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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Systems (Active Secret Clearance)

Striveworks · Remote or Austin, Texas, United States

Defenseremotesenior$185k–$230k
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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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