Vannevar
Forward Deployed Engineer - Software Modernization (TS/SCI Clearance
Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Senior
No sponsorship$40k-$50kDetected 36 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaC++Cloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDSystems EngineeringCommunication
About the role
- Our Mission teams operate like small startups within the Vannevar umbrella.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, partnering with government and industry teams to understand mission requirements and deliver technical outcomes.
- Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and mission experts to design and deliver software solutions that address complex systems engineering challenges.
- Develop technical recommendations, demonstrations, and modernization plans that help government program offices adopt AI-enabled software engineering capabilities.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and deploying production systems across the DoW or IC.
Requirements
- Candidate should have strong technical communication skills and the ability to lead complex technical discussions with both engineers and senior stakeholders.
- Proficiency in one or more of TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, or similar programming languages.
- Experience with modern software development and deployment practices, including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.
- Experience with Ada, CMS-2, C++, Java, or other legacy systems languages.
- Experience with software architecture reviews, systems engineering, requirements management, verification, and validation.
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.
- What we're looking for
- 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.
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