Senior AI Platform Engineering Lead

Vannevar; United States; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote-friendly with WeWork access

Unlimited PTO

401(k) match

Fully paid parental leave

Care reimbursement during travel

Job summary

Vannevar is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Platform organization, unifying the machine learning platform and agents platform to deliver reliable, scalable AI-powered capabilities for national security missions.

You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner across product, security, and infrastructure to ship performant, secure AI workflows at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager leading software teams.
• 5+ years of hands‑on machine learning experience and 2+ years building agentic AI systems.
• Experience building or operating platforms used by multiple internal product or engineering teams.
• Deep familiarity with AI/ML or agentic systems in production, including orchestration, evaluation, observability, quality, reliability, and cost.
• Experience leading teams that build workflow, data, ML, or service platforms with high standards for operational excellence.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, balancing speed, reliability, security, and mission impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AI Platform organization: set the technical direction, operating model, and roadmap for enrichments and agents platform.
• Build the enrichments foundation: own pipelines, shared services, and patterns for reliable data and model enrichments.
• Scale the agents runtime: develop durable agent execution capabilities including orchestration, state and workflow management, reliability, observability, evaluation, and quality controls.
• Define platform standards: establish interfaces, reusable primitives, and engineering practices for product teams.
• Raise the quality bar: develop measurement, testing, and feedback-loop practices for safe, useful agent behavior in production.
• Drive cross-functional execution: partner with Product, Design, Mission, Security, and Infra teams to prioritize investments.
• Balance velocity and reliability: standardize where needed and manage operational risks of AI systems.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Machine learning

Agentic AI systems

Platform development

Data-driven decision making

Python

PostgreSQL

AWS / cloud

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

LangGraph

Temporal

Kubernetes

Job description

Vannevar is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Platform organization, unifying the machine learning platform and agents platform to deliver reliable, scalable AI-powered capabilities for national security missions.

You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner across product, security, and infrastructure to ship performant, secure AI workflows at scale.