Top Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build, deploy, scale, and maintain production machine learning models and platforms. Responsibilities include designing ML systems, developing data pipelines, operating distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, automating testing and deployment, monitoring models, applying responsible AI practices, and collaborating with product, data science, and engineering teams. The role requires advanced programming, machine learning, distributed computing, Kubernetes, and cloud experience.

Build, deploy, scale, monitor, and maintain production machine learning models and infrastructure. The role involves developing ML components, optimizing algorithms and data pipelines, operating distributed systems and cloud-based platforms, automating testing and deployment, and applying responsible AI and model governance practices. Candidates collaborate with product, data science, and Agile engineering teams while using technologies such as Python, PyTorch, Spark, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms.

Own the ML platform powering production training pipelines, model serving, deployment, orchestration, observability, and multi-region scaling. Drive major infrastructure initiatives, improve reliability and cost efficiency, lead incident response, collaborate across teams, and set the technical vision for ML operations. The role is hands-on, requiring production distributed-systems expertise, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure knowledge, technical leadership, mentoring, and strong communication.

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.

Develop and maintain production machine learning models, build scalable training and serving technologies, optimize real-time and batch ML pipelines, and monitor model performance and drift. The role involves deep neural networks, recommendation systems, automated retraining, ML research, engineering excellence, and communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences. Candidates need 6+ years of industry ML experience, strong coding skills, and experience deploying neural networks at scale.

Develop and own end-to-end machine learning models for Uber Freight’s marketplace, including cost prediction, booking probability, demand elasticity, pricing, matching, recommendations, and optimization. Partner with backend engineers to deploy models to production and ensure reliable performance. Apply predictive modeling, causal inference, constrained optimization, reinforcement learning, and marketplace design to solve complex logistics problems.

Build and deploy production AI/ML features across the model lifecycle, including GenAI systems, RAG pipelines, data pipelines, evaluation infrastructure, and MLOps. Apply machine learning to manufacturing, supply chain, computer vision, predictive maintenance, forecasting, inventory, and logistics problems. Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

Designs, deploys, and scales production AI agents and agentic workflows within enterprise Java and Spring applications. Establishes evaluation, monitoring, guardrail, safety, testing, observability, deployment, and operational standards for LLM systems. Leads architectural decisions across AI services and microservices, productionizes models, evaluates emerging technologies, mentors engineers, and influences technical strategy across teams.

Build and deploy production AI agents, agentic workflows, and ML-enabled enterprise features within Java/Spring microservices. Implement evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, safety, testing, and observability for LLM applications. Collaborate with AI scientists, engineers, product managers, and technical specialists to productionize models, integrate RAG and tool calling, prototype solutions, and improve AI capabilities. The role also involves design reviews, agile planning, software quality ownership, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.

Build production machine learning benchmarks and evaluation systems for foundation models. Own backend infrastructure including data pipelines, execution environments, storage, and orchestration, as well as sandboxed environments for agentic evaluations. Partner with researchers, enterprise customers, and company leadership to scope and deliver technical solutions. Identify scalable evaluation patterns, communicate clearly, and operate effectively in an ambiguous, high-ownership startup environment.

Develop, implement, and deploy scalable machine learning models for healthcare solutions. Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate models, analyze data to improve performance, ensure data quality, and stay current with ML advancements to support patient care and operational efficiency.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and monitoring of production AI/ML applications for dairy-farm intelligence. Responsibilities include data wrangling, feature engineering, model selection, experimentation, MLOps, agent evaluation, observability, fine-tuning, AI governance, and integration with cloud infrastructure. The role also drives AI adoption, establishes engineering practices, collaborates cross-functionally, and may build React and TypeScript user experiences.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and monitoring of production AI/ML applications for dairy farm intelligence. Responsibilities include data wrangling, feature engineering, model selection, experimentation, MLOps, agent evaluation, observability, fine-tuning, AI governance, and adoption enablement. The role also involves collaborating on React and TypeScript user experiences, translating ambiguous requirements into scalable systems, and communicating technical tradeoffs across product, engineering, and dairy science teams.

The Staff Machine Learning Engineer will design and build scalable ML systems, mentor engineers, and drive AI strategy at SailPoint, focusing on AI-powered identity security solutions.

Lead technical direction for high-impact machine learning initiatives, from research and experimentation through production deployment. Build and fine-tune LLMs, document understanding systems, model-serving infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and data feedback loops. Establish standards for model quality, calibration, reproducibility, and responsible deployment while mentoring ML engineers and influencing organizational roadmaps. The role requires hands-on software and ML engineering expertise, production-scale model development, and strong statistical judgment.

Own the research-to-production pipeline: harden training/evaluation workflows, build packaging/deployment tooling, design release gates, optimize inference and serving for latency/throughput, establish benchmarking and validation, and instrument feedback from production to accelerate research iteration.

Develops and productionizes deep learning and machine learning perception models for robotics and recycling sortation. Responsibilities include experimenting with neural network architectures, designing computer vision solutions, conducting statistical experiments, deploying successful models, collaborating with data, modeling, and cloud infrastructure teams, and improving ML infrastructure.

Design, build, and deploy K-12 AI features (lesson planning, grading, tutoring, admin analytics) while ensuring FERPA/COPPA compliance and child-safety guardrails. Measure impact, iterate with curriculum and legal partners, and maintain production-grade documentation, testing, and runbooks for deployed AI systems.

Builds and maintains full-stack software products and backend services with a strong Java and Spring Boot focus. Develops APIs, UI, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production machine learning or GenAI systems. Practices test-driven development, supports incident response, addresses security and compliance findings, performs root-cause analysis, and coaches junior engineers. Collaborates on architecture, participates in Agile ceremonies, and improves observability, deployment readiness, and product quality.

Build and operate production machine learning systems and MLOps infrastructure for financial services. Responsibilities include developing feature and training pipelines, model-serving systems, CI/CD, automated retraining, monitoring, alerting, observability, and progressive model rollouts in GCP and Kubernetes. The role partners with data scientists and business teams to improve reliability, performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and deployment velocity while applying AI coding agents to infrastructure and ML workflows.

Develop, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models and AI-powered applications. Responsibilities include data preprocessing, feature engineering, deep learning development, cloud-based model deployment, and collaboration with data engineers, MLOps teams, and business stakeholders. The role also requires applying strong analytical and research skills while staying current with advances in artificial intelligence.

Build and operate production machine learning training systems on Amazon SageMaker using AWS Trainium. The role focuses on optimizing PyTorch code for Trainium hardware, understanding NeuronCore compilation, diagnosing device-level issues, tuning distributed training for cost and throughput, and delivering production pipelines. The engineer will collaborate directly with client and internal teams in a forward-deployed engineering environment.

Lead end-to-end ML systems for identity verification, including document authenticity, face match, liveness and deepfake detection. Build GNN-based identity graphs, behavioral/device-intelligence models, vendor benchmarking/evaluation, and production enforcement. Mentor engineers and align ML architecture with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Security stakeholders.

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.

Build and deploy production generative AI and machine learning systems for utility clients. Own engagements end to end, including discovery, architecture, retrieval, model selection, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, operator-facing applications, and post-go-live support. Integrate with client data and business systems, establish AI safety and governance controls, manage scope and risk, and communicate with technical teams and executives. Contribute reusable accelerators, evaluation frameworks, and reference architectures across client engagements.