Embedded Systems Engineer Jobs in Palo Alto, CA

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.

The Role

This is a high-impact role that offers the opportunity to collaborate with stakeholders across all areas of the business, supporting critical legal-related workflows and outcomes. As an Embedded Legal Engineer, you'll be uniquely positioned at the intersection of engineering and legal, working directly within our Legal Team to transform high-touch, manual workflows into scalable, automated solutions. This is a mission-critical role that combines deep technical expertise with intimate understanding of end to end legal operations challenges, enabling you to build tooling that directly impacts all Palantirians across the globe. In this role you’ll have the unique opportunity to directly influence and scale internal legal operations for our customers (Palantirians), who are working alongside the world's most critical institutions. By building on Palantir’s powerful platforms, leveraging integrated cutting-edge AI, you’ll help Palantir unlock the full potential to make smarter, faster decisions.

Core Responsibilities

- Design and build custom applications, integrations, and workflows that eliminate manual processes
- Wrangling data and using AI to accelerate and enhance critical operations
- Shaping team strategy and driving projects from ideation to deployment to deliver real value
- Develop embedded relationships, building alongside user-groups and key stakeholders

What We Value

- Ability to collaborate in teams of technical and non-technical individuals, and comfortable working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users
- Strong communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Experience leading cross-functional projects to scale systems and processes from ideation to deployment
- Interest and curiosity in bringing technical solutions to the legal space

What We Require

- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar
- Hands-on experience leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance operations

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $100,000 - $145,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

Benefits

- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
- 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
- Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
- Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.

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