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# Software Engineer, Internship - Sovereign AI Systems at Palantir Technologies

- **Company:** Palantir Technologies
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/40840cef-bbd7-4557-bb21-cbdcf4be616e

## 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

As a Software Engineer Intern on Sovereign AI Infrastructure, you will help build the systems that make AI agents useful, reliable, and governable in high-stakes operational environments.

This is not a research-only internship. You’ll own a project with hands-on mentorship from experienced engineers, contributing to the systems that make production AI useful and trustworthy. That may mean working directly on agentic workflows, or on the layers they depend on: customer ontologies, context assembly, tool interfaces, agent identity or permissions, evaluations, and the core workflows that turn model outputs into real operational decisions.

We are looking for interns with strong coding fundamentals and experience with AI systems. You should be excited to learn quickly, communicate clearly, and build systems where correctness, reliability, and customer trust matter.

Core Responsibilities (may include) Build production software that improves how Palantir deploys, operates, evaluates, or monitors AI systems in customer-controlled environments. Contribute to infrastructure for agentic workflows, including tool use, context assembly, permissions, execution safety, observability, and debugging. Design and implement  services, APIs, test harnesses, evaluation pipelines, or developer tools that make AI systems easier to operate. Work with engineers, product teams, and customer-facing teams to understand real operational problems and turn them into durable software. Debug issues across services, deployment systems, logs, configuration, permissions, and product behaviour. Write clear, maintainable code and participate in code review with a high bar for quality. Communicate your design decisions, tradeoffs, and results clearly to teammates.

## What We Value

- Strong coding fundamentals and the ability to learn new languages and systems quickly.
- Curiosity about how AI systems work in production, especially agentic systems that use tools, retrieve context, and interact with real workflows.
- Clear written and verbal communication.
- Grit & Ownership mindset: you care about getting the details right and seeing your work through.
- Ability to collaborate with people across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
- Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance, is beneficial but not required.

## What We Require

- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar technical field.
- Demonstrated interest in AI systems, agentic applications.
- Experience coding in programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Go, Rust, JavaScript, or similar.
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, systems programming, backend services, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work full-time for the duration of the internship.

To apply, please submit the following:

- An updated resume / CV - please do so in PDF format.
- Thoughtful responses to our application questions.

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.

Please note that you will never be asked to submit a payment or share financial information to participate in our interview process. If you suspect that you've been contacted by a scammer, we recommend you cease all communication with the individual and consider reporting them to the relevant authorities, such as the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

If you would like to understand more about how your personal data will be processed by Palantir, please see our Privacy Policy.

## 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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