Job Description

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

As an immersive designer in the Mixed Reality group, you will work on high-caliber team of researchers, product managers, and cross-discipline engineers to create Palantir’s next-generation of end-user experiences. You are task driven, self-motivated, proactive, and work well under deadlines.

Core Responsibilities

• Be responsible for devising, designing, developing, implementing and maintaining intuitive spatial user experiences and performant immersive assets from creation to shipping.
• Help develop and lead the content pipeline from design, art, development, through deployment, including using state-of-art convolutional neural networks and computer vision functionality for complex user workflows.
• Optimize content performance through efficient asset creation, modeling and texturing standard processes.
• Partner closely with the engineering teams to define and develop content Unity, Unreal, and other graphic engines.
• Quickly solve issues with your multi-functional leads and thrive in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Partner actively with customers in the field as well as user researchers and engineers internally to develop applications that inspire confidence, delight our end-users, and ultimately result in products users want to rely on.
  

What We Require

• Experience creating modern mixed reality experiences (both virtual reality and augmented reality; working in a team with significant responsibilities for user experience design and visual development in a VFX or gaming context).
• Proven proficiency in a major 3D software such as Unity, Maya, 3DS Max, Z-Brush, and Substance Painter.
• Solid knowledge in skills such as modeling, texturing, lighting, animation, physics and particle systems.
• Experience in VFX and Gaming
• Proven ability for optimized real-time 3D modeling
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience shipping enterprise products built on Unity, Unreal or similar game engines.
• Must be a US citizen or eligible to work on ITAR or EAR controlled projects.
  

What We Value

• Experience with an organic modeling package/workflow such as Ziva, Zbrush, 3DCoat, Mudbox
• Strong technical competence and subject matter knowledge in the area of Defense Simulation, and Training
• Have a current or ability to obtain a security clearance.
  

Technologies We Use

• Unity
• Physics Engines (HAVOK and similar)
• C/C#/C++
• Python
• Java and Javascript
  

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 positing is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

Palantir is committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We believe that all Palantirians share the responsibility of upholding our commitment to these values and encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences to join us in solving the world’s hardest problems. Palantir does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Palantir is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. Please see the United States Department of Labor’s EEO poster , EEO poster supplement and Pay Transparency Notice for additional information.

Palantir is committed to making the job application process accessible to everyone. If you are living with a disability (visible or not visible) and need to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.