Jobs at Vannevar

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.

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.

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 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.

The Product Manager will lead the Mission Agents team, translating user needs into actionable product direction while collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.

Lead the AI Platform team to build and scale ML and agent runtimes, including data/model enrichments, orchestration, observability, evaluation, and reliability. Set platform strategy, define standards, prioritize cross-functional work, and grow engineers while balancing velocity, security, and operational rigor for mission-critical defense applications.

The Controller will modernize the finance stack, lead accounting tasks, ensure accuracy in financial reporting, and partner with management on strategic decisions while building scalable finance processes.

Develop scalable machine learning services for data enrichment, managing the ML lifecycle from model training to deployment, and ensuring performance and reliability standards.