About the role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software and 3+ years leading teams to own and scale our agent-powered mission console at Vannevar Labs. You're a product-minded technical leader who has built agentic AI systems in production and thrives working closely with product, design, and customer teams. You'll lead a team of ~5 engineers (growing to ~7) building full-stack agentic workflows that give warfighters real decision advantage — including expanding our flagship Decrypt product to support international allied partners. This is a rare opportunity to shape how AI agents are deployed for national security at one of the fastest-growing defense tech companies in the country.

What will you be doing?

Leading the Mission Agents team (~5–7 engineers) in designing, shipping, and scaling the agent-powered mission console — splitting roughly 60–70% management and 30–40% hands-on technical work including code review, architecture, and unblocking the team
Scaling Vannevar's flagship Decrypt product and expanding its use cases to support international allied partners and new customer segments
Partnering closely with the Decision Advantage team, product managers, and designers to drive product-oriented outcomes aligned with real operator workflows
Guiding the implementation of robust agentic workflows using modern agent frameworks, ensuring pragmatic and high-impact delivery
Hiring and mentoring senior ICs to grow the team, fostering a culture of ownership, velocity, and mission impact

Vannevar Labs supports people on the front lines by building tools that deter and de-escalate conflict with America's adversaries. We build software and hardware for this mission that enable our customers to maintain maritime vigilance, disrupt misinformation, and collect non-traditional intelligence. In strategic competition, the intelligence and actions that shape conflict occur well before war itself. We build tools to win this fight now.

This mission has become urgent. The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology. As a team, we believe in public service and that our democracy and government improve only if we put serious, collective effort into improving them, including the technology our government uses.

Since our founding in 2019, we have grown to support a wide range of missions and capabilities across all U.S. service branches, multiple combatant commands, partner nations, and the intelligence community. We have been profitable since 2021, and are backed by investors including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72, Costanoa, and Felicis.

Engineering Manager, Mission Agents

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