Software Engineer, Internship - Sovereign AI Systems
Palantir · New York, NY
Posted November 5, 2026
AI Summary
Palantir is seeking a Software Engineer Intern for its Sovereign AI Infrastructure team in New York. The intern will own a project building production systems that make AI agents useful, reliable, and governable in high-stakes operational settings, such as agentic workflows, tool interfaces, permissions, evaluations, and observability. The role offers hands-on mentorship and direct work on systems that turn model outputs into real operational decisions.
Job Description
This is not a research-only internship. You’ll own a project with hands-on mentorship from experienced engineers, contributing to the systems that make production AI useful and trustworthy. That may mean working directly on agentic workflows, or on the layers they depend on: customer ontologies, context assembly, tool interfaces, agent identity or permissions, evaluations, and the core workflows that turn model outputs into real operational decisions.
We are looking for interns with strong coding fundamentals and experience with AI systems. You should be excited to learn quickly, communicate clearly, and build systems where correctness, reliability, and customer trust matter.
Core Responsibilities (may include)
- Build production software that improves how Palantir deploys, operates, evaluates, or monitors AI systems in customer-controlled environments.
- Contribute to infrastructure for agentic workflows, including tool use, context assembly, permissions, execution safety, observability, and debugging.
- Design and implement services, APIs, test harnesses, evaluation pipelines, or developer tools that make AI systems easier to operate.
- Work with engineers, product teams, and customer-facing teams to understand real operational problems and turn them into durable software.
- Debug issues across services, deployment systems, logs, configuration, permissions, and product behavior.
- Write clear, maintainable code and participate in code review with a high bar for quality.
- Communicate your design decisions, tradeoffs, and results clearly to teammates.
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