Top AI Research Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develop and improve AI agents and machine learning models that identify financial opportunities in healthcare contracts, supply chain, pharmacy, and managed care data. Analyze complex datasets, automate manual workflows, build information extraction and agentic capabilities, and establish evaluation frameworks. Collaborate with engineering, product, value engineers, and healthcare subject-matter experts to translate research into scalable solutions with measurable financial impact.

Evaluate Bengali audio for nativeness, fluency, pronunciation, intonation, and linguistic authenticity. Document clear English-language feedback and detailed justifications, collaborate with coordinators, and complete audio review tasks accurately and on time to improve AI language understanding and generation.

Develop AI models and algorithms for biomolecular modeling and simulation. Responsibilities include integrating large-scale molecular and laboratory data, writing research code, orchestrating data generation and training campaigns, developing deep learning architectures and generative models, publishing research, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary international team.

Own research and implementation of post-training methods for legal language models, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reward design, verifiers, preference modeling, evaluations, and distributed training. Lead experiments from research direction through production deployment, while debugging training instability, reward hacking, and divergence. Build rigorous evaluation systems and production-quality Python code for long-horizon legal reasoning and agentic workflows.

Evaluate AI coding agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, reasoning quality, engineering judgment, and user trust. Provide detailed written and video feedback, distinguish response quality levels, and help define standards for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This flexible, remote contract requires strong software engineering experience, AI-assisted development expertise, and excellent communication skills.

Lead research and thought leadership on data management and AI readiness, produce actionable insights, advise clients and sales, present at events, mentor analysts, and improve research processes to drive client outcomes.

Conduct empirical AI safety research with mentor guidance, owning projects from hypotheses and controlled experiments through analysis and technical writing. Build and debug evaluation harnesses, agent environments, datasets, monitoring methods, and post-training experiments. Investigate model failures, alignment, deception, misuse, multi-agent risks, and evaluation reliability. Produce reproducible code, experiment logs, research analyses, and papers for potential submission to leading machine learning conferences.

Build production agentic AI systems that reason across imagery, point clouds, BIM models, drawings, specifications, and sensor data. Responsibilities include designing multi-step agents, retrieval and grounding systems, tool interfaces, evaluations, model selection, traceable outputs, and production deployment. The role requires multimodal ML expertise, strong Python engineering, spatial-data fluency, and experience taking LLM or VLM systems into production.

Conduct independent AI research spanning large language models, reasoning, knowledge acquisition, factuality evaluation, and trustworthy AI. Translate research ideas into scalable prototypes, implement and extend state-of-the-art methods, design experiments, develop algorithms and evaluation methods, use AI-assisted development tools, and communicate findings through technical reports and research papers.

Own G2’s research agenda for evaluating AI agents in realistic business workflows. Design benchmarks, task environments, scoring systems, automated and human grading methods, and reliability analyses. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ship evaluation capabilities, communicate findings to customers and researchers, mentor technical teams, and establish repeatable standards. The role requires hands-on LLM and agent evaluation experience, original research, statistical judgment, product delivery, and technical leadership.