The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
PCL Impact: We work on challenging problems at the intersection of technology: and ethics. We reject the idea that technology alone is the appropriate fit for every problem, especially socio-technical challenges, and we work to understand where our customers can better leverage technology to improve accountability, governance, privacy and related fundamental rights. We often take on projects that are completely novel and often resist simple framings, as long as we believe pursuing the work will change the world for the better.
Ownership: We see projects through from beginning to end, working through any: obstacles we may encounter, using an array of engineering tools that are best suited for the task at hand. We trust each other to effectively handle time and priorities and give people the space to think for themselves.
Collaboration: We work internally with people from a variety of backgrounds — such as forward-deployed engineers, deployment strategists, product teams, and lawyers. We also work externally with our customers, often on site, to understand and tackle their problems.
Interest in both understanding the impact of technology in society and working to address it
Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal direction
Ability to collaborate in teams of technical and non-technical individuals,: and comfortable working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users
What they're looking for
- An eagerness to creatively solve technical problems with data structures,: storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools
- Experience or curiosity in any of the following domains is a plus: privacy, data protection, AI governance, AI testing & evaluation, national security, technology policy, technology ethics
- Engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science,: Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Java,: C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar
