Senior Search Engineer, Vannevar Labs

$150-215k

+ Equity

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Defense for the digital domain

Open for applications

Defense for the digital domain

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityDeep TechAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaS

Open for applications

$150-215k

+ Equity

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityDeep TechAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

We build software for our nation's most pressing national security problems.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Proven experience in software development – you have worked on business-critical systems that are deployed in production environments
You’ve successfully led the design or architecture of new and existing system(s), ideally within the search/information-retrieval domain
You have proficiency and experience working with search technologies, such as Lucene, Elasticsearch, Vector Databases, NLP and LLMs
Strong leadership, teamwork, and communication skills
U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems

What the job involves

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, with substantial knowledge and passion for search & information retrieval, to drive innovation in this space
In this role, you will work directly with our ML team to advance a state-of-the-art search system that fundamentally drives our users’ ability to surface mission critical information
Help craft a technical strategy for search at Vannevar, including how we leverage full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and relevance algorithms
Improve both search latency and relevance
Partner with other engineers, product managers, and designers to identify and quickly deliver customer value
Stay up to date with emerging technologies, trends, and best practices; particularly within the search/information retrieval domain

Our take

As intelligence analysts work to solve rapidly evolving and increasingly challenging national security problems, modern technology is vital in achieving optimal results as there is no room for failure. Vannevar Labs’ innovative foreign text platform, delivers solutions to some of today’s most important national security problems.

The company’s workflow platform Decrypt, uses machine learning and automation to understand, target, and respond to foreign actors in ways not previously possible. The platform is a proven success, driving Vannevar’s growth and attracting a $40M OTA contract with the Department of Defense.

Yielding impressive traction so far, the company is using its latest Series B funding round to invest in new product development. Vannevar Labs is also aiming to win its first multi-year program from Decrypt. Should it be successful, the level of guaranteed sales and revenue would be a turning point in the company’s long-term trajectory.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

119% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jan 2023

$75m

SERIES B

Aug 2021

$12m

SERIES A

Total funding: $91.5m

Company benefits

Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
Equity + 401(k) Match
Open PTO + all Federal Holidays and Dec 23-31
Paid Parental Leave
100% Remote - Work From Anywhere in the US
Flexible Work Environment - You Manage Your Work Day
Quarterly Off-Site Travel for Team-Building

Company HQ

Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Nini Hamrick

(President)

Former US Intelligence Officer working as a Political & Counterterrorism Programs Analyst. Previous Chief of Staff to the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and was a Counterterrorism Analyst for the United States Department of Defense.

Brett Granberg

(CEO)

Current Advisor at Lilt. Former Investor at In-Q-Tel and previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.

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