Engineering Manager, AI Platform

Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter our adversaries. In the 21st century, conflict moves at algorithmic speed and foresight equals firepower. Our agentic AI is purpose-built to compete with China—from cross-Strait conflict to gray zone coercion. Trained on the most mission-relevant datasets in defense, our technology models adversary behavior, simulates campaigns, and recommends the best course of action to decision makers. Our AI systems are some of the most trusted in the industry and actively used on the front lines of the Indo-Pacific to keep the peace and save lives.

Exceptional technology starts with exceptional people. Vannevar is a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft. We’re building a company defined by mission impact, user empathy, and disciplined growth. In just three years, we grew from $3M to $80M in ARR, achieved early profitability, and reached unicorn status—proving that disruption doesn’t require an ego, and staying power doesn’t mean standing still.

Vannevar is building the future of national security enablement with agentic AI. Our platform tightens the loop from observation to action by giving warfighters cutting-edge analysis tools to make better decisions, faster.

We’re looking for a talented Senior Engineering Manager to lead our AI Platform organization. This team provides the durable, reusable foundation that product and mission teams use to build, operate, and improve AI-powered capabilities at Vannevar.

• Machine Learning platform: The standard pipelines and shared services that power reliable, scalable data and model enrichments

• Agents platform: The runtime foundation for building and operating agents, with a focus on durable execution, observability, evaluation, quality, and safe, dependable operation at scale.

You’ll lead the team responsible for turning these capabilities into an integrated platform: one that makes it easy for product teams to ship AI-enabled workflows while maintaining the reliability, quality, security, and operational rigor required for national security missions.

This role is ideal for a technical, platform-minded engineering leader who has built depth in machine learning, applied that foundation to LLM product development, and can set platform strategy, develop strong engineers, and make sound architectural tradeoffs across data, ML, agent systems, and cloud infrastructure.

• Lead the AI Platform organization: Set the technical direction, operating model, and roadmap for the teams responsible for enrichments and the agents platform.

• Build the enrichments foundation: Own the standard pipelines, shared services, and operational patterns used to run data and model enrichments reliably and efficiently across Vannevar products.

• Scale the agents runtime: Lead the development of durable agent execution capabilities, including orchestration, state and workflow management, reliability, observability, evaluation, and quality controls.

• Define platform standards: Establish clear interfaces, reusable primitives, and engineering practices that enable product teams to build AI-enabled capabilities without reinventing foundational infrastructure.

• Raise the quality bar: Develop measurement, testing, evaluation, and feedback-loop practices that improve the correctness, safety, and usefulness of agent behavior in production.

• Drive cross-functional execution: Partner with Product, Design, Mission,