Teams at Interplay Venture Capital

Build and lead Lykos’s business development, sales, capture, and government affairs functions. Secure OEM agreements, qualify repairable part families, convert defense sustainment needs into funded programs, and develop government and industry relationships. Manage capture plans, proposals, forecasting, contracts, and customer feedback while supporting product strategy, facility acquisitions, and policy development. The role requires deep defense or aerospace sustainment and acquisition experience, strong DoW and OEM relationships, contract-closing expertise, technical fluency, and willingness to travel extensively.

Embed with business teams to understand workflows, rapidly build and ship internal tools, integrations, APIs, and AI-powered features. Develop production software across frontend and backend systems, integrate LLM automation, translate ambiguous problems into technical solutions, gather user feedback, and document durable solutions. The role requires strong communication, end-to-end application delivery, SQL and API knowledge, and 0–2 years of software engineering experience.

Supports an AI operations platform by documenting business workflows, testing and QAing AI protocols, triaging bugs, prototyping tools and integrations, maintaining documentation, conducting research, and completing frontend, backend, and API development tasks. The intern collaborates with engineers and business teams while building production solutions using programming languages, databases, APIs, and AI/LLM platforms.