Vannevar

Vannevar

Engineering Manager, Mission Agents

New York, New York, United States

No sponsorship$200k-$260kDetected 71 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactTailwind CSSNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLAWSMachine LearningAgentic AILangGraphCybersecurityProduct StrategyLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Our platform tightens the loop from observation to action by giving warfighters cutting-edge analysis tools to make better decisions, faster.
  • This role is ideal for a product-minded engineering leader who can combine strong management fundamentals with deep technical judgment around AI-native product development.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Developer and team acceleration: Reduce friction and duplication across the team by building strong technical patterns, reusable services, and clear product engineering practices.
  • Cross-functional execution: Collaborate with Design, Platform, and Product teams to deliver durable, reliable, agentic software.
  • Ability to lead teams through ambiguity, balancing speed, reliability, security, and mission impact.

Requirements

  • U.S. Citizenship, required to access U.S.-only data systems.

Nice to have

  • Active security clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one.
  • 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.
  • Track record of data-driven decision making - argue with metrics, not gut feelings.
  • Excellent communication skills, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership.

Skills

  • Guide the implementation and scaling of robust agentic workflows that enable missions at scale, using modern agent frameworks and patterns.

Compensation

  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty

Benefits

  • We're proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees.
  • Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
  • Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
  • Fully paid parental leave
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Company info

  • Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter our adversaries.
  • In the 21st century, conflict moves at algorithmic speed and foresight equals firepower.
  • Our agentic AI is purpose-built to compete with China-from cross-Strait conflict to gray zone coercion.
  • Trained on the most mission-relevant datasets in defense, our technology models adversary behavior, simulates campaigns, and recommends the best course of action to decision makers.
  • Our AI systems are some of the most trusted in the industry and actively used on the front lines of the Indo-Pacific to keep the peace and save lives.
  • Exceptional technology starts with exceptional people.
  • Vannevar is a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft.
  • We're building a company defined by mission impact, user empathy, and disciplined growth.
  • In just three years, we grew from $3M to $80M in ARR, achieved early profitability, and reached unicorn status-proving that disruption doesn't require an ego, and staying power doesn't mean standing still.
  • We're looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead our Mission Agents engineering team.
  • 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 worlflows.
  • Strong product instincts and prior experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows, collect feedback, and ship better solutions.
  • If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!
  • We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Citizenship, required to access U
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