Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems
Palantir· Dev
New York, NY$145k - $200kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior Software Engineer to join a customer-facing product engineering team focused on developing advanced Command and Control (C2) and Agentic Autonomy Software for Autonomous Systems for use in operational and tactical missions. Work includes building, integrating, and deploying software that combines sensors, actuators, unmanned vehicles, and intelligent decision-making systems with LLMs to manage robotic and autonomous systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize software for mission-critical autonomous systems using modern technologies and methodologies
- Develop algorithms to process data from heterogeneous sensors for real-time state estimation and threat detection
- Build LLM and AI-driven systems capable of assessing threats and rapidly making decisions to deploy responses to those threats
- Develop integrations with a range of sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms
- Engineer scalable, reliable, and fail-safe systems capable of functioning in high-stakes environments
- Partner with multidisciplinary teams, including robotics experts, hardware engineers, and system integrators, to deliver integrated solutions
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- 2+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Strong proficiency in Rust, Python, C++, or Java
- Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
Skills
Required:Software development for autonomous systems
Nice to have:AI/ML and sensor processingLLM toolchains and agents
Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
- 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
- Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
- Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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