Hiring: Software Engineer, Cleared (TS/SCI) Company: Kaizen Location: Washington, DC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 20:46:54 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Design System, ECS, Fargate, Foundry, GitHub Actions, Maven, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, REST, React, TypeScript, Vercel About the job Experience: •3+ years of professional engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex features and systems, not just executing on them Required Skills: •This is a hybrid role based out of our New York or DC. Candidates must reside in New York or DC or be able to commute to New York City or DC to work out of our office at least three times a week (Tuesdays - Thursdays). •Architect and ship full-stack features end-to-end, from scoping and technical design through build, iteration, and production •Build and integrate against the Palantir stack: Foundry ontologies and pipelines, AIP agents, and Maven Smart System workflows •Build inside classification and data-handling constraints rather than around them •Lead the development of AI-powered product surfaces: intelligent intake flows, real-time constituent assistants, automated case routing, agency operator dashboards •Set technical direction and raise the bar on code quality. Your decisions become the patterns the rest of the team builds on •Engage directly with federal agency stakeholders to translate messy real-world requirements into clean, shippable product •Own platform reliability and performance at government scale: real SLAs, real users, no abstraction layer between you and accountability Qualifications: •Hands-on development experience with Palantir Foundry, AIP, or Maven Smart System. You have modeled against the ontology, shipped pipelines or AIP agents, and can say what the platform does well and where you had to work around it •Deep fluency in React / Next.js and Node.js / TypeScript / Postgres. Fast, not just functional •AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) are already baked into how you work. You've shipped with them, and you move measurably faster because of it •You've built something real: a product, an open source project, a system you designed and stood behind •Proven ability to operate in ambiguity: you define the problem as often as you solve it, and you don't stall waiting for the answer to come to you •A genuine orientation toward the end user, the person on the other side of the screen isn't an abstraction to you •Have shipped software inside a classified or otherwise accredited environment, and know where the real friction lives •Have been a Forward Deployed Engineer, or worked a program where Palantir was prime and you were the one making the integration actually work •Have touched federal, state, or local government tech, or have built in other regulated, high-stakes environments where the constraints were real •Have cloud deployment depth: AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, ECS/Fargate Compensation: •$180,000 - $250,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!