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.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Striveworks, you’ll be challenged—and trusted—on day one to be a core contributor to the products and direction of the company.
Our customers use Chariot, our flagship product, to develop, deploy, and maintain production ML models. We’re looking for exemplary engineers with a product mindset who can write quality code in Go and Python and who ultimately want to be core contributors to the direction of the company. You’re right for this challenge if you value and possess technical expertise, if you push the boundaries of your own capabilities, and if you are outcome driven, not requirements driven. We’re looking for people who are excited about our central development themes:
Everything as Code
Cloud-neutral development
User-centric design
Hexagonal, event-driven, microservices architecture
Optimizing, deploying, and refining AI models and algorithms
This position offers a fully remote work environment, or you can work hybrid/on site at our office in northwest Austin, TX.
The Right Fit
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, we geek out about the potential of our contributions, and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally, we value taking ownership, having agency, and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.
Here’s what else we’re looking for:
6–8 years of hands-on development experience
Excellence in Go, C++ (17 or higher), Java (11 or higher), C# (9 or higher), or Rust
Strong background in relational database design, architecture, operation, and performance
Proficiency in Python
Experience with DevOps tooling: CI/CD tools, Git, Docker, Kubernetes
Proven experience with cloud architecture: commercial cloud, OpenStack
Experience in the design and development of performant, scalable services
Ability to work cross-functionally and participate in or lead design discussions
Ability to independently lead the software development life cycle, from collaborating with product teams on requirements to executing technical design, implementation, and deployment
Experience in knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching (e.g., onboarding, code reviews, leading junior engineers)
Strong understanding of software development principles, such as object-oriented programming, design patterns, documentation, and agile methodologies
Driven, self-directed personality
Strong sense of mission and commitment to making a difference
Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field, or similar experience
Due to the nature of this role, candidates must be a US person (a US citizen, a US national, or a Green Card holder)
The Wish List
We’re very interested in developers who possess the above qualifications, and we heavily appreciate and consider the addition of:
Professional experience designing Postgres databases and optimizing query performance on them
Familiarity with non-relational database design and architecture
Understanding of synchronous/asynchronous programming and concurrency
Comfort with integration of deep learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
Experience designing RESTful, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs
Understanding of networked and distributed computing
Knowledge of messaging systems (e.g., NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Experience with workflow automation
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $160,000 to $200,000/year. Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary, equity grants, and cash bonuses.
The 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
Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, belief, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression), national origin, social or ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.
If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact Operations at hr@striveworks.us.
Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.