Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Systems (Active Secret Clearance)
Striveworks · Remote or Austin, Texas, United States
Defenseremotesenior$185k–$230k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build reliable agentic AI systems for mission-critical government deployments.
- Shape Chariot platform capabilities through real-world customer deployments.
- Sustain hundreds of deployed models with monitoring and drift management.
What they offer
- Equity grants
- Cash bonuses
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Voluntary life, long-term disability and accident insurance
- HSA and FSA plans
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
Ideal candidate
A cleared builder with 6+ years delivering real-world AI who takes ownership, leads with trust and candor, and cares about reliable agentic systems for mission impact.
Requirements
- BS degree in computer science, machine learning, or related discipline and 6+ years relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience delivering data-centric systems
- Experience designing, building, evaluating, and optimizing LLM-powered agents and agentic workflows
- Experience integrating AI systems with external tools, APIs, MCP servers, and enterprise data sources
- Experience developing evaluation approaches to measure agent performance, reliability, and safety
- Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, planning, and multi-agent architectures
- Excellence in Python and knowledge of TensorFlow, PyTorch and/or scikit-learn
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Go, Rust, C++, Java or Scala
- Proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes including Agile, CI/CD and version control
- Active Secret (or above) US security clearance and US citizenship
- remote policy
- Fully remote or hybrid/on-site in northwest Austin, TX
Lab profile
About Striveworks
Delivers trusted AI systems and assurance for federal missions, sustaining models in production.
What they build
- AI assurance and monitoring platform
- Agentic AI systems
- Production federal AI solutions
Known for
- Production AI deployment
- Model monitoring and drift management
- Federal and defense missions
- Long-term system sustainment
Key facts
- Founded in 2018
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