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Year at Palantir - Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Internship - Commercial

Palantir · Chicago, IL · Internship · Delta

Posted Jun 24, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Why do you want to spend a year working instead of continuing in school right now?

What they are checking: Whether they have a real reason and the drive to perform at a professional level.

Tell me about the hardest thing you have built. What made it hard?

What they are checking: Whether they have taken on real technical challenges and can explain them.

Tell me about a time you got critical feedback. What did you change?

What they are checking: Whether they can take feedback and improve, which matters in a merit-based setting.

Tell me about a time you worked with someone who was not technical to solve a problem.

What they are checking: Whether they can collaborate with customers and translate between worlds.

What would you do

How would you help a customer deploy an AI-powered tool that their staff actually trust and use?

What they are checking: Whether they think about adoption and human factors, not just the model.

You are held to the same standard as full-time engineers. How will you get up to speed fast?

What they are checking: Whether they have a plan for learning quickly and asking for help well.

A customer's data has errors that will make your analysis wrong. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they deal with data quality honestly and find practical fixes.

About the work

Given a list of orders and a list of inventory, write logic that flags which orders cannot be filled.

What they are checking: Whether they can write clean, correct code for practical problems.

How would you break down an open-ended problem like reducing wait times at a clinic?

What they are checking: Whether they can structure ambiguity into data questions and solutions.

Explain how a database index works and when you would add one.

What they are checking: Whether they have solid computer science fundamentals under the practical work, since performance problems show up fast with real data.

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The full job description

As published by Palantir.

A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. Palantir Year We've had surging demand from undergrads who want to get into the arena faster. You've told us you can't sit in lectures while the biggest story of our lifetime is written around you. It's clearer every day, it's being written faster than ever. If that's your spirit, you'll feel right at home here. Come join us for a year. Do real, critical work with the engineers and customers building the future. Many of our interns find they want to stay - perhaps you will too. The Role Build software and deliver customer outcomes. You'll work on real problems: helping customers deploy AI-powered solutions, building the software platforms of the future, and transforming how organizations operate. You'll be held to the same performance standards as any Palantir engineer, and your career progression will be based purely on merit and impact. Every incentive we have points toward putting our best people in the highest-leverage positions, as fast as possible. You’ll have the rare opportunity to gain deep insight into and directly influence some of the world’s most critical industries and institutions. By building on Palantir’s powerful platforms leveraging integrated cutting-edge AI, you’ll help organizations unlock the full potential of their data to make smarter, faster decisions.

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