Forward Deployed Software Engineer - US Government
Forward Deployed Software Engineers design and deploy end-to-end technical solutions for customer pain points, leveraging Palantir products and custom tech. Requires strong coding skills in Python/Java/TypeScript, US Top Secret clearance, and onsite collaboration.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Understand customers’ greatest pain points and design end-to-end solutions.
- Solicit constant feedback from customers and colleagues to improve products through rapid iteration.
- Deploy technical solutions to solve customers’ hardest problems, from high-level system design and prototyping to application development and data integration.
- Leverage Palantir products, open source technologies, and custom builds to drive impact.
- Work with customers globally on challenges like detecting insider trading, disaster relief, and healthcare fraud.
Requirements
- Strong engineering background, preferred in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
- Experience with logistics, materiel, sustainment, aviation, or readiness analysis is a plus.
- Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
- Understanding of how technical decisions impact users.
- Strong coder with proficiency in Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams in rapidly changing environments.
- Ability to learn continuously, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
- Active US Security Clearance at or above Top Secret level.
Technologies
- Core Palantir products and custom applications.
- Postgres, Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark.
- Java, Groovy.
- TypeScript, React, Leaflet, d3.
- Python.
- Palantir cloud infrastructure (AWS EC2, S3).
Skills
Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Postgres, Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, AWS
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