Senior Data Scientist

Striveworks • Austin, TX

7d • $170,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

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 aren’t just deploying AI—they’re building systems that remain reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where they’re deployed, scale as workloads grow, and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands, increasing reliability and performance while lowering costs—and enabling confident, data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments. The Role As a Senior Data Scientist at Striveworks, you’ll be challenged—and trusted—on day one to be a core contributor to the projects, products, and direction of the company. You will be a key Striveworks representative and 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. You’re right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. You’re 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.

Requirements

• BS degree in computer science, machine learning, mathematics, or a related discipline and 6+ years of relevant experience
• Expertise in machine learning, data science, and their application to image and video data, as well as experience deploying those capabilities to production environments
• Expertise in implementing and analyzing algorithms and data structures
• 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 DevOps tooling and best practices (e.g., Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Active Secret (or above) US security clearance
• Advanced degree (MA, PhD) in computer science, machine learning, mathematics, or a related discipline
• 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 solutions in a compiled programming language (Go, Rust, C++, Java, etc.)
• Experience building full-stack applications (back end, front end, REST) or solutions targeted for cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and/or Kubernetes (K8s)
• Experience leading a small team
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments
• Experience working with federal, state, and/or local government customers

Responsibilities

• Working with customers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define clear requirements that solve customers’ problems and leverage the capabilities of our AIOps platform
• Developing and validating machine learning models and custom analytic algorithms that are applied to image, video, text, geospatial, time series, and structured data
• Orchestrating and automating complex data and analytic pipelines
• Implementing AI-based software solutions for cloud and edge environments
• Conducting mission-critical field work and interfacing with customers and other stakeholders

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees