# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: Mountain View
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,000 - $200,000/year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join a newly-formed team focused on developing advanced autonomous systems for area defense. This role involves building state-of-the-art solutions combining sensors, effectors, and intelligent decision-making systems to protect civilian and military installations from a variety of threats, including drone attacks.

As a part of this team, you will contribute directly to the development of autonomous systems that integrate sensors (radar, cameras, RF, and other modalities) with real-time response actuation through effectors such as kinetic and non-kinetic systems or drone swarms. You will work alongside other experts in sensing, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering to shape solutions that redefine complex area defense scenarios.

### 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 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, including robotics experts, hardware engineers, and system integrators, 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.

- 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 (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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

- Strong proficiency in Rust, Python, 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

Salaries are competitive and based on experience. Total compensation includes restricted stock units, sign-on bonuses, and other incentives. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, commuter benefits, and paid time off.

## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- Python
- Java
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Sensor Processing
- Swarm Behaviors
- Embedded Systems
- Robotics

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