# Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Internship

**Company:** [Palantir](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/palantir)
**Location:** New York, NY, Chicago, IL
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** Python, Java, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, LLMs, Data Structures, Cloud Infrastructure, Front-End Frameworks
**Posted:** 2016-02-24

> Internship for Forward Deployed Software Engineers who embed with customers to build and deploy custom software, AI, and LLM solutions for mission-critical problems. Requires strong programming skills, preferred engineering degree, and graduation in late 2026/early 2027. Involves 25-50% travel and end-to-end project ownership.

## Job Description

## Core Responsibilities
- Solve mission-critical problems by deploying software and AI into high-stakes operations of leading institutions.
- Work in small, high-trust teams and own projects end-to-end, from initial customer conversations to shipping products that change operations.
- Collaborate with engineers on architecture and design decisions.
- Wrestle with data at scales that demand invention.
- Build custom applications, LLM workflows, and production solutions tailored to specific customer needs.
- Own relationships with stakeholders from end users to executives.

As an intern, you will have real ownership and autonomy from day one, without being shielded from customers or challenges.

## What We Value
- Drive to solve customer problems, including going where needed (expect 25-50% travel).
- Agency: learn continuously, make decisions with incomplete information.
- Embrace ambiguity in mixed technical/non-technical teams with shifting objectives.
- Intrinsic motivation to solve hard technical problems (data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks).
- Ruthless goal orientation: push past, rewrite, or discard product boundaries.

## What We Require
- Engineering degree preferred (Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, Data Science).
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
- Must be graduating in December 2026 or Spring 2027.

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