
Vannevar
Palo Alto, CA
AI-powered defense software for national security missions
About
Vannevar Labs builds agentic AI and data collection platforms for U.S. defense, homeland security, and national security missions. They serve military branches, government agencies, and operators with tools for information dominance, targeting, and decision advantage in modern conflicts. Their technology, powered by proprietary datasets, supports over 125 deployments to restore deterrence and reclaim strategic advantage.
Tech stack
React, AWS, Python, Postgres, Node.js, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, Tailwind, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Redis
Perks & benefits
Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Unlimited PTO, 401k match, Parental leave
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22Leads full-lifecycle recruiting for technical and senior engineering roles, developing sourcing strategies, partnering with hiring managers, and managing multiple candidate pipelines. Requires 5+ years of recruiting experience, including technology or startup and defense or adjacent-industry experience.
Manages federal contracts, compliance processes, registrations, and agreements across legal, capture, revenue, and finance teams. Requires a bachelor’s degree, at least three years of relevant experience, and knowledge of FAR, DFARS, and government contract vehicles.
The Application Security Engineer will embed security practices throughout the SaaS software development lifecycle, including threat modeling, automated testing, vulnerability remediation, and incident response. The role requires 5+ years of application or product security experience and expertise with DevSecOps workflows, web applications, and CI/CD automation.
Senior software engineer responsible for advancing a state-of-the-art search and information retrieval platform, improving relevance and latency while collaborating with ML, product, and mission teams. Requires 7+ years of backend development experience and deep expertise in search, NLP, and machine learning.
Leads the AI Platform organization, owning machine-learning infrastructure and agent runtime capabilities used across product and mission teams. Requires engineering management experience, deep hands-on machine learning expertise, production agentic AI experience, and proficiency with Python, relational databases, cloud services, and distributed systems.
Build and own Vannevar's centralized authentication, authorization, and identity platform as a full-stack engineer. Design scalable backend systems and intuitive frontend interfaces for permission management, partnering closely with product, design, and security teams in a defense tech environment.
Lead customer engagements with government cyber stakeholders to identify mission problems, shape AI pilots, and drive adoption of defense technology into operational programs. Requires 5+ years in the U.S. cyber mission community and an active Top Secret clearance.
Forward-deployed strategist embedded with Tampa military customers to configure AI product workflows, troubleshoot issues, and generate mission impact. Requires active TS/SCI clearance and onsite presence.
Forward Deployed Engineer leading software modernization efforts for defense customers. Requires 5+ years building production systems, customer-facing technical leadership, and experience with secure environments and modern deployment practices.
Senior mission-facing leader driving adoption of AI defense technology within government program offices. Requires 15-20+ years defense experience and Top Secret clearance.
Lead the Security Platform team building centralized identity, authentication, and access management infrastructure. Drive strategy, execution, and adoption of secure-by-default access capabilities across engineering teams.
First Controller role responsible for leading month-end close, financial reporting, audits, and migrating from QuickBooks to a modern AI-first ERP while building scalable finance processes. Requires CPA, 8+ years experience, Big 4 audit background, and strong automation skills.
Defines product direction for mission agent systems that execute user intent through chat, tasking, and persistent workflows in defense AI. Synthesizes conflicting inputs, partners with engineering and users to deliver high-impact capabilities under constraints.
Senior leader driving adoption of AI technology in government defense programs by leading engagements with program offices, shaping pilots, pitching solutions, and converting them to funded programs. Requires 15-20+ years defense experience and Top Secret clearance.
Owns build and deployment automation, platform health, scaling, and self-service tools in a multi-account AWS environment. Requires 5+ years DevOps experience, deep AWS knowledge, IaC tools like Terraform/Pulumi, Docker, Python/Bash scripting.
Lead development of AI Agents platform, designing best practices, tooling for quality assurance, and governance solutions. Requires 5+ years in backend/infra/ML systems and experience with agent frameworks like LangGraph or Claude SDK.
Build and ship fullstack features for a defense AI platform providing situational awareness to operators, handling data ingestion, backend APIs, frontend UIs, and AI analysis. Requires 5+ years experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, and search engines like Elasticsearch.
Forward Deployed Engineer owns end-to-end development and deployment of custom software solutions for national security missions, interfacing with government stakeholders. Requires 5+ years full stack experience, DoD RMF compliance, and active TS/SCI clearance.
Leads definition and evolution of foundational platform capabilities across engineering organizations, focusing on system primitives like authorization, identity, and data access. Requires staff-level TPM experience, strong systems reasoning, and ability to drive cross-team alignment without formal authority.
Develop scalable ML services for data enrichment, managing the full lifecycle from model training with PyTorch/TensorFlow to deploying optimized inference using ONNX/vLLM. Requires 5+ years experience in production ML systems, strong deployment skills, and software engineering proficiency.
Lead deployment of AI software products to DoD-compliant environments (IL6, JWICS), owning technical roadmaps, security hardening, and cross-functional alignment in a React/Node/Python stack. Requires 7+ years DevSecOps experience, AWS expertise, and active TS/SCI clearance.
Forward Deployed Engineer owns end-to-end development and deployment of custom software solutions for national security missions, interfacing with government stakeholders. Requires 5+ years fullstack experience, DoD RMF compliance, and active TS/SCI clearance.