About the role

Vannevar is building the future of nation security enablement with agentic AI. Our platform is responsible for tightening the loop from observation to action - providing the warfighter with cutting-edge analysis tools to make better decisions, faster.

We are searching for an experienced product engineer who has previously helped shape agentic AI technology. You will collaborate closely with mission owners in the defense and national security space to build 1) lasting products for which users are enabled by AI and 2) the workflows within these systems to drive mission outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and ship a cutting-edge agent-powered mission console using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, and Python.
• Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and other engineers to understand user workflows and create 10x better solutions for their problems leveraging agents.
• Help define and shape the surface for which users are enabled by AI and agents at Vannevar.
• Implement and maintain robust agentic workflows to enable missions at scale.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Python, and AWS
• Experience building agents using any framework (LangGraph, Agno, Pydantic AI, etc.)
• Prior experience working in a user-facing product role
• Active Security clearance or ability to obtain one and desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues
• Prior experience developing AI-native products

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $170,000 - $225,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

Our Mission teams operate like small startups within the Vannevar Labs umbrella. As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will serve as the technical owner for a mission and its associated customer engagements. You will work directly with operators, analysts, and technical stakeholders supporting national security missions, owning the architecture, development, deployment, and fielding of software solutions tailored to real-world operational needs.

In this role, you will act as a senior technical counterpart to customer stakeholders — translating mission requirements into scalable software, navigating government technical environments, and ensuring capabilities are delivered reliably into production. You will collaborate closely with product, design, platform engineering, and mission teammates to deliver high-impact outcomes, while remaining a hands-on individual contributor.

What you'll do

• Architect, build, and own software solutions deployed directly to customer environments in support of mission-critical use cases
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, engaging with senior technical leaders to understand mission needs and represent Vannevar’s technical approach
• Own end-to-end technical delivery for your mission workstreams, from requirements gathering and system design through implementation, deployment, and sustainment
• Contribute hands-on code to improve product capabilities, performance, and scalability across customer use cases
• Build software that enables users to unlock value from large-scale data holdings, including text, multimedia, and geospatial datasets spanning over 46 languages
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners — including engineers, product designers, and mission domain experts — to plan and deliver complex software features
• Support government-facing technical artifacts as needed, including input to RFIs, RFPs, Statements of Work, and white papers
• Navigate and integrate with government IT ecosystems, ensuring solutions meet security, compliance, and operational constraints
• This is a fully remote role, but traveling is required - travel up to 20–30% to engage directly with mission owners and deliver capabilities in the field

What you should have

• 5+ years as a Full Stack Developer including familiarity with relational databases (like Postgres), caching technologies (like Redis), object storage systems (like S3), and modern front-end frameworks (like React)
• Experience developing and deploying software compliant with DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• Experience interfacing with government owned IT systems (for example, data platforms, IdAM providers, SIEM, CDSs, etc)
• Experience working with government IT and program offices to scope technical requirements, architecture, and integrations
• Experience working with end users to scope mission requirements, conduct user testing, and gain product feedback
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Must hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility

What we offer

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

Mission Leads are customer-facing owners of mission outcomes. You will lead engagements with government stakeholders to identify high-value mission problems, shape pilots and deployments, and turn demonstrated mission value into durable, funded programs.

This role blends mission credibility with strong execution and technical intuition. You will operate with high autonomy in ambiguous environments, translate mission needs into clear technical narratives, and coordinate across functional teams (Product, Engineering, Mission, Security, and Operations) to deliver and scale.

What you’ll do

• Lead mission engagements. Build trusted relationships with operational, technical, and leadership stakeholders to understand mission needs, constraints, and success criteria.
• Translate mission problems into plans. Turn mission needs into clear problem statements, requirements, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Shape pilots and pathways to scale. Define objectives, timelines, and adoption plans that convert early wins into sustained programs.
• Communicate the “why” and the “how.” Create crisp technical narratives that map our agent-based capabilities to mission requirements and operational constraints.
• Run the operating cadence. Lead weekly customer syncs, internal standups, executive updates/QBRs, action-item tracking, and risk reviews, as applicable.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery. Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure mission context is reflected in scope, tradeoffs, and delivery plans.
• Navigate program realities. Help stakeholders work through requirements development, budgeting cycles, contracting pathways, and coordination across organizations.
• Enable adoption. Coordinate onboarding, training, and customer success so the customer can use and sustain the capability.
• Maintain durable account knowledge. Keep high-signal documentation in Notion: stakeholders, org charts, use cases, timelines, deliverables, decisions, and lessons learned.
• Support expansion. Identify adjacent use cases and partner with Account teams where applicable.

What we’re looking for

• 6+ years owning outcomes in complex customer environments (defense, intelligence, public sector, or similarly regulated domains)
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functionally without consistent guidance
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to synthesize ambiguity into clear plans and execution
• Ability to scope and articulate a solution credibly: connect mission problems to software capabilities and measurable outcomes
• Sufficient technical fluency to partner effectively with Product and Engineering and translate complex concepts into mission-relevant narratives
• Strong operational skills: planning, prioritization, stakeholder management, and follow-through

What we value

• Experience with deployments or fielding in secure/regulated environments (e.g., ATO/IL environments, classified workflows, compliance constraints)
• Experience navigating within programs (requirements, budgets, authorities, timelines, contracting pathways)
• Deep expertise in a specific mission or technical domain (e.g., cyber, information warfare, ISR, networks, operations, warfare systems/command and control)
• Experience running executive-level customer updates (QBRs, steering committees)

What we offer

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $170,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

We’re hiring a Product Manager for our Mission Agents team.

This team owns the systems that turn user intent into execution - from chat and tasking to persistent agent workflows. You will define how users delegate work to software, how those systems operate on real-world data, and how they are monitored, constrained, and improved over time.

This is not a traditional roadmap role. You will take in incomplete, conflicting inputs from users, stakeholders, data, and systems - and decide what we should actually build.

You will work closely with operators, forward deployed engineers, and engineering teams to identify high-leverage problems and drive them through to shipped capability. You will often need to ignore loud or conflicting inputs and make decisions that others disagree with.

This role reports to the CTO and operates at the intersection of mission, product, and engineering. Success is measured by whether we build the right things and those things create real mission impact.

What you'll do

• Synthesize signal into direction. Take in messy, conflicting inputs and determine what actually matters.
• Define how agents behave. Shape primitives like objectives, constraints, trust tiers, and evaluation criteria.
• Improve output quality. Drive systematic improvements across models, memory, and workflows.
• Own product direction end-to-end. Turn ambiguous problems into concrete bets and drive them through delivery.
• Work directly with users. Build deep intuition for real-world workflows and needs.
• Translate mission signal into product direction. Take in real-world user signal and translate it into clear product direction, including pushing back when needed.
• Partner with engineering. Shape solutions that are both impactful and technically sound.
• Drive alignment in ambiguous situations. Bring clarity across stakeholders when perspectives conflict.

What you should have

• Strong product judgment. You consistently identify the right problems and make sound prioritization decisions.
• Ability to separate signal from noise. You form independent, defensible opinions from incomplete and conflicting inputs.
• Experience with complex systems or platforms. You’ve worked on products where behavior emerges from underlying primitives.
• Experience operating under real constraints. You’ve shipped products where security, infrastructure, or deployment realities shaped decisions.
• High ownership and bias toward action. You take responsibility for outcomes and push work through to completion.
• Technical fluency. You can engage with engineers and understand system constraints and tradeoffs.
• Clear, direct communication. You can articulate decisions, tradeoffs, and reasoning in a way others can act on.

Nice to have

• Experience working with operational or mission-driven users
• Experience with LLM-based systems
• Experience with product analytics (e.g., SQL)
• Experience rapidly prototyping ideas (Figma, AI coding tools, etc.)
• Exposure to constrained or high-security environments
• Active Security clearance (or ability to obtain one) and willingness to travel onsite

What we offer

About the role

We’re hiring a Product Manager to define the strategy for our Decision Advantage product suite.

This platform helps operators understand complex environments and act on them. The core challenge is not access to data - it is deciding what matters and turning that into clear, actionable direction.

You will determine where we play and how we win: which users we prioritize, which problems we focus on, and what we build (and do not build).

This is not a roadmap execution role. You are responsible for setting direction in an ambiguous, high-stakes problem space.

You will work closely with operators, forward deployed engineers, and engineering teams to identify high-leverage problems and drive them through to shipped capability. You will often need to ignore loud or conflicting inputs and make decisions that others disagree with.

This role reports to the CTO and operates at the intersection of mission, product, and engineering. Success is measured by whether we build the right things and those things create real mission impact.

What you'll do

• Define product strategy. Identify which users and problems matter most, and set direction.
• Synthesize signal into direction. Take in messy, conflicting inputs and determine what actually matters.
• Make hard prioritization calls. Say no to plausible requests that do not move the mission.
• Anchor to outcomes. Ensure what we build changes decisions and behavior.
• Own product direction end-to-end. Turn ambiguous problems into concrete bets and drive them through delivery.
• Work directly with users. Build deep intuition for real-world workflows and needs.
• Translate mission signal into product direction. Take in real-world user signal and translate it into clear product direction, including pushing back when needed.
• Partner with engineering. Shape solutions that are both impactful and technically sound.
• Drive alignment in ambiguous situations. Bring clarity across stakeholders when perspectives conflict.

What you should have

• Proven strategy ownership. You’ve defined direction in an ambiguous space.
• Strong product judgment. You consistently identify the right problems and make sound prioritization decisions.
• Ability to separate signal from noise. You form independent, defensible opinions from incomplete and conflicting inputs.
• Experience operating under constraints. You’ve shipped products shaped by real-world limitations.
• Comfort in the field. You can build trust with users in operational environments.
• High ownership and bias toward action. You take responsibility for outcomes and push work through to completion.
• Technical fluency. You can engage with engineers and understand system constraints and tradeoffs.
• Clear, direct communication. You can articulate decisions, tradeoffs, and reasoning in a way others can act on.
• Active Security clearance (or ability to obtain one) and willingness to travel onsite

Nice to have

• Experience working with defense, intelligence, or mission-driven users
• Experience with data-intensive products (search, analytics, large-scale systems)
• Experience with product analytics (e.g., SQL)
• Experience rapidly prototyping ideas (Figma, AI coding tools, etc.)
• Exposure to constrained or high-security environments

What we offer

About the role

We’re hiring a Staff Technical Product Manager to lead definition and evolution of foundational platform capabilities spanning multiple engineering organizations. This role reports directly to the CTO and operates at the system level - shaping the structures and primitives that underpin our products rather than managing feature-level roadmaps.

You will own problems that cross organizational boundaries and cannot be solved within a single team. The objective of this role is improving structural coherence across the platform - defining durable system structures and primitives, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring they translate into real capability.

Operating in close partnership with engineering leadership, this role progressively assumes independent ownership of convergence and cross-organizational decision resolution. Execution coordination is part of the role, but performance is measured by durable system improvement and structural convergence.

Example problem spaces include:

• Authorization and policy models
• Identity and ownership boundaries
• Data access structures
• Platform abstractions and shared primitives

What you’ll do

• Define and evolve cross-platform system primitives and structures, translating mission and product needs into durable system behaviors and producing artifacts that clarify system intent (PRDs, specs, evaluation criteria)
• Drive resolution of structural problems spanning multiple engineering organizations
• Build alignment across engineering leadership, design, and mission stakeholders
• Maintain convergence momentum across teams implementing shared capabilities
• Partner with Engineering Managers to translate structural intent into execution plans and hold convergence through delivery
• Stay engaged through delivery to ensure implementations converge on intended outcomes
• Identify architectural divergence early and drive corrective action
• Identify and drive resolution of cross-team dependencies arising from shared platform primitives and structural initiatives

What we’re looking for

• Experience operating at Staff level in TPM, product architecture, or engineer-to-PM hybrid roles
• Strong systems reasoning across distributed systems, identity/authorization, or platform architecture
• Demonstrated success shaping technical direction across multiple teams
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-organizational technical initiatives through to outcome - articulating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders, and landing durable decisions
• Credible communicator able to influence senior engineers and technical leadership across domains without relying on formal authority structures
• High ownership mindset in ambiguous environments
• Outstanding driver and communicator who identifies structural risks early - such as unclear ownership, missing definitions, or weak execution setup - and intervenes to correct course

Nice to have

• Background in platform, infrastructure, or security domains
• Experience with policy or authorization systems
• Multi-tenant or regulated environment exposure
• Experience operating in environments with decentralized ownership or competing platform abstractions

What we offer

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

We’re looking for a Business Operations Lead to join a small, high-impact team that works on the company’s most important operational and strategic problems. This isn’t a process-maintenance role — it’s a high-ownership position where you’ll drive real outcomes across the company from day one.

In your first six months, you’ll own two of our highest-priority operating functions: vendor and commercial operations, and recruiting support for senior and specialized roles. After that, you’ll have the opportunity to embed directly into one of our business units to lead a specific, time-bounded strategic project. The role offers a clear path to leading the BizOps function, with other paths also possible — including Chief of Staff to an executive or ownership of a specific function or line of business.

What you’ll do

Vendor and commercial operations — Vannevar relies on a set of critical vendors — from data providers to enterprise software to mission-critical tools — and how well those relationships work directly affects how well we operate. You’ll own negotiations, renewals, and commercial terms, but the real goal is improving how Vannevar functions: getting vendors to actually perform, reducing friction for our team, unlocking capabilities we’re not fully using, and making sure our contracts give us the flexibility to move fast.

Recruiting support for senior and specialized roles — Many of Vannevar’s most important hires — Chiefs of Staff, senior mission developers, technical leaders, and others — require someone who understands the business deeply enough to spot extraordinary people, make a compelling case for why this is the right opportunity, and act on behalf of senior leadership in finding and landing them. You’ll work alongside our recruiting team to do exactly that — not as a recruiter, but as a business owner who is hunting for exceptional talent.

BU embed (~6 months in) — Once you understand the company’s priorities and where you can have the most impact, you’ll be deployed into one of our business units to lead a specific, high-priority project. This is a chance to go deep on a part of the business and drive outcomes that matter directly to our customers and mission.

Special projects — Some of the most interesting work you’ll do here won’t fit into a neat category. We’re a fast-growing company with a deliberately lean internal team, which means important problems regularly surface that need someone sharp to own them — and that’s where BizOps comes in. That might look like analyzing whether a major strategic investment is worth making, designing the infrastructure for how we track and review company-wide goals, or identifying why a key process is breaking down and building something better. The common thread: real problems that matter to the business, owned end to end.

What we’re looking for

• ~3-7+ years of relevant work experience. You might come from a national security, management consulting, banking, or startup background — we want to see that you have experience executing and building new things. We’d love to see comfort with vendor or customer negotiations and commercial operations. We care far more about trajectory than years.
• Ownership — You care about whether things actually work, not whether you followed the right process. You take responsibility for outcomes and don’t wait to be told what to do next.
• Judgment — You figure out what the right problem is to work on, not just the one you were handed. You’re comfortable operating with ambiguity and know when to escalate vs. when to just solve it.
• High slope — We’re looking for the fastest-learning, highest-trajectory people we can find. Growth paths here are real and move fast for the right person — the default is BizOps leadership, but other paths including Chief of Staff or function ownership are possible.
• Plus: comfortable with data and analysis (you don’t need to be a financial modeler, but numbers can’t scare you); strong cross-functional project execution; can build credibility with senior leaders quickly; designs things to last after you’re gone; scrappy and resourceful in a lean environment.

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

As a Senior Mission Manager, you will serve as a senior mission-facing leader responsible for driving program-based adoption of Vannevar Labs’ technology within government program offices. You will work closely with PEOs, PMWs, and program managers to shape pilots, scope capabilities, and convert demonstrated mission value into funded programs. This is a highly autonomous role that requires deep mission credibility, strong technical intuition, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, early-stage program environments. 

What you’ll do

• Lead engagements with program offices (PEOs, PMWs, PMOs, and equivalent organizations) to identify mission problems that Vannevar Labs’ technology can solve.
• Translate program needs into technical narratives, clearly explaining how our software and agent-based capabilities map to requirements, constraints, and outcomes.
• Scope and shape program-based pilots, defining objectives, success criteria, timelines, and pathways to scale.
• Pitch the technology with credibility, leveraging your mission and domain background to build trust with program managers and technical authorities.
• Navigate programmatic realities, including requirements development, budgeting cycles, contracting pathways, and stakeholder coordination.
• Partner closely with product managers and engineers to ensure mission context is accurately reflected in technical scope, tradeoffs, and delivery plans.
• Convert successful pilots into sustained programs, helping program offices justify follow-on funding and broader adoption.
• Represent Vannevar Labs within the program ecosystem as a mission-credible, technically fluent partner.

What we’re looking for

• 15–20+ years of experience in government or defense missions, typically as a retired O5/O6 or senior enlisted or civilian equivalent
• Deep expertise in a specific mission or technical domain (e.g., cyber, information warfare, ISR, networks, operational intelligence, warfare systems/command and control).
• Strong ability to scope, pitch, and sell technical solutions to senior government stakeholders — not just explain missions, but connect them to software capabilities.
• Proven experience navigating programmatic realities, including budgets, requirements, authorities, timelines, and stakeholder dynamics.
• Sufficient technical fluency to:
  • Understand modern software systems and agent-based approaches
  • Partner effectively with product and engineering teams
  • Translate complex concepts into clear, mission-relevant narratives
• Demonstrated scrappiness and bias toward action — comfortable operating in ambiguity and pushing programs forward without perfect structure.
• High enthusiasm for building something new and shaping how cutting-edge technology is adopted inside government.
• Bonus of having acquisition, resource sponsor, or program manager experience.

What we value

• Mission-first mindset with a focus on real operational outcomes.
• Technical credibility paired with humility — able to learn quickly and ask the right questions.
• Clarity and precision in communication, especially with senior leaders.
• Ownership mentality — taking responsibility for moving programs from idea to execution.
• Low ego, high trust, and comfort collaborating across product, engineering, and mission teams.

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $220,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

About the role

We are looking for a Product Operations Lead to scale our Special Activities and Information Operations product deployments, deliver outstanding mission outcomes for our customers, and build the product foundation to solve new mission challenges and support further growth.  

What you'll do

• Deliver mission impact with our Special Activities and Information Operations products. Understand customer mission objectives, determine how to deliver timely mission-relevant insights with our tools, and execute accordingly. 
• Curate insights from the data we generate, drawing on your geopolitical analysis skills while leveraging AI/ML tools to operate at scale and communicating in a mission-relevant format. Ensure a high degree of rigor in our products.
• Test innovative ways to achieve customer mission objectives and to Improve our operational processes for running our Special Activities and Information Operations products, including our tradecraft, vendor management, and integration with technology. 
• Lead high-impact customer interactions, including mission demonstrations for prospective customers and mission support for current customers. 
• Direct interaction with customers is important for all our team members, and you should expect some amount of travel to customer locations (~30%).

What we look for

• 4+ years experience in intelligence or geopolitical analysis, ideally with experience using software for data analysis, or in customer success for defense/intelligence products
• Deep understanding of geopolitical trends and ongoing world events 
• Demonstrated ability to manage operations with multiple stakeholders and implement significant improvements to operational processes
• Domain experience in national security analysis, polling/population data analysis, or media/social media expertise preferred
• Active TS/SCI clearance is preferred 

What we offer

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: 

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance 
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave 
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

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About the role

As the Strategic Finance Lead, you’ll help shape the company’s growth trajectory, resource allocation, and long-term financial strategy. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and finance - partnering closely with executive leadership to turn company priorities into clear financial plans and tradeoffs.

You’ll own high-leverage analyses that guide where we invest, how we scale, and how we measure success. This is a high-ownership role for someone who enjoys operating in ambiguity, building frameworks from first principles, and influencing senior decision-making in a fast-moving environment.

What you’ll do

• Strategic Planning & Capital Allocation
• Own financial planning and modeling that informs company strategy, headcount growth, and investment priorities.
• Evaluate tradeoffs across growth initiatives, resourcing decisions, and new bets to maximize long-term value.
• Build and maintain multi-year financial models that connect strategy to outcomes.
• Support board- and investor-level planning, including scenario analysis and downside / upside planning.
• Revenue, Pricing & Growth Strategy
• Partner with sales, capture, and product leadership to shape pricing, packaging, and contract structures aligned with strategic goals.
• Develop financial frameworks to assess new products, customer segments, and go-to-market motions.
• Translate operating metrics into clear insights that guide growth decisions.
• Design scalable reporting that ties revenue performance to strategic intent.
• Executive Partnership & Decision Support
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to executive leadership, providing clear, opinionated financial perspectives.
• Build analyses and narratives that support executive decisions, board discussions, and internal alignment.
• Help define and track the metrics that matter most for long-term enterprise value.
• Financial Infrastructure in support of strategy
• Partner with the finance and accounting team to ensure systems, controls, and reporting scale with the business.
• Drive automation and process improvements that reduce friction and enable faster decision-making.
• Ensure financial data is accurate, timely, and useful—not just compliant.

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, corporate strategy, or similar roles in high-growth environments.
• Strong financial modeling and planning skills; comfortable building models from scratch.
• Deep understanding of SaaS and/or government contracting economics.
• Track record of influencing senior stakeholders with data-driven insights.
• Ability to move fluidly between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
• Low-ego, high-ownership mindset; thrives in ambiguity and rapid iteration.

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $200,000-$240,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

AI Agents are core to Vannevar’s products - powering user-facing experiences, data enrichment pipelines, and asynchronous alerting services. The Agents Platform team builds the platform and tooling to enable all teams across the company to build robust and reliable Agents that are trusted for high-impact Government use cases. You will be a technical leader driving the development and adoption of this platform and helping us innovate in the rapidly changing space of Agentic AI.

What you’ll do

• Design and evangelize best practices for building AI Agents
• Drive standards and tooling for Agent quality including evaluation frameworks, test suites, and benchmark creation
• Partner with internal teams to find emerging product opportunities and build the tooling needed to support them
• Collaborate with other platform teams like our data platform and identity access management team to solve governance problems unique to AI Agents
• Stay current with emerging Agent techniques, tools, and best practices, particularly in areas like agent architectures, tool calling

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying backend, infrastructure, and/or machine learning systems in production environments
• Recent experience and excitement for building with Agent frameworks like LangGraph, Claude SDK, Google ADK, or similar.
• Advanced software engineering skills, including experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
• A history of not only building great tooling, but evangelizing them within a medium-large organization
• You have a passion for building reliable, performant AI systems and understand how they create value for end users
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S only data systems

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build and refine our data collection and processing applications. You’ll be in charge of scraping the web for mission critical data and then building out pipelines for those data. We also do something common in Silicon Valley tech companies but radical in the defense space: we develop and test products side-by-side with our users, including on US military bases and remote locations abroad. Our engineering culture is about empathizing with users and building software products that deliver maximum mission impact.

Your decisions today will have a large impact on the company today and into the future. We believe that simple systems are easier to understand, maintain, and scale - we prefer pragmatic, product-centric solutions.

You are innovative: willing to take risks, think critically about novel solutions, and advocate for your ideas while seeking feedback and collaboration. You will be making trade-offs as you work to ensure that our systems are prepared to scale — being able to effectively communicate these trade-offs with your teammates is a must.

What you’ll do

• Develop innovative solutions collecting data from various online sources
• Work side-by-side with our mission team and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Write technical documentation
• Collaborate with analysts to improve software

You might be a fit if you

• 4+ years as a Backend Engineer or similar role
• Experience with Python
• Familiarity with relational databases
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Experience scraping data or a strong desire to learn
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems with the ability to obtain security clearance

Nice to haves

• Experience with AWS
• Experience with ElasticSearch
• Experience with Docker
• Experiences with caching databases (e.g. Redis)

What we look for

• Grit and creativity to keep going when faced with a roadblock.
• Success in working problems to conclusion and trying different approaches until one works.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Demonstrated bias towards achieving an outcome even if it requires helping or doing the job of someone else on another team.
• Active TS / SCI Clearance is a plus but not needed

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

We’re looking for a senior engineer to lead the development of new Cyber products in support of national security missions. This is a 0→1 builder role - taking a product from concept to operational deployment while working directly with end users and shaping both the product and the problem space.

You’ll own our flagship Cyber product, Cyber Recon - an external attack surface management platform built for cyber operators. This is not a traditional forward-deployed role, but it requires the same level of mission ownership, user empathy, and execution velocity - applied to building a durable product.

What you’ll do

• Own end-to-end development of Cyber Recon and adjacent products (backend systems, data pipelines, and user-facing applications)
• Build intuitive, high-performance interfaces for exploring and acting on complex cyber data
• Work directly with users in mission environments to understand needs, iterate quickly, and deploy into real environments
• Design systems to ingest, normalize, and analyze large-scale external attack surface data
• Translate ambiguous problems into concrete product and engineering decisions
• Drive product and technical direction for Cyber
• Deploy and support software in secure, constrained environments
• Travel 2-3 times per month to customer sites (primarily East Coast)

What we value

• 10+ years building and shipping production software systems
• Strong full-stack skills (backend systems, APIs, data modeling, modern frontend)
• Comfortable moving between frontend, backend, and product decisions on a daily basis
• Experience building user-facing products with strong usability and performance
• Experience operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with high ownership
• Experience building cybersecurity products or conducting cyber operations in government environments
• Familiarity with external attack surface management, internet-scale data collection, or adversary infrastructure analysis
• Prior experience working with classified systems or secure deployments
• Currently holds or previously held a CI Polygraph (preferred); ability and willingness to obtain a CI Polygraph required

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

Search is at the heart of Vannevar’s flagship platform and agentic workflows. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, with substantial knowledge and passion for search and information retrieval, to drive innovation in this space. In this role, you will work directly with our ML and product teams to advance a state-of-the-art search system that fundamentally drives our users’ ability to surface mission critical information.

What you'll do

• Design and adapt the technical strategy for search within Vannevar’s products, including how we leverage full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and relevance algorithms
• Improve both search latency and relevance
• Collaborate with product engineers, designers, and mission strategists to translate user needs into data-informed search innovations
• Research and apply emerging technologies, trends and best practices in the search/information retrieval domain to improve index quality, freshness, and retrieval performance

What we’re looking for

• You have 7+ years of experience in backend software development, with 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields
• You have a passion for architecting, developing and deploying reliable, scalable, and performant systems
• You have expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning. You have a deep understanding of concepts like indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search.
• You have hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch), and familiarity with search evaluation frameworks (e.g., precision, recall, NDCG).
• You have excellent analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems.

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $215,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

You will be an engineer on the team building systems to collect hard-to-access data. This data forms the foundation of our company’s advantage. Your role is to elevate and extend our existing collection capabilities — strengthening the core engines, improving resilience in adversarial environments, and expanding how this data is exposed through interfaces for agents and other engineering teams. We operate in environments where automated defensive systems are sophisticated and continuously evolving. This role is about designing statistically disciplined, cross-layer systems that remain reliable under that scrutiny without sacrificing scale, stability, or operational integrity.

This role requires deep experience with browser automation, anti-bot defenses, fingerprinting and signature mitigation, distributed scraping architectures, and infrastructure designed for sensitive or misattributed environments. You will help shape the evolution of our collection stack end-to-end — from low-level evasion techniques and managed attribution browsing to clean, well-defined tool calls that agents can use predictably and at scale. You’ll collaborate closely across engineering and mission teams, translating real-world data needs into durable technical systems.

What you’ll do

• Master our data and capabilities. We’ve built world-class data collection for some key national security data sets. Understand how we’ve built it, what our differentiators are, and how to take it to the next level.
• Understand our users. You’ll need to understand their missions, challenges, and expectations to build systems that help them.
• Shape our collection approach. You understand how our systems interact with defensive systems, and will develop and implement technical plans that keep high-value data flowing.
• Build and maintain stable, scalable systems. Our customers operate 24x7 and need access to fresh, rich, operationally-relevant data. You will design collection systems that remain stable under sophisticated automated detection regimes.
• Contribute to agentic capability. Ensure the tools you build and collected data is usable by agents (tool-call readiness, retrieval patterns, schemas/metadata, evaluation loops, etc.). Identify gaps where the right data isn’t getting into agent tool calls and coordinate fixes.

You might be a fit if you

• Care deeply about the mission: the data we collect is enabling massive, generational impact across many national security missions.
• Have strong back-end experience and understanding of distributed systems. Prefer typescript/python expertise.
• Understand how anti-abuse, bot detection, fraud, or traffic integrity systems analyze traffic and operate at scale.
• Are data driven and and have eye for instrumentation and monitoring.
• You can reason about how small deviations in protocol behavior, timing, or runtime characteristics propagate into anomaly scores.
• Are technically diverse and can adapt your tool stack quickly.
• Communicate crisply: can write a one-pager that aligns stakeholders, communicates, risks, and drives action.
• You prefer structural resilience over reactive tactics.
• Are comfortable making hard prioritization calls with incomplete information.

What we value

• Deeply understand how network-level and browser-level signatures combine to form a holistic risk profile in modern detection systems.
• Experience with web scraping, browser automation, and similar.
• Experience with national security problems and workflows, data platform/product work.
• Familiarity with agentic systems and what makes data “tool-call ready”
• Full stack capability. This team leans heavily into the backend, but does touch the front end from time to time (React).

What we look for

• Grit and creativity to keep going when faced with a roadblock.
• Success in working problems to conclusion and trying different approaches until one works.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Demonstrated bias towards achieving an outcome even if it requires helping or doing the job of someone else on another team.
• Active TS / SCI Clearance is a plus but not needed

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

What you’ll do

• Source, qualify, and develop new business opportunities across target industries or agencies 

• Coordinate partner activities across multiple simultaneous engagements while maintaining clear communication and operational rigor. 

• Drive end-to-end capture lifecycle, from early opportunity shaping through proposal development and contract award. This includes a multi-hatted person who can operate at the strategic level to support and develop concepts, as well as own the tactical level of driving proposal/whitepaper writing and analysis. 

• Conduct market research to identify potential customers, decision-makers, and use cases 

• Schedule and facilitate discovery calls, demos, and meetings the align with company strategy and government program pursuits  

• Drive early capture activities: white papers, RFIs, tech demos, engagements, capability briefings, and TEMs. 

• Represent Vannevar at conferences, events, and networking opportunities to generate awareness and leads 

• Support contracting activities from proposal to contract administration to contract closeout 

• Support negotiations with external partners to ensure agreements are scalable and aligned with company objectives 

• Continuously refine prospecting strategies based on market feedback and performance  

• Maintain accurate records in CRM and report on pipeline activity  

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of experience in business development, partnerships, government contracting, or related roles. 

• Experience selling or supporting complex software solutions (AI/ML experience is a plus) 

• Proven ability to meet or exceed lead generation and sales pipeline goals 

• Familiarity with CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce) and sales automation platforms 

• Working knowledge of FAR/DFAR, OT and general government contracting standards 

• Prior experience in both technology companies and government-facing organizations. 

• DC location based preferred 

• Active security clearance preferred  

What we value

• Strong communication, networking, and interpersonal skills 

• Self-starter with a high level of initiative and accountability 

• Comfortable conducting discovery calls and articulating technical value propositions 

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail 

• Team-oriented mindset with a willingness to learn and adapt in a startup environment 

• Curious and passionate about emerging technology and AI-driven transformation 

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

This role will own key priorities on behalf of Vannevar’s executive team, working closely with the founders of Vannevar. You’ll lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that define how Vannevar grows, balancing speed, cost discipline, and operational excellence. After several years of rapid expansion, this role will be critical in helping the company capture new opportunities while strengthening its core operational, financial, and people systems. The position offers broad visibility across the company, close partnership with senior leadership, and a clear path to grow into the Chief of Staff role, or ownership of a specific function / line of business over time. 

What you'll do

• Own systems for visibility and accountability, ensuring the company can move fast without losing control of spend, performance, or execution
• Build and scale core operational systems that enable disciplined growth, from improving cost efficiency to upleveling our people strategy to building the infrastructure for future investments
• Work directly with the executive team on other high-impact special projects that drive near-term operational excellence and long-term growth

What we're looking for

• 3–5+ years of experience in startup operations, management consulting, or operational finance — ideally with exposure to defense, national security, or dual-use technology
• Creative problem-solving skills paired with humility, grit, and a willingness to jump in wherever needed
• High-ownership, analytical, and motivated operator, with a track record of driving impact that scales
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leadership and executives
• East Coast location preferred (role is remote-first)

What we offer

The salary range for this position is $160,000-$190,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

The Data Platform team is responsible for the pipelines, search, and identity systems that are foundational to Vannevar’s flagship platform and agentic workflows. The systems we build and operate define and enforce standards for data processing, storage, access, and retrieval across a growing suite of 10+ products.

You will be part of a team that builds and manages this business-critical infrastructure. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to serve as a technical leader—shaping patterns for enterprise-grade performance, scalability, reliability, quality, and security across the broader organization.

You’ll partner closely with product engineering teams to standardize and centralize shared infrastructure, reducing duplication and improving developer velocity. You’ll also collaborate with our Information Security team to ensure our systems meet the stringent security and compliance requirements of DoD environments. Finally, you’ll have an opportunity to craft the long-term strategy for the platform, guiding architectural decisions and investments that enable the company to scale safely and sustainably.

What you’ll do

• Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of core data platform infrastructure and shared services.
• Lead mission-critical projects to build and scale foundational platform capabilities.
• Partner closely with engineers across the organization to develop and standardize data platform solutions that solve cross-product challenges.
• Collaborate with Security and Mission stakeholders to define and enforce standards for access control, data protection, and system integrity.
• Influence architecture, technology selection, and engineering standards across the company.
• Grow your engineering skills by solving complex, high-impact problems in data platform and infrastructure systems.

What we’re looking for

• You have 7+ years of hands-on experience building and operating data platform primitives (storage, retrieval, and processing pipelines) that other product teams rely on.
• You have strong system design skills and can make thoughtful tradeoffs across performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• You have led cross-team technical initiatives spanning multiple systems, and driven adoption through influence.
• You bring a security-first mindset and are comfortable operating in environments with high operational discipline and sensitive constraints.
• You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a broad audience, including engineers, cross-functional partners, and end users.
• U.S. Person status is required, as this role requires access to U.S.-only data systems.

What we offer

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $215,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

Our Mission teams operate like small startups within the Vannevar Labs umbrella. As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will serve as the technical owner for a mission and its associated customer engagements. You will work directly with operators, analysts, and technical stakeholders supporting national security missions, owning the architecture, development, deployment, and fielding of software solutions tailored to real-world operational needs.

In this role, you will act as a senior technical counterpart to customer stakeholders — translating mission requirements into scalable software, navigating government technical environments, and ensuring capabilities are delivered reliably into production. You will collaborate closely with product, design, platform engineering, and mission teammates to deliver high-impact outcomes, while remaining a hands-on individual contributor.

What you'll do

• Architect, build, and own software solutions deployed directly to customer environments in support of mission-critical use cases
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, engaging with senior technical leaders to understand mission needs and represent Vannevar’s technical approach
• Own end-to-end technical delivery for your mission workstreams, from requirements gathering and system design through implementation, deployment, and sustainment
• Contribute hands-on code to improve product capabilities, performance, and scalability across customer use cases
• Build software that enables users to unlock value from large-scale data holdings, including text, multimedia, and geospatial datasets spanning over 46 languages
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners — including engineers, product designers, and mission domain experts — to plan and deliver complex software features
• Support government-facing technical artifacts as needed, including input to RFIs, RFPs, Statements of Work, and white papers
• Navigate and integrate with government IT ecosystems, ensuring solutions meet security, compliance, and operational constraints
• This is a fully remote role, but traveling is required - travel up to 20–30% to engage directly with mission owners and deliver capabilities in the field

What you should have

• 5+ years as a Full Stack Developer including familiarity with relational databases (like Postgres), caching technologies (like Redis), object storage systems (like S3), and modern front-end frameworks (like React)
• Experience developing and deploying software compliant with DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• Experience interfacing with government owned IT systems (for example, data platforms, IdAM providers, SIEM, CDSs, etc)
• Experience working with government IT and program offices to scope technical requirements, architecture, and integrations
• Experience working with end users to scope mission requirements, conduct user testing, and gain product feedback
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Must hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility
• This role is hybrid in our Honolulu office

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $135,000-$205,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

Vannevar Labs is seeking an experienced Information Security Engineer to lead our IL-6 / IL-7 ATO (Authority to Operate) and follow-on compliance efforts. This role will be critical to unlocking our ability to deploy classified capabilities for defense and intelligence customers. You will serve as the dedicated technical leader responsible for achieving platform operation on classified networks, working directly with government ISSMs, AOs, and security stakeholders to navigate the RMF process and achieve ATOs across Navy, Joint, and COCOM user groups.

What you’ll do

• Own and execute our strategy for how we approach ATOs across our customers.
• Lead the end-to-end ATO process for IL-6 (SIPR) and IL-7(JWICS) environments, through full authorization and follow-on compliance.
• Own RMF (Risk Management Framework) documentation and control implementation across multiple simultaneous ATOs
• Work with 3PAOs and federal government AOs to achieve compliance certifications and reports
• Ensure the implementation, oversight, monitoring, and maintenance of security configurations, practices, and procedures • Serve as a liaison between system owners and other security personnel, ensuring that selected security controls are effectively implemented and maintained throughout the lifecycle of projects
• Interface directly with government ISSMs, AOs, and security stakeholders to manage authorization packages and navigate accreditation tools (XACTA, eMASS)
• Design and implement role-based access controls, data classification frameworks, and audit logging capabilities for classified environments
• Architect solutions for handling TS/SCI data with proper controls and separation that meet DoD requirements
• Ensure compliance with DISA STIGs, SRGs, NIST 800-53, and DoD hardening standards
• Build scalable systems and processes for managing ATOs across different customers and sponsors
• Coordinate with platform engineering teams on security roadmap priorities and technical implementation
• Manage relationships with government sponsors and identify opportunities to parallel-path authorization efforts
• Work closely with mission engineering teams deploying to classified environments and partner with compliance engineering on FedRAMP and CMMC efforts
• Brief executive leadership on ATO status, risks, and strategic decisions

What we’re looking for

• Must have personally led or been deeply involved in achieving ATOs or DISA provisional authorizations
• 5+ years in information security, with significant time in government/DoD compliance
• Direct experience with RMF, NIST 800-53, DISA STIGs, and IL-4/IL-5/IL-6/IL-7 environments
• Track record of working closely with government ISSMs, AOs, to navigate and expedite bureaucratic processes
• Experience with XACTA, eMASS, or similar government accreditation platforms
• Deep understanding of classified network architectures (SIPR, JWICS)
• Experience implementing RBAC, audit logging, and data classification systems
• Knowledge of cloud security in AWS GovCloud, Google Government, and Azure Government
• Familiarity with container security, Kubernetes/OpenShift in classified environments
• Understanding of cross-domain solutions and data transfer between classification levels
• Ability to navigate complex government processes and build relationships with government stakeholders
• Strong written communication for technical documentation and compliance artifacts
• Must hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility

What we offer

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the Role

Machine learning is core to Vannevar's enrichment capabilities, powering intelligent data extraction, classification, and augmentation at scale. Our ML team builds the services and infrastructure that enable products across Vannevar to leverage state-of-the-art models for mission-critical enrichment workflows. We own the end-to-end ML platform, from training and fine-tuning models to deploying high-performance inference services, and we operate these capabilities in demanding production environments.

You will be a technical leader driving the development of scalable ML services for enrichment. You'll work across the full ML lifecycle, from experimenting with and training models using frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face, to deploying optimized inference services using ONNX, vLLM, and other deployment libraries. You'll partner with product teams to understand enrichment requirements, architect robust ML pipelines that handle large-scale data processing, and ensure our services meet strict performance and reliability standards in production.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable ML services for enrichment workflows, including model training pipelines and high-performance inference APIs
• Deploy and optimize models using modern inference libraries and frameworks (ONNX, vLLM, TensorRT, etc.) to achieve low-latency, high-throughput performance
• Collaborate with software engineers and product teams to define data requirements, feature engineering strategies, and model evaluation metrics
• Build robust monitoring, observability, and evaluation systems to ensure model quality and service reliability in production
• Stay current with emerging ML techniques, tools, and best practices, particularly in areas like model optimization, efficient inference, and large-scale data processing

What we look for

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments
• Strong proficiency with model deployment technologies (Kubernetes, Ray, etc.) and inference libraries (ONNX, vLLM, TensorRT, or similar). Proficiency with model training frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jax)
• You've successfully designed and scaled ML services that process large volumes of data and serve predictions with strict latency and throughput requirements
• Experience with the full ML lifecycle, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Solid software engineering skills, including experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
• You have a passion for building reliable, performant ML systems and understand how they create value for end users
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S only data systems

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $215,000 + equity Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the Role

We are looking for a senior acquisition leader to join Vannevar to shape long-cycle opportunities across PEOs and major program offices. This role is central to Vannevar’s pivot into PEO-first growth. You will bring first-hand experience on how programs are built, funded, fielded, integrated, and sustained to help Vannevar shape the next generation of capabilities.

As part of our Mission Systems organization, your insights into PEO structures, program office decision-making, acquisition timelines, budgeting, and integration challenges will guide how we shape requirements, build relevance early, and position Vannevar to win large, durable programs. This is a unique opportunity for a former PEO, Deputy PEO, Major PMO Lead, or Senior Program Manager who wants to apply their operational and acquisition experience inside a fast-moving national security startup that is building tools directly aligned to the needs of the military.

U.S. Persons status with at least a current Top Secret US DoD or IC clearance is required. 

What You’ll Do

Shape early program strategy

• Advise on program structures, acquisition pathways, funding lines, risk areas, and modernization priorities
• Identify where and how Vannevar can meaningfully support programs—whether through capability gaps, integration challenges, or modernization timelines.
• Inform long-range strategy around $200M+ programs, major new starts, re-competes, and technical upgrade cycles.

Build trusted customer relationships

• Leverage your network across PEOs, PMWs, and partner organizations to open doors, deepen trust, and accelerate customer understanding.
• Engage senior acquisition leaders to understand real-world constraints, mission needs, and where Vannevar’s technology can be most impactful.
• Navigate program offices with fluency—knowing who the decision-makers are, how they think, and how programs actually move.

Guide capture, shaping, and competitive positioning

• Partner with the Senior Growth Lead to influence requirements early, shape concept of operations, and ensure our offerings align to program office needs.
• Provide technical, operational, and programmatic context that positions Vannevar uniquely versus primes, integrators, and other emerging vendors.
• Support bid/no-bid calls, capture strategy, teaming strategy, and price-to-win considerations based on insider program knowledge.

Strengthen pipeline visibility & predictability

• Map out acquisition timelines, key decision points, POM cycles, reprogramming windows, and PMW-specific budget patterns to inform Vannevar’s growth roadmap.
• Help translate multi-year PEO strategies into actionable near-term opportunities that the Growth Lead can pursue.

Represent the program office perspective internally

• Provide internal teams—engineering, product, mission, and leadership—with authentic program office insights on integration, testing, sustainment, risk, and fielding realities.
• Ensure Vannevar’s offerings resonate with acquisition leaders and align with the technical, operational, and contracting realities of programs.

What We’re Looking For

• Former PEO, Deputy PEO, Senior PMW lead, ACAT I/II PM, or equivalent Senior Program Manager.
• First-hand experience navigating JCIDS, DAS, budgeting cycles, POM builds, milestone decisions, integration pipelines, T&E, and sustainment pathways.
• Strong network across program offices, technical authorities, warfare centers, primes, and integrators.
• Familiarity with how software, networks, cyber, or mission systems capabilities are built, evaluated, integrated, and purchased.
• Experience partnering closely with industry or evaluating industry proposals—able to guide strategy, shaping, and competitive positioning from the government perspective.
• Strong communication instincts—able to translate complex acquisition and program realities into clear guidance for a fast-moving startup.
• Desire to help shape something new, with comfort operating in ambiguity and a bias toward action.

What We Offer

Competitive Salary
The compensation is comprised of salary + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

Vannevar is seeking an experienced frontend engineer to advance the design and implementation of our Decision Advantage product. This critical platform enables defense and intelligence operators to gain comprehensive situational awareness of the information environment, helping them understand and counter adversary influence operations and information warfare tactics. You will build the applications our warfighters and intelligence analysts use daily for mission-critical work, developing advanced interfaces for information distillation, analysis, and visualization that enable rapid assessment of the information environment. Working alongside designers, engineers, subject matter experts, and operational users, you will transform complex intelligence requirements into intuitive, mission-ready UIs that directly support national security objectives.

In this role, you will work in a small cross-functional team focused on delivering Decision Advantage capabilities to defense customers engaged in strategic competition with near-peer adversaries. You will serve as a technical expert on the team and shape frontend development practices across the organization.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and ship cutting edge defense tech applications and features using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, and Node.js
• Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and other engineers to understand user workflows and create the best possible solutions for their problems
• Contribute improvements to core libraries and frontend tooling for the broader organization
• Mentor and guide other engineers in the art of frontend development
• Help define and shape the future of the product

What we look for

• 11+ years of professional experience in frontend software development
• Expertise in TypeScript and React. You know how to write code and components that compose well and can be maintained by others in the future. You’re familiar with advanced topics like state management, performance optimization, approaches for integrating disparate applications into a single cohesive experience, etc.
• Eye for design and attention to detail. You produce elegant, consumer-grade UIs that users can understand without specific training.
• Customer obsession and keen product intuition. You think in workflows and end user experience, not just code.
• Prior experience as a senior engineer or tech lead and demonstrated ability to mentor and guide more junior engineers.

Nice to have

• Ability to work on backend APIs as needed to support frontend work. Familiarity with Node, Postgres, and OpenSearch is helpful.
• Active Security clearance (or ability to obtain one) and willingness to travel onsite at least quarterly to perform user research and help debug issues.

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $170,000 - $225,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

We're looking for a Strategic Growth Leader to pursue go-to market strategies and deliver major growth outcomes at Vannevar. This position is aligned to one of our greenfield growth initiatives and includes significant scope and responsibilities.

We're looking for someone who brings experience and intuition growing defense product deployments from small-scale pilots into larger projects with the US Coast Guard. Growth strategists know how to launch foothold pilots, convert pilots into larger projects, and embed those projects within existing programs or invent new ones within the national security space.

We're looking for someone who has firsthand experience fielding new technology and is committed to getting better tools into the hands of American servicemen and women. They can creatively problem solve around roadblocks to do so, and catalyze organizational change, if necessary. They are curious, visionary, and determined.

We believe that a necessary foundation for the ability to sell and build programs is domain expertise in national security technology, a sense of urgency, and relentless ground game. If you are successful, you will ultimately lead a business line for Vannevar that delivers on major growth outcomes within 12-18 months of joining the company.

What you’ll do

• Set strategy with mission team leadership. Create a go-to market strategy that will create new footholds to embed in current defense programs and develop into new category-defining programs.
• Deliver growth outcomes. Execute on this strategy to deliver growth from concept through contract close.
• Lead mission teams. You will build a team around the footholds you develop in your first year.

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of experience working with U.S. government leaders across defense, homeland security, or national security missions, including experience in acquisition, program management, intelligence, or operational policy
  • Direct experience working with the U.S. Coast Guard, ideally in or alongside:
  • Coast Guard Headquarters organizations such as CG-2 (Intelligence), CG-3 (Operations), or CG-7 (Mission Support)
• Innovation or rapid capability organizations (e.g., DIU, Raptor, RDC, or equivalent CG innovation teams)
• A strong understanding of major Coast Guard mission initiatives, with the ability to tailor technology narratives to priorities such as maritime domain awareness, maritime domain dominance, coastal security, and operational intelligence
• Demonstrated ability to start net-new business within a federal organization — identifying entry points, shaping early pilots, and guiding them toward sustained, funded programs
• Experience (or strong intuition) translating existing products into new mission contexts — taking a proven capability and tailoring it to fit Coast Guard operational needs, constraints, and procurement realities
• The ability to connect credibly with operational end users, speak the Coast Guard’s language, and build trust with stakeholders ranging from field operators to senior leadership at CG HQ
• A well-established network across the Coast Guard ecosystem, including relationships within HQ, districts, acquisitions, intelligence, and innovation communities
• Experience launching and scaling pilots with federal customers, including shaping scope, defining success criteria, and converting successful pilots into paid engagements
• Experience or demonstrated judgment in building a holistic, greenfield growth strategy for a new federal vertical
• Mission-domain experience in national security technology, especially where software or data platforms support operational decision-making

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $200,000 - $230,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

As a Mission Manager, you will serve as a senior mission-facing leader responsible for driving program-based adoption of Vannevar Labs’ technology within government program offices. You will work closely with PEOs, PMWs, and program managers to shape pilots, scope capabilities, and convert demonstrated mission value into funded programs. This is a highly autonomous role that requires deep mission credibility, strong technical intuition, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, early-stage program environments. 

What you’ll do

• Lead engagements with program offices (PEOs, PMWs, PMOs, and equivalent organizations) to identify mission problems that Vannevar Labs’ technology can solve.
• Translate program needs into technical narratives, clearly explaining how our software and agent-based capabilities map to requirements, constraints, and outcomes.
• Scope and shape program-based pilots, defining objectives, success criteria, timelines, and pathways to scale.
• Pitch the technology with credibility, leveraging your mission and domain background to build trust with program managers and technical authorities.
• Navigate programmatic realities, including requirements development, budgeting cycles, contracting pathways, and stakeholder coordination.
• Partner closely with product managers and engineers to ensure mission context is accurately reflected in technical scope, tradeoffs, and delivery plans.
• Convert successful pilots into sustained programs, helping program offices justify follow-on funding and broader adoption.
• Represent Vannevar Labs within the program ecosystem as a mission-credible, technically fluent partner.

What we’re looking for

• 15–20+ years of experience in government or defense missions, typically as a retired O5/O6 or senior enlisted or civilian equivalent
• Deep expertise in a specific mission or technical domain (e.g., cyber, information warfare, ISR, networks, operational intelligence, warfare systems/command and control).
• Strong ability to scope, pitch, and sell technical solutions to senior government stakeholders — not just explain missions, but connect them to software capabilities.
• Proven experience navigating programmatic realities, including budgets, requirements, authorities, timelines, and stakeholder dynamics.
• Sufficient technical fluency to:
  • Understand modern software systems and agent-based approaches
  • Partner effectively with product and engineering teams
  • Translate complex concepts into clear, mission-relevant narratives
• Demonstrated scrappiness and bias toward action — comfortable operating in ambiguity and pushing programs forward without perfect structure.
• High enthusiasm for building something new and shaping how cutting-edge technology is adopted inside government.
• Bonus of having acquisition, resource sponsor, or program manager experience.

What we value

• Mission-first mindset with a focus on real operational outcomes.
• Technical credibility paired with humility — able to learn quickly and ask the right questions.
• Clarity and precision in communication, especially with senior leaders.
• Ownership mentality — taking responsibility for moving programs from idea to execution.
• Low ego, high trust, and comfort collaborating across product, engineering, and mission teams.

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $220,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

At Vannevar we’re consistently iterating on AI-enabled software products to deter our adversaries and lead the fight for strategic competition. This often involves meeting our customers where they’re at - on government networks, higher classification systems, and bespoke deployments. Compliance and security are core principles in how we build software to support the warfighter.

We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer who can work across the stack, while also providing expertise in DevOps, security, and compliance. An ideal member of the team has previously helped move a software system to a government/DoD environment, can work quickly in complex environments, and has great communication skills.

What you'll do

• Own the technical roadmap and execution plan to achieve successful deployment of a key product suite to a government authorized system.
  • Design, build, and harden our product suite within a compliant cloud environment.
  • Work cross-functionally across product teams to help align timelines and develop solutions hands-on to meet security controls.
  • Implement strong change control: security impact analysis, testing/validation plans, and stakeholder notifications for significant changes.
• Cross-functional leadership
  • Be the subject matter expert for this effort - the company will look to you for progress reports, external talking points, and guidance.
  • Mentor engineers on secure design and operational excellence in regulated environments.
  • Write guidelines, documentation, and create architecture diagrams for external and internal consumption.
  • Translate between “government compliance language” and “engineering reality.”

What we're looking for

• 7+ years working in a DevSecOps or related capacity
• Experience deploying software into a government-authorized environment (IL6, JWICS)
• Full-stack experience - willing to get hand-on across our full stack (React/Node/Python stack)
• Strong foundation in security principles and experience developing software against security controls (ex. NIST SP 800-53) and related frameworks (ex. OSCAL)
• Strong documentation skills for software accreditation (ex. deployment runbooks, System Security Plans, CONOPS)
• Experience working with AWS
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional communication skills
• Must hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility

What we value (optional)

• Experience working for a contractor of the DoW or government agencies
• Preference for candidates who are located in, or willing to relocate to San Diego, California. If not open to relocation, frequent travel to San Diego would be required.

What we offer

Competitive Salary

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $215,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Comprehensive Benefits

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

Vannevar is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer to advance the design and implementation of our Decision Advantage product. This critical platform enables defense and intelligence operators to gain comprehensive situational awareness of the information environment, helping them understand and counter adversary influence operations and information warfare tactics. You will build the applications our warfighters and intelligence analysts use daily for mission-critical work, developing advanced products and features for information distillation, analysis, and visualization that enable rapid assessment of the information environment. Working alongside designers, engineers, subject matter experts, and operational users, you will transform complex intelligence requirements into intuitive, mission-ready workflows that directly support national security objectives.

In this role, you will work in a small cross-functional team focused on delivering Decision Advantage capabilities to defense customers engaged in strategic competition with near-peer adversaries. You will work on all aspects of the product - everything from data (extraction, ingestion), backend (storage, indexing, APIs), frontend, AI analysis (agents), and more. The platform has a strong foundation to build upon and there is a ton a opportunity to make an impact as we take it to the next level.

Note: this role is also open to staff+ candidates.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and ship a cutting edge identity search platform using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, and Node.js
• Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and other engineers to understand user workflows and create 10x better solutions for their problems
• Implement and maintain search and agentic AI systems for high-scale data, both tabular and graph shaped
• Help define and shape the future of the product

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and AWS
• Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
• Prior experience working in a user-facing product role

Nice to Have

• Active Security clearance or ability to obtain one and desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues
• Prior experience developing AI-native products
• Understanding of search concepts like indexing, ranking, query parsing, and tokenization

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the role

Vannevar is building the future of nation security enablement with agentic AI. Our platform is responsible for tightening the loop from observation to action - providing the warfighter with cutting-edge analysis tools to make better decisions, faster.

We are searching for an experienced product engineer who has previously helped shape agentic AI technology. You will collaborate closely with mission owners in the defense and national security space to build 1) lasting products for which users are enabled by AI and 2) the workflows within these systems to drive mission outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and ship a cutting-edge agent-powered mission console using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, and Python.
• Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and other engineers to understand user workflows and create 10x better solutions for their problems leveraging agents.
• Help define and shape the surface for which users are enabled by AI and agents at Vannevar.
• Implement and maintain robust agentic workflows to enable missions at scale.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Python, and AWS
• Experience building agents using any framework (LangGraph, Agno, Pydantic AI, etc.)
• Prior experience working in a user-facing product role
• Active Security clearance or ability to obtain one and desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues
• Prior experience developing AI-native products

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel