# Forward Deployed Software Engineer - US Government

**Company:** [Palantir](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/palantir)
**Location:** Honolulu, HI
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Skills:** Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Postgres, Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, AWS
**Posted:** 2022-04-07

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**).

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