Staff Software Engineer | Vannevar Labs | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Vannevar Labs builds next generation defense software for the public servants keeping our country safe. As a team, we exist because we believe in public service, and we think that our democracy and government improve only if we put serious, collective effort into improving them, including the technology our government uses.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This mission has become urgent. Ukraine is engaged in a war for survival with Russia. China regularly flies nuclear-capable bombers into Taiwan and Japan’s airspace. The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology. We build software to support these missions, including providing battlefield information to allies, identifying malign activity, and helping the US deter and deescalate conflict.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are a profitable growth startup with some of the best defense investors in the world, including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72, and enterprise tech investors Costanoa and Felicis.</p>
<hr>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI Platform</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re hiring a senior or staff software engineer to work on our LLM platform that powers Generative AI within our products. As a senior member of the team, you’re expected to drive key technical decisions and establish new best practices for software engineering in a domain that is still greenfield. Your decisions will drive the growth of our platform and the success of the users that depend on it for mission-critical workflows.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Do</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Drive the design and direction of our LLM service and build usable interfaces and APIs for other engineers and end users</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work on scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency of the platform</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Research new generative AI techniques to implement in our production applications</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, Mission, and Software Engineers to integrate machine learning services with our user-facing products</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Become an expert and point of contact for all things prompt-engineering</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build out new products using the latest LLM and machine learning techniques</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Qualifications</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">5+ years of backend engineering work with realtime and async applications</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">3+ years of working with ML models in production applications</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience building scalable APIs</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prior experience with LLMs and prompt engineering is a plus</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to learn new technologies quickly and work around the stack</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You must be a US resident or citizen.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Health, dental, and vision insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">100% remote – work from anywhere in the US</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k matching</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Mental benefits</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible work environment – you manage your workday</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Pet and child care reimbursement during travel</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Unlimited PTO<br />
<strong class=" font-semibold">Compensation</strong><br />
<!-- -->The salary range for this position is $175,000 – $220,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Vannevar Labs 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">IMPORTANT NOTICE</strong><br />
<strong class=" font-semibold">We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This mission has become urgent. Ukraine is engaged in a war for survival with Russia. China regularly flies nuclear-capable bombers into Taiwan and Japan’s airspace. The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology. We build software to support these missions, including providing battlefield information to allies, identifying malign activity, and helping the US deter and deescalate conflict.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are a profitable growth startup with some of the best defense investors in the world, including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72, and enterprise tech investors Costanoa and Felicis.</p>
<hr>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI Platform</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re hiring a senior or staff software engineer to work on our LLM platform that powers Generative AI within our products. As a senior member of the team, you’re expected to drive key technical decisions and establish new best practices for software engineering in a domain that is still greenfield. Your decisions will drive the growth of our platform and the success of the users that depend on it for mission-critical workflows.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Do</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Drive the design and direction of our LLM service and build usable interfaces and APIs for other engineers and end users</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work on scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency of the platform</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Research new generative AI techniques to implement in our production applications</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, Mission, and Software Engineers to integrate machine learning services with our user-facing products</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Become an expert and point of contact for all things prompt-engineering</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build out new products using the latest LLM and machine learning techniques</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Qualifications</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">5+ years of backend engineering work with realtime and async applications</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">3+ years of working with ML models in production applications</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience building scalable APIs</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prior experience with LLMs and prompt engineering is a plus</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to learn new technologies quickly and work around the stack</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You must be a US resident or citizen.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Health, dental, and vision insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">100% remote – work from anywhere in the US</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k matching</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Mental benefits</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible work environment – you manage your workday</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Pet and child care reimbursement during travel</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Unlimited PTO<br />
<strong class=" font-semibold">Compensation</strong><br />
<!-- -->The salary range for this position is $175,000 – $220,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Vannevar Labs 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">IMPORTANT NOTICE</strong><br />
<strong class=" font-semibold">We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.</strong></p>