1 day ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy, architecture, delivery plans, and engineering priorities across a portfolio of customer accounts.
- Work directly with national security customers and end users to understand mission needs, enterprise architectures, network topologies, and operational constraints.
- Shape new opportunities with customer success, business development, legal, and contracting teams, including technical contributions to ROMs and SOWs.
- Prototype, implement, deploy, and scale AI-enabled capabilities using the Agent Control Plane and determine when work should transition to product teams.
- Contribute reusable engineering patterns and field-driven improvements to platform and product planning.
- Create architecture and system-design artifacts, track work in Jira and Notion, and coordinate security, compliance, and ATO requirements.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads, with responsibility for performance feedback, reviews, and development planning as the portfolio grows.
- Travel up to 20% for customer discovery and delivery support.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on full-stack engineering experience contributing to architecture, code, integrations, and deployment.
- Experience leading technical delivery on enterprise accounts worth at least $5 million.
- Track record of taking software from pilot or R&D through enterprise adoption, scaling, and ongoing support.
- Experience building in government or similarly regulated environments, including DoD RMF and NIST SP 800-53 familiarity.
- Experience working with government IT or program offices on requirements, architecture, and integrations.
- Experience integrating government systems, including data platforms, IAM, SIEMs, and cross-domain solutions.
- Strong production software development experience with Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, backend services, APIs, and modern web applications using React or a comparable framework.
- Experience deploying and operating containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes in AWS or comparable environments.
- Working knowledge of relational databases, search, object storage, and caching systems such as Postgres, Elasticsearch, S3, and Redis.
- Strong communication across technical, customer, product, and business stakeholders.
- Active U.S. Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
- Experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications or agents, including tool and data integrations, model context providers, evaluation, observability, and reliability, is especially valuable.
- Experience with DoD Cloud Computing SRG impact levels IL2, IL4, IL5, or IL6 is especially valuable.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of $150,000–$215,000 plus equity and 401K match.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Remote-first culture with work available from anywhere in the U.S.; full-time employees receive WeWork access.
- Unlimited PTO with vacation and holiday schedules.
- Monthly mental health, wellness, and 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.
- Regular in-person engagement with customers and engineers; listed locations include Washington, DC, San Diego, CA, and Norfolk, VA.
- Up to 20% travel for customer discovery and delivery support.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Vannevar
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.