Engineering Manager, AI Platform

1 month ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs is a defense company that combines top engineering talent with decades of mission experience to deliver state-of-the-art technology to those in need. They specialize in a foreign text workflow platform, Decrypt, designed for national secu...

Aerospace & Defense
11-50
$87M raised

Description

  • Set the technical direction, operating model, and roadmap for the AI Platform organization.
  • Own the standard pipelines, shared services, and operational patterns for reliable data and model enrichments.
  • Lead development of durable agent execution capabilities, including orchestration, state and workflow management, reliability, observability, evaluation, and quality controls.
  • Define reusable platform standards, interfaces, and engineering practices for product teams.
  • Improve measurement, testing, evaluation, and feedback-loop practices to raise correctness, safety, and usefulness in production.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Mission, Security, and Infrastructure teams to prioritize platform investments.
  • Make pragmatic tradeoffs between velocity, reliability, security, and mission impact.
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers and engineering leaders.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, customer empathy, and mission impact.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager leading and coaching software engineering teams.
  • 5+ years of hands-on machine learning experience.
  • 2+ years building agentic AI systems in production.
  • Experience building or operating platforms used by multiple internal product or engineering teams.
  • Deep familiarity with AI/ML or agentic systems in production, including orchestration, evaluation, observability, quality, reliability, and cost.
  • Experience leading workflow, data, ML, or service platform teams with strong operational standards.
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity while balancing speed, reliability, security, and mission impact.
  • Strong data-driven decision making, communication, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership.
  • Proficiency with Python, PostgreSQL or other relational databases, AWS or other cloud services, and modern distributed-systems and workflow-engineering patterns.
  • Willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites.
  • U.S. Citizenship, required to access U.S.-only data systems.
  • Experience with agent frameworks and workflow orchestration systems such as LangGraph, Temporal, Agno, or similar tools (nice to have).
  • Experience with ML platforms, data pipelines, model evaluation, or retrieval and enrichment systems (nice to have).
  • Experience building secure, observable, and highly reliable systems in regulated or mission-critical environments (nice to have).
  • Active security clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one (nice to have).
  • Prior experience building software for defense, national security, or intelligence use cases (nice to have).

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Remote-friendly work with WeWork access.
  • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide time off at the end of each year.
  • 401(k) match.
  • Lifestyle and wellbeing stipends.
  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty.
  • Fully paid parental leave.
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.

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