# Software Engineer - Defense Applications
**Company:** [Palantir](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/palantir)
**Location:** Washington, DC
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** React, JavaScript, Maplibre, Three.Js, Redux, Conjure, Osdk, Foundry, Aip
**Posted:** 2026-01-26
> Front-end engineer building defense applications using Palantir's Foundry and AIP platforms with React, JavaScript, and geospatial tools. Requires 2+ years experience, strong coding skills, bachelor's degree, and US security clearance eligibility.
## Job Description
## Core Responsibilities

- Own user-facing feature additions or enhancements
- Hands-on with customers and forward-deployed engineers to design rapid-value solutions
- Transition from mentee to mentor, building expertise in applications and features
- Form strong convictions quickly but hold them weakly, ready to revise with new data

## What We Value

- **Autodidacticism**: Constantly learning and reinventing
- **Collaboration**: Small teams pooling strengths
- **Creativity and problem solving**: Given objectives, not blueprints
- **Dependability**: Own outcomes and communicate proactively

## What We Require

- 2+ years of frontend software engineering experience
- Strong frontend coding skills: proficiency in JavaScript and web technologies
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
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