Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

Striveworks • Austin, TX

3d • $200,000 - $250,000 • Remote

About The Position

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Striveworks, you will be challenged—and trusted—on day one to be both a core contributor and a customer-facing technical leader on the projects and direction of the company. In this mission-critical work, you will design AI-powered solutions, you will bring them into being—from data shaping and ingestion, through analytics, to end-user delivery—and you will inform future platform capabilities.
You’re 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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

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