Vannevar builds AI systems for the Department of War's most consequential missions. We have 125 deployments across every branch and combatant command spanning our core platform and five distinct products. An an example of how we work, when major combat operations started with Iran, we fielded a new product supporting 24/7 operations and 9,000+ users in three months.
How we build is our advantage: we deploy forward with the people who own the mission. Our engineers, product team, and CTO deploy forward to the point of friction, including visiting units in Ukraine. We focus on embedding directly with operational units supporting great power competition with China, combat operations with Iran, and counter-narcotics missions.
About the role
Vannevar is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer to build geospatial applications and platform components used by warfighters and intelligence analysts. You’ll develop tools that help users explore, analyze, and visualize geospatial data to make faster, better-informed decisions. Working alongside designers, engineers, subject matter experts, and operational users, you’ll turn complex intelligence requirements into intuitive workflows that support national security missions.
In this role, you will work in a small cross-functional team focused on delivering Geospatial awareness and analysis capabilities to defense customers engaged in strategic competition with near-peer adversaries. You will work across the entire capability lifecycle, including data extraction, ingestion, and analysis, building UI libraries and full stack applications, and integrating with agentic AI analyses.
Note: this role is also open to staff+ candidates.
What you’ll do
- Build an interactive map application using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, and Postgres
- Design and maintain a modular, flexible map component compatible with the rest of the Vannevar platform
- Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and other engineers to understand user workflows and create 10x better solutions for their problems
- Display and analyze high-volume geospatial data
What we look for
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres
- Experience developing on a cloud platform (AWS preferred)
- Customer obsession and keen product intuition. You think in workflows and end-user experience, not just code.
Nice to have
- Active Security Clearance or ability to obtain one and desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues
- Expertise extracting meaningful and statistically valid insights from geospatial data
- Experience handling large-scale geospatial data
- Experience working with web-based mapping technologies
- Experience developing AI-native products
- Experience building and operating production web scrapers
- Experience working in a user-facing product role
- Experience developing in Python
- 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
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL
- Experience developing on a cloud platform, preferably AWS
- Active security clearance or ability to obtain one
- Expertise extracting meaningful and statistically valid insights from geospatial data
- Experience handling large-scale geospatial data
- Experience with web-based mapping technologies
- Experience developing AI-native products
- Experience building and operating production web scrapers
- Experience working in a user-facing product role
- Experience developing in Python
- Desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues
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Vannevar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are described as fully paid parental leave, family-planning support, and reimbursement for child and pet care during required work travel. Feedback suggests these provisions stand out as a notable strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as unlimited PTO with shared downtime around federal holidays and a company-wide year-end break. Feedback suggests employees in some roles have successfully used the policy, reinforcing its practical value.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is presented as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, alongside positive indications on plan quality from some sources. Feedback suggests healthcare sits among the more appreciated elements of the package.
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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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