We need world-class engineers to develop our information exploration technologies. The problem space includes everything from exploring huge information sets to presenting complex information in an easily digestible form for end-users.

We are looking for talented and passionate software engineers who love to code and aren’t intimidated by challenging problems. We brew 5.0-style Java and know the open-source world inside out. We are designing algorithms to solve novel search problems across heterogeneous information. Our information exploration technology allows analysts to understand complex relationships. If you’re interested in working at a fast-moving, rapidly growing business-- we’re the company for you.

Candidates should meet the following requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD or dropped-out-of-PhD a plus)
• Previous job experience a plus, Java experience a big plus.
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems and a willingness to take on new product features.
• Background in distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, data visualization and/or developing enterprise software systems a plus.
• Interest in working on a rapidly changing, ever-evolving system.
• Software engineering positions are available on multiple teams.

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Palantir Technologies is expanding the Development organization! We are currently seeking a self-motivated candidate to fill an SDET position at our Palo Alto office. As a Software Developer in Test, you will be writing applications that test our mainline product, ensuring the quality of our product before it ships. This is a very high-value role within the Development organization and a great way to gain real programming experience in industry.

Ideal Candidates

• Nontraditional software developers (sysads, DBAs, release engineers, recent grads) wanting to break into application programming but lacking experience
• Scientists, engineers, and analysts wanting to make a strategic career move into the software industry

Responsibilities

• Develop automated frontend and backend test suites
• Brainstorm and implement complex testing scenarios
• Be a technical thought leader for the QA organization

Required Skills

• Programming experience. C++ or Java required; Perl or Python a plus
• Engineering or analytical training

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Palantir Technologies, Inc. is looking for Software QA Engineers who are energetic, highly motivated, and detail-oriented. This is an opportunity to join a fast growing start-up, building cutting edge products.

The individual must have a technical or analytical background. Your duties will include creating test cases, running test scripts, validating functionality, finding, filing and verifying defects, investigating issues, and working with developers to insure a successful, high quality release.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Review preliminary spec designs
• Design test cases using functional requirements
• Perform regression / verification testing
• File defects and verify fixed defects

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Finance or Mathematics background is a plus.
• B.S. in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent experience

Skills/Experience

• Ability to work in a fast moving environment with quick turn around objectives
• Must have excellent teamwork and independent decision making skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

We offer competitive salary and stock options, full medical, dental, and vision benefits, and an exciting, fast-paced work environment.

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We’re looking for an enterprise quality release engineer to help us with our growing number of internal and external products. Ideal candidates will have a BS in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline, and have a passion for building simple, reusable components for a diverse set of products.

Candidates should have:

• A BS in Computer Science, a similar engineering degree, or relevant industry experience.
• 2-3 years experience as a Release Engineer on an enterprise Java Product.
• Experience developing MSIs, InstallAnywhere projects and Apache Ant scripts. Ivy or Maven is a plus.
• Knowledge and familiarity with Java, unix, windows and mac os x.
• Detailed thoughts on project dependency management, distributed build systems, unit testing and integration

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Palantir is looking for self-motivated, world-class engineers to deploy its software to customers around the world. The Client Services Engineer is responsible for working with customers to gather requirements for deployment, advise the client on alternative hardware/software configurations and to deploy Palantir’s solutions into these environments. The Client Services Engineer is usually responsible for small to medium size deployments in both the planning and implementation phases of a deployment.

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent or two (2) years of relevant experience
• Two (2) years experience in systems analysis/engineering and an understanding of systems analysis techniques, concepts and methods.
• Experience deploying complex computer systems.
• Knowledge of available hardware, system software, I/O devices.
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems and a willingness to take on new projects.
• Interest in working for a fast-paced, ever-evolving startup.

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Are you someone that loves spending hours getting that last little bit of performance from a query? Do you like working on constantly evolving, massive datasets and pushing the limits of what.s possible? Does the thought of eliminating I/O hotspots give you a shudder of excitement?

We are looking for experienced, top-notch database administrators to assist with all aspects of our product, both internal and customer-facing. You will work with the engineering teams to optimize existing queries, consult on design for new functionality and advise on scale best practices. You will also work with the services team to deploy high performance databases to real-world production environments.

Responsibilities

• Work with the product development team to optimize application performance on a variety of database platforms
• Develop company-wide best practices for administration, performance tuning and hardware configurations
• Work with the services team to support real-world customers

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent or two (2) years of relevant experience
• Expert level understanding of Oracle 10g - IBM DB2 and PostgreSQL a plus
• Experience working with and optimizing large OLTP database installations
• Ability to work with both engineering teams and customers
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems and a willingness to take on new projects
• Interest in working for a fast-paced, ever-evolving startup
• Ability to hold a security clearance with the US Government
• Willingness to travel if needed, 25% max per month

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Palantir is looking for an experienced and self-directed/motivated web developer to join our team. The role will involve designing and developing both customer facing as well as internal websites. The range of projects requires strong background from the webserver to the presentation layer. A sample project might be a static customer landing page around a marketing campaign. A more complex project might be a full featured web application for managing customer contact lists.

The Palantir design aesthetic is something that should resonate with you. We value clean layouts, simple but striking color palettes, and standards-based implementations.

Requirements:

• Significant experience designing web interfaces that work across modern as well as legacy browsers
• A portfolio of work that spans web application development to web design
• Significant experience with a web framework - it could be TurboGears, Rails, Spring, or something you designed yourself

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Java, Struts or Spring, and Hibernate
• Basic comfort with Adobe Photoshop
• Experience with Flash and ActionScript 2.0/3.0
• Experience with Javascript frameworks like Prototype or Dojo

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Tired of skinning another video player or Facebook widget for a startup that's going to run out of cash in four months? Palantir is looking for an experienced and self-directed/motivated flash developer to join our design and development team. Our products are rich client Java applications for the intelligence and finance communities that you have to see to believe. We have an enormous queue of interesting projects for someone who can make interactive content sing.

The role will involve designing and developing both customer facing as well as internal content. The range of projects requires strong background, deep work ethic, and great attention to detail.

Requirements:

• Significant experience with ActionScript (3.0 strongly preferred)
• Proficiency with Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and JavaScript
• Highly organized
• Able to iterate rapidly
• Comfortable having lots of responsibility

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Palantir Government is looking for someone with extensive experience in the theory and practice of the Semantic Web and RDF. If you write SPARQL queries in your sleep and read W3C standards for recreation then this is the place for you. Palantir is a fast-paced, rapidly-growing Silicon Valley start-up working on some of the hardest and most interesting problem in semantic technology and link analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Advise on the design and application of ontologies and ontological structures
• Help in the development and maintenance of RDF interactions with our current data structures
• Work with our customers to understand their needs and develop Semantically enabled solutions

Requirements:

• Extensive education (preferably PhD level) in Semantic web technologies
• Detail-oriented and hands on
• Willingness to work with new technologies
• Ability to read and write code strongly preferred

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The qualified candidate will demonstrate the ability to perform day to day desktop support which includes installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair for IT supported software and hardware. Strong customer service skills and the ability to explain technical matter clearly and accurately is a must. The position works under general supervision, reporting to the IT Manager. Your work schedule may begin as early as 7:00 AM or end as late as 7:00 PM. Weekend and off-hour on call support may occasionally be required.

Responsibilities

• Resolve technical problems either in person or at times, over the phone
• Basic Networking and Connectivity troubleshooting
• Install, configure, and maintain Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OS X in a Windows Active directory network environment
• Maintain User focused portions of the IT Wiki

Required Skills

• You must have excellent interpersonal skills.
• Intimate knowledge of Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OS X
• Hands on experience with Ethernet and wireless networks - an understanding of IP networks including routing and sub netting (Basic TCP/IP).
• Hands on experience with basic wireless networking.
• Effective networking troubleshooting skills.
• Good PC hardware assembly skills.
• Able to follow instructions well.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (creating and maintaining documentation will be required).
• Creativity, Flexibility, Professionalism and a "can do" attitude is key.

Desired skills also include:

• Basic AD/Exchange Administration experience.
• Basic Red Hat Linux Experience.
• Previous startup experience (do you understand what it takes?)
• Comfortable working under deadlines.

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Do you have a strong technical background? Do you like to explain complex things in plain language and pictures to end users, talk technically to administrators, and speak geek to developers? We are looking for a user-focused Technical Writer who can address multiple types of users in a single-sourced documentation library produced by a small team of Palantir writers.

At Palantir, a Technical Writer is part writer, part engineer, and part product manager. You will help define various aspects of our software in close cooperation with the product team, and you will communicate best-practice product usage to users in clear, concise, consistent, and compelling language. In your spare minutes, you will help define a company Style Guide for Palantir information products.

Requirements

• Technical communication or BS degree (CS or symbolic systems major preferred) or equivalent experience
• Ability to communicate effectively with developers, project management, and users of all types using multiple media (help, manuals, videos, etc.)
• Come up to speed quickly to write about product concepts, the Palantir platform, and industry trends
• Working knowledge of word-processing software such as Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker, and Adobe RoboHelp; illustration software such as Microsoft Visio, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator; source-control software such as SVN
• Past product/project management experience is a plus; a self-motivated writer who achieves goals and meets deadlines with minimal oversight is a must

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For more information please check out our website at www.palantirtech.com

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You are very intelligent, articulate, and personable, but you still have an impressive technical background. You are just as dedicated and passionate as your friends, but you were reading business books when they were reading novels or project management books. You have overriding ambitions, and you don’t want to be pulled down by corporate bureaucracy.

We are looking for a wunderkind who is just as comfortable talking to the corner hot dog vendor as a former head of state.

Job Description

• Work with Business Development team to identify and target strategically interesting opportunities.
• Meet with prospective customers, gather product and integration requirements, and demonstrate the various aspects of the platform.
• Communicate with the product and business development teams and document all work.
• Construct demonstration scenarios and customer workflows.
• Identify partnership opportunities.
• Assist in defining marketing needs and assist in collateral creation.

Requirements

• BA/BS (MA/MS preferred) from top university in Economics, Engineering/CS, Sciences or Mathematics.
• Ability to write and understand code strongly preferred.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to travel at least 25% up to 75%.
• Extremely detail-oriented and hands on.

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“What is it that inspires you? Helping people? Articulating and solving complex problems? Working with brilliant people? The desire to be considered the best at what you do?” Palantir Technologies is an innovative startup in Palo Alto, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Our cutting-edge technology is being applied by many government and financial organizations to world-wide and meaningful problems.

We are seeking experienced, highly ambitious, professional Developer Support Engineers to help us grow the company. This is an opportunity to put your years of software support to an important use while working in an employee-centric environment that is challenging, active, fun, and dedicated to producing world-class software and world-class service.

Responsibilities:

• Provide outstanding technical support to customers and partners via the web, email and phone
• Troubleshoot complicated technical problems with assistance from Engineering and other groups, as needed
• Resolve all customer inquiries in a professional, pleasant, and timely manner
• Use sound judgment to escalate issues, as needed
• Lead and/or participate in customer status calls
• Identify and document all customer issues, feedback and enhancements requests in the Palantir ticket-tracking system
• Contribute to the Palantir Knowledge Base by documenting frequently asked questions, solutions and techniques
• Provide product feedback and help to drive product improvements by working closely with QA and Engineering
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives and other projects as needed
• Be knowledgeable and proficient on all Palantir products and services
• Work a flexible shift

Job Qualifications:

The successful candidate will possess a positive attitude with the desire to be a long-term member of our team as we continue to grow. Other qualifications include:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
• 4+ years industry experience in technical support, professional services, engineering or related function
• Experience with software development in Java/J2EE
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Experience in enterprise software support
• Solid understanding of Windows and Linux/Unix
• Working knowledge of Oracle, and SQL in general
• Exceptional English oral and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts in an understandable way
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Detail-oriented and highly organized with the ability to multi-task
• Ability to succeed in a team-based environment
• Strong customer service ethics and integrity
• A can-do attitude and a willingness to learn
• Demonstrated strong performance in prior positions

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Palantir Technologies, Inc. is looking for an experienced Backend QA Engineer / Support Engineer for a unique opportunity at a fast growing start-up that’s building cutting edge products.

The position is client-facing, and it will involve pushing deployments to clients, working with clients / IT to troubleshoot deployment issues, writing monitoring scripts for various subsystems, and working with developers to ensure a successful, high quality release. Short term responsibilities include creating test cases, writing and running test scripts, validating functionality, and finding / filing / verifying defects. This role will be ideal for QA Engineers who would like more client-facing experience or Support Engineers who would like would like to work closely with QA and Software Engineering teams.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Own the client-side deployment & monitoring process
• Investigate and resolve client-side issues, and implement quality control procedures
• Design test cases using functional requirements
• Perform regression / verification testing
• File defects and verify fixed defects
• Work closely with the software developers
• Evaluate and suggest improvements to the software development process

Required Skills/Experience:

• 2-3 years experience as a Support Engineer on an enterprise Java product
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, Perl, or Ruby)
• Strong working knowledge of Unix
• Experience with writing/reading/debugging Java

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Financial Services experience

Education:

• B.S. in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent experience

We offer:

• Competitive Salary and Stock Options
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Exciting and fast paced work environment

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We are looking for individuals who want to play a part in shaping the future of analysis.

Above all, you are passionate about the mission. You've spent late nights in the vault when others punched out at 1530. You've been forward, and you understand that improving the quality of intelligence analysis is not some abstract dream – it’s an absolute necessity. You are intelligent, personable, and comfortable with technology; and although you loathe the bureaucracy, you have a deeply held belief that a revolution in intelligence affairs is not only possible, it is imminent. Help us craft that revolution.

Job Description:

• Provide direct support to a range of operationally relevant clients in executing operations to develop intelligence against the highest priority threats to US national security
• Meet with prospective customers, gather product and integration requirements, and demonstrate various aspects of the platform

Requirements:

• TS/SCI clearance required
• Experience conducting intelligence analysis (civilian or military)
• BA/BS (MA/MS preferred) from top university in Economics, International Relations, Engineering/CS, Sciences or Mathematics.
• Knowledge of, and experience with, analytical tools, databases, and tradecraft
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with technical and not technical personnel
• Ability to travel at least 25% up to 75%

We offer:

• Competitive Salary and Stock Options
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Exciting and fast paced work environment

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Palantir Government is looking for a brilliant mind to help analyze our business operations. We need someone to take a step back, look at who we are interacting with, and what those interactions mean across the organization. We have a growing team getting things done at a lighting fast tempo. We need someone to be responsible for providing the actors with useful analysis of how past interactions have gone and what that means for our resources in the field.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the head of the Palantir BD team and team leads to provide insightful analysis of customers, partners, competitors, and analysts
• Work with Palantir’s product management teams to help improve the product
• Integrate closely with the Palantir BD team and accompany them on trips, trainings, and at conferences

Requirements:

• BS in Economics, Philosophy, Engineering, or an exceptionally strong analytical background
• A complete self-starter with exceedingly strong ambition
• Strong communications and presentation skills
• No fear of technical concepts

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Australian citizen? Bring Silicon Valley's most innovative technology and unique culture home. Shape new territory as Palantir continues to go global. Palantir Government needs your help to engage clients across Australia, predominantly in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.

Palantir is looking for a brilliant, technical mind to help deploy our Government platform in Australia. We need someone to take a step back, look at who we are interacting with, and what those interactions mean across the organization. Help to develop an Australian team who can get things done at a lighting fast tempo. Engage with the community to ensure Palantir is aiding their mission the fullest!

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, manage, and execute the deployment and integration of the Palantir platform from evaluation through to enterprise deployments
• Work closely with the Palantir Business Development team to provide insightful analysis of customers, partners, competitors, and analysts
• Work with Palantir's product management teams to continue to develop the product
• Integrate closely with the Palantir BD team and accompany them on trips, trainings, and at conferences

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree with demonstrated academic achievement in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, or an exceptionally strong technical background
• Extremely detail-oriented, with no fear of technical concepts
• A complete self-starter with exceedingly strong ambition
• Strong communications and project management skills
• Strong background in linux/unix, oracle, and experience coding preferred
• Ability to travel at least 25% up to 75%

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