Palantir Applied sciences has a market capitalization of greater than $200 billion. Based on its web site, the corporate has in depth protection contracts, constructing “AI-powered options” that “shield troopers on battlefields, manufacture high-quality merchandise, energy hospitals’ operations, and safely ship assist to refugees.”
However if you wish to work there, and apply for one of many dozens of software program engineer roles on its web site, a level from a elaborate college won’t ship you to the highest of the pack.
Palantir launched a “Meritocracy Fellowship” this week geared toward excessive schoolers or latest graduates who wish to “get the Palantir Diploma” and “skip the debt” and “indoctrination.” The position(s) will likely be earned “solely on benefit and tutorial excellence.”
On LinkedIn, the corporate wrote “chaos has ensued on college campuses,” and “admissions are primarily based on flawed standards.” The four-month (Fall 2025) fellowship is “in response to the shortcomings of college admissions” and pays $5,400 a month.
The job description says the position is in New York, New York, and the corporate “encourages workers to work from our places of work,” although its CEO reportedly typically works from a barn in New Hampshire.
“Opaque admissions requirements at many American universities have displaced meritocracy and excellence,” the job publish reads. “Because of this, certified college students are being denied an training primarily based on subjective and shallow standards. Absent meritocracy, campuses have change into breeding grounds for extremism and chaos.”
Those that land the fellowship (it is unclear what number of positions can be open) will work alongside a group fixing “technical issues that contribute to Palantir merchandise and buyer outcomes.”
Dropping at choose schools at the moment. pic.twitter.com/tz62o1A5ql
— Palantir (@PalantirTech) April 14, 2025
Candidates have to be highschool grads initially of the internship with an SAT rating of at the least 1460 or an ACT rating of at the least 33. Hopeful fellows can’t be enrolled in a college on the time of the fellowship, and expertise with programming, scripting, or statistical packages (eg. Python, R, Matlab, SQL) “is a plus,” in keeping with the job publish.
It is not the primary AI firm with protection contracts to launch a singular recruiting marketing campaign. Final month, a protection startup with billions in authorities contracts, Andruil, plastered cities wealthy in tech expertise in recruiting adverts that stated: “Do not Work at Andruil.”
