Senior Software Engineer, Vannevar Labs
Generative AI Platform
$150-220k
Plus equity
More information about location
Defense for the digital domain
Open for applications
Defense for the digital domain
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150-220k
Plus equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
We build software for our nation's most pressing national security problems.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of backend engineering work with realtime and async applications
- 3+ years of working with ML models in production applications
- Experience building scalable APIs
- Prior experience with LLMs and prompt engineering is a plus
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and work around the stack
What the job involves
- 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
- Drive the design and direction of our LLM service and build usable interfaces and APIs for other engineers and end users
- Work on scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency of the platform
- Research new generative AI techniques to implement in our production applications
- Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, Mission, and Software Engineers to integrate machine learning services with our user-facing products
- Become an expert and point of contact for all things prompt-engineering
- Build out new products using the latest LLM and machine learning techniques
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.
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Meaningful work
"Vannevar is tackling some of the biggest defense and engineering problems out there, impacting users and teams at a global scale. The company has..."
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 values
- Obsess Over Users
- Obsess over mission impact
- Operate with speed
- Own the outcome
- Leave your ego at the door
- Operate with integrity
- Be transparent
- Put your wellbeing first
- Team of Jedi
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
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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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