Jobs at Vannevar

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.

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.

Lead customer-facing cyber mission engagements: identify mission problems, translate needs into technical plans, shape pilots, drive adoption, coordinate Product/Engineering, manage stakeholders, and operate in secure/classified environments. Requires deep knowledge of U.S. cyber mission actors and translating AI-enabled capabilities into measurable mission outcomes.

Embed on-site with Tampa-based military users to translate mission problems into testable hypotheses, configure and troubleshoot AI product workflows, generate mission wins, and liaise with engineering and leadership to improve fielded systems.

Serve as the technical lead modernizing mission-critical defense software: deploy and extend agentic modernization platforms, analyze large codebases, design scalable architectures, ensure RMF/NIST-compliant deployments, and deliver production-ready solutions in classified environments.

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.

Lead customer-facing Navy engagements to identify mission problems, design pilots, and transition software capabilities into funded programs. Build trusted relationships with program offices and operators, coordinate across product and engineering teams, support demonstrations and field deployments, and navigate acquisition, budgeting, and transition pathways to drive operational adoption and long-term program success.