Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, New Grad - UK Government

Palantir; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Palantir is seeking a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer to build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable services for Palantir platforms and deployments. You will automate processes and leverage AI/LLM tools to solve evolving challenges, while delivering production-ready solutions.

In this role, you will design and improve systems in collaboration with forward deployed teams and product teams, sharing accountability for diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues as

Qualifications

• Experience building, operating, and maintaining scalable services.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve production issues.

Responsibilities

• Develop software and provide high-quality support for critical Palantir software systems.
• Collaborate with forward deployed teams and product teams to design scalable systems and share responsibility for production issues.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Systems design

Production support

Automation

Job description

A World-Changing Company

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.

The Role

We're looking for Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineers who can help us build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for Palantir platforms, products, and deployments. You'll get to use your creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges and automate processes wherever possible, using whichever tools are best for the job including industry-leading LLM and AI technology!

As a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, every day is different! You will be developing software and providing high-quality support for software systems that are critical to solving our government's greatest challenges. We strongly believe in engineering teams being responsible for the operations of their services in production. As such, you'll work closely with forward deployed teams and product teams to participate in sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues.

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that's why we celebrate individuals' strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantir's lives is just one of the ways we're investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir's values and culture, we believe employees are "better together" and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for "Remote" work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.