American Tech Fellowship – Frontier

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.

There are no shortcuts to solving hard problems with AI. Those who have lived inside the problem long enough understand its shape — the constraints, the edge cases, the reasons every previous fix fell apart.

• The lawyer who can’t stop thinking about how to optimize the firm’s case management process.
• The nurse who has watched the same preventable mistake happen too many times.
• The mechanical or chemical engineer who understands the inefficiencies of the current system better than anyone on the floor.
• The recent grad who runs circles around their peers and has never once been handed a problem they couldn’t figure out.

ATF Frontier is an accelerated training program that teaches motivated, intellectually curious people to build on Palantir’s Foundry and AIP platforms. You don’t need to know how to code on day one. You do need the drive to learn fast, the discipline to show up, and the instinct to ask the right questions.

Over eight weeks, Fellows will learn:

• How to break down complex, real-world problems and architect solutions using Palantir’s AI and data analysis tools
• The fundamentals of building custom workflows and applications in Foundry and AIP
• How to communicate what you’ve built — and why it matters — to the people who need to use it
• How the best Forward Deployed teams at Palantir think about problems: from first diagnosis to full deployment

This program moves fast and doesn’t hold hands. That’s the point. The goal isn’t just to teach a skill set — it’s to find the people who thrive when they’re thrown in the deep end.

We’re looking for people whose ambition has quietly outgrown the room they’re in. ATF Frontier is built for:

• Career changers who’ve spent time inside an industry — healthcare, legal, finance, education, operations, engineering — watching decisions get delayed by fragmented systems, and are done waiting for someone else to fix it. Now they’re ready to add a builder’s toolkit to everything they already know.
• Engineers who’ve never written a line of software — the mechanical engineer who has spent years optimizing processes on paper and in CAD, the chemical engineer who knows every inefficiency in the plant but can’t yet build the tool to fix it, the industrial engineer who has mapped and re-mapped the same broken workflow and is ready to actually automate it
• Recent graduates from any field — philosophy, economics, history, engineering, biology, you name it — who think rigorously and learn aggressively

If you’ve spent years watching a problem go unsolved and you’re ready to be the one who fixes it — you’re who we built this for.

Show us how you think and what you’re made of. That could look like:

• A track record of solving messy, unstructured problems — whether that’s restructuring a team’s operations, building a tool to automate your own job, or writing the analysis that changed how your organization made decisions
• Communication that makes hard things simple: you’ve had to explain complex ideas to skeptical audiences and you know how to bring people along
• Evidence that you learn fast: a new language, a domain pivot, a project where you had to figure it out as you went
• Intellectual range — you’ve thought seriously about problems in more than one field, and it shows
• The ability to sit with ambiguity and move anyway

No specific degree or technical background is required. We’re looking for slope, not starting point.

• 2+ years of work or educational experience
• Genuine curiosity and a bias toward action
• Ability to commit to the full eight-week program: two weeknights per week, plus independent project work (10–15 hours/week total)
• Authorized to work in the United States of America

Program Details

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.