Jobs at Vannevar

Forward-deployed Mission Strategist embedded with Navy unmanned surface vessel operators in Norfolk. The role translates operational needs into software capabilities, configures and validates workflows, tests and troubleshoots releases on government systems, prioritizes mission problems, and supports experimentation. The successful candidate will work independently in ambiguous environments, collaborate closely with operators and engineering teams, and help shape USV operational doctrine and software.

Mission Lead Interns embed with defense customers, identify mission problems, configure and test AI workflows, troubleshoot deployments, onboard users, demonstrate mission impact, and expand customer relationships. The role requires independent execution in ambiguous environments, close coordination with Product, Engineering, Mission, Security, and Operations teams, frequent customer-site travel, and a current TS/SCI clearance.

Own platform reliability, observability, incident response, scaling, capacity planning, and deployment automation. Monitor system health, debug and resolve incidents, build logging and monitoring tools, improve CI/CD pipelines, develop self-service automation, and strengthen high-availability delivery systems. The role requires clear incident communication, post-incident learning, and collaboration across engineering teams in secure, high-side environments.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Forward-deployed Mission Lead embedded with Department of War customers. Builds user trust, translates ambiguous mission problems into testable workflows, configures and troubleshoots AI-enabled software, onboards users, and partners with engineering and product teams to improve deployed systems. The role operates independently in secure environments, represents the company with government customers, develops new user groups, and requires approximately 75% out-of-state travel from a Minneapolis base.

Deploys and supports AI-enabled defense software alongside Department of War users. The Mission Lead embeds with customer teams, identifies mission problems, configures and tests workflows, troubleshoots releases, onboards users, develops new user groups, and translates successful outcomes into deployment growth. This Tampa-based role requires independent operation in secure environments, strong technical intuition, customer trust-building, frequent travel, and an active Top Secret clearance.

Conduct full-lifecycle recruiting for technical and engineering roles, emphasizing creative sourcing of senior talent. Partner with hiring managers to define requirements and interview processes, improve recruiting workflows, manage multiple candidate pipelines, and deliver an excellent candidate experience. The role requires recruiting experience in technology startups and defense or adjacent industries, along with strong sourcing and process-management skills.

Manage federal government contracts from pre-award activities through closeout, maintaining registrations, reporting, disclosures, contract files, compliance workflows, and performance monitoring. Support negotiations and administration of customer, subcontractor, and vendor agreements. Develop policies addressing FAR, DFARS, export control, OFAC, and subcontract requirements while collaborating across legal, finance, revenue, and capture teams. Build AI-enabled processes, respond to contract inquiries, and identify performance risks.

Build and scale application security for a SaaS platform by integrating SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, and container/IaC checks into CI/CD. Partner with engineering and DevOps teams on threat modeling, secure code reviews, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and secure development practices. The role also supports compliance goals and translates security risks clearly to engineers.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Own customer-facing mission outcomes for government and defense stakeholders. Lead engagements, translate mission needs into requirements and measurable plans, shape pilots and deployment pathways, coordinate Product and Engineering delivery, manage operating cadences and executive updates, support onboarding and adoption, and identify expansion opportunities. The role requires strong technical fluency, operational execution, and experience navigating regulated or classified environments, budgets, requirements, and contracting processes.

Vannevar is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the deployment of AI-enabled software products in government environments, focusing on security and compliance. Responsibilities include roadmap ownership, technical design, mentorship, and documentation.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll architect and build software solutions for national security, working closely with mission teams and stakeholders, ensuring reliable deployments and user engagement.

Owner of Vannevar's authentication and authorization platform: build tenant-isolated auth systems, self-service user/group/permission admin UI, tooling to visualize and validate access, feature-flag and platform management interfaces, and shared authorization capabilities across products.

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

The DevOps Engineer will manage build and deployment automation, improve platform health, and develop self-service tools while ensuring robust DevOps practices with AWS.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build a cutting-edge identity search platform and implement AI systems for defense applications, working closely with cross-functional teams to enhance user workflows and support national security.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own mission software solutions, engaging with stakeholders, and ensuring technical delivery from design to deployment.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design best practices for AI Agents, develop standards, collaborate on product opportunities, and stay updated on emerging Agent techniques.

Lead the definition and evolution of foundational platform capabilities, improving structural coherence across engineering organizations, and resolving cross-organizational problems.