Top Machine Learning Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead AI engineering teams to design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI solutions. Manage client relationships, plan and deliver projects, mentor staff, drive adoption of cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, vector databases and orchestration tools, and ensure high standards of quality, innovation, and compliance.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and optimization of scalable AI and generative AI solutions. Translates business needs into secure, production-ready architectures; applies foundation models, NLP, retrieval, vector search, and agentic workflows; and implements MLOps and LLMOps practices. Manages project workstreams, evaluates solution performance, ensures security and compliance, collaborates with stakeholders, and coaches junior team members.

Analyzes workforce and healthcare data to identify trends, build predictive and machine learning models, and deliver actionable recommendations. Uses Python, Alteryx, and Power BI for analytics, visualization, and reporting. The role supports workforce strategy, employee engagement, organizational effectiveness, talent management, and healthcare cost insights. Responsibilities also include client collaboration, relationship management, team guidance, and applying risk adjustment and medical economics concepts to inform strategic decisions.

Develop and implement generative AI solutions for client engagements, including contact center applications, machine learning and NLP integrations, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and LLMOps governance. Use Python, Azure AI Services, Google Vertex AI, LangChain, and LLM APIs to build, deploy, monitor, and refine AI applications while supporting data analytics and client outcomes.

Develop, deploy, and monitor fraud detection models and pattern-recognition pipelines using Python, SQL, machine learning, and large transactional datasets. Partner with Fraud Operations to refine models, reduce false positives and negatives, analyze emerging fraud trends, and improve underwriting and verification strategies. Communicate insights to senior stakeholders, apply AI in production, and lead team members and initiatives.

Develop machine learning, deep learning, statistical, and Generative AI solutions using equipment and telematics data. Build models for anomaly detection, failure prediction, remaining useful life, and risk assessment. Support digital products through reliability monitoring, incident response, automation, connectivity planning, technical analysis, and performance optimization. Partner with engineers and data scientists on AI, analytics, IoT, and digital product initiatives.

Own value-based bidding across digital marketing channels by building customer lifetime value models, integrating predictions with Google Ads and Meta, designing incrementality experiments, and advising Marketing on budget allocation, audience strategy, campaign measurement, and funnel performance. The role requires production-oriented machine learning, statistical analysis, automated data integrations, and collaboration with Pricing and Profitability teams.

Provides global technical leadership for Physical AI and cyber-physical product assurance. Develops standards, certification programs, assessment methodologies, testing criteria, and customer-facing services for robotics, autonomy, drones, smart mobility, and connected intelligent products. Evaluates real-world system behavior, hazards, failure modes, safety controls, human interaction, robustness, and lifecycle changes. Advises customers, regulators, and standards bodies while building global evaluator training, delivery guidance, and scalable assurance capabilities.

Provides global technical leadership for digital AI standards, certification, assurance, training, advisory, and assessment services. Develops AI governance and lifecycle assurance methodologies covering predictive and generative AI, LLMs, agents, cloud AI, model risk, testing, transparency, fairness, privacy, security, robustness, and operational resilience. Translates regulations, standards, emerging technologies, and customer needs into scalable offerings while engaging customers, regulators, standards bodies, and internal stakeholders.

Lead development and independent validation of advanced credit risk models used for lending criteria and verification. Prepare validation reports, monitor model performance, support production releases, and improve validation methodologies through automation, data manipulation, machine learning, and programming. Provide technical guidance and mentorship while communicating quantitative findings to technical and business stakeholders.

Lead GitLab’s company-wide strategy for autonomous, agentic software development workflows. Identify and validate AI opportunities across the SDLC, build prototypes and reference architectures, establish evaluation frameworks and safety controls, and drive internal adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Data and ML teams to scale reliable, observable, compliant agentic capabilities into customer-facing products. Mentor senior technical leaders and represent GitLab externally on AI-assisted development and productivity measurement.

Develop advanced algorithms and apply statistical, data mining, machine learning, and AI techniques to large structured and unstructured datasets. Identify trends, evaluate emerging data technologies, and communicate analytical findings to clients and ZS stakeholders. The role requires collaboration across multiple projects, strong quantitative and research skills, and proficiency with Python, SQL, Pandas, and PySpark. Client-facing work may require travel.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Safety AI, including low-latency APIs, data pipelines, model serving, evaluation, monitoring, and rollout infrastructure. Process large-scale camera and telematics data, optimize cloud and edge-to-cloud execution, track model performance and drift, and partner with applied scientists, firmware engineers, platform teams, and product managers to deliver reliable safety features.

Owns Attain’s data science methodology, including causal inference, attribution, incrementality, media mix modeling, audience targeting, and modeled-data validation. Defines defensible measurement standards, partners with Product, Engineering, ML, and commercial teams, presents methodology to clients and partners, manages external consultants, and leads a team of data scientists. The role requires deep AdTech/MarTech experience, strong statistical and ML expertise, executive communication skills, and experience with large-scale consumer data.

Leads product strategy and a product management team for enterprise AI/ML and machine learning platforms. Defines Generative AI and ML platform vision, evolves capabilities for data scientists and software developers, drives platform adoption, and partners with adjacent platform leaders on an integrated ecosystem. The role requires deep technical expertise in AI/ML infrastructure, Generative and Agentic AI, cloud and open-source technologies, people leadership, and AI risk management.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of production machine learning systems at scale. Responsibilities include developing and validating models, building optimized data pipelines, writing application code, automating testing and deployment, monitoring and retraining production models, designing cloud-based ML architectures, and applying responsible AI and governance practices. The role collaborates with Product, Data Science, and Agile engineering teams and may include people leadership.

Leads Toast’s AI and analytics strategy for Enterprise Care. Owns the roadmap, evaluates and deploys AI-assisted support tools, develops operational intelligence products, and partners with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to move pilots into production. Establishes complexity and workload intelligence, assesses AI readiness, translates AI performance into measurable operational outcomes, and builds organizational AI literacy. The role requires extensive enterprise support or service-delivery leadership, hands-on production AI experience, operational data fluency, and the ability to drive trusted adoption among agents and executives.

Build and productionize traditional machine learning models, owning feature engineering, validation, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining. Develop LLM-powered agentic tools, dashboards, self-serve analytics products, and automated insight pipelines. Partner with engineering and business stakeholders, write production-grade Python and SQL, drive adoption, improve data quality, and establish responsible AI workflows for a regulated industry.

Lead Data Scientist partners with business leaders to identify opportunities, design, develop, and deploy advanced analytics and ML solutions. Responsibilities include data preparation, modeling, feature engineering, delivering insights and visualizations, establishing standards, and directing associate data scientists, contractors, and consultants to produce measurable business value.

Build and maintain pricing and profitability models to optimize lending strategies, incorporating proprietary credit models. Design A/B tests, analyze financial performance trends, and present data-driven recommendations to senior management. Collaborate with credit risk, capital markets, FP&A, marketing, and sales to quantify financial impact and improve pricing decisions.

Develop autonomy evaluation metrics, statistical and machine-learning analyses, dashboards, and pipelines for simulation and on-road autonomous vehicle testing. Analyze perception, prediction, and planning performance; identify anomalous behavior and critical scenarios; apply VLMs and LLMs where appropriate; and support release gating and safety decisions. The role requires production Python, C++ debugging, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous software engineering practices.

Design, build, and deploy AI and machine learning solutions at scale. Develop data pipelines and scalable models, perform data wrangling and analysis, apply NLP and neural networks, collaborate with clients and teams, and contribute to open-source and iterative improvement of AI systems.

Principal-level senior individual contributor and strategic co-leader for Financial Services Consulting Data Science and Analytics. Drives strategy, operating model design, revenue and capacity planning, analytics consulting delivery, AI and machine learning solution development, product commercialization, data governance, platform stewardship, thought leadership, and talent development. Guides production-grade model pipelines, supports client engagements and sales, and ensures scalable, compliant analytics outcomes across a matrixed organization.

Develop, test, and integrate AI software for aerospace and industrial applications. Interns will use Python, JavaScript, and C++ to build AI solutions, evaluate data and algorithms, collaborate with machine learning and data engineers, monitor AI trends and regulations, and present progress to leadership and stakeholders.

Own the end-to-end architecture, development, deployment, evaluation, and operations of AI and machine learning systems. Build predictive ordering models, agentic workflow copilots, retrieval and evaluation infrastructure, safety guardrails, and responsible AI practices. Prioritize AI initiatives based on business outcomes, establish model governance and production standards, advise product and engineering leadership, and mentor experienced contributors.