over 1 year ago
Tokyo, JapanEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to understand their most important problems and design data-driven solutions.
- Own end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects in small teams with minimal supervision.
- Discuss architecture with engineers, wrangle massive-scale data, and code custom web applications.
- Speak with customer executives and establish strategy for the team.
- Collaborate with other Forward Deployed Software Engineers, product teams, Deployment Strategists, and customers, often on-site.
- Learn and apply new technologies and languages to solve novel problems.
Requirements
- Fluent Japanese is required.
- Security clearance or the ability to obtain clearance is required.
- At least 1 year of relevant post-college work experience is required.
- A strong engineering background is preferred, particularly in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or Data Science.
- Strong programming ability in languages such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar is valued.
- Candidates should be analytical, comfortable with large-scale data and technical problem solving, collaborative with technical and non-technical teams, and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Willingness to travel to client sites as needed and ability to travel 25–75% is required, depending on location and team.
Benefits
- Employees are encouraged to work from Palantir offices, with some teams offering hybrid work one or two days per week.
- A limited number of roles may allow remote work on an exceptional basis, from the employing city or country.
- Health and well-being support and region-dependent employee offerings are available.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Palantir
Palantir builds data-integration and AI-driven analytics platforms used by governments and large enterprises to run operations and make decisions. Its core products, including Gotham and Foundry (with Apollo for deployment), are sold via software subscriptions and implementation services. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Miami, it is NYSE-listed and deployed across defense, intelligence, healthcare, and industrial sectors.