Palantir
Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Internship - US Government
About this role
Palantir seeks a Forward Deployed Software Engineer Intern to work directly with government and enterprise customers on high-impact data solutions. You'll own end-to-end projects spanning data engineering, custom application development, and customer collaboration in a small team environment with full engineering responsibilities.
What you'll do
- Design and implement data-driven solutions addressing customer business challenges
- Develop custom applications and tools for government and enterprise clients
- Own complete project execution from architecture discussions to deployment
- Wrangle and process large-scale datasets to unlock insights
- Communicate technical concepts with customer stakeholders and executives
- Contribute to team strategy and technical decision-making
What they're looking for
- Software engineering and full-stack development
- Data engineering and large-scale data processing
- Problem-solving and systems thinking
- Customer-facing communication
- Web application development
- Architecture design
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Adaptability across diverse technical domains
Benefits
- Mentorship from experienced engineers at established tech company
- Treated as full-time engineer with significant autonomy
- Exposure to critical operations in major industries
- Work on projects with real-world impact
- Small team environment with meaningful ownership
- Located in Honolulu, HI
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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
- Can you describe a time when you had to understand a complex problem with limited initial information and how you approached breaking it down?
- Tell us about your experience working with large datasets or data-driven projects. What tools or technologies have you used?