Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Build Deploy and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data models and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective.

With Striveworks organizations arent just deploying AItheyre building systems that remain reliable adaptable and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where theyre deployed scale as workloads grow and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demandsincreasing reliability and performance while lowering costs and enabling confident data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

The Role

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Striveworks youll be challengedand trustedon day one to be a core contributor to both the customer-driven projects and the enduring products of the company. You will be a key Striveworks solutions provider to project sites and customers where Chariot our proprietary data platform is deployed. You will inform envision and help extend Striveworks core software products. You will work alongside data scientists software engineers and DevOps engineers to transform machine learning models into operational capabilities.

Youre right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. Youre outcome-driven and are passionate about applying both software engineering and data science to solve real-world problems. You know that building customer-centric solutions communicating clearly and capturing repeatable value into productized capabilities are all important.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Working with customers engineers and other stakeholders to define clear requirements that solve customers problems and leverage the capabilities of our AI operations platform
• Developing machine learning models and custom analytics that are applied to image video text geospatial time series and structured data
• Orchestrating and automating complex data engineering and analytic pipelines
• Envisioning specifying and at times designing and implementing core product functionality
• Opportunities to conduct mission-critical field work

This position offers a fully remote work environment or you can work hybrid/on site at our office in northwest Austin TX with up to 25% travel.

The Right Fit

In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust.

We value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance we geek out about the potential of our contributions and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally we value taking ownership having agency and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Heres what were looking for:

• BS degree in computer science machine learning or a related discipline and 6 years relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience delivering data-centric systems (e.g. data engineering data cleaning ETL pipelines machine learning and other production analytics)
• Proficiency in programming languages and libraries common to machine learning; excellence in Python is essential as is knowledge of libraries like TensorFlow PyTorch and/or scikit-learn
• Proficiency in software engineering fundamentals to include algorithms data structures design patterns and at least one systems programming language (e.g. Go Rust C Java Scala etc.)
• Proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes (Agile version control issue tracking CI/CD debugging etc.)
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a Secret (or above) US security clearance
• Due to the nature of this role candidates must have US citizenship

The Wish List

Were very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Advanced degree in data science machine learning computer science or a related discipline
• Knowledge of relevant architectures and design patterns for client-server systems (e.g. asynchronous programming REST GraphQL React Vue Angular)
• Experience implementing and deploying software into containerized or cloud environments (e.g. Docker Kubernetes k8s infrastructure as code major cloud architectures)
• Experience with a variety of unstructured data types (e.g. imagery full motion video text acoustic sonar RF telemetry signals)
• Experience building agentic systems agentic workflows or AI agents
• Experience defining scoping planning and delivering complex technical solutions
• Experience leading a small team
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments
• Active Secret (or above) US security clearance

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $160000$200000/year. Striveworks total compensation package includes a competitive base salary equity grants and cash bonuses.

The Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life long-term disability accident and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion belief sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression) national origin social or ethnic origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization retaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

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In compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete an employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.