Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Systems (Active Secret Clearance)
Striveworks11 hours ago
Remote, United States or Austin, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$185k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop machine learning solutions and orchestrate complex data and agentic workflows.
- Design, build, evaluate, and optimize LLM-powered agents and agentic workflows.
- Integrate AI systems with external tools, APIs, MCP servers, and enterprise data sources.
- Develop evaluation approaches and frameworks to measure agent performance, reliability, and safety.
- Analyze and improve AI system performance and usability while informing platform improvements.
- Contribute to Chariot, Striveworks’ proprietary AI operations platform.
- Collaborate directly with customers, data scientists, software engineers, and DevOps engineers.
- Support mission-critical deployments and help shape future technical capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related discipline.
- At least 6 years of relevant experience.
- Experience delivering data-centric systems such as data engineering, data cleaning, ETL pipelines, machine learning, or production analytics.
- 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 for agent performance, reliability, and safety.
- Familiarity with RAG, tool use, planning, and multi-agent architectures.
- Strong Python skills and proficiency with machine learning languages and libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one systems programming language such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Scala.
- Active Secret or higher US security clearance and US citizenship.
- Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree, client-server architecture experience, containerized or cloud deployment experience, experience with varied unstructured data, complex technical solution delivery, small-team leadership, and secure government technology delivery.
Benefits
- Fully remote work, or hybrid/on-site work at the northwest Austin, Texas office.
- Travel of up to 20% is expected.
- 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 paid time off.
- Paid parental leave.
- Equity grants and cash bonuses are included in the total compensation package.
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About Striveworks
Striveworks builds Chariot, an MLOps platform for enterprises and public-sector teams to manage data, develop models, and govern, deploy, and monitor ML at the edge, including disconnected and high-stakes environments. The company sells software and services for computer vision, geospatial, and other AI workflows. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Striveworks is privately held.