Engineering Manager, Mission Agents

What You’ll Do

• Product engineering: Lead the Mission Agents team in designing, building, and shipping a cutting-edge agent-powered mission console using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Postgres, and AWS.
• Agent leadership: Guide the implementation and scaling of robust agentic workflows that enable missions at scale, using modern agent frameworks and patterns.
• Customer and mission partnership: Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes aligned with real-world operator workflows.
• AI-native product strategy: Help define and shape how users are enabled by AI and agents at Vannevar, balancing ambitious product vision with reliable execution.
• Developer and team acceleration: Reduce friction and duplication across the team by building strong technical patterns, reusable services, and clear product engineering practices.
• Team leadership: Grow and mentor a high-performing team of full-stack engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on pragmatism, velocity, ownership, and mission impact.
• Cross-functional execution: Collaborate with Design, Platform, and Product teams to deliver durable, reliable, agentic software.

What We Look For

• 3+ years of experience leading and building software engineering teams, ideally in product engineering, AI/ML, or related domains.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with strong technical judgment across full-stack systems.
• Familiarity with agentic AI products and workflows, including frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, Pydantic AI, or similar systems.
• Strong product instincts and prior experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows, collect feedback, and ship better solutions.
• Ability to lead teams through ambiguity, balancing speed, reliability, security, and mission impact.
• Track record of data-driven decision making - argue with metrics, not gut feelings.
• Excellent communication skills, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership.
• Proficiency with:
  • Coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar
  • PostgreSQL, or other relational databases.
  • Software development in AWS or other cloud services.
• Willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites.
• U.S. Citizenship, required to access U.S.-only data systems.

Nice to Have

• Active security clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one.
• Prior experience building software for defense, national security or intelligence use cases.

Compensation

• Salary range: $200,000 - $260,000 + equity.
• Individual pay determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Benefits:

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