Palantir
Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Edge Autonomous Systems
About this role
Palantir seeks a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to develop cutting-edge autonomous systems for military and commercial applications in challenging environments. You'll integrate sensors, actuators, and AI-driven decision-making to enable remote and autonomous control of individual and swarm systems.
What you'll do
- Build and integrate autonomous systems combining sensors, actuators, and intelligent decision-making capabilities
- Deploy solutions in austere environments for military and commercial edge computing applications
- Develop real-time response systems for path planning and kinetic/non-kinetic actuation
- Work with sensor data from IMUs, autopilots, cameras, radars, and RF systems
- Collaborate with AI, sensing, and systems engineering experts on complex real-world scenarios
- Contribute to swarm systems and remote control architectures
What they're looking for
- Software engineering and systems integration
- Real-time software development
- Autonomous systems architecture
- Sensor fusion and data integration
- Path planning algorithms
- Embedded systems programming
- Machine learning/AI implementation
- Systems engineering
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Palantir
Palantir builds data platforms and software solutions that help government and enterprise customers tackle complex operational challenges, with a focus on responsible AI governance and privacy. The company is hiring software engineers and interns for forward-deployed customer roles, infrastructure and platform teams, and specialized privacy and civil liberties engineering positions.
- Website
- palantir.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience integrating multiple sensor modalities (cameras, radar, IMU, etc.) into a single autonomous system. What challenges did you face?
- Tell us about a time you deployed software in an austere or resource-constrained environment. How did you handle limitations?