[Remote] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Systems (Active Secret Clearance)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Striveworks builds AI systems for real-world use. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Systems develops machine learning solutions and agentic workflows with customers and internal teams, contributes to the Chariot AI operations platform, and improves AI system performance and usability.

Responsibilities

• Working directly with customers, data scientists, software engineers, and DevOps engineers, you’ll develop machine learning solutions, orchestrate complex data and agentic workflows, and help shape the capabilities of Chariot, our proprietary AI operations platform
• You’ll work across models, agents, tools, and workflows to build reliable and effective AI systems while analyzing and improving their performance and usability
• Your work will inform platform improvements, expand our capabilities, and extend to the field through mission-critical deployments, direct customer contact, and insights that shape what we build next

Skills

• A 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)
• 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 and frameworks to measure agent performance, reliability, and safety
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, planning, and multi-agent architectures
• 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
• Strong software engineering fundamentals—including algorithms, data structures, and design patterns—as well as proficiency in at least one systems programming language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++, Java, Scala)
• Proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes (Agile, version control, issue tracking, CI/CD, debugging, etc.)
• Active Secret (or above) US security clearance and US citizenship
• An advanced degree in data science, machine learning, computer science, or a related discipline
• 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], infrastructure as code, major cloud architectures)
• Experience with a variety of unstructured data types (e.g., imagery, full-motion video, text, acoustic, sonar, RF, telemetry signals)
• Experience defining, scoping, planning, and delivering complex technical solutions
• Experience leading a small team
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments

Benefits

• Equity grants
• 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
• Fully remote work environment, or hybrid/on site at the office in northwest Austin, TX

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