Location: Austin
Austin, Texas or Remote
Build, Deploy, and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World
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 aren't just deploying AI—they're building systems that remain reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission‑critical operations require models that perform where they're deployed, scale as workloads grow, and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands, increasing reliability and performance while lowering costs—and enabling confident, data‑driven decision‑making in dynamic environments.
As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Striveworks, you will be challenged—and trusted—on day one to be both a core contributor and a customer‑facing technical leader on the projects and direction of the company. In this mission‑critical work, you will design AI‑powered solutions, bring them into being—from data shaping and ingestion, through analytics, to end‑user delivery—and inform future platform capabilities.
You're right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. You are passionate about applying both software engineering and data science to solve real‑world problems. You are comfortable simultaneously leading a team, executing directly on critical elements of the plan, and presenting vision and outcomes to your customer.
Your day‑to‑day will include:
This position offers a fully remote work environment, or you can work hybrid/on‑site at our office in northwest Austin, TX. You will be expected to travel up to 20% 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, geek out about the potential of our contributions, and find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally, we value taking ownership, having agency, and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.