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# Agentic Platform Engineering Manager (Remote US) at Legion Intelligence

- **Company:** Legion Intelligence
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $200k–$240k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yurtsai/jobs/5207582007

## Job description

## About Legion

Let’s be real, AI isn’t magic; Legion was built to move beyond AI hype—delivering secure, reliable systems that work alongside the people tackling the world’s most critical challenges.

Born from a Department of Defense partnership and trusted by leaders across government and enterprise, Legion embeds intelligence inside complex systems, unlocking data, accelerating human workflows, and strengthening mission-critical systems. We don’t replace workflows—we optimize them, ensuring quality, efficiency, and reliability inside the platforms our partners already use.

With world-class collaborators like Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle, we’re building intelligent infrastructure that enhances human capability and drives impact at the edge and across a range of enterprises.

We’re looking for bold thinkers and doers to join us in shaping the future of AI that’s secure, grounded, and built to work.

Engineering Manager, Agentic Platform (Remote US)

***US Citizenship or Greencard is required due to US Government contract requirements***

***You must be domiciled in the U.S. (must live permanently and maintain home address in the US)***

***As a step in the application process you will be required to provide legally authorized Identification to show verification of eligibility through third party provider CLEAR ID***

## Role Overview

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team building the platform capabilities and agentic AI applications that power Legion’s products.

This is a technical, player/coach leadership role spanning AI engineering, platform engineering, and product development. You’ll lead engineers working across agentic workflows, tools and integrations, platform services, and the data infrastructure required to run secure and reliable AI systems in production.

You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, go-to-market teams, and other engineering leaders to translate customer and business needs into technical priorities, while helping your team make strong architectural decisions and ship quickly. You’ll be responsible for team development and ensuring solid engineering practices across our AI applications and data infrastructure.

## Responsibilities

- Lead, mentor, and grow engineers working across agentic AI applications and platform systems.
- Set expectations for team execution and delivery from early product concepts through production deployment and operation.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Platform Engineering, and go-to-market teams to translate customer problems into clear engineering priorities.
- Establish strong engineering patterns for agent workflows, MCP and tool integrations, service design, APIs, deployment, and inter-service communication.
- Guide architecture and engineering trade-offs, balancing rapid product iteration with long-term maintainability and platform scalability.
- Bring an informed perspective to data infrastructure and data management for enterprise AI systems.
- Remove blockers and improve engineering processes so the team can move quickly without sacrificing quality.
- Stay close to the technology and contribute directly when needed, particularly on architecture, prototypes, and technically complex initiatives.
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, experimentation, continuous learning, and low-ego technical decision-making.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain exceptional engineers.

Required Skills and Qualifications

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating production software systems.
- 2+ years of experience hiring, managing, and developing engineering teams.
- Strong software architecture and systems engineering background, with the ability to guide technical decisions across application and platform layers.
- Experience building or supporting AI/ML platforms or AI-powered products, including technologies such as LLMs, AI agents, model serving, MCP, tool calling, workflows, or enterprise integrations.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, simplicity, scalability, and maintainability.
- Experience partnering closely with Product and other engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver customer value.
- Proven experience hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineers.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego leadership style.
- Excitement for 0→1 product development and building at the intersection of AI infrastructure and customer-facing experiences.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working in Rust or leading teams operating in a Rust-heavy environment.
- Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks, observability, and production.
- Experience designing systems for the enterprise
- Experience in startup or high-growth environments where teams iterate rapidly.
- Exposure to regulated or mission-critical industries such as defense, healthcare, finance, or telecommunications.

## Compensation Information

$200,000—$240,000 USD

## Equal Opportunity Statement

Legion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

## About Legion Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Legion Intelligence builds the governed agentic AI command layer for national security, enabling human-directed, auditable multi-step workflows across classified, air-gapped, and edge environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $58.4M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Ben Van Roo (CEO) and Jason Schnitzer (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: National security, defense technology, enterprise AI infrastructure
- **Target customers**: U.S. national security organizations (SOCOM, XVIII Airborne Corps, U.S. Air Force, Department of Energy), federal agencies, and enterprise teams requiring secure, governed AI
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Turning intent into coordinated, governed action” – enabling human command over AI agents while maintaining full attribution and auditability

## Products & Services
- **Legion Platform**: Software layer for secure agent orchestration – connects systems, automates multi-step workflows, and enforces governance with human-in-the-loop controls. Deployable on cloud, on-premise, classified, and air-gapped networks. (SaaS / platform)
- **Centurion**: Deployable edge system integrating hardware, software, and sustainment for denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments. Delivered 48x faster target system analysis and 88% faster SITREP creation at Scarlet Dragon 26-01. (Hardware + software)
- **Role-based Mission Packs**: Pre-built agentic workflows for intelligence officers, operations officers, maintenance technicians, and commanders. (Service / solution)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $58.4M (Series B $40M, Dec 2024; Series A $16M, Sep 2023; Pre-Seed $2.4M, Aug 2022)
- **Annual Revenue**: $1.5M (estimated by LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: XYZ Venture Capital (lead Series B), Nava Ventures (lead Series A), U.S. SOCOM, XVIII Airborne Corps, U.S. Air Force, Department of Energy
- **Growth Signals**: 51 employees (+24.2% YoY), 6,023 LinkedIn followers (+55.5% YoY), multi-year contracts with defense agencies, 94% faster INTSUM generation and 216 hours saved per week reported in deployments

## Competitive Advantages
- **Governed by design**: Every agent action is auditable, attributed, and subject to human override – built for compliance from day one (FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, SOC 2 Type II, ITAR, CMMC, IL2–IL6).
- **Deploy anywhere**: Runs on classified, air-gapped, and edge environments where most commercial AI cannot go.
- **LLM-agnostic and modular**: No vendor lock-in; connects across existing systems and data sources.
- **Proven in live missions**: Trusted by U.S. Special Operations Command and active-duty units in exercises.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling agentic AI across national security**: Expanding the platform’s adoption across the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and allied agencies.
- **Commercial Solutions**: Growing a dedicated sales and customer success team for federal and enterprise markets.
- **Talent growth**: Hiring for engineering, sales, marketing, and federal solutions roles to support rapid deployment.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Work on AI systems used in real national security operations, with a clear “mission before ego” culture.
- **Flexible work**: Remote or hybrid depending on location; regular in-person meetups (e.g., at the beach).
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay, stock options, 12–16 weeks fully-paid parental leave, flexible PTO (no cap), company-wide shutdown from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day, wellness stipend ($500/year), home office setup ($500 + new laptop), 401k (no match yet), premium health/dental/vision, commuter benefits, bereavement leave.
- **Engineering culture**: Values “speed with precision,” “own the outcome,” and “growth always.” Active open positions include Senior Software Engineer, Staff Applied ML Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, and Staff Product Manager.

## Sources
1. [legionintel.com](https://www.legionintel.com/)
2. [legionintel.com/company](https://www.legionintel.com/company)
3. [legionintel.com/careers](https://www.legionintel.com/careers)
4. [Greenhouse job board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yurtsai)
5. [LinkedIn company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/legion-intel)
6. [TechCrunch (Series B)](https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/03/yurts-raises-40-million-to-be-the-dods-ai-chatbot/)
7. [Business Wire (Centurion announcement)](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250708000000/en/Legion-Intelligence-Launches-Centurion-Edge-System)
8. [PR Newswire (SOCOM contract)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/yurts-secures-16m-contract-with-socom-to-integrate-large-language-models-in-defense-enterprises-302009000.html)

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