Engineering Manager – Decision Advantage

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $200k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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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

• Lead the Decision Advantage team in designing, building, and shipping cutting-edge applications, services, and agents using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Postgres, and AWS. • Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes aligned with real-world operator workflows. • Reduce friction and duplication across the team by building strong technical patterns, reusable services, and clear product engineering practices. • Grow and mentor a high-performing team of full-stack engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on pragmatism, velocity, ownership, and mission impact. • Collaborate with Design, Platform, and Product teams to deliver durable, reliable software.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience leading and building software engineering teams, ideally in product engineering, AI/ML, or related domains. • 8+ years of professional software development experience, with strong technical judgment across full-stack systems. • Strong product instincts and prior experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows, collect feedback, and ship better solutions. • Ability to lead teams through ambiguity, balancing speed, reliability, security, and mission impact. • Track record of data-driven decision making - argue with metrics, not gut feelings. • Excellent communication skills, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership. • Proficiency with: • Coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar • Postgres, or other relational databases. • Software development in AWS or other cloud services. • Willingness to travel to off-sites, team syncs, and customer sites. • U.S. Citizenship, required to access U.S.-only data systems.

🏖️ 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