Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design, build, and productionize LLM-powered systems (adaptive content, tutors, evaluators) and AI pipelines (RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning). Prototype and optimize models across modalities, define AI safety/evaluation/observability practices, and collaborate with product and engineering to measure learner outcomes and iterate.

Unpaid AI engineering internship to design, build, and deploy ML solutions (NLP, computer vision, recommenders). Work on data preprocessing, model training/fine-tuning, containerized FastAPI microservices, and scalable deployments on Google Cloud Run. Contribute to code reviews, GitHub repos, and integration of third-party AI APIs.

Supports high-volume hourly hiring by reviewing offer letters, managing approval workflows, sending documents through e-signature platforms, and maintaining recruiting and headcount reports. The coordinator works in Greenhouse, Excel, and Google Sheets while assisting the Talent Acquisition Operations team with reporting, systems, and ad hoc operational requests during a short-term remote contract.

Manage major client accounts by onboarding customers, driving adoption, demonstrating subscription value, monitoring client health, and supporting renewals and expansion. Partner with sales, services, product, and technical support teams to resolve issues and design learning program implementations. Conduct business reviews, provide strategic guidance, deliver enablement, and identify opportunities to improve learner engagement and client outcomes.

Own and grow strategic technology, reseller, and channel partnerships across the United States and Canada. Develop joint business plans, enable partners, build pipeline, manage forecasts, negotiate commercial arrangements, coordinate integrations and go-to-market activities, and drive revenue. Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, and Operations while representing partner needs internally. The role focuses on defense, homeland security, public safety, critical infrastructure, and Counter-UAS markets.

Build BetterUp’s technology and channel partnership function from the ground up. Develop partner strategy, programs, executive relationships, joint business plans, co-sell motions, enablement, and operating cadences across HCM platforms, technology companies, consulting firms, and systems integrators. Align partners with Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Legal, and Finance, while tracking partner-sourced pipeline, revenue, and engagement metrics.

Lead outbound business development for IT services, software development, managed services, and EOR solutions across North America, the UK, and EMEA. Identify and engage prospects through LinkedIn, qualify leads, conduct online meetings, nurture relationships, advance opportunities through the sales pipeline, maintain accurate CRM records, and report performance against activity and opportunity targets.

Design and implement cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines for AWS and air-gapped environments. Monitor services, manage secrets and configuration, enforce CMMC compliance, and support self-hosted bare-metal deployments. The role requires expertise in Pulumi or Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, cloud services, TypeScript, Go, networking, identity providers, and TS/SCI clearance.

Build and operationalize machine learning models for large-scale advertising optimization. Responsibilities include designing high-volume services, developing data solutions, training and evaluating models, improving calibration and guardrails, creating offline and online evaluation workflows, and monitoring production systems. The role requires collaboration with product and engineering teams, ownership of reliability and performance, participation in on-call rotations, and deploying scalable, cost-effective ML solutions.

Manage customer supply chain operations, including collaborative forecasting, replenishment planning, inventory management, order processing, EDI, logistics coordination, fill-rate reporting, and service optimization. Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Demand Planning, Customer Service, Logistics, and retail customers to improve forecast accuracy, in-stock performance, OTIF metrics, and cost to serve. Resolve fulfillment issues, manage compliance fines, support customer onboarding, and develop scalable processes and SOPs.