Software Engineer, Internship, Defense Tech

The Role

Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations around the world use data. As a Defense Tech Software Engineer Intern, you’ll contribute high-quality code directly to Palantir's Gotham product. Palantir's defense product vertical builds mission-critical products for the modern warfighter, enabling them to securely integrate and visualize their data, perform rich analyses, and build sophisticated, full-fledged programs such as common operating pictures, alert-triaging inboxes, and resource allocation planning tools driven by rich-ML models. These programs are relied upon for daily operations in command centers and battlefronts of militaries across the world.

Core Responsibilities

As a Defense Tech Intern, you will be supporting work specifically focusing on delivering Palantir Defense capabilities to our most critical mission partners. You’ll be involved throughout the product lifecycle:

• Idea generation
• Design
• Prototyping
• Execution
• Shipping

You’ll be paired with a mentor dedicated to your growth and success and will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand our customers' problems and build products that tackle them.

SWE Principles

• Ownership: See projects through from beginning to end in spite of obstacles.
• Collaboration: Work internally with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Product Reliability Engineers. Partner with business development teams (Forward Deployed Engineers, Deployment Strategists) to understand and solve customer problems.
• Trust: Handle time and priorities effectively, with space to think independently while feeling supported.

Technologies We Use

It doesn’t matter what languages you know when you join, but it does matter that you can write clean, effective code and learn new languages quickly. Our software is constantly evolving, so we need engineers who can do the same.

Right now, we use:

• Varying languages, including Java and Go for backend and Typescript for frontend
• Open-source technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch, React, and Redux
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle and GitHub

What We Value

• Ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of individuals, including engineers, users, and non-technical team members.
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and the ability to ask questions when needed.

What We Require

• Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, and Physics.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance prior to start of internship.
• Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Must be planning on graduating in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating.

To Apply, Please Submit

• An updated resume / CV in PDF format.
• Thoughtful responses to our application questions.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $10,500/month. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.