Agentic Engineering Lead

About the role

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what's happening now and shape what's coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters-where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Please review the job details below.

Vantor is seeking an Agentic Engineering Lead to transform how Engineering operates through AI, automation, and agentic software development.

This role will establish the technical direction and build the agentic capabilities that enable our Engineering Operating Model. You will also partner with engineering teams to adapt and adopt the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle based on their unique products, architectures, missions, and engineering constraints.

What You'll Do

• Architect and build agentic workflows across the software development lifecycle and Engineering Operations.
• Translate engineering standards, playbooks, governance, and systems of record into automated workflows, controls, and agents.
• Implement the Engineering data architecture and systems-of-record model, including the integrations, context, and traceability required to support agentic workflows and trusted engineering data.
• Define scalable patterns for agent architecture, context, human/agent handoffs, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
• Advise engineering teams on adapting and adopting the Agentic SDLC for their specific architectures, workflows, risks, and mission requirements.
• Develop reusable agentic capabilities and patterns that can scale across Engineering.
• Measure the adoption and effectiveness of agentic engineering capabilities and continuously improve them.

What You'll Bring

• Experience consistent with a Vantor T7/Principal technical leader: typically 15+ years with a bachelor's, 10+ with a master's, 8+ with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
• Deep software engineering and architecture expertise, including modern SDLC, automation, APIs, developer tooling, and systems integration.
• Hands-on experience designing and building AI agents, agentic systems, or AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, context engineering, orchestration, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to establish technical direction and influence senior engineers, architects, and engineering leaders across an organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying production-grade agentic or autonomous engineering systems.
• Experience integrating AI with engineering systems such as GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, documentation, and observability platforms.
• Experience driving adoption of new engineering practices across diverse teams.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, mission-critical, or other high-assurance engineering environments.

What Success Looks Like

Engineering teams adopt agentic workflows that reduce manual effort while improving velocity, quality, rigor, and traceability. Common capabilities and patterns scale across the organization while allowing teams to adapt the Agentic SDLC to their specific mission and technical nee

Pay Transparency

To support pay transparency, Vantor includes salary ranges in all U.S. job postings. Starting pay for this role will fall within the listed range and will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions. Candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the role should not expect to receive compensation at the top of the range. The listed range reflects the expected pay for this position, and final offers will be determined based on each candidate's experience, expertise, and alignment with the role.

The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $135,000.00 - $180,000.00 - $198,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

Benefits

Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life.

Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

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