Software Engineer, Backend

🕒 March 26

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Vannevar Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔐 Security

💰 $12M Series A on 2021-08

Defense • Artificial Intelligence • Security

Vannevar Labs is a defense technology company focused on digital intelligence to support non-kinetic missions aimed at deterring and de-escalating conflicts. The company specializes in developing advanced machine learning techniques to ensure access to mission-relevant data, building tools to counter malign influence, and enhancing maritime domain awareness using open-source and targeted data collection techniques. Vannevar Labs is dedicated to quickly iterating with national security partners to meet urgent and dynamic security challenges, positioning its solutions to address the strategic competition for legitimacy and influence in the modern geopolitical landscape.

📋 Description

• Master our data and capabilities. We’ve built world-class data collection for some key national security data sets. Understand how we’ve built it, what our differentiators are, and how to take it to the next level. • Understand our users. You’ll need to understand their missions, challenges, and expectations to build systems that help them. • Shape our collection approach. You understand how our systems interact with defensive systems, and will develop and implement technical plans that keep high-value data flowing. • Build and maintain stable, scalable systems. Our customers operate 24x7 and need access to fresh, rich, operationally-relevant data. You will design collection systems that remain stable under sophisticated automated detection regimes. • Contribute to agentic capability. Ensure the tools you build and collected data is usable by agents (tool-call readiness, retrieval patterns, schemas/metadata, evaluation loops, etc.). Identify gaps where the right data isn’t getting into agent tool calls and coordinate fixes.

🎯 Requirements

• Care deeply about the mission: the data we collect is enabling massive, generational impact across many national security missions. • Have strong back-end experience and understanding of distributed systems. Prefer typescript/python expertise. • Understand how anti-abuse, bot detection, fraud, or traffic integrity systems analyze traffic and operate at scale. • Are data driven and have an eye for instrumentation and monitoring. • You can reason about how small deviations in protocol behavior, timing, or runtime characteristics propagate into anomaly scores. • Are technically diverse and can adapt your tool stack quickly. • Communicate crisply: can write a one-pager that aligns stakeholders, communicates risks, and drives action. • You prefer structural resilience over reactive tactics. • Are comfortable making hard prioritization calls with incomplete information.

🏖️ 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