Palantir is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to develop advanced autonomous systems for area defense in austere environments, integrating sensors, effectors, and AI to protect against threats like drone attacks.
Requirements
- Proven experience in software development for autonomous systems, embedded systems, sensors, drones, robotics, edge AI, or related fields.
- Knowledge of AI/ML, sensor processing, and edge/on-prem hardware and networking is highly desirable.
- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of experience integrating and deploying software to edge or autonomous systems (e.g. drones, self-driving, on-prem/edge servers)
- Strong proficiency in Python, Rust, C++, or Java
- Strong integration skills and experience with networking, Linux/GNU, CI/CD tools, scripting and automation tools, navigating APIs and documentation, edge and networking hardware
Responsibilities
- Build, test, integrate, and deploy mission-critical software and AI solutions for agent autonomy and navigation, sensor and data fusion, and area defense using modern technologies and methodologies.
- Integrate Palantir autonomy software with a range of sensors, effectors, and external autonomous platforms.
- "Make things work" on the edge, on-prem, and in hybrid-cloud environments, including tackling challenges in deployment, integration, networking, security, hardware, and user experience.
- Partner with multidisciplinary teams, including experts in sensing and fusion, artificial intelligence, systems engineering, user experience, and hardware and robotics experts to deliver well integrated solutions.
Other
- Ability to manage complexity, take initiative in problem solving, and think critically under pressure.
- Experience deploying and maintaining robust production systems.
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
- Ability to travel 25-75%, varies by location and team
- 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.
