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Senior Software Engineer

Salary not listed • Remote • Remote • Full-time

Posted 1d ago

Remote Work Policy

Fully remote

Employment Type

Full-time

Categories

AI Engineer

About the job

Vannevar is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer to advance the design and implementation of our Decision Advantage product. This critical platform enables defense and intelligence operators to gain comprehensive situational awareness of the information environment, helping them understand and counter adversary influence operations and information warfare tactics. You will build the applications our warfighters and intelligence analysts use daily for mission-critical work, developing advanced products and features for information distillation, analysis, and visualization that enable rapid assessment of the information environment. Working alongside designers, engineers, subject matter experts, and operational users, you will transform complex intelligence requirements into intuitive, mission-ready workflows that directly support national security objectives. In this role, you will work in a small cross-functional team focused on delivering Decision Advantage capabilities to defense customers engaged in strategic competition with near-peer adversaries. You will work on all aspects of the product - everything from data (extraction, ingestion), backend (storage, indexing, APIs), frontend, AI analysis (agents), and more. The platform has a strong foundation to build upon and there is a ton of opportunity to make an impact as we take it to the next level.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship a data collection and search platform using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, and Node.js
  • Collaborate with customers, mission owners, designers, and engineers to understand user workflows and create improved solutions
  • Implement and maintain search and agentic AI systems for high-scale data, including tabular and graph-shaped data
  • Help define and shape the future direction of the product

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and AWS
  • Strong customer focus and product intuition, with an ability to think in terms of workflows and end-user experience
  • Prior experience developing AI-native products (nice to have)
  • Prior experience working in a user-facing product role (nice to have)
  • Active security clearance or ability to obtain one (nice to have)
  • Desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues (nice to have)

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Remote friendly with WeWork access
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar
  • 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

About Vannevar Labs