Palantir
Forward Deployed Software Engineer - US Government
Laurel, MD
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$17,838 more — $152,838 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $152,838 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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Green-card follow-through: 100%
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About the role
- FDSEs solicit constant feedback on their work from both customers and colleagues, improving our products over time with rapid iteration cycles.
- FDSEs deploy ground breaking technical solutions to solve our customers' hardest problems.
- You work with customers around the globe, where you gain rare insight into the world's most important industries and institutions.
Responsibilities
- Trust: We trust each other to effectively manage time and priorities-we don't micromanage. We want to give people the space to think for themselves.
- Understanding of how technical decisions impact the user of what you're building.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals, and comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
Requirements
- Experience with logistics, materiel, sustainment, aviation, or readiness analysis is a plus.
- Strong coder with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
Nice to have
- Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics.
Skills
- Java and Groovy for our back-end applications and data integration tools.
- Typescript, React, Leaflet, and d3 for our web technologies.
- Palantir cloud infrastructure based on AWS EC2 and S3.
Compensation
- Salary The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000- $200,000/year.
Company info
- Collaboration: We work internally with people from a variety of backgrounds - such as other FDSEs, product teams, and Deployment Strategists. We also work externally with our customers, often on site, to understand and solve their problems.
- Forward Deployed Software Engineers (FDSEs) understand our customers' greatest pain points and design end-to-end solutions to address them.
- You will work to accommodate all aspects of an environment to drive real technical outcomes for our customers.
- You'll work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop.
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