Top Remote Machine Learning Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Airbnb Payments, including LLM agents, real-time fraud detection, anomaly detection, personalization, and checkout optimization. Design, train, deploy, monitor, and continuously improve batch and streaming AI applications at global scale. Partner with product, engineering, operations, and data science teams, establish model governance and testing standards, and mentor engineers.

Own the full machine learning lifecycle for search ranking and retrieval, including model training, deployment, serving, feature pipelines, evaluation frameworks, hybrid lexical-vector retrieval, large-scale embedding inference, query understanding, and permissions-aware multi-tenant search. Collaborate with infrastructure, AI, and backend teams to improve search relevance across ClickUp’s platform.

Build and operate production retrieval-augmented generation systems, including embeddings, vector retrieval, grounded language-model generation, citation validation, prompt and schema design, model packaging, serving, rollback, and telemetry. Develop bounded model assistance for narrative extraction with provenance and rule-context tracking. Maintain resilient serving paths in secure government cloud environments, including restricted or air-gapped deployments.

Build and productionize machine learning systems that convert complex documents into executable, verifiable logic. Responsibilities include developing parsing and transformation pipelines, experimenting with language models, designing datasets and evaluation metrics, creating adversarial tests, analyzing model failures, and implementing rule-based checks using logical reasoning and program analysis. The role requires close collaboration with founders and subject-matter experts to validate system outputs.

Own the machine learning and applied AI layer of a software platform, from research through production. Build text-processing pipelines, extract structured data from technical documents, develop LLM-powered decision workflows, create evaluation systems, and build NLP classifiers. Lead exploratory research, translate findings into product features, and collaborate with a small engineering team. The role is remote in the US or Canada, with quarterly travel.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and operation of scalable machine learning solutions and high-performance microservices. Builds real-time inference systems using Triton and TensorRT, guides distributed cloud architectures, participates hands-on in coding and reviews, and mentors engineers. Drives technical strategy, operational excellence, system resilience, and business-wide innovation across generative AI, graph machine learning, and big data initiatives.

Lead exploration and application of large language models and generative AI for enterprise contact-center automation. Translate research into high-performing, deployable ML systems; contribute across experimentation, implementation, and deployment; collaborate with engineering and product teams; optimize performance; and help shape team strategy, innovation, and professional growth.

Lead exploration and application of large language models and generative AI, translate research into deployable ML systems, and guide strategic direction. Develop solutions across experimentation, implementation, and deployment while collaborating with engineering and product teams to optimize performance and customer outcomes in contact center automation.

Leads the end-to-end execution layer for machine learning, including data pipelines, large-model training and fine-tuning, evaluation, inference, deployment, monitoring, and reliability. Designs scalable GPU-based systems, optimizes performance and cost, partners with research and application engineering, and translates model capabilities into measurable production improvements. Also provides technical leadership, judgment, and support for high-impact ML delivery.

Lead the end-to-end ML execution: build and operate data pipelines, training and evaluation systems, and scalable inference. Fine-tune and optimize large models (LoRA/QLoRA/SFT/DPO/distillation), ensure GPU efficiency, monitor production quality, collaborate with product and application engineering, and rapidly ship reliable, safe ML solutions that translate research into production.

Partner with healthcare clients to discover, design, and deliver production-grade AI/LLM solutions. Architect cloud-native systems, build and deploy ML/LLM applications, prototype rapidly, troubleshoot distributed systems, and lead client engagements to drive measurable business outcomes while collaborating across product, platform, and engineering teams.

Design, productionize, and scale machine learning and optimization models, pipelines, libraries, and deployment platforms. Partner with data scientists, engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to deliver ML capabilities, personalization systems, and reusable end-to-end workflows. Establish ML engineering best practices, troubleshoot data pipelines, mentor junior professionals, and help define BetterHelp’s ML platform strategy.

Instructor-led AI and machine learning training covering theory, data preprocessing, algorithms, model building, analytics, real-time projects, case studies, and practical business and IT applications. Participants use Python, TensorFlow, and Scikit-learn and receive certification upon successful completion.

Build and maintain Quora’s machine learning platform and distributed model-serving infrastructure. Develop scalable systems for recommendation and language models, optimize GPU serving latency, throughput, and cost, improve ML tooling and feature stores, and contribute to platform modernization. The role includes production deployment, collaboration with senior engineers, mentoring, and participation in an on-call rotation.

Build and maintain computer vision and machine learning pipelines for automated device inspection, grading, and quality assessment. Responsibilities include data preparation, feature engineering, model training and evaluation, production Python development, monitoring, annotation workflows, documentation, code reviews, and collaboration with product and operations teams. The role supports the full ML lifecycle and offers increasing ownership under senior engineering guidance.

Design and productionize machine learning, deep learning, LLM, personalization, recommendation, search, and retrieval systems. Collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics teams to deploy AI solutions that improve customer experiences, business growth, and operational efficiency. The role requires driving projects from ideation through deployment and delivering measurable business impact in a fast-moving fintech environment.

Own the full lifecycle of production classification and detection models, including transformer fine-tuning, entity detection, behavioral risk scoring, training, serving, versioning, evaluation, drift detection, and retraining. Build SageMaker-based ML systems and define output contracts supporting audit and policy enforcement. Lead the evaluation harness and mentor a co-op while operating as the company’s sole ML engineer.

Develop and integrate production AI/ML capabilities into Oracle E-Business Suite on OCI for federal financial management. Build NLP and document-processing solutions, REST API integrations, ML lifecycle workflows, cognitive performance metrics, and data-mining capabilities. Participate in SAFe Agile delivery, author user stories, support DevSecOps integration, resolve technical impediments, and contribute to transition and knowledge-transfer materials. The role requires collaboration with architecture, product, and government teams in a cleared defense environment.

Own the production lifecycle for machine learning and LLM-backed systems, including training and post-training pipelines, inference serving, model releases, monitoring, retrieval infrastructure, and cost and latency optimization. Partner with AI researchers and engineering teams to move prototypes into reliable production capabilities across customer tenants. Develop ETL and GraphQL features, enforce tenant isolation, and support deployments in regulated or customer-controlled environments.

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.

Lead the architecture and development of Root’s machine learning platform for insurance pricing. Build infrastructure for feature pipelines and stores, reproducible training and orchestration, model registries, serving, validation, observability, and research-to-production workflows. Establish versioned contracts and technical standards, automate workflows using LLMs, write and review critical code, influence cross-team strategy, and mentor senior engineers. Collaborate closely with data scientists and researchers to create scalable, reliable, and reproducible ML capabilities.

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.

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.

Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and pipelines to optimize operations. Lead full ML project lifecycle, ensure model evaluation/monitoring, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, and drive continuous improvement in ML applications and processes.