Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data models and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective.

With Striveworks organizations arent just deploying AItheyre building systems that remain reliable adaptable and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where theyre deployed scale as workloads grow and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands increasing reliability and performance while lowering costsand enabling confident data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

As a Machine Learning Engineer at Striveworks youll be challengedand trustedon day one to be a core contributor to both the customer-driven projects and the enduring products of the company. You will represent Striveworks as a technology builder on projects and solutions that leverage Chariot our proprietary AI operations (AIOps) platform and you will inform and contribute to future capabilities of that platform. You will inform envision and help extend Striveworks core software products. You will work alongside data scientists software engineers and DevOps engineers to transform machine learning models into operational capabilities.

Youre right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. Youre outcome driven and are passionate about applying both software engineering and data science to solve real-world problems. You know that building customer-centric solutions communicating clearly and capturing repeatable value into productized capabilities are all critical to success.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Developing machine learning pipelines 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
• Conducting mission-critical fieldwork in support of customers and other stakeholders

This position offers a fully remote work environment or you can work hybrid/on site at customer locations at Joint Base LewisMcChord in Tacoma WA. If remote you will be expected to travel up to 30% of the time. If local you will be expected to travel up to 25% of the time.

In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust.

Collectively we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance we geek out about the potential of our contributions and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally we value taking ownership having agency and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Heres what were looking for:

• BS degree in computer science machine learning or a related discipline and 2 years of relevant experience
• Experience contributing to data-centric systems (e.g. data engineering data cleaning ETL pipelines machine learning and other production analytics)
• 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 in Python and exposure to libraries like TensorFlow PyTorch and/or scikit-learn
• Exposure to 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

Were very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• An advanced degree (e.g. MS MEng PhD) in computer science machine learning data science or a related discipline
• Excellence in Python and deep knowledge of libraries like TensorFlow PyTorch and/or scikit-learn
• Knowledge of relevant architectures and design patterns for client-server systems (e.g. asynchronous programming REST GraphQL React Vue Angular)
• Experience implementing and deploying software into containerized or cloud environments (e.g. Docker Kubernetes K8s cloud architectures)
• Experience with machine learning applied to imagery and/or video data
• Experience building agentic systems agentic workflows or AI agents
• Experience defining scoping planning and delivering complex technical solutions
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $160000$190000/year. Striveworks total compensation package includes a competitive base salary equity grants and cash bonuses.

• 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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Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion belief sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression) national origin social or ethnic origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization retaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

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In compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete an employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.