Cybersecurity Researcher

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Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Software • Defense
Vannevar builds AI systems to solve America's hardest national security challenges.
The Role

Our mission is to be the technology backbone for strategic competition against peer adversaries. These missions – including intelligence, information operations, special activities, and perception management – are happening today and their success or failure will determine if we go to war tomorrow.

We've been on the front lines of these missions since 2019, and have grown to support a wide range of missions across all US service branches, multiple combatant commands, partner nations, interagency stakeholders, and the intelligence community. We deploy both hardware and software products to support people on the front lines that span collection, planning / assessments, and effects.

We've grown from $3M in run-rate revenue in 2021 to $80M in run-rate revenue today. We've been profitable since 2022 and have raised $91M in venture capital funding through Series B. We're valued at $1.5B as of 2025.

About The RoleVannevar Labs is expanding from one product (Decrypt) to an ecosystem of products. One of these products supports information operations and electronic warfare. In the short-term, you will lead intelligence collection of the dark web sources relevant to our customer's missions. You will interface with third-party data vendors to compliment first-party collection and own the data collection and ingest process. In the long term, you'll help drive the technical vision for cybersecurity as we expand our companies footprint into cyber domain operations.
What You'll Do
  • Aid in the monitoring, discovery and collection of data from various sources
  • Conduct technical security research on topics such as OSINT techniques and browser fingerprinting
  • Aid in the development of methodologies for managing attribution such as the development and maintenance of personas in non-standard environments
  • Assist with research into process automation workflows
  • Collaborate side-by-side with our engineers, leveraging your communication skills
  • Assist with bespoke research as necessary 
  • Assist with the development and documentation of new process to support the team
  • Assist with the reverse-engineering and analysis of new data sources 
What we look for
  • Experience conducting OSINT investigations of varying degrees of complexity
  • Experience working with dark web data
  • Experience working in different languages such as Mandarin
  • Meticulous and paranoid about digital identity tracking
  • Knowledge of fundamentals of cybersecurity and operational security
  • Strong ethics for handling of sensitive data and adherence to data privacy rules and compliance standards
  • Excellent communication, teamwork skills, and project ownership
  • U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems  

Nice to haves

  • Experience supporting cyber investigations in various functions
  • Experience working in a cloud environment
  • Understanding of OS fundamentals
  • Reverse Engineering Experience
  • Experience with a broad variety of technologies and platforms
  • Experience with a high-level programming language such as Python, Node.js, Java, Ruby or similar 
What we offer

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: 

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
  • Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
  • Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance 
  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty
  • Fully paid parental leave 
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

 

Vannevar Labs is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

 

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.

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Arlington, Virginia
225 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Vannevar combines Silicon Valley innovation with former special operators to build AI for real-world national security outcomes. Since our founding in 2019, Vannevar has deployed its technology across 125 missions, safeguarding our service members and improving our country's deterrence. We believe our military service members and intelligence officers deserve access to the best technology American innovation can offer, and we are mobilizing frontier technology for this mission. Our founders have 30 years of combined experience across AI labs, national security strategy, intelligence agencies and special operations. We're supported by a number of leading VCs, including Felicis, DFJ Growth, Point72, Costanoa, and General Catalyst. Vannevar is one of the most capital efficient defense tech companies, reaching early profitability and becoming a defense tech unicorn in 2024.

Why Work With Us

We pride ourselves on being a team of passionate, low-ego professionals who share a commitment to engineering excellence and a genuine concern for the people and AI agents we deliver. Vannevar is a company that truly cares about its people and one of our core principles is "put your wellbeing first". ​

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