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Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

AI summary of the role

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at a defense AI startup building and deploying AI systems for U.S. government customers.

What you’ll do

  • Define requirements and orchestrate complex data engineering pipelines working directly with customers, data scientists, software engineers, and DevOps engineers
  • Develop machine learning models and custom analytics applied to image, video, text, geospatial, time series, and structured data
  • Inform the future of Chariot, the proprietary AI operations platform
  • Support mission-critical deployments in the field with direct customer contact

What you’ll bring

  • BS degree in computer science, machine learning, or related discipline and 6+ years of relevant experience
  • Demonstrated experience delivering data-centric systems
  • Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
  • Proficiency in software engineering fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, design patterns) and at least one systems programming language

Technologies

Python · TensorFlow · PyTorch · scikit-learn · Chariot · containerized environments · cloud environments · AI agents · agentic workflows

About Striveworks

Cloud-to-edge AIOps platform that helps defense and other high-stakes teams build, deploy, evaluate, and maintain AI models in contested, fast-changing environments.

Series B · 50–100 people

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