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Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

Striveworks · Remote or Austin, Texas, United States

Defenseremotestaff$210k–$260k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build trusted AI systems operating in real-world government use cases.
  • Sustain hundreds of deployed models with monitoring and drift management.
  • Design end-to-end systems from data shaping to end-user delivery.

What they offer

  • Competitive base salary with equity grants and cash bonuses
  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident and hospital indemnity insurance
  • HSA and FSA plans including dependent care FSA
  • 401(k) plan
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid parental leave

Ideal candidate

A mission-driven technical leader who turns ambiguous customer problems into working production systems. You lead with trust and ownership, communicate with clarity, and find satisfaction in doing hard work well.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in data science, machine learning, computer science, or related discipline and 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Proven ability to lead, manage, and mentor cross-functional engineering teams across office, remote, and customer environments
  • Demonstrated experience defining, scoping, planning, and driving execution plans for complex, production-level technical solutions
  • Strong communication skills and track record translating complex technical topics to internal teams and external stakeholders
  • Broad proficiency in programming languages common to machine learning, with excellence in Python and at least one systems programming language
  • Proficiency in design and delivery of algorithms, data structures, and production analytics and in use of design patterns in cloud environments
  • Expertise in building, training, evaluation, and/or deployment optimization of ML models
  • Proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes
  • Active Secret (or above) US security clearance and US citizenship
remote policy
Remote or hybrid out of Austin, Texas office with up to 25% travel

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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