Senior Data Scientist (Active Secret Clearance) at Striveworks in Austin, Texas, United States

Job description

• “In 36 months, agentic AI systems will be an operating reality across major institutions. We intend to be central to it.” — Dr. Jim Rebesco, Cofounder and CEO, Striveworks
• The government’s demand for AI is growing far faster than the systems required to support it. Fewer than 15% of federal AI programs have reached sustained production, despite billions of dollars invested. The models perform in testing, but they degrade in the real world. And when performance drops, trust goes with it.
• Striveworks was built to solve that problem.

Responsibilities

• Since 2018, we have delivered the most trusted AI systems operating in real-world use cases—providing a layer of assurance underneath hundreds of deployed models that monitors performance, manages drift, and sustains systems long after they leave the lab.
• As a Senior Data Scientist at Striveworks, you will be a core contributor to the projects, products, and direction of the company. Working as part of a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, and DevOps engineers, you’ll develop and validate machine learning models and custom analytic algorithms applied to image, video, text, geospatial, time series, and structured data. You will also implement AI-based software solutions for cloud and edge environments.

Requirements

• A 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 and US citizenship
• A graduate degree in computer science, machine learning, mathematics, or a related discipline
• Experience processing a variety of unstructured data types (e.g., imagery, full-motion video, text, acoustic, sonar, RF, geospatial, graphs, or telemetry signals)
• Experience building AI agents and agentic workflows
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines, data pipelines, and/or workflow automation
• Experience developing solutions in a compiled programming language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++, Java, etc.)
• Experience building full-stack applications (back end, front end, REST) or solutions targeted for cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and/or Kubernetes (K8s)
• Experience leading a small team
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments

Skills

Required

• Machine learning
• Data science
• Image and video data analysis
• Algorithm implementation and analysis
• Data structures
• Python
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• scikit-learn

Preferred

• AI agents and agentic workflows
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Kubernetes (K8s)
• Team leadership

Benefits

• 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
• The anticipated base pay range for this position is $185,000–$230,000/year. Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary, equity grants, and cash bonuses.