Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, Internship - US Government
Palantir Technologies · Washington
$10,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Washington
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An internship focused on deploying, operating, and maintaining infrastructure that supports production software environments. Day-to-day work spans debugging distributed systems, automating manual operational processes, managing configurations and monitoring, and building solutions within internal platforms. Suited to a final-year engineering student comfortable with large-scale production systems who can work independently with minimal oversight and holds or can obtain a US security clearance.
Junior level · National · Secret clearance · Internship
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (11)
This is an internship role explicitly targeting candidates graduating in 2028 (final internship before graduation), so seniority is set to Junior.
The job title carries no seniority level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified.
The clearance requirement states 'Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain' — this is a hard gate, but the minimum level is not specified beyond 'US Security clearance.' It is classified as Secret (the minimum common clearance) rather than Top Secret, as no higher level is stated.
No specific work location (city/metro) is mentioned in the posting; Palantir has multiple US offices. The role is listed as onsite/in-person preferred, not remote.
The SOC classification is a close call: the role involves both operating/deploying infrastructure (15-1244) and writing automation code (15-1252). The primary framing — deploy, operate, monitor, maintain production environments — leans toward 15-1244, but the automation and development emphasis is a genuine secondary signal for 15-1252.
Programming language proficiency (Python, Java, Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript) is listed under 'What We Require' as a hard gate; the alternatives field captures the named interchangeable options.
Palantir Foundry and Apollo are mentioned as tools interns will use, but they appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than a requirements section — treated as preferred/contextual.
Distributed systems, load balancing, monitoring, configuration management, and cloud infrastructure appear under 'What We Value' (a preferred/aspirational section), not under 'What We Require.'
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): configuration management.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Posting is for a internship engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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