Product Engineer - Systems Agents

What you’ll do
Product engineering: Lead the Systems Agents team in designing, building, and shipping a cutting-edge coding harness and broader product(s) for systems modernization using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Postgres, and AWS.
Product integration: Build integrations between source control systems, CI/CD platforms, requirements management tools, security scanners, developer environments, and other commercial software products to create end-to-end modernization workflows.
Agent leadership: Guide the implementation and scaling of robust agentic workflows that enable system refactoring and software re-architecture at scale, using modern agent frameworks and patterns.
Customer and mission partnership: Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes aligned with real-world workflows.
AI-native product strategy: Help define and shape how software engineers, system architects, and program managers across program offices supporting DoW are enabled by AI and agents at Vannevar, balancing ambitious product vision with reliable execution.

What we’re looking for
Must have US Persons status and hold an active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility
Experience building, evaluating, or operating coding agents, software engineering agents, code intelligence systems, or agentic developer tools using LangGraph, OpenAI SDK, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), and more.
Experience integrating multiple commercial software products and APIs to support interoperability across software engineering workflows. Strong product and market instincts and prior experience working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to understand workflows, collect feedback, and ship better solutions.
5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong technical judgment across full-stack systems.
Excellent communication skills, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership.
Proficiency with:
Coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar
PostgreSQL, or other relational databases.
Software development in AWS or other cloud services.
Willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites.

What we value
Prior experience building software for defense, national security or intelligence use cases.
Prior experience with systems languages to include Ada, CMS-2, Java, and/or C++
Prior experience with DevSecOps, Risk Management Framework, NIST 800-53

What we offer
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
401(k) match
Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
Salary top-up during military reserve duty
Fully paid parental leave
Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Skills Required
U.S. person status and active U.S. Top Secret (TS) security clearance with SCI eligibility
5+ years professional software development experience
Experience building, evaluating, or operating coding agents, software engineering agents, or agentic developer tools (e.g., LangGraph, OpenAI SDK, MCP, A2A)
Experience integrating multiple commercial software products and APIs to support interoperability across engineering workflows
Proficiency coding in Python or TypeScript (or similar)
Proficiency with PostgreSQL or other relational databases
Experience developing software on AWS or other cloud services
Excellent communication skills, cross-functional leadership, and project ownership
Willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites
Customer/mission partnership experience—working directly with users, customers, or mission owners to collect feedback and ship solutions
Experience building cybersecurity-compliant, production-grade systems and strong evaluation practices for AI
Prior experience building software for defense, national security, or intelligence use cases
Prior experience with systems languages (Ada, CMS-2, Java, C++)
Prior experience with DevSecOps, Risk Management Framework, or NIST 800-53