Product Engineer – Systems Agents, TS/SCI Clearance Required

🕒 June 16

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Vannevar Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

💰 $12M Series A on 2021-08

Consulting • Logistics • Defense

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 Systems Agents team in designing, building, and shipping a cutting-edge coding harness and broader products for systems modernization • Build integrations between source control systems, CI/CD platforms, requirements management tools, security scanners, developer environments, and other commercial software products • Guide implementation and scaling of robust agentic workflows for system refactoring and software re-architecture at scale • Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes • Help define and shape how software engineers, system architects, and program managers across Department of War program offices are enabled by AI and agents • Build novel full-stack agentic workflows that are production-grade, cybersecurity compliant, and have strong evaluations • Collaborate with customers, designers, product leaders, and forward-deployed engineers to build lasting AI-enabled products

🎯 Requirements

• 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 coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar • Proficiency with PostgreSQL or other relational databases • Proficiency with software development in AWS or other cloud services • Willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites • Prior experience building software for defense, national security or intelligence use cases • Prior experience with systems languages including Ada, CMS-2, Java, and/or C++ • Prior experience with DevSecOps, Risk Management Framework, NIST 800-53

🏖️ 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