Senior Software Engineer - Agents Platform
Vannevar Labs · Remote
CHECKED 18H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build the platform powering AI agents for high-impact government missions.
- Enable data enrichment pipelines and async alerting across defense products.
- Deploy forward with operational units supporting real-world combat missions.
What they offer
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO with federal holiday downtime and year-end break
- 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
Ideal candidate
A mission-driven technical leader who loves building trusted tooling and raising quality standards. You evangelize best practices and care deeply about reliable AI that serves real-world operators.
Requirements
- 5+ years building and deploying backend, infrastructure, and/or ML systems in production
- Recent experience building with agent frameworks like LangGraph, Claude SDK, Google ADK
- Advanced software engineering skills across distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
- History of building great tooling and evangelizing it in a medium-large organization
- Passion for reliable, performant AI systems that create value for end users
- U.S. Person status required to access U.S.-only data systems
- remote policy
- Remote friendly with WeWork access
Lab profile
About Vannevar Labs
Builds AI systems for the Department of War's most consequential missions.
What they build
- Core platform
- Collection Platform
- Security Platform
Known for
- Forward-deployed engineering with mission owners
- Rapid fielding for combat operations
Key facts
- 125 deployments across branches and combatant commands
- 9,000+ users on fielded product