# Software Engineer - Applied AI, Defense Applications

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: D.C., Washington
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,000 - $200,000/year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Palantir's Defense Applied AI product team builds products that help the modern warfighter leverage AI for their most mission-critical work.

You will help own the entire end-to-end Agent experience in our products and work relentlessly to ensure they deliver value for our users, while maintaining a high bar for quality.

Your day-to-day workflow will vary, adapting to the requirements of our users and the technical challenges that arise.

## Core Responsibilities

- Design and build AI agents that help defense and intelligence users investigate complex questions, analyze operational data, develop plans, and produce actionable work

- Relentlessly focus on improving agent experience through data-driven evals across memory, tool and skill design, context management, fine-tuning, and more

- Actively improve user workflows by collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless experiences across product boundaries and a cohesive user experience

- Build intuitive interfaces that let users direct agents, follow their progress, inspect supporting evidence, review proposed actions, and refine the resulting work

- Own features from early experimentation through production deployment, working with users, designers, and engineers to turn specific mission needs into reliable, reusable product capabilities

- Optimizing applications for speed and scalability through performance analysis and with high-scale, complex data

## What We Value

- Strong product instincts and attention to the details that make complex software intuitive and useful

- Ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of individuals, including engineers, users and non-technical team members

- Experience building applications with LLMs, including tool design, context management, agent workflows, or evaluation

- Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, the ability to ask questions effectively, and the skills to iterate directly with users and own core outcomes

- Curiosity about emerging AI capabilities and sound judgment about where they can solve real user problems

## What We Require

- Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages

- Strong software engineering skills and experience delivering production applications

- Strong proficiency in React and Typescript

- Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field

- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality

- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance

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## Skills

### Required
- Java
- C++
- Python
- JavaScript
- React
- Typescript
- Computer Science
- Mathematics
- Software Engineering
- Physics

### Nice to have
- LLMs
- tool design
- context management
- agent workflows
- evaluation

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