Privacy and Civil Liberties Software Engineer Intern

Core Responsibilities

• Design and develop full-stack software products for privacy, data protection, AI governance, and accountability in Palantir’s software platforms.
• Build security and governance primitives, applications for auditors, user-facing workflows for AI governance, internal tools for data protection, or novel solutions.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical teammates (engineers, designers, lawyers, policy experts) to understand customer challenges.
• Engage with and help shape latest developments in law and policy.
• Own end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects in small teams with minimal supervision.
• Work as a software engineer on core platform products, as a forward-deployed engineer improving customer workflows, or as a policy researcher.

What We Value

• Interest in 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.
• Comfortable working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
• Eagerness to creatively solve technical problems with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Experience or curiosity in privacy, data protection, AI governance, AI testing & evaluation, national security, technology policy, or technology ethics (plus).

What We Require

• Engineering background, preferred in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or Data Science.
• Proficiency with one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
• Must be planning on graduating in 2027 (final internship before graduating).