Forward Deployed Software Engineer, New Grad - Commercial

Palantir; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Palantir is seeking a New Grad Forward Deployed Engineer to take on impactful challenges directly embedded with customers. You'll collaborate closely with teams to develop innovative solutions, addressing problems in various sectors from hospitals to factories.

This role requires a commitment to real outcomes, where you will be entrusted with significant responsibility from day one, solving mission-critical issues through software and AI deployment.

Qualifications

• Ability to collaborate with engineers to make architecture and design decisions.
• Experience dealing with data at scale and developing innovative solutions.
• Skilled in building custom applications and working with LLM workflows.

Responsibilities

• Deploy software and AI to solve mission-critical problems.
• Work closely with customers, embedding in their environment.
• Own projects end-to-end across all stages, from ideation to implementation.

Skills

Technical expertise

Problem-solving skills

Creativity

Education

Recent graduate

Job description

The Forward Deployed Engineer, New Grad

Forward Deployed Engineering is a radical commitment to the outcome. This is Palantir’s operating ethos. We pioneered this unique position, embedding engineers directly with our customers to tackle their most pressing challenges head-on. As an FDE, you’ll be at the intersection of world-changing problems and impactful technology, shaping solutions where they matter most.

From hospital beds to factory floors, Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) embed themselves in the customer’s reality until the problem is theirs. This requires walking many miles in a customer’s shoes, building past the perimeter of what the product currently offers, and deviating from every pre-existing formula to solve the problem. Whether that problem is “How do we predict and mitigate wildfire risks across a power grid?” or “How can we analyze and adapt a global supply chain to deliver critical parts on time?” You’ll use your technical expertise, creativity, and problem-solving skills to drive real-world impact.

Core Responsibilities

To solve mission-critical problems by deploying software and AI into the high stakes operations of the world’s leading institutions. This requires a ruthless commitment to truth-seeking and prioritizing real outcomes. The work is difficult. The stakes are real. 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. You will embed with the customer, the chaos, and the consequences, and will be entrusted with real ownership to:

• Collaborate with engineers to make architecture and design decisions
• Wrestle with data at a scale that breaks assumptions and demands invention
• Build custom applications, LLM workflows, and production solutions engineered for a specific customer's reality
• Own relationships with stakeholders from the users in the weeds to the executives making the calls

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.