Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, Internship - US Government

Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. As a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer intern, you'll work alongside full-time FDIEs to deploy and operate Palantir software across real production environments, automate manual processes, and develop novel solutions to infrastructure challenges using tools like Foundry and Apollo.

Core Responsibilities

As an FDIE intern, your responsibilities will include:

• Deploying and operating Palantir software across production environments, including monitoring, alerting, configuration management, and upgrades
• Debugging, improving, and optimizing Palantir's services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability
• Reducing manual operations by automating workflows, processes, and runbooks wherever possible
• Developing novel solutions in Palantir's Foundry and Apollo platforms to solve infrastructure challenges

What We Value

• Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal direction
• Confidence troubleshooting complex systems issues using observability tools and service logs
• Comfort with large-scale production systems and technologies , such as load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management
• Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks, driving ongoing improvements within and across teams
• Eagerness to creatively solve technical problems using cloud infrastructure, storage systems, and other infrastructure tooling

What We Require

• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance prior to start of internship
• Engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science
• Strong proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Java, Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar
• Must be planning on graduating in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating