Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter our adversaries. In the 21st century, conflict moves at algorithmic speed and foresight equals firepower. Our agentic AI is purpose-built to compete with China—from cross-Strait conflict to gray zone coercion. Trained on the most mission-relevant datasets in defense, our technology models adversary behavior, simulates campaigns, and recommends the best course of action to decision makers. Our AI systems are some of the most trusted in the industry and actively used on the front lines of the Indo-Pacific to keep the peace and save lives.
Exceptional technology starts with exceptional people. Vannevar is a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft. We’re building a company defined by mission impact, user empathy, and disciplined growth. In just three years, we grew from $3M to $80M in ARR, achieved early profitability, and reached unicorn status—proving that disruption doesn’t require an ego, and staying power doesn’t mean standing still.
We're looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead our Targeted Collection Engineering team, specializing in data collection and processing to support publicly available information (PAI) workflows for national security customers. You'll be tasked with building and leading a team that focuses on gathering and leveraging publicly available data across a variety of sources. The team also owns a managed attribution browser that enables our customers to safely browse web resources. This team plays a crucial role in powering Vannevar’s product suite, while also supporting new product initiatives.
What You’ll Do- Team leadership: Grow and mentor a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on reliability, ownership, and delivering high-impact platform data collection capabilities.
- Strategy and technical direction: Define the roadmap and technical vision for data access and collection capabilities, ensuring our data is fresh, reliable, and at the scale required for our products.
- Data product development: Design and build scalable, reliable data-intensive applications for collecting and warehousing publicly available information.
- Product ownership: Own and enhance a managed attribution browser that’s a critical part of internal and external customer workflows.
- Cross-functional execution: Partner with Product, Mission, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to understand, prioritize, and deliver foundational data and managed attribution browser capabilities
- Engineering leadership: 3+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, with a track record of delivering complex technical initiatives and growing engineers.
- Data Collection experience: significant engineering experience across networking, web scraping, browser automation, managed attribution, operational security best practices, anti-bot technology, and distributed systems.
- Product and customer mindset: Demonstrated ability to partner closely with product, engineering, and operational stakeholders to deliver solutions that balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical excellence.
- Judgment and execution: Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and make sound tradeoffs.
- Communication and influence: Excellent communication skills and a track record of driving alignment across teams, influencing technical direction, and building strong cross-functional partnerships.
- Must hold an Active US security clearance.
- 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
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.
Skills Required
- 3+ years leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams
- Significant engineering experience in networking, web scraping, browser automation, and managed attribution
- Experience with operational security best practices and anti-bot technology
- Experience building distributed, data-intensive systems and data warehousing
- Product and customer mindset with ability to partner across Product, Mission, Infrastructure, and Engineering
- Proven judgment and ability to lead through ambiguity and tradeoffs
- Excellent communication and cross-functional influence skills
- Must hold an active US security clearance
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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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