Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems

Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) builds the data and AI platforms that governments, defense organizations and the world's largest companies rely on for their most critical work. This customer-facing product team builds Command and Control (C2) and agentic autonomy software that lets users manage robotic and autonomous systems, combining sensors, unmanned vehicles, LLMs and real-time decision making.

Who can apply: US citizens or Green Card holders living in the US only. Please don't apply from outside the US.

What you'll do

• Design, build and optimize software for mission-critical autonomous systems.
• Develop algorithms that process data from many sensors for real-time state estimation and threat detection.
• Build LLM and AI-driven systems that assess threats and make fast decisions.
• Integrate with sensors, effectors and autonomous platforms.
• Engineer scalable, reliable and fail-safe systems for high-stakes environments.

Requirements

• 4–10 years of backend or service-layer software engineering, currently hands-on.
• Experience with Rust, Python, C++ or Java.
• US citizen or Green Card holder (no visa sponsorship).
• Hybrid, with travel to client sites.

Compensation: $145K – $275K base + RSUs. Hybrid in Seattle, New York, Washington DC or Palo Alto.