Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries. They are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Mission Agents engineering team in designing and shipping an agent-powered mission console for national security operations.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Guide the implementation and scaling of robust agentic workflows that enable missions at scale, using modern agent frameworks and patterns
- Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes aligned with real-world operator workflows
- Help define and shape how users are enabled by AI and agents at Vannevar, balancing ambitious product vision with reliable execution
- Reduce friction and duplication across the team by building strong technical patterns, reusable services, and clear product engineering practices
- Grow and mentor a high-performing team of full-stack engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on pragmatism, velocity, ownership, and mission impact
- Collaborate with Design, Platform, and Product teams to deliver durable, reliable, agentic software
Skills
- 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
- Active security clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one
- Prior experience building software for defense, national security or intelligence use cases
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote friendly with WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
- 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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