# Senior Software Engineer, Search 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: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $215K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vannevarlabs/jobs/5225653007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vannevar-senior-software-engineer-search/

## About the role

Search is at the heart of Vannevar’s flagship platform and agentic workflows. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, with substantial knowledge and passion for search and information retrieval, to drive innovation in this space. In this role, you will work directly with our ML and product teams to advance a state-of-the-art search system that fundamentally drives our users’ ability to surface mission critical information.

## What they're looking for

- You have 7+ years of experience in backend software development, with 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields
- You have a passion for architecting, developing and deploying reliable, scalable, and performant systems
- You have expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning. You have a deep understanding of concepts like indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search
- You have hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch), and familiarity with search evaluation frameworks (e.g., precision, recall, NDCG)
- You have excellent analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills
- U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems

Tags: Backend Platform Engineering