Product Engineer - Systems Agents (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

Vannevar; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

401(k) match

Fully paid parental leave

Job summary

Vannevar is looking for a talented Product Engineer to join the Systems Agents engineering team. This role involves designing, building, and shipping coding harnesses to modernize mission-critical software systems. The successful candidate will partner with various stakeholders to create impactful AI systems.

Ideal candidates have strong software development experience, deep technical judgment, and the ability to lead teams in building robust agentic workflows for national security missions.

Qualifications

• Must have US Persons status and hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong technical judgment across full-stack systems.
• Experience with coding agents, software engineering agents, and product integration across workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Systems Agents team in designing and building a coding harness.
• Build integrations between source control systems and CI/CD platforms.
• Partner with customers and mission owners to drive outcomes aligned with workflows.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

AWS

Tools

LangGraph

OpenAI SDK

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Agent2Agent (A2A)

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

Vannevar is building the future of national security enablement with agentic AI. Our platform tightens the loop from observation to action by giving warfighters cutting‑edge analysis tools to make better decisions, faster.

We’re looking for a talented Product Engineer to join the Systems Agents engineering team. This team builds the coding harness, runtime layer, and software integrations to modernize mission‑critical software systems, reduce technical debt, refactor legacy architectures, and accelerate software delivery using AI.

Your team will partner closely with customers, designers, product leaders, and forward‑deployed engineers to build lasting products where our partners are meaningfully enabled by AI. You’ll be responsible for building novel full‑stack agentic workflows that are production‑grade, cybersecurity compliant, and have strong evaluations.

This role is ideal for a product‑minded software engineer that has deep technical judgment around AI‑native product development and can embed closely with a deployed engineering team to fuse product signal from the early prototyping phase into an enduring product vision. You’ll help the team move quickly, iterate with users, and build pragmatic, high‑impact agentic systems for national security missions.

What you’ll do

• Product engineering: Lead the Systems Agents team in designing, building, and shipping a cutting‑edge coding harness and broader product(s) for systems modernization using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Postgres, and AWS.
• Product integration: Build integrations between source control systems, CI/CD platforms, requirements management tools, security scanners, developer environments, and other commercial software products to create end‑to‑end modernization workflows.
• Agent leadership: Guide the implementation and scaling of robust agentic workflows that enable system refactoring and software re‑architecture at scale, using modern agent frameworks and patterns.
• Customer and mission partnership: Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes aligned with real‑world workflows.
• AI‑native product strategy: Help define and shape how software engineers, system architects, and program managers across program offices supporting DoW are enabled by AI and agents at Vannevar, balancing ambitious product vision with reliable execution.

What we’re looking for

• Must have US Persons status and hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility
• Experience building, evaluating, or operating coding agents, software engineering agents, code intelligence systems, or agentic developer tools using LangGraph, OpenAI SDK, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), and more.
• Experience integrating multiple commercial software products and APIs to support interoperability across software engineering workflows. Strong product and market instincts and prior experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows, collect feedback, and ship better solutions.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong technical judgment across full‑stack systems.
• Excellent communication skills, cross‑functional leadership, and project ownership.
• Proficiency with:
• Coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar
• PostgreSQL, or other relational databases.
• Software development in AWS or other cloud services.
• Willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites.

What we value

• Prior experience building software for defense, national security or intelligence use cases.
• Prior experience with systems languages to include Ada, CMS‑2, Java, and/or C++
• Prior experience with DevSecOps, Risk Management Framework, NIST 800‑53

What we offer

• 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

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.