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Machine Learning Engineer

Full Time · In Office · Chicago, Illinois (USA)

Posted Aug 25, 2026

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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

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