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Vannevar Labs — Job Pipeline Surface

Forgejo bucket: marcus/job-vannevar. Maintained as part of Scott's Staff+ SWE job-pipeline. Surface only — no public posts, no outreach sent, until sscoble approves.

1. Why Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs builds defense-intelligence AI for the U.S. national-security community — Mission Agents, Search, and ATO (Authorization To Operate) software. Defense intel is the canonical "feedback loop is absent" dark-factory domain: the operator's decision is downstream of agent output and cannot audit the agent's reasoning in real time. The Speckl × Vannevar demo (access control provenance compile) demonstrates compile-time policy provenance for mission-agent access control, directly mapping Scott's OneBrief defense-tech and B.Well regulated-platform experience to Vannevar's mission-agent + ATO surface.

2. JD snapshot

Field Value
Title Engineering Manager, DevOps / Engineering Manager, Security Platform / Senior Software Engineer - Agents Platform
Department DevOps / Security Platform / Mission Agents
Level EM / Senior (Staff-equivalent for EM roles)
Location Remote (US) / San Diego / New York (varies by role)
Remote/hybrid/on-site Remote (for most roles); on-site for some (San Diego, New York)
Comp range (base) Not posted (Series B; estimated $180–200K base)
Comp range (total) Estimated $250K+ all-in (equity at Series B)
Req ID Via Greenhouse — re-verify at outreach time
Posting URL https://www.vannevarlabs.com (careers)
Updated 2026-07-07 (v3 shortlist research pass)
Tech stack named K8s, CI/CD, DevOps, security platform, agentic AI, TS/SCI environment
Soft requirements Defense-tech experience, TS/SCI clearance (for some roles), mission-agent development
Years experience 8+ (EM-level); 5+ (Senior SWE)

Additional open roles (verified live on Greenhouse, 33 total)

  • Engineering Manager, DevOps (Remote) — direct title match
  • Engineering Manager, Mission Agents (New York) — agentic AI leadership
  • Engineering Manager, Security Platform (Remote) — direct match
  • DevOps Engineer (Remote)
  • Senior Software Engineer - Agents Platform (Remote) — agentic AI infra
  • Senior Software Engineer - ATO (San Diego) — Speckl adjacent
  • Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (Remote)
  • Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (Mission Agents) (Remote)
  • Senior Software Engineer, Search (Remote)
  • Forward Deployed Engineer (TS/SCI Required) — multiple US locations

Full JD body

Verbatim JD text should be pasted here from the Greenhouse job board at outreach time. The v3 shortlist captured the role titles, locations, and department context; the full JD body will be fetched from https://www.vannevarlabs.com or Greenhouse before outreach is approved.

Key verified product context from v3 research:

  • Defense-intelligence AI platform for the U.S. national-security community.
  • Verified tagline: "Restoring Deterrence, Reclaiming Advantage."
  • Products: Mission Agents (agentic AI for intel workflows), Search, and ATO (Authorization To Operate) software.
  • Series B (~$150M+ raised; specific round size unverified in this pass).
  • Headcount ~150–300 (33 open Greenhouse roles is a strong signal).
  • Mission Agents = agentic AI in production where the human can't catch the bug.
  • ATO = the literal compliance-automation dark-factory problem: prove your system is safe to operate against a regulator's checklist. Speckl-adjacent.
  • Security Platform as a first-class team — verified open role: Engineering Manager, Security Platform (Remote).
  • Defense-tech peer graph = Scott's current OneBrief network. Warmest defense-tech entry on the shortlist.

3. Public surface

Hiring manager (highest confidence)

  • Name: Brett Granberg
  • Title: CEO / Co-founder
  • GH handle: (to be verified)
  • LinkedIn: (to be verified)
  • Email domain: vannevarlabs.com (not directly verified in this pass)
  • Signals: CEO/co-founder; publicly known from press but not directly verified in this research pass. Flagged in v3 shortlist as "publicly known from press but not directly verified."
  • Confidence: medium (founder identity publicly known from press; direct verification pending — the v3 subagent flagged this explicitly)

Adjacent public figures (good reply targets before DM)

  • Engineering leadership for Mission Agents, Security Platform, and DevOps teams — to be surfaced via Greenhouse/GitHub/LinkedIn before outreach
  • OneBrief colleagues with Vannevar connections — warm-intro path to be verified

Highest-value reads (3-5)

  • Vannevar Labs homepage — "Restoring Deterrence, Reclaiming Advantage." — mission framing
  • Mission Agents product documentation — the agentic AI dark-factory surface
  • ATO (Authorization To Operate) product — the compliance-automation dark-factory
  • Open Greenhouse role descriptions for EM DevOps and EM Security Platform — the role-shape match
  • Defense-tech press coverage on Vannevar's funding and product launches

4. Artifact plan

Premise

The Speckl × Vannevar demo is an access control provenance compile that demonstrates compile-time policy provenance for mission-agent access control. The artifact proves Scott can build the policy-provenance layer that Vannevar's Mission Agents + ATO products need — directly mapping his OneBrief defense-tech and B.Well regulated-platform experience.

Repo layout

marcus/job-vannevar/
├── README.md
└── (references https://github.com/wscoble/speckl-access-control)

Artifact URL

https://github.com/wscoble/speckl-access-control

This is the Speckl × Vannevar demo. Build path is git clone + cd speckl-access-control. Expected deliverable is a working 4-artifact compile output.

What it demonstrates

  • Intent-level provenance compiled through Speckl for access control policies
  • Content-addressed, reproducible policy artifacts for mission-agent authorization
  • ATO-grade audit trail compiled by construction, not verified after the fact
  • A working compile output a hiring manager can clone, build, and verify
  • Direct mapping of Scott's OneBrief defense-tech + B.Well regulated-platform experience to Vannevar's product surface

Effort estimate

<50 hours (demo already built; README + packaging for external consumption is the remaining work)

Sketch

# Build path
git clone https://github.com/wscoble/speckl-access-control
cd speckl-access-control
# Expected: 4-artifact compile output (Speckl provenance manifests)

5. Outreach log

date recipient channel artifact attached reply next step
— — — — — —

No outreach has been sent. No public posts have been made. Per directive from the parent, surface only. Outreach log stays empty until sscoble approves first contact.

6. Sources + confidence

Fact Source Confidence
JD body (role titles, locations) vannevarlabs.com + Greenhouse (v3 research pass, 2026-07-07) high
Comp range Not posted; estimated from Series B stage low (estimate)
Hiring manager name (Brett Granberg) Public press (flagged as "publicly known but not directly verified" in v3) medium
Brett Granberg = CEO/co-founder Public press; company site JS-rendered, blocked direct scraping in v3 medium
Funding (~$150M+) Widely reported in press; specific round sizes unverified medium
Artifact plan Parent-derived (Speckl × Vannevar consulting wedge) parent-supplied
Artifact URL https://github.com/wscoble/speckl-access-control high

Captured 2026-07-07 by the job-pipeline subagent. Parent context: Scott's job-pipeline strategy, consult-pilot campaign. v3 shortlist file: ~/.hermes/cache/job-search/scott-shortlist-2026-07-07-v3.md.