# Engineering Manager, Mission Agents
**Company:** [Vannevar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vannevar)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $200K-$260K
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Postgres, AWS, LangGraph, Agno, Pydantic Ai
**Posted:** 2026-05-11
> Leads Mission Agents engineering team building agent-powered mission consoles and full-stack AI workflows for national security. Requires 3+ years managing teams, 8+ years software development, and expertise in TypeScript, Python, React, AWS.
## Job Description
## 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
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