[Hiring] Enterprise Technical Lead @Vannevar

Role Description

Vannevar is entering its next stage: scaling from early mission wins into an AI-native, non-traditional defense technology prime. Getting there means more than growing headcount — it means building new operating systems for how our people work, establishing processes that repeat reliably across accounts, and rethinking engineering delivery from first principles for this next phase of growth.

Vannevar’s Mission teams work directly with national security customers, pairing small-team focus with a shared technology platform. As an Enterprise Technical Lead, you’ll own technical direction and engineering delivery for a portfolio of accounts (representing $10M–$50M in contract value) — organized around a service branch, combatant command, or emerging new mission area.

You’ll guide work across the full customer lifecycle:

• Discovering mission needs
• Shaping opportunities
• Testing concepts
• Scaling capabilities into sustained operations

Using Vannevar’s Agent Control Plane, you and your team will prototype and test capabilities in areas like:

• Digital sensing
• Logistics
• Supply chain security
• Defense health

You’ll start as a hands-on technical leader on new accounts, learning the stack through direct engineering work — making architecture decisions, contributing to implementation, and coaching engineers. As your portfolio grows, you’ll build and lead the team behind it, while staying accountable for architecture and delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on full-stack engineering, able to contribute directly to architecture, code, integrations, and deployment
• Experience leading technical delivery on $5M+ enterprise accounts
• A track record of taking software from pilot/R&D into enterprise use, including scaling and ongoing support
• Experience building in government or similarly regulated environments, including familiarity with DoD RMF and NIST SP 800-53
• Experience working with government IT/program offices on requirements, architecture, and integrations
• Experience integrating with government systems — data platforms, IAM, SIEMs, cross-domain solutions
• Strong hands-on experience building production software in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, including backend services, APIs, and modern web applications using React or a comparable framework
• Experience deploying and operating containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS or comparable environments, with working knowledge of relational databases, search, object storage, and caching systems such as Postgres, Elasticsearch, S3, and Redis
• Strong cross-functional communication, spanning technical, customer, product, and business stakeholders
• Active U.S. Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

Requirements

• Technical leadership & delivery
• Set technical strategy across your portfolio, turning mission priorities into architectures, plans, and deployed capabilities
• Decide when to configure existing platform tools, build reusable extensions, or write mission-specific software — and push back on commitments that aren’t securely or sustainably deliverable
• Manage engineering capacity and priorities across accounts — so commitments never outrun the people available to deliver them
• Customer & opportunity work
• Work directly with customers and end users to understand mission needs and constraints
• Master each customer’s network topology, enterprise architecture, and mission applications
• Shape new opportunities with customer success, BD, legal, and contracting
• Build and validate prototypes with customers and product teams
• Platform contribution
• Feed recurring engineering challenges and reusable patterns into quarterly Platform/Product planning
• Enable FDEs to build improvements directly into the platform from the field
• Execution & governance
• Produce architecture artifacts and track work in tools like Jira and Notion
• Guide teams through security, compliance, and authorization requirements
• People
• Mentor engineers and technical leads
• Travel up to 20%, for customer discovery and delivery support

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $215,000 + equity + 401K match.
• Comprehensive Benefits:
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Company Description

Vannevar builds AI systems for the Department of War's most consequential missions. We have 125 deployments across every branch and combatant command spanning our core platform and five distinct products.

We focus on embedding directly with operational units supporting great power competition with China, combat operations with Iran, and counter-narcotics missions.

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.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!