Privacy and Civil Liberties Software Engineer, New Grad
Company: Palantir Technologies
Location: Washington
Posted on: June 25, 2022
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Job Description:
A World-Changing Company
At Palantir, we're driven to solve the world's most critical and
challenging problems, and believe that building software to enable
human decision making is the most effective vector. We partner with
the most important institutions in the world to transform how they
use data and technology. Our software has been used to stop
terrorist attacks, discover new medicines, gain an edge in global
financial markets, and more.
The Role
The Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCL) team is a mission-driven
interdisciplinary team of Software Engineers, Product Designers,
Lawyers, and Applied Ethicists. The goal of the PCL team is to
design, build, and deploy privacy and civil liberties protective
technologies, and to foster a culture of responsibility around
their development and use. Our team successfully manages multiple
internal and external commitments simultaneously while navigating
complex and nuanced political environments with care. We have deep
expertise in privacy law and technology ethics, and are able to
translate legal and ethical requirements into practical technical
products.
As a Software Engineer on the Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCL)
team, you will join a team responsible for designing and building
world-leading software that enables Palantir and its customers to
meet legal requirements and ethical obligations while achieving
mission-critical outcomes. We manage our own suite of privacy
enhancing technologies as well as collaborate closely with product
teams to ensure privacy considerations are integrated at all levels
of Palantir platforms. We also engage externally with customers and
academia to ensure we remain engaged in solving cutting edge
privacy issues. In this role, you will need to understand and stay
up to date on rapidly changing socio-technical environments, and
developing actionable technical solutions. What We Value Strong
engineering background, preferably in fields such as Computer
Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or Data
Science.
Ability to design, implement, and scale intuitive privacy-enhancing
products for diverse user groups.
Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, front-end
frameworks, and/or other technical tools
Proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python,
Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
Ability to collaborate and empathize with a variety of individuals.
You can iterate with users and non-technical stakeholders and
understand how your technical decisions impact them
Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make
decisions with minimal supervision.
Experience in any of the following domains a plus: security,
machine learning techniques, machine learning driven applications,
machine learning infrastructure and/or internet of things
Active US Security clearance or ability and willingness to obtain a
US Security clearance is a plus.
Palantir is committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity,
and inclusion and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity
and Affirmative Action employer. We believe that all Palantirians
share the responsibility of upholding our commitment to these
values and encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds,
perspectives, and lived experiences to join us in solving the
world's hardest problems. Palantir does not discriminate based upon
race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including
pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual
orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a
protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or
other applicable legally protected characteristics. Palantir is
committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations
to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Please see the
United States Department of Labor's EEO poster and EEO poster
supplement for additional information.
Palantir is committed to making the job application process
accessible to everyone. If you are living with a disability
(visible or not visible) and need to request a reasonable
accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process,
please reach out and let us know how we can help.
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