Engineering Manager, Collection

Vannevar Labs; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

WeWork access (remote friendly)

Job summary

Vannevar Labs is seeking an engineering leader to grow a high-performing team and guide data access and collection capabilities. You will shape the roadmap, ensure reliability, and scale data-intensive applications that collect and warehouse publicly available information.

The role requires 3+ years leading software teams, a product-minded approach, strong judgment, and excellent communication. Active US security clearance is mandatory for this position.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading and developing high-performing software teams.
• Ability to balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical quality.
• Strong judgment to make tradeoffs under ambiguity.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and influence.
• Active US security clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, fostering ownership and reliability.
• Define roadmap and technical direction for data access and collection capabilities.
• Design and build scalable data-intensive applications for collecting and warehousing public information.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product mindset

Judgment

Communication

Security clearance

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.

About The Role

What You’ll Do

• Team leadership: Grow and mentor a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on reliability, ownership, and delivering high-impact platform data collection capabilities.
• Strategy and technical direction: Define the roadmap and technical vision for data access and collection capabilities, ensuring our data is fresh, reliable, and at the scale required for our products.
• Data product development: Design and build scalable, reliable data-intensive applications for collecting and warehousing publicly available information.

What we’re looking for

• Engineering leadership: 3+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, with a track record of delivering complex technical initiatives and growing engineers.
• Product and customer mindset: Demonstrated ability to partner closely with product, engineering, and operational stakeholders to deliver solutions that balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical excellence.
• Judgment and execution: Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and make sound tradeoffs.
• Communication and influence: Excellent communication skills and a track record of driving alignment across teams, influencing technical direction, and building strong cross-functional partnerships.
• Must hold an Active US security clearance.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here.

What we offer

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• 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
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Vannevar is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

IMPORTANT NOTICE
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.