Top Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead the architecture and development of large-scale machine learning systems, distributed training infrastructure, ranking systems, and production ML services. Drive complex initiatives from concept through deployment, establish engineering standards, partner with product and engineering leadership, and mentor data scientists and engineers. Build reliable, low-latency, high-availability AI platforms using advanced ML frameworks, accelerators, and big data technologies.

Build, test, deploy, and evaluate machine learning models using established frameworks. Support feature engineering, data preprocessing, automated training and monitoring pipelines, and production AI integration. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define AI requirements, research performance improvements, and respond to critical IT incidents. The role requires advanced quantitative education, 5+ years of AI/ML engineering experience, Python expertise, and knowledge of deep learning and generative AI.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and automation of production-grade machine learning and optimization solutions. Builds scalable data and ETL pipelines, internal ML and ERP tools, and reusable engineering frameworks. Ensures reliability through software engineering and DevOps practices, evaluates emerging technologies, documents architectures, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors team members. Work includes AWS, Databricks, optimization modeling, web applications, databases, orchestration, containers, and machine learning frameworks.

Design, build, deploy, and support production AI applications for complex enterprise workflows. Develop LLM, retrieval, agentic, API, and distributed-service capabilities; create evaluation, testing, tracing, and observability practices; investigate AI failures; and optimize quality, security, performance, maintainability, and cost. Collaborate with domain experts, architects, data teams, and software engineers to translate specialized knowledge into reliable, explainable, and maintainable solutions.

Build scalable systems and machine learning models that transform satellite imagery into labeled geospatial data and production computer vision products. Responsibilities include developing data and annotation pipelines, tracking lineage and versioning, deploying inference services, evaluating models, supporting cloud infrastructure, and improving labeling workflows. The role requires strong Python, cloud, containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, production support, and deep learning expertise, with preferred experience in GCP, Vertex AI, spatial databases, and satellite imagery.

Build, deploy, scale, and operate production machine learning models and infrastructure. Responsibilities include developing ML applications, optimizing models and data pipelines, managing cloud-based distributed systems, automating testing and deployment, monitoring production models, and applying responsible AI practices. The role collaborates with Product and Data Science teams in an Agile environment and uses technologies such as Python, PyTorch, Spark, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.

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.

Own the strategy, architecture, development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of production personalization and recommendation systems. Build custom embeddings, ranking models, and shared representations across feeds, search, and recommendations. Lead ambiguous problems from concept to measurable customer impact, establish AI evaluation standards, partner with product and data teams, make cross-team technical decisions, and coach senior engineers.

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.

Lead development and production deployment of machine learning systems for time-series anomaly detection in connected-device environments. Build streaming and MLOps pipelines, tune alerts, monitor model drift, and integrate AI systems with LLM-based assistants. Guide architecture, tooling, observability, and production readiness while mentoring and managing applied AI and full-stack engineers. Collaborate across engineering, product, data, and research teams.

Develop and deploy machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, machine vision, IIoT, predictive maintenance, and process-monitoring solutions for manufacturing operations. Build Azure data pipelines, manage models through production, establish governance standards, integrate systems, and support plant implementations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide technical guidance and training, evaluate emerging technologies, and manage project scope, schedules, budgets, vendors, and change orders. Travel to Wood Products facilities is required, with approximately 25% travel for employees based outside the area.

Design and build production-grade AI memory systems, including retrieval pipelines, storage tiers, privacy filtering, memory extraction, adaptive updates, hybrid search, and evaluation frameworks. Ship and maintain LLM-powered features, diagnose RAG and prompt failures, implement agentic workflows and tool integrations, and ensure reliable degradation and fallback strategies. Collaborate with product management to define feasible memory-system capabilities while owning production reliability.

Build and scale pipelines that transform conversation data into structured customer memory. Develop LLM extraction and retrieval systems using embeddings, vector search, and ranking; create evaluation benchmarks and regression gates; diagnose production issues through logs, metrics, and traces; and partner with Product and ML teams to improve customer-focused AI systems.

Build and optimize scalable pre-training pipelines for foundation models. Implement distributed training across GPUs, TPUs, and high-performance clusters; translate research experiments into production workflows; develop monitoring and fault-tolerance systems; and benchmark and tune performance across hardware and software stacks.

Develop AI agents, chatbots, and machine learning models for a modernized federal data science platform. Research and standardize AI capabilities in Databricks and Palantir, prompt-engineer LLMs, integrate AI into DevOps pipelines, and train models on production datasets for prediction and anomaly detection. The role requires collaboration with developers and customers, database familiarity, Agile experience, documentation, and an active or obtainable DoD Secret clearance.

Design, develop, evaluate, and refine machine learning models using Python. Manage training data with MongoDB, build preprocessing and data pipelines, tune hyperparameters, benchmark model performance, document experiments, and deliver data-driven insights. Collaborate remotely with cross-functional contributors and support deployment or operationalization of models in cloud or enterprise environments.

Develop and refine machine learning models using Python, analyze datasets with MongoDB, and integrate preprocessing and data pipelines. Evaluate models, tune hyperparameters, benchmark performance, document experiments, and deliver data-driven recommendations. Collaborate remotely with cross-functional contributors to improve and operationalize machine learning solutions in cloud or enterprise environments.

Lead the design, development, deployment, monitoring, and improvement of interconnected customer lifetime value models covering conversion, retention, premiums, and claim losses. Serve as a hands-on technical leader, guide modeling strategy, evaluate experiments and business impact, partner with engineering and business teams, support production ML systems, establish technical standards, and coach other data scientists.

Build and deploy advanced machine learning and agentic AI systems that improve Airbnb’s customer service experience. Responsibilities include developing AI assistants, integrating ML products, optimizing model performance, applying LLM techniques such as fine-tuning and RAG, building multi-agent architectures, and shipping scalable production ML systems. The role collaborates closely with Engineering, Product, and Design teams and contributes to emerging AI initiatives from concept through production.

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.

Design, develop, and implement AI/ML models; analyze large datasets; integrate AI solutions into existing systems; apply MavLink for autonomous systems; collaborate across teams and improve ML development processes.

Develop, optimize, and deploy production-grade computer vision and deep learning models for real-time perception and navigation on edge hardware. Integrate AI systems with robots, drones, unmanned systems, and swarms while optimizing inference with CUDA and TensorRT. Manage containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes, contribute to CI/CD and automated testing, and transition research prototypes into reliable production features.

Set technical direction for production AI agents, LLM and vision-language model post-training, evaluation, MLOps, and data improvement systems. Architect agent orchestration, retrieval, observability, and failure recovery; establish quality and release standards; and ship measurable model improvements. This hands-on individual contributor will co-own the ML roadmap, lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, support hiring, and implement privacy-conscious, HIPAA-aware practices.

Build and maintain core infrastructure for developing, training, evaluating, deploying, and operating machine learning models and pipelines for Atlassian’s GenAI products. Solve complex software infrastructure and architecture challenges, lead engineers through technical projects from design to launch, and collaborate with internal teams and customers. The role involves large-scale distributed systems, data processing, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and machine learning lifecycle support.

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.