Senior Data Scientist, Active Secret Clearance

Striveworks

Senior Data Scientist at Striveworks applying AI to solve real-world national security and business challenges. Involves deploying machine learning models in a collaborative environment with various teams.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDockerKubernetesPythonPyTorchScikit-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 AIOps platform
Developing and validating machine learning models and custom analytic algorithms that are applied to image, video, text, geospatial, time series, and structured data
Orchestrating and automating complex data and analytic pipelines
Implementing AI-based software solutions for cloud and edge environments
Conducting mission-critical field work and interfacing with customers and other stakeholders

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS degree in computer science, machine learning, mathematics, or a related discipline and 6+ years of relevant experience
Expertise in machine learning, data science, and their application to image and video data, as well as experience deploying those capabilities to production environments
Expertise in implementing and analyzing algorithms and data structures
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
Exposure to DevOps tooling and best practices (e.g., Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
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 sciencealgorithmsdata structuresPythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learndata pipelinesAI-based software solutions

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingstakeholder engagement

Certifications

BS degree in computer scienceActive Secret US security clearance