Job Description
Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter our adversaries. In the 21st century conflict moves at algorithmic speed and foresight equals firepower. Our agentic AI is purpose-built to compete with China—from cross-Strait conflict to gray zone coercion. Trained on the most mission-relevant datasets in defense our technology models adversary behavior simulates campaigns and recommends the best course of action to decision makers. Our AI systems are some of the most trusted in the industry and actively used on the front lines of the Indo-Pacific to keep the peace and save lives.
Exceptional technology starts with exceptional people. Vannevar is a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft. We’re building a company defined by mission impact user empathy and disciplined growth. In just three years we grew from $3M to $80M in ARR achieved early profitability and reached unicorn status—proving that disruption doesn’t require an ego and staying power doesn’t mean standing still.
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 a opportunity to make an impact as we take it to the next level.
Note: this role is also open to staff+ candidates.
What you’ll do- Design build and ship a cutting edge identity search platform using TypeScript React Tailwind and Node.js
- Partner with customers mission owners designers and other engineers to understand user workflows and create 10x better solutions for their problems
- Implement and maintain search and agentic AI systems for high-scale data both tabular and graph shaped
- Help define and shape the future of the product
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Expertise in TypeScript Node.js Postgres and AWS
- Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g. Elasticsearch OpenSearch)
- Prior experience working in a user-facing product role
- Active Security clearance or ability to obtain one and desire to travel to visit users collect feedback and debug issues
- Prior experience developing AI-native products
- Understanding of search concepts like indexing ranking query parsing and tokenization
- 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.
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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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04/14/2026
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