You will help in the design of that tooling and prove it out on live assessments.

You will also help to coordinate third-party penetration testing engagements, scoping the work with specialized external firms, keeping assessments focused on the risks that matter, and turning their results into concrete remediation.

Core Responsibilities

- Conduct hybrid web application penetration tests that combine source code review with runtime exploitation across our products and internal tooling.
- Perform external network penetration tests against internet-facing infrastructure, identifying exposed services, misconfigurations, and paths to obtain an initial foothold.
- Perform internal network and Active Directory security assessments, identifying privilege escalation paths, lateral movement opportunities, and misconfigurations.
- Assess the security of cloud and containerized infrastructure, including identity, network, and workload configurations.
- Collaborate with detection engineering to validate telemetry and detection coverage against real-world attack techniques uncovered during engagements.
- Scope and manage third-party pentest engagements end-to-end, critically review results, and work cross-functionally to convert findings into prioritized, actionable remediation.
- Partner with engineering to reproduce, prioritize, and verify fixes for the issues that are surfaced.
- Design and build offensive security tooling and automation tailored to Palantir's stack.
- Author clear, actionable write-ups and readouts for technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating findings into business risk and prioritized action.

## What We Value

- Demonstrated strength in web application penetration testing, with the ability to move fluidly between source code review and runtime testing.
- Demonstrated strength in external and internal network penetration testing, from enumerating and exploiting internet-facing attack surface to establishing a foothold and expanding access once inside.
- Hands-on experience with standard offensive security tooling, including Burp Suite, BloodHound/SharpHound, Certipy, Impacket, Responder, Pacu/ScoutSuite, Nuclei, etc.
- A builder's instinct: comfortable writing code to automate testing, develop proof-of-concept exploits, or to fill gaps in existing tooling.
- Working knowledge of how modern software is built and shipped, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code, and an eye for how those systems become attack paths of their own.
- Working knowledge of cloud, container, and orchestration security principles, and an understanding of how common misconfigurations turn into real attack paths.
- Working knowledge of chaining identity and cloud attack paths end to end, from Kerberos abuse, delegation misconfigurations, and ADCS/SCCM exploitation in large multi-domain Active Directory forests through to IMDS abuse, IAM privilege escalation, and SSRF-driven pivots into cloud control planes.
- Offensive security certifications (e.g. OSCP, OSWE), or a track record in CTF competitions or bug bounty programs, are a plus but not required.

## What We Require

- 4+ years of professional experience in offensive security, penetration testing, red teaming, or a closely related field.
- Willingness and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance preferred.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g. Python, Go) sufficient to build and adapt your own testing tooling.
- Demonstrated experience assessing the security of cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized (Docker, Kubernetes) environments.
- Excellent organizational instincts, with the ability to keep multiple streams of work moving in parallel and to track each through to verified completion.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain a vulnerability, its impact, and its fix to the engineers who need to act on it.

## 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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