Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of new Cyber products in support of national security missions, focusing on the end-to-end development of the Cyber Recon platform and working directly with users in mission environments.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end development of Cyber Recon and adjacent products (backend systems, data pipelines, and user-facing applications)
- Build intuitive, high-performance interfaces for exploring and acting on complex cyber data
- Work directly with users in mission environments to understand needs, iterate quickly, and deploy into real environments
- Design systems to ingest, normalize, and analyze large-scale external attack surface data
- Translate ambiguous problems into concrete product and engineering decisions
- Drive product and technical direction for Cyber
- Deploy and support software in secure, constrained environments
- Travel 2-3 times per month to customer sites (primarily East Coast)
Skills
- 10+ years building and shipping production software systems
- Strong full-stack skills (backend systems, APIs, data modeling, modern frontend)
- Comfortable moving between frontend, backend, and product decisions on a daily basis
- Experience building user-facing products with strong usability and performance
- Experience operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with high ownership
- Experience building cybersecurity products or conducting cyber operations in government environments
- Familiarity with external attack surface management, internet-scale data collection, or adversary infrastructure analysis
- Prior experience working with classified systems or secure deployments
- Ability and willingness to obtain a CI Polygraph required
- Currently holds or previously held a CI Polygraph
Benefits
- 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
Company Overview
Vannevar builds new defense capabilities for modern conflict. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.vannevarlabs.com.