Engineering Manager, Decision Advantage

3+ years of experience leading and building software engineering teams, ideally in product engineering, AI/ML, or related domains.

Strong product instincts and prior experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows, collect feedback, and ship better solutions.

Track record of data-driven decision making - argue with metrics, not gut feelings.

Coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar

Postgres, or other relational databases.

Software development in AWS or other cloud services.

The salary range for this position is $200,000 - $260,000 + equity. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

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

Vannevar builds new defense capabilities for 21st-century conflict.

Software Engineering Manager

This team builds mission-critical intelligence and decision support capabilities to help our partners maintain strategic advantage.

Your team will partner closely with customers, mission owners, designers, product leaders, and engineers to build lasting products enabling a wide range of capabilities, including analysis of the information environment, perception assessment and management capabilities, hyper-localized sentiment analysis, and tracking strategic indicators and warnings.

This role is ideal for a product-minded engineering leader who can combine strong management fundamentals with deep technical judgment.

You’ll help the team move quickly, iterate with users, and build pragmatic, high-impact products for national security missions.