# Senior Software Engineer - ATO at Vannevar

- Company: Vannevar
- What the company does: Vannevar builds agentic AI for 21st-century conflict, pre-trained for national security missions and delivering decision advantage. Backed by General Catalyst and Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.vannevarlabs.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Diego, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $215K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vannevarlabs/jobs/5038982007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vannevar-senior-software-engineer-ato/

## About the role

At Vannevar we’re consistently iterating on AI-enabled software products to deter our adversaries and lead the fight for strategic competition. This often involves meeting our customers where they’re at - on government networks, higher classification systems, and bespoke deployments. Compliance and security are core principles in how we build software to support the warfighter.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years working in a DevSecOps or related capacity
- Experience deploying software into a government-authorized environment (IL6, JWICS)
- Full-stack experience - willing to get hand-on across our full stack (React/Node/Python stack)
- Strong foundation in security principles and experience developing software against security controls (ex. NIST SP 800-53) and related frameworks (ex. OSCAL)
- Strong documentation skills for software accreditation (ex. deployment runbooks, System Security Plans, CONOPS)
- Experience working with AWS

Tags: Forward Deployed Engineering