Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Active Secret Clearance

Striveworks

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Striveworks managing AI projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Building systems that optimize real-world applications with AI capabilities.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ETLGoJavaPythonPyTorchRustScalaScikit-LearnTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Working with customers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define clear requirements that solve customers’ problems and leverage the capabilities of our AI operations platform
Developing machine learning models and custom analytics that are applied to image, video, text, geospatial, time series, and structured data
Orchestrating and automating complex data engineering and analytic pipelines
Envisioning, specifying, and, at times, designing and implementing core product functionality
Opportunities to conduct mission-critical field work

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related discipline and 6+ years relevant experience
Demonstrated experience delivering data-centric systems (e.g., data engineering, data cleaning, ETL pipelines, machine learning, and other production analytics)
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
Proficiency in software engineering fundamentals to include algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and at least one systems programming language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++, Java, Scala, etc.)
Proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes (Agile, version control, issue tracking, CI/CD, debugging, etc.)
Active Secret (or above) US security clearance
Due to the nature of this role, candidates must have US citizenship.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningdata engineeringETL pipelinesdata cleaningPythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnalgorithmsdata structures

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementrequirements definition

Certifications

BS degree in computer scienceActive Secret US security clearance