Key skills
Backend developmentInfrastructure systemsMachine learning systemsAgent frameworksDistributed systemsAPIsCloud infrastructureEvangelizing tooling within an organizationPassion for building reliable AI systemsAIMachine LearningClaudeLangGraph
About this role
Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Agents Platform team. This role involves designing best practices for AI Agents, driving standards for Agent quality, and collaborating with internal teams to support emerging product opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Design and evangelize best practices for building AI Agents
- Drive standards and tooling for Agent quality including evaluation frameworks, test suites, and benchmark creation
- Partner with internal teams to find emerging product opportunities and build the tooling needed to support them
- Collaborate with other platform teams like our data platform and identity access management team to solve governance problems unique to AI Agents
- Stay current with emerging Agent techniques, tools, and best practices, particularly in areas like agent architectures, tool calling
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience building and deploying backend, infrastructure, and/or machine learning systems in production environments
- Recent experience and excitement for building with Agent frameworks like LangGraph, Claude SDK, Google ADK, or similar
- Advanced software engineering skills, including experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
- A history of not only building great tooling, but evangelizing them within a medium-large organization
- You have a passion for building reliable, performant AI systems and understand how they create value for end users
- U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S only data systems