# Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a customer-facing product engineering team focused on developing advanced Command and Control (C2) and Agentic Autonomy Software for Autonomous Systems.

The role involves building, integrating, and deploying state-of-the-art software solutions that combine sensors, actuators, unmanned vehicles, and intelligent decision-making systems.

As a part of this team, you will contribute directly to the development of cloud and edge software to command and control autonomous systems, including interfacing with onboard sensors and real-time kinetic and non-kinetic systems.

## Core Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and optimize software for mission-critical autonomous systems using modern technologies and methodologies

- Develop algorithms to process data from heterogeneous sensors for real-time state estimation and threat detection

- Build LLM and AI-driven systems capable of assessing threats and rapidly making decisions to deploy responses to those threats

- Develop integrations with a range of sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms

- Engineer scalable, reliable, and fail-safe systems capable of functioning in high-stakes environments

- Partner with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated solutions

## What We Value

- Proven experience in software development for autonomous systems, embedded systems, or robotics

- Knowledge of AI/ML, sensor processing, or swarm behaviors is highly desirable

- Knowledge of LLM toolchains and implementation of agents into complex real-time data workflows

- Ability to manage complexity, optimize for performance, and think critically under pressure

- Experience deploying and maintaining robust production systems

## What We Require

- 5+ years of professional software development experience

- 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture of new and existing systems

- 2+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- Strong proficiency in Rust, Python, C++, or Java

- Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields

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

## Additional Information

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $145,000 - $200,000/year.

## Benefits

- Employees can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance

- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir's basic life, AD&D and disability insurance

- Commuter benefits

- Relocation assistance

- Take what you need paid time off

- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year

- 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year

- Supportive leave of absence program

- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents

- Fertility and family building benefits

- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child

- Employees can enroll in Palantir's 401k plan

## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- Python
- C++
- Java
- AI/ML
- sensor processing
- swarm behaviors
- LLM toolchains

### Nice to have
- autonomous systems
- embedded systems
- robotics

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