Software Engineer Intern in New York, NY

The Role

As a Software Engineer Intern on Sovereign AI Infrastructure, you will help build the systems that make AI agents useful, reliable, and governable in high-stakes operational environments.

This is not a research-only internship. You will own a project with hands-on mentorship from experienced engineers. The work may involve agentic workflows directly, or the layers they depend on, such as customer ontologies, context assembly, tool interfaces, agent identity or permissions, evaluations, and the core workflows that turn model outputs into real operational decisions.

Core Responsibilities

• Build production software that improves how Palantir deploys, operates, evaluates, or monitors AI systems in customer-controlled environments.
• Contribute to infrastructure for agentic workflows, including tool use, context assembly, permissions, execution safety, observability, and debugging.
• Design and implement services, APIs, test harnesses, evaluation pipelines, or developer tools that make AI systems easier to operate.
• Work with engineers, product teams, and customer-facing teams to understand real operational problems and turn them into durable software.
• Debug issues across services, deployment systems, logs, configuration, permissions, and product behavior.
• Write clear, maintainable code and take part in code review with a high bar for quality.
• Communicate design decisions, tradeoffs, and results clearly to teammates.

What We Value

• Strong coding fundamentals and the ability to learn new languages and systems quickly.
• Curiosity about how AI systems work in production, especially agentic systems that use tools, retrieve context, and interact with real workflows.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• A grit and ownership mindset: you care about getting the details right and seeing your work through.
• Ability to collaborate with people across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
• An active US security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one, is beneficial but not required.

About Palantir

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, bringing the right data to the people who need it. Its platforms help partners develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

Palantir values employees working together in person, since in-person work supports more creative outcomes. Many teams offer hybrid options, and a few roles allow remote work on an exceptional basis. Onsite roles require working from an office.