# Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Team Lead (Active Secret Clearance)

“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. What you’ll build 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 Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will be both a core contributor and a customer-facing technical leader. You’ll initiate the design, build, and delivery of systems-from data shaping and analytics to end-user delivery. Customers and engineers will bring you the hard problems. You’ll turn them into working systems and see them through to execution. The work will take you into th

- **Id**: 3705061
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/striveworks-staff-machine-learning-engineer-team-lead-active-secret-clearance>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T18:57:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T22:12:15Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4645
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave, Unlimited PTO, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Computer Vision, MLOps, Edge AI, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 716620
- **Name**: Striveworks
- **Domain**: striveworks.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/striveworks-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 70
- **Open postings**: 34
- **Ghost share**: 0.5
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.029
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 210000
- **Max**: 260000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 260000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NATS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T20:48:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 260000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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