Strategic Employment Partners (SEP)
Machine Learning Engineer
Full Time · In Office · Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Posted Aug 25, 2026
A well-established, publicly traded company in Chicago is hiring its first full-time Machine Learning Engineer. After two years of running ML systems in production through an outside consulting firm, this organization is building the capability in-house. This is a hands-on individual contributor role where you would be building new ML pipelines and models, while also maintaining and improving what is already in production.
- Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
- Downtown Chicago
What You Bring:
- 4+ Machine Learning engineering experience
- Hands-on work building, deploying, and maintaining models in production
- Python experience
- Full pipeline experience: data ingestion, training, evaluation
- Understand MLOps
Pluses:
- AWS SageMaker experience
- Generative AI
- SQL and/or other relational databases
- Compensation: $120K - $150K + full benefits package
- US work authorization required; sponsorship is not available.
If this sounds like the right scope for where you are in your career, we would like to hear from you.
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Machine Learning Engineer
Strategic Employment Partners (SEP)
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