Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

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 demands increasing reliability and performance while lowering costsand enabling confident data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

The Role

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Striveworks you will be challengedand trustedon day one to be both a core contributor and a customer-facing technical leader on the projects and direction of the this mission-critical work you will design AI-powered solutions you will bring them into beingfrom data shaping and ingestion through analytics to end-user deliveryand you will inform future platform capabilities.

Youre right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. You are passionate about applying both software engineering and data science to solve real-world problems. You are comfortable simultaneously leading a team executing directly on critical elements of the plan and presenting vision and outcomes to your customer.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Working with customers engineers and other stakeholders to define clear requirements that solve the customers problems and leverage the capabilities of our AI operations platform.
• Translating requirements into a technical approach design scoping estimate and execution plan.
• Leading execution teams to achieve on-time completion of project deliverables mapped to customer business value while making key individual contributions throughout the process.
• Designing orchestrating and automating complex data pipelines and algorithms within modern architectures (cloud event-driven microservices etc.).
• Guiding the development of machine learning models and custom analytics applied to image video text geospatial time series and structured data.
• Raising insights opportunities challenges and feedback in order to improve group-level practice capture reusable functionality expand company opportunities and accelerate time to value.
• Conducting mission-critical fieldwork and interfacing with customers and other stakeholders at their work sites.

This position offers a fully remote work environment or you can work hybrid/on site at our office in northwest Austin TX. You will be expected to travel up to 20% of the time.

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.

Collectively 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:

• Advanced degree in data science machine learning computer science or a related discipline and 10 years of relevant experience
• Broad proficiency in programming languages common to machine learning (excellence in Python is essential as is knowledge of libraries like TensorFlow PyTorch and scikit-learn) and systems programming (e.g. Go Rust C Java Scala etc.)
• Proficiency in the design and delivery of algorithms data structures and production analytics and in the use of design patterns in cloud environments
• Demonstrated experience defining scoping planning and delivering complex technical solutions in production environments
• Proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes (Agile version control issue tracking CI/CD debugging etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to lead manage and mentor small cross-functional teams that work across office remote and customer sites
• Ability to communicate complex topics with professionalism competence and clarity to internal and external stakeholders (both technical and non-technical) via documents presentations and conversations
• Active 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:

• Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and horizontally scaled architectures
• Knowledge of messaging systems such as NATS Kafka RabbitMQ or similar
• Experience building AI agents and workflows
• Experience with complex and varied data types such as multi-spectral imagery full motion video acoustic or sonar signals synthetic aperture radar or hardware telemetry
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $200000$250000/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

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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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