Senior Cleared Software Engineer (TS/SCI)
Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (Washington, D.C.)$220k - $280kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Senior software engineer role requiring active TS/SCI clearance, focused on AI-native features and government-scale systems, with hybrid work in New York, NY or Washington, DC.
Responsibilities
- Architect and ship full-stack features end-to-end, from scoping and technical design through build, iteration, and production
- Build and integrate against the Palantir stack: Foundry ontologies and pipelines, AIP agents, and Maven Smart System workflows
- Build inside classification and data-handling constraints rather than around them
- Lead the development of AI-powered product surfaces: intelligent intake flows, real-time constituent assistants, automated case routing, agency operator dashboards
- Set technical direction and raise the bar on code quality. Your decisions become the patterns the rest of the team builds on
- Engage directly with federal agency stakeholders to translate messy real-world requirements into clean, shippable product
- Own platform reliability and performance at government scale: real SLAs, real users, no abstraction layer between you and accountability
- Mentor earlier-career engineers through code review, pairing, and direct technical feedback
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex features and systems, not just executing on them
- Hands-on development experience with Palantir Foundry, AIP, or Maven Smart System. You have modeled against the ontology, shipped pipelines or AIP agents, and can say what the platform does well and where you had to work around it
- Deep fluency in React / Next.js and Node.js / TypeScript / Postgres. Fast, not just functional
- AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) are already baked into how you work. You've shipped with them, and you move measurably faster because of it
- You've built something real: a product, an open source project, a system you designed and stood behind
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity: you define the problem as often as you solve it, and you don't stall waiting for the answer to come to you
- A genuine orientation toward the end user, the person on the other side of the screen isn't an abstraction to you
Skills
Required:Full-stack developmentPalantir Foundry / AIP / Maven Smart SystemReact / Next.jsNode.js / TypeScript / PostgreSQLAI tooling (Cursor, Copilot, Claude)
Benefits
- Health & Insurance: 100% coverage across medical, dental, vision; life insurance; One Medical; fertility support; 401(k) with 2% match
- Family & Time Off: 16 weeks parental leave for birthing parents, 10 weeks for non-birthing, unlimited PTO with 2-week minimum, federal holidays off, company winter break, offsites
- Office & Remote Setup: home office stipend, commuter benefit, expensed meals and late-work transportation, company laptop
- Wellness: gym membership for NYC employees or fitness reimbursement for non-NYC
- Stipends: utility stipend, home cleaning, professional development, recreation, pet care
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Kaizen Labs
Modern, people-first software for America’s public services
Kaizen Labs helps city administrators transform resident experiences with simple digital products like websites, resident permitting, and recreation management.
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