Data Scientist (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 Data Scientist at Striveworks youll be challengedand trustedon day one to be a core contributor to the projects products and direction of the company. You will represent Striveworks as a technology builder on projects and solutions that leverage Chariot our proprietary AI operations (AIOps) platform and you will inform and contribute to future capabilities of that platform. You will work as part of a team of data scientists machine learning engineers software engineers and DevOps engineers to transform machine learning models into functional products.

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 and data science to solve real-world problems. You know that being customer focused rigorous in approach clear in communication and able to identify repeatable value opportunities are all critical to success. You are able to sense the needs of the customer identify evolving demands and then synthesize that feedback into actionable suggestions for Striveworks product teams.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Developing and validating machine learning models and custom analytic algorithms that are applied to image video text geospatial time series and structured data
• Implementing AI-based software solutions for cloud and edge environments
• Conducting mission-critical fieldwork in support of customers and other stakeholders

This position offers a hybrid/on-site work environment at our office in northwest Austin TX. You will be expected to travel up to 30% 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:

• BS degree in computer science machine learning mathematics or a related discipline and 2 years of relevant experience
• Proficiency in machine learning and data science and applying both to image and video data
• Proficiency in implementing and analyzing data structures and algorithms
• 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
• Exposure to software development life cycle and tools (e.g. Git Agile)
• 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:

• Advanced degree (e.g. MSA MEng PhD) in computer science machine learning mathematics or a related discipline
• Experience deploying machine learning and data science and applying both to production environments
• Exposure to DevOps and Cloud infrastructure (e.g. Docker Kubernetes CI/CD major cloud providers)
• Experience processing a variety of unstructured data types (e.g. imagery full-motion video text acoustic sonar RF geospatial graphs or telemetry signals)
• Experience building AI agents and agentic workflows
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines data pipelines and/or workflow automation
• Experience developing software in a compiled programming language (e.g. Go Rust C Java etc.)
• Experience building full-stack applications (i.e. back end front end REST)
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments
• Experience working with federal state and/or local government customers

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $140000$165000/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.