Vannevar

Forward Deployed Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

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4 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, deploy, field, and own software solutions in customer environments for mission-critical use cases.
  • Serve as the primary technical contact for government customer stakeholders and senior technical leaders.
  • Own technical delivery from requirements gathering and system design through implementation, deployment, and sustainment.
  • Contribute hands-on code to improve product capabilities, performance, and scalability.
  • Build software that enables users to work with large-scale text, multimedia, and geospatial datasets spanning more than 46 languages.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product design, platform, and mission teams to deliver complex software features.
  • Provide technical input for government-facing RFIs, RFPs, Statements of Work, and white papers.
  • Integrate with government IT ecosystems while meeting security, compliance, and operational constraints.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of full-stack development experience.
  • Familiarity with relational databases such as Postgres, caching technologies such as Redis, object storage such as S3, and modern front-end frameworks such as React.
  • Experience developing and deploying software compliant with the DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF).
  • Experience interfacing with government-owned IT systems, including data platforms, IdAM providers, SIEMs, and CDSs.
  • 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 gather product feedback.
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
  • Active U.S. TS security clearance with SCI eligibility.

Benefits

  • Fully remote role with required travel of up to 20–30% to engage mission owners and deliver capabilities in the field.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • WeWork access.
  • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide time off at the end of each year.
  • 401(k) match.
  • Lifestyle and wellbeing stipends.
  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty.
  • Fully paid parental leave.
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.

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About Vannevar

51-200 employees

Vannevar Labs builds AI-driven mission software for U.S. defense, intelligence, and national security agencies, used for targeting, planning, and decision support. It sells government-focused software products powered by large adversarial data sets, including an agentic AI platform that models adversary behavior and recommends courses of action. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with deployments across U.S. government programs.

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