Edge AI Systems Engineer — Autonomous Defense

Recruiting From Scratch; San Francisco, Seattle (CA, WA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Environment

RSUs

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Job summary

Palantir Technologies in Seattle offers a Software Engineer role focused on Edge AI Systems, blending AI infrastructure, model optimization, edge deployment, and distributed systems. You’ll work with AI researchers, systems engineers, and defense customers on high-impact, production-grade AI platforms.

The role emphasizes building reliable edge AI with constrained resources, optimizing inference, and deploying across drones, sensors, and mission-critical hardware, with hybrid work and travel as

Qualifications

• 4--10 years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience building production AI or distributed systems
• Experience developing LLM applications or AI agent systems
• Experience deploying production software in high-reliability environments
• Experience contributing to large-scale system architecture
• Experience building software requiring performance optimization
• Experience operating production systems supporting mission-critical applications
• Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and customer teams

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade Edge AI systems for tactical defense applications
• Train, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs optimized for constrained edge hardware
• Develop autonomous multi-agent systems supporting mission-critical workflows
• Integrate AI agents with drones, sensors, effectors, robotics, and autonomous systems
• Optimize model inference across CPUs, GPUs, and specialized edge accelerators
• Benchmark, evaluate, and improve agent reliability, latency, and performance
• Build scalable AI infrastructure supporting production deployments
• Develop robust software capable of operating in disconnected and resource-constrained environments
• Implement reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for high-stakes deployments
• Collaborate closely with AI researchers, systems engineers, and defense customers
• Improve model runtime performance using modern optimization techniques
• Build production AI systems using PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, vLLM, and related frameworks
• Participate in customer deployments and operational testing
• Help shape the future architecture of Palantir's Edge AI platform

Skills

Python

Rust

C++

LLM apps

Distributed systems

Edge AI

Multi-agent architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

LangChain

vLLM

TVM

Ollama

TensorFlow Lite

Mojo

Job description

Palantir Technologies in Seattle offers a Software Engineer role focused on Edge AI Systems, blending AI infrastructure, model optimization, edge deployment, and distributed systems. You’ll work with AI researchers, systems engineers, and defense customers on high-impact, production-grade AI platforms.

The role emphasizes building reliable edge AI with constrained resources, optimizing inference, and deploying across drones, sensors, and mission-critical hardware, with hybrid work and travel as