Top AI Research Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead exploratory AI research and innovation initiatives, evaluating emerging techniques such as neuro-symbolic AI, causal AI, agentic AI, reasoning systems, and knowledge-enhanced machine learning. Design prototypes, assess capabilities and risks, identify business applications, and collaborate with engineering teams to transition successful concepts into production. Represent TransUnion through publications, patents, and presentations while shaping long-term AI strategy.

The Associate Principal Scientist will design and execute research projects, perform computational analyses, and communicate insights in precision medicine for oncology, collaborating with stakeholders.

10-week in-person research internship partnering with Quant Researchers to explore research ideas, build analysis tools, learn options theory and market making, and develop skills for potential conversion to a full-time Graduate Researcher role.

Leads Deepgram’s end-to-end Text-to-Speech research program, owning research strategy, technical direction, model development, evaluation, and production deployment. Advances neural audio modeling, prosody, expressiveness, multilingual generation, voice consistency, controllability, and inference performance. Builds and develops research teams, manages technical leaders, prioritizes experiments and compute, evaluates model quality, and partners with engineering and product leadership to ship production-grade models.

Manage and coach a team of mentors to ensure delivery outcomes for ~200 AI fellows at scale. Build delivery systems, run operational cadence, lead live instruction when needed, translate field signals into curriculum changes, and partner with strategic partners to close the feedback loop between mentors, fellows, and the curriculum team.

Support consulting engagements and research across the semiconductor and AI stack by performing technical analysis, cross-stack research, analytical modeling, and preparing client-facing reports, presentations, and briefings. Track industry trends, evaluate hardware and AI model developments, and collaborate with senior consultants to translate technical insights into strategic recommendations.

Lead development, training, evaluation, and deployment of AI-based weather and climate models. Create and analyze datasets, run model inference on HPC/cloud, assess physical consistency with process-level diagnostics, document results, contribute to publications, and manage research project tasks and lab duties with moderate supervision.

Summer 2027 intern will collaborate with data scientists and engineers to prototype machine-learning and AI product features. Responsibilities include researching use cases, collecting and creating data, designing architectures, training and evaluating deep neural networks and advanced algorithms, and adapting models for various platforms. The role focuses on applications involving images, video, audio, natural language, and other digital signals, with potential exposure to ML Ops and full-stack development.

Annotate and evaluate videos, images, and metadata across major social platforms to support AI system training. Apply contextual and cultural guidelines, resolve ambiguous or sensitive content decisions, perform quality assurance, identify trends and edge cases, conduct root cause analysis, prepare weekly reports, and recommend improvements to labeling processes and tools. The role requires English and Hindi fluency, strong attention to detail, analytical judgment, and comfort handling sensitive content.

Design and research AI-powered user experiences by identifying AI opportunities, creating intuitive human-AI interactions, collaborating with product and engineering, developing ethical design patterns, prototyping AI features, and evaluating usability, transparency, and trustworthiness of AI-driven systems.