Tactical Edge AI Engineer - Field Deployable LLMs

Big Wave Digital; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Job summary

Palantir is hiring a Forward Deployed Software Engineer for tactical-edge AI, bringing advanced AI directly to the edge. You will build and deploy LLM agents on constrained hardware, interfacing with sensors, drones and autonomous systems, in high-stakes environments.

This role emphasizes edge AI, LLMs, embedded deployment, and direct customer interaction, with travel up to 25%. The team collaborates closely with defence customers and harnesses cutting-edge technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics or another quantitative discipline
• Hands-on experience developing, training and fine-tuning AI models
• Experience deploying AI on embedded, edge or compute-constrained hardware
• Strong proficiency in Python, C++ and/or Rust

Responsibilities

• Train and fine-tune LLMs for tactical-edge applications
• Develop agentic and multi-agent systems for complex mission scenarios
• Optimize models for GPUs, CPUs and specialised hardware accelerators
• Connect AI agents with sensors, effectors, radars and autonomous systems
• Benchmark model capability, latency, reliability and resource consumption
• Build scalable, secure and fail-safe production systems
• Work directly with customers to deploy and improve systems in real-world environments
• Travel up to 25% to support field deployment and customer missions

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

LLMs / AI

LangChain

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

vLLM

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics

Tools

Ollama

Mojo

TVM

TensorFlow Lite

LangChain

Job description

Palantir is hiring a Forward Deployed Software Engineer for tactical-edge AI, bringing advanced AI directly to the edge. You will build and deploy LLM agents on constrained hardware, interfacing with sensors, drones and autonomous systems, in high-stakes environments.

This role emphasizes edge AI, LLMs, embedded deployment, and direct customer interaction, with travel up to 25%. The team collaborates closely with defence customers and harnesses cutting-edge technologies.