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Vannevar Labs is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance Required

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and own software solutions deployed directly to customer environments in support of mission-critical use cases
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, engaging with senior technical leaders to understand mission needs and represent Vannevar’s technical approach
  • Own end-to-end technical delivery for your mission workstreams, from requirements gathering and system design through implementation, deployment, and sustainment
  • Contribute hands-on code to improve product capabilities, performance, and scalability across customer use cases
  • Build software that enables users to unlock value from large-scale data holdings, including text, multimedia, and geospatial datasets spanning over 46 languages
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners — including engineers, product designers, and mission domain experts — to plan and deliver complex software features
  • Support government-facing technical artifacts as needed, including input to RFIs, RFPs, Statements of Work, and white papers
  • Navigate and integrate with government IT ecosystems, ensuring solutions meet security, compliance, and operational constraints

Requirements

  • 5+ years as a Full Stack Developer including familiarity with relational databases (like Postgres), caching technologies (like Redis), object storage systems (like S3), and modern front-end frameworks (like React)
  • Experience developing and deploying software compliant with DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF)
  • Experience interfacing with government owned IT systems (for example, data platforms, IdAM providers, SIEM, CDSs, etc)
  • Experience working with government IT and program offices to scope technical requirements, architecture, and integrations
  • Experience working with end users to scope mission requirements, conduct user testing, and gain product feedback
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills
  • Must hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility

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

Team

Structure: Mission teams operate like small startups within the Vannevar Labs umbrella

Additional Information

  • Must hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility
  • Travel up to 20–30% to engage directly with mission owners and deliver capabilities in the field
Required Skills
relational databases relational databases
About company
Vannevar Labs
Vannevar Labs is a technology company that supports strategic competition missions, including intelligence, information operations, and special activities, for US service branches, combatant commands, partner nations, and interagency stakeholders. They deploy both hardware and software products for collection, planning/assessments, and effects.
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Category fullstack
Posted 6 days ago