Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Build and lead development of full-stack agentic AI products for systems modernization. Responsibilities include creating coding harnesses and runtime layers, integrating source control, CI/CD, security, and developer tools, scaling coding-agent workflows, and partnering with customers, designers, and mission teams. The role requires production-grade, cybersecurity-compliant systems, strong product judgment, and close collaboration with forward-deployed engineering teams supporting national security missions.

Senior full-stack engineer responsible for owning mission-critical software from requirements through deployment and sustainment. The role involves working directly with government users and technical stakeholders, architecting and building products across the stack, integrating with government IT systems, and ensuring security and compliance within DoD environments. The engineer will make product and architectural decisions, support technical proposal artifacts, and travel up to 50% to engage with mission owners in the field.

Design, build, and improve scalable backend systems that collect hard-to-access OSINT; build pipelines and ETL for messy data; collaborate with product and mission teams; mentor engineers and ensure reliable data delivery for DoD workflows.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll architect and build software solutions for national security, working closely with mission teams and stakeholders, ensuring reliable deployments and user engagement.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design best practices for AI Agents, develop standards, collaborate on product opportunities, and stay updated on emerging Agent techniques.