Engineering Manager, Mission Agents

4 hours, 12 minutes 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

  • Lead the Mission Agents engineering team in designing, building, and shipping an agent-powered mission console.
  • Guide the implementation and scaling of agentic workflows that support missions at scale.
  • Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive outcomes.
  • Help define how users are enabled by AI and agents, balancing product vision with reliable execution.
  • Build technical patterns, reusable services, and product engineering practices that reduce friction and duplication.
  • Grow and mentor a high-performing team of full-stack engineers.
  • Foster a culture centered on pragmatism, velocity, ownership, and mission impact.
  • Collaborate with Design, Platform, and Product teams to deliver durable and reliable software.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience leading and building software engineering teams, ideally in product engineering, AI/ML, or related domains.
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience with strong technical judgment across full-stack systems.
  • Familiarity with agentic AI products and workflows, including frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, Pydantic AI, or similar systems.
  • Strong product instincts and experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows and ship solutions.
  • Ability to lead teams through ambiguity while balancing speed, reliability, security, and mission impact.
  • Track record of data-driven decision making.
  • Excellent communication skills, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership.
  • Proficiency with Python, TypeScript, or similar languages; PostgreSQL or other relational databases; and AWS or other cloud services.
  • Willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites.
  • U.S. Citizenship, required to access U.S.-only data systems.
  • Active security clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one (preferred).
  • Prior experience building software for defense, national security, or intelligence use cases (preferred).

Benefits

  • Salary range of $200,000-$260,000 plus equity.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Remote-friendly work with WeWork access.
  • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide year-end time off.
  • 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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