Forward Deployed Software Engineer Internship - UK Government

Palantir Technologies
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4 weeks ago
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A WorldChanging Company

Palantir builds the worlds leading software for datadriven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving forecast supply chain disruptions locate missing children and more.

The Role

Forward Deployed Software Engineers (FDSEs) work directly with customers to quickly understand their greatest problems and design and implement solutions to use data against them. Our customers rely on Palantirs platforms for some of their most critical operations and projects often start with an open ended question like How do we evaluate wildfire risk and optimise a power grid as a result or How do we quickly assess our food supply chain and modify it to deliver life saving assistance on time As an FDSE youll apply your problem solving ability creativity and technical skills to help organisations use their data to drive a real impact in the world. Youll have the opportunity to gain rare insight into and contribute to some of the worlds most important industries and institutions.

Core Responsibilities

As an FDSE Intern your responsibilities look similar to those at a small startup with the resources stability and mentorship of an established tech company: Youll work in small teams with minimal supervision and own endtoend of high stakes projects. Your day might span discussing architecture with fellow engineers wrangling massivescale data coding a custom web app speaking with customer executives or establishing strategy for your team.

FDSE Interns are treated just like full time engineers with significant freedom and ownership over their work. Interns take responsibility for real world projects and outcomes that our customers rely on.
Our Principles
    • Impact: We address meaningful and exciting projects that change the world for the better.
    • Ownership: We see projects through from beginning to end working through any obstacles we may encounter. We trust each other to effectively handle time and priorities and give people the space to think for themselves.
    • Collaboration: We work internally with people from a variety of backgrounds such as other FDSEs product teams and Deployment Strategists. We also work externally with our customers often on site to understand and tackle their problems.
    • Growth: We believe experiential learning is one of the best teachers and encourage ourselves and our peers to seek new challenges and opportunities for growth as well as find new ways to innovate and share knowledge.
What We Value
    • Willingness and interest to travel as needed to client sites. Ability to travel 2550 preferred but requirements vary by team and location.
    • Ability to continuously learn work independently and make decisions with minimal direction.
    • Ability to collaborate in teams of technical and nontechnical individuals and comfortable working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
    • An eagerness to creatively solve technical problems with data structures storage systems cloud infrastructure frontend frameworks and other technical tools.
    • Interest in working with and using large scale data to solve valuable business problems.
What We Require
    • Security clearance or the ability to obtain a clearance.
    • Engineering background preferred in fields such as Computer Science Mathematics Software Engineering Physics and Data Science.
    • Proficiency with one or more programming languages such as Python Java C TypeScript/JavaScript or similar.
    • Must be planning on graduating in 2026. This should be your final internship before graduating.
To apply please submit the following:
    • An updated resume / CV please do so in PDF format.
    • Thoughtful responses to our application questions.
Offer Deadline

In an effort to build more transparency into our recruitment process wed like to share our offer deadline expectations. By applying to this position you commit to confirming your decision within two weeks of receiving your written offer.

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes thats why we celebrate individuals strengths skills and interests from your first interview to your longterm growth rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians lives is just one of the ways were investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantirs values and culture we believe employees are better together and inperson work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week) allowing our employees to strike the right tradeoff for their personal productivity. Based on business need there are a few roles that allow for Remote work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles you must work from the city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the worlds most important institutions you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring processpleasereach out and let us know how we can help.


Required Experience:

Intern


Key Skills
Spring,.NET,C/C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems
Employment Type :Intern
Experience:years
Vacancy:1

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