Forward Deployed Software Engineer, New Grad - Commercial

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

Forward Deployed Engineering is a radical commitment to the outcome. This is Palantir’s operating ethos. We represent a departure from the traditional software delivery paradigm, which hinges on selling prepackaged solutions and doing what is minimally viable to accrue revenue.

From hospital to factory floors, Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) embed themselves in the customer’s reality fully, until the problem is theirs. This requires walking many miles in a customer’s shoes, having the agency to build past the perimeter of what a product currently offers, and deviating from every existing formula to win. It requires delivering real outcomes.

You are allowed expected to use your agency. You are allowed expected to respect the problem. You are allowed expected to run towards the fire.

To turn AI into meaningful value for an enterprise, to deliver tangible outcomes, and to ruthlessly seek out the ground truth and build opinionated solutions.

As a New Grad, you will be entrusted with responsibility on day 1. You will not be handed a ticket queue. You will not be shielded from the customer, the chaos, or the consequences. FDEs are entrusted with real ownership, operating with real autonomy, and held to a real standard, no matter their tenure.

The work is difficult. The stakes are not simulated. You will work in small, high-trust teams and own projects end-to-end, from the first conversation with a customer to shipping the product that changes how they operate.

• Sitting alongside engineers to make architecture and design decisions
• Wrestling with data at a scale that breaks assumptions and demands invention
• Building custom applications, LLM workflows, and production solutions engineered for a specific customer's reality, not a generic use case
• Owning relationships with stakeholders from the users in the weeds to the executives making the calls

• Travels when the work requires it; client sites are where the real problems live. Expect 25–50% travel, depending on team and location.
• Wants to iterate and deploy production solutions with Gen AI that have consequence and enable true enterprise growth.
• Learns continuously, makes decisions with incomplete information, and doesn't wait to be told what to do next.
• Operates effectively in teams that mix technical and non-technical people, in environments where the objectives shift and the users push back.
• Solves hard technical problems—data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks—because that is what closing the gap requires.
• Is drawn to large-scale data not as an abstraction, but as the actual lever for solving problems that matter.

• Engineering degree, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.
• Proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Java, C++, Type Script/JavaScript, or similar.
• Must be graduating in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027.

The estimated salary range for this position is $135,000 - $145,000 per year. Total compensation may also include Restricted Stock units, sign‑on bonus, and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign‑on bonus; the value of any benefits offered;

and the potential future value of any long‑term incentives.

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life 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, not accrual based.
• 2 weeks paid time off built into…