Jobs at Vannevar Labs

• Lead mission engagements. Build trusted relationships with operational, technical, and leadership stakeholders to understand mission needs, constraints, and success criteria.
• Translate mission problems into plans. Turn mission needs into clear problem statements, requirements, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

• Machine Learning platform: The standard pipelines and shared services that power reliable, scalable data and model enrichments
• Agents platform: The runtime foundation for building and operating agents, with a focus on durable execution, observability, evaluation, quality, and safe, dependable operation at scale.

• Build and scale Vannevar’s centralized authentication and authorization platform, including tenant isolation across customer environments—from development through classified deployments.
• Own the internal self-service platform for user, group, and permission management; partner with Design to deliver intuitive administrative experiences for developers and mission teams.

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with stakeholders across Navy program offices, PAEs, SYSCOMs, warfare centers, and operational commands.
• Identify and develop new mission opportunities by understanding capability gaps, operational requirements, and acquisition priorities across the Navy enterprise.

• Demonstrated interest in public policy, government relations, community affairs, or civic engagement (internships, campus work, or community leadership welcome)
• Strong research, writing, and communication skills

• Lead cyber mission engagements. Build trusted relationships with operators, analysts, planners, technical teams, and senior leaders across the cyber mission community to understand operational priorities, mission objectives, and capability gaps.
• Translate mission needs into actionable plans. Turn operational challenges into clear problem ...

• Embed with users. Sit on site every day with customer groups in Tampa and build deep intuition for their mission.
• Build trust. Earn credibility by understanding user problems and helping solve them over time.

• Deploy, customize, and extend Vannevar's agentic software modernization platform to accelerate refactoring, architecture modernization, testing, and software delivery for mission-critical defense systems.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, partnering with gove...

• Lead engagements with program offices (PEOs, PMWs, PMOs, and equivalent organizations) to identify mission problems that Vannevar Labs’ technology can solve.
• Translate program needs into technical narratives, clearly explaining how our software and agent-based capabilities map to requirements, constraints, and outcomes.

• Team leadership: Grow and mentor a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on security, reliability, ownership, and delivering high-impact platform capabilities.
• Strategy and technical direction: Define the roadmap and technical vision for authentication, ...

• Lead the migration from QuickBooks to a modern AI-first ERP (DualEntry, Rillet, Campfire, or similar) and — when required, likely in 2027 — add an inventory management system
• Build automations and AI-native workflows into close, AP, AR, expense, and reporting — replacing manual process wherever possible and enabling more granular and accurate financial data for business decisions

• Synthesize signal into direction. Take in messy, conflicting inputs and determine what actually matters.
• Define how agents behave. Shape primitives like objectives, constraints, trust tiers, and evaluation criteria.

• Lead engagements with program offices (PEOs, PMWs, PMOs, and equivalent organizations) to identify mission problems that Vannevar Labs’ technology can solve.
• Translate program needs into technical narratives, clearly explaining how our software and agent-based capabilities map to requirements, constraints, and outcomes.

• Develop, maintain, and be responsible for overall platform health, scaling and planning.
• Developing self-service tools and automating things to improve data engineering efficiency.

• Design and evangelize best practices for building AI Agents
• Drive standards and tooling for Agent quality including evaluation frameworks, test suites, and benchmark creation

• 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

• Architect, build, and own software solutions deployed directly to customer environments in support of mission-critical use cases
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, engaging with senior technical leaders to understand mission needs and represent Vannevar’s technical approach

• Authorization and policy models
• Identity and ownership boundaries

• Design and build scalable ML services for enrichment workflows, including model training pipelines and high-performance inference APIs
• Deploy and optimize models using modern inference libraries and frameworks (ONNX, vLLM, TensorRT, etc.) to achieve low-latency, high-throughput performance

• Own the technical roadmap and execution plan to achieve successful deployment of a key product suite to a government authorized system.

Design, build, and harden our product suite within a compliant cloud environment.
Work cross-functionally across product teams to help align timelines and develop solutions hands-on to meet security controls.
Implement strong change control: security impact analysis, testing/validation plans, and stakeholder notifications for significant changes.