Privacy & Civil Liberties Engineer - New Grad

Palantir; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Palantir is looking for a PCL Engineer to design and develop full-stack software products focused on privacy, data protection, and AI governance. You will collaborate with diverse teams to address the operational challenges of customers while upholding ethical standards.

Your role will involve building security primitives and applications that empower users to meet their legal obligations effectively. Candidates are expected to be curious and driven, with an ability to engage in complex problem-solving within a socio-technical context.

Qualifications

• Curiosity, grit, and a drive to tackle complex socio-technical problems.
• Passion for addressing real-world challenges.
• Ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teammates.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop full-stack software products for privacy, data protection, and AI governance.
• Build security and governance primitives or user-facing workflows.
• Collaborate to understand customers' key challenges.

Job description

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

The Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering team is an interdisciplinary team of software engineers, forward‑deployed engineers, designers, lawyers, and policy experts. The first of its kind in the tech industry, Palantir’s PCL team was formed 15+ years ago as a rejection of the prevailing view that privacy protections must be sacrificed to national security interest. Today, the mission of the PCL team goes far beyond civil liberties protections, and our work challenges other false tradeoffs between operational effectiveness and the defining values of our society: Effective military operations should not be at odds with protecting civilians and upholding the Law of Armed Conflict. Deploying AI with scale and speed should never compromise safety, reliability, and governance. The PCL team builds software and forward deploys to ensure that our customers can pursue their hardest operational challenges while keeping ethical imperatives in plain sight.

As a PCL Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing full‑stack software products for privacy, data protection, AI governance, and accountability in Palantir’s software platforms. You may build security and governance primitives in our platform, applications for auditors, user‑facing workflows for AI governance, internal tools for data protection, or something new all‑together to help our customers address their next set of challenges. In every case, the software that you build will directly help our customers both carry out their missions more effectively and better meet their legal and ethical obligations. As part of this role, your efforts will be informed by collaborations with technical and non‑technical teammates to understand our customers’ key challenges. Your technical approaches will entail engaging with and even helping to shape the latest developments in law and policy.

The skills and background of successful candidates may vary highly, but curiosity, grit, and a drive to run toward hard socio‑technical problems are critical for our team. We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about addressing real‑world challenges and empowering our customers to carry out their workflows both effectively and responsibly.