Senior Machine Learning Engineer Jobs

Senior Machine Learning Engineer jobs hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $209,577/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Ultralytics

ultralytics.com
End-to-end computer vision platform. Annotate data, train YOLO models, and deploy to 42 global regions.
ultralytics.com • HQ: New York, United States • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Data Science • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2014
HQ: New York, United States • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Data Science • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2014
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ML Engineer

Equity • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Shenzhen, China) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
CUDA Toolkit
Data Augmentation
ONNX
OpenVINO
PyTorch
Quantization
TensorRT
Ultralytics
YOLO
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
GitHub Actions
GitHub
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Verified live · 2 days ago 3 months ago

LLM Engineer

$93k – $191k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
DeepSeek
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
Gemini
LiteLLM
LLM
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
RAG
Ultralytics
YOLO
Anthropic
OpenAI
DevOps
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Vector
GitHub
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Logitech

logitech.com
Logitech International is a global technology enterprise specializing in software-enabled hardware solutions for workspace productivity, video collaboration, digital content creation, and gaming. Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, with operational headquarters in California, the company's product ecosystem encompasses personal computer peripherals - such as mice, keyboards, webcams, and audio headsets - alongside enterprise conference room systems and specialized creator tools.
logitech.com • Cork • Vienna • Hsinchu • Shenzhen • Shanghai • Hardware • Peripherals • 201-500 employees
Cork • Vienna • Hsinchu • Shenzhen • Shanghai • Hardware • Peripherals • 201-500 employees
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Senior Audio AI Research Engineer

$97k – $201k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 4+ years expRemote/Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Data Augmentation
Multimodal AI
Quantization
ONNX
PyTorch
TensorFlow
DevOps
AWS
GitHub
Management
Jira
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Machine Learning Training Infrastructure Engineer

$91k – $230k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (Lausanne, Switzerland) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
PyTorch
Edge AI
TPU
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Docker
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
GitHub
GitLab
HPC
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Open 133 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 5 months ago

Sr. Audio DSP Machine Learning Engineer

$29k – $73k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years expIn office (Chennai, India) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Quantization
Edge AI
Post-training
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Lifepoint Health

lifepointhealth.net
Lifepoint Health is a major diversified healthcare delivery network and hospital operating system in the United States. Headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, the enterprise focuses primarily on providing non-urban communities, regional markets, and growing suburban areas with accessible, high-quality healthcare services.
lifepointhealth.net • HQ: Brentwood, United States • Hospitals & Clinics • Mental Health • Health Care • Est. 1999
HQ: Brentwood, United States • Hospitals & Clinics • Mental Health • Health Care • Est. 1999
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Senior Engineer, AI Agentic & Transformation

Senior • 4+ years expIn office • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
AutoGen
Claude
Function Calling
LangChain
LLM
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Semantic Kernel
Anthropic
DevOps
Azure
Git
Rest API
Cybersecurity
Okta
Least Privilege
Management
ServiceNow
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Aion

aion.io
Aion is an enterprise artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2025 by Jayden Watson and Christian Angermayer. The company offers a platform for building, fine tuning, and deploying AI systems and agents in production, sold together with forward deployed engineers who implement it inside the customer organization. It runs teams across the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, targeting enterprises that want working AI systems rather than pilots.
aion.io • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • IT Consulting • LLM & Generative AI • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • 201-500 employees • Est. 2025
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • IT Consulting • LLM & Generative AI • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • 201-500 employees • Est. 2025
$97k – $200k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years expIn office (London, United Kingdom) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
Multimodal AI
RAG
PEFT
Computer Vision
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LoRA
Prompt Engineering
QLoRA
Quantization
RLHF
Synthetic Data
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
vLLM
SFT
Text-to-Speech
Function Calling
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Vector
WebRTC
WebSockets
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$104k – $218k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (London, United Kingdom) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
Multimodal AI
RAG
PEFT
Computer Vision
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LoRA
Prompt Engineering
QLoRA
Quantization
RLHF
Synthetic Data
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
vLLM
SFT
Text-to-Speech
Function Calling
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Vector
WebRTC
WebSockets
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Path Robotics

path-robotics.com
Path Robotics is a company founded in 2014 in Columbus, Ohio that builds autonomous welding robots for manufacturers facing a shortage of skilled welders. Its systems scan each part with computer vision, plan the weld path themselves and adapt to variation instead of following a pre-programmed trajectory. The technology is aimed at high-mix, low-volume fabrication that conventional robots cannot handle.
path-robotics.com • HQ: Columbus, United States • Est. 2014
HQ: Columbus, United States • Est. 2014
$149k – $268k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Columbus • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
TensorFlow
Synthetic Data
Robotics
Isaac Gym
MuJoCo
Reinforcement Learning
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Assent

assent.com
Assent is a SaaS company focused on helping organisations manage product compliance and supply chain data, particularly where regulations and customer requirements are complex and constantly changing. Its platform is designed to make it easier for manufacturers and their suppliers to collect, validate, and maintain the information needed to demonstrate that products meet relevant standards. In practice, this means reducing the risk of non compliance, avoiding delays to production or shipment, and improving confidence in the quality and traceability of supplier provided data.
assent.com • Amsterdam • Berlin • Ottawa • Pune • George Town • Information Security • Cybersecurity • Supply Chain • Est. 2010
Amsterdam • Berlin • Ottawa • Pune • George Town • Information Security • Cybersecurity • Supply Chain • Est. 2010
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Senior AI Engineer

$24k – $62k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 10+ years expIn office (Pune, India) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C#
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
AI/ML
AI Agents
AutoGen
CrewAI
LangChain
LLM
RAG
A2A
Edge AI
LLM Guardrails
Google ADK
Model Context Protocol
Frontend
Angular
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
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Qualysoft

qualysoft.com
Qualysoft is an international IT services, enterprise software engineering, and digital transformation consultancy headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1999 by Peter Oros and Martin Schwarz, the privately held firm operates across Central and Eastern Europe with office hubs in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, and Indonesia.
qualysoft.com • HQ: Vienna, Austria • Data & Analytics • Cybersecurity • Information Technology • Est. 1999
HQ: Vienna, Austria • Data & Analytics • Cybersecurity • Information Technology • Est. 1999
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AI Engineer - Automotive

Senior • 7+ years expBucharest • Remote (Romania) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
Embeddings
LangGraph
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LangChain
Anthropic
LLM Guardrails
LLMOps
OpenAI
DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
Vector
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank is a banking institution based in the United Arab Emirates that offers retail, corporate, and investment banking services. The organization provides products such as personal and business accounts, financing facilities, cards, trade related services, and treasury and wealth management offerings for individual and institutional customers.
adcb.com • Abu Dhabi • Almaty • Wealth Management • Financial Services • Banking
Abu Dhabi • Almaty • Wealth Management • Financial Services • Banking
Senior • 7+ years expAbu Dhabi • Remote (United Arab Emirates) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Pinecone
AI/ML
AWS Bedrock
CrewAI
Fine-tuning
LangChain
Multimodal AI
NLP
Prompt Engineering
RAG
RLHF
Human-in-the-Loop
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Analytics
Power BI
Tableau
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GTMfund

gtmfund.com
An exclusive network of GTM leaders investing in the next wave of SaaS start-ups. The experience and network to help you go from 0 to IPO.
gtmfund.com • Abu Dhabi • Business Development • Financial Services • Venture Capital
Abu Dhabi • Business Development • Financial Services • Venture Capital
$140k – $190k per year • Senior • 2+ years expIn office (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
Celery
Django
FastAPI
Flask
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Pinecone
Qdrant
AI/ML
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LLM
Embeddings
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
AWS Lambda
Docker
Rest API
Amazon S3
Kubernetes
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Carsales

carsales.com.au
At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 28 years we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. We started out with the idea of digitising print classifieds back in 1997 when we thought that 'this internet thing might actually be starting to take off'.
carsales.com.au • Melbourne • Brisbane • Richmond • Sydney • Gold Coast • Online Directories & Classifieds • Commerce • Marketplaces • 51-200 employees
Melbourne • Brisbane • Richmond • Sydney • Gold Coast • Online Directories & Classifieds • Commerce • Marketplaces • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 10 hours ago 2 months ago

Senior MLOps Engineer

$84k – $212k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Melbourne, Australia) • Full-Time • Senior
MLFlow
Amazon SageMaker
Metaflow
DevOps
Amazon EC2
Amazon EKS
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Terraform
IAM
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Covestro

covestro.com
At Covestro, we combine curiosity and courage to make the world a more colorful place, by developing the high-tech polymer materials that are vital to many areas of modern life. Working closely with customers across a variety of industries, we c...
covestro.com • Newark • Shanghai • Ecatepec • Leverkusen • Tokyo • Artificial Intelligence • Manufacturing • Plastics & Polymers • 5000+ employees
Newark • Shanghai • Ecatepec • Leverkusen • Tokyo • Artificial Intelligence • Manufacturing • Plastics & Polymers • 5000+ employees
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Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer

$117k – $227k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Pittsburgh, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
DevOps
AIOps
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Applied Materials is a global materials engineering company for the semiconductor, flat panel display, and solar industries, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and founded in 1967. The company provides specialized equipment, services, and software used to manufacture semiconductor chips, liquid crystal displays, and organic light-emitting diode screens. Operating in more than 20 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, the publicly traded corporation serves major electronics manufacturers and focuses on advancing nanotechnology and energy-efficient electronics.
amat.com • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Solar Energy • Energy & Utilities • Displays & Panel Technology • Advanced Materials • Manufacturing • Hardware • Semiconductors • Semiconductor Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1967
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Solar Energy • Energy & Utilities • Displays & Panel Technology • Advanced Materials • Manufacturing • Hardware • Semiconductors • Semiconductor Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1967
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Senior Data Scientist / AI Engineer

$31k – $78k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years expIn office (Bengaluru, India) • Relocation • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Databricks
Delta Lake
AI/ML
BERT
Claude
Claude Code
Computer Vision
Copilot
Fine-tuning
Keras
LangChain
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
LLM
LoRA
MLFlow
Multimodal AI
NLP
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
RAG
TensorFlow
PEFT
SFT
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
GitHub
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DataSnipper

datasnipper.com
DataSnipper is an intelligent automation platform designed specifically for audit and finance professionals to accelerate data verification and reconciliation workflows. Operating as an add-in within Microsoft Excel, the software uses optical character recognition and AI to automatically extract, cross-reference, and link unstructured data from PDFs and receipts directly to spreadsheets.
datasnipper.com • Amsterdam • New York • Mexico City • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Financial Services • Audit
Amsterdam • New York • Mexico City • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Financial Services • Audit
Verified live · 7 hours ago 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, AI Agents

$79k – $200k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years expIn office (Amsterdam, Netherlands) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
MLFlow
Pydantic AI
DevOps
Azure
Grafana
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Stripe

stripe.com
Stripe is a financial infrastructure company founded in 2010 by the Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, dual-headquartered in South San Francisco and Dublin. Its APIs let businesses accept payments, run marketplaces, issue cards, manage subscriptions and handle tax and compliance without building banking integrations themselves, and it processes well over a trillion dollars of volume a year for customers ranging from startups to the largest technology companies. Beyond payments the company has expanded into treasury and issuing, revenue and finance automation, stablecoin infrastructure through its Bridge acquisition, and fraud prevention powered by its own machine learning models.
stripe.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Fraud Detection • Stablecoins • Commerce • Artificial Intelligence • Financial Services • FinTech • Payments • 5000+ employees • Est. 2010
HQ: San Francisco, United States • HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Fraud Detection • Stablecoins • Commerce • Artificial Intelligence • Financial Services • FinTech • Payments • 5000+ employees • Est. 2010
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Machine Learning Engineer

$118k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (Toronto, Canada) • Internship • Senior
Fine-tuning
LLM
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Handshake

joinhandshake.com
Handshake is a professional career network for students and early-career professionals headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2014. The company provides a digital platform that connects university students with internships and entry-level jobs, including specialized roles in the artificial intelligence economy. It serves over 15 million students and alumni from more than 1,500 colleges and universities, partnering with over 900,000 employers across the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe.
joinhandshake.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Online Directories & Classifieds • Internet Services • Higher Education • Education • Professional Services • Human Resources • Est. 2014
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Online Directories & Classifieds • Internet Services • Higher Education • Education • Professional Services • Human Resources • Est. 2014
Top 25% payVerified live · 3 hours ago 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure

$176k – $220k per year • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Python
TypeScript
Databases
Google BigQuery
Google Bigtable
Redis
AI/ML
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
LLM
Reinforcement Learning
Spark
Feature Store
LLM Evaluation
Post-training
Scale AI
PyTorch
Ray
Ray Serve
RLHF
Vertex AI
vLLM
AI Agents
Function Calling
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform
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Top 25% payVerified live · 3 hours ago 2 months ago

Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer

$300k – $375k per year • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LoRA
PEFT
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Transformers
DPO
Post-training
PPO
Scale AI
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Plaid

plaid.com
Plaid Inc. is a financial technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2013. The company develops a data transfer network and application programming interfaces that allow consumers to securely connect their bank accounts to financial applications and services. It operates globally across North America and Europe, serving over 12,000 financial institutions and powering thousands of digital finance tools for millions of users.
plaid.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Data Integration • Data & Analytics • Identity Management • Cybersecurity • Banking • Payments • Financial Services • FinTech • Est. 2013
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Data Integration • Data & Analytics • Identity Management • Cybersecurity • Banking • Payments • Financial Services • FinTech • Est. 2013
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - AI Tooling

$191k – $263k per year • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
AI Agents
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Twin Health

twinhealth.com
At Twin, we combine advanced medical science with digital twin technology to help people reverse, improve, and prevent chronic metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and heart disease. We do it by helping each Twin member improve their metabolic fitness. Our truly precise and personalized approach makes us a service like no other.
twinhealth.com • Chennai • Hyderabad • Bengaluru • Mumbai • Coimbatore • Sports • Weight Management • Fitness
Chennai • Hyderabad • Bengaluru • Mumbai • Coimbatore • Sports • Weight Management • Fitness
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 2 months ago

Senior AI Applications Engineer

$195k – $210k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Java
Python
SQL
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Gemini
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Context Engineering
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Vector
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Robotics
Digital Twin
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Open 283 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 10 months ago

Senior AI Platform Engineer

$180k – $200k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Go
Java
Python
SQL
AI/ML
LLM
Spark
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
Robotics
Digital Twin
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Open 343 daysTop 25% pay 12 months ago

Senior AI Engineer

$200k – $220k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
RAG
DevOps
CI/CD
Robotics
Digital Twin
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iDeals

ideals.jobs
iDeals is a global B2B SaaS company that provides secure virtual data room solutions designed to facilitate high-stakes business processes like mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reporting. Operating as a remote-first organization, it supports a large international team with a strong focus on professional growth, collaborative culture, and technological innovation. The firm is widely recognized for helping companies manage complex transactions with enhanced speed, compliance, and security.
ideals.jobs • Munich • Tokyo • London • New York • Frankfurt am Main • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Software • 51-200 employees
Munich • Tokyo • London • New York • Frankfurt am Main • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Software • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Senior AI Engineer

Senior • 4+ years exp • Remote (Ukraine) • Full-Time • Senior • English: B2
SQL
AI/ML
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
LLM
LLM Guardrails
AI Agents
Management
n8n
Marketing
HubSpot
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Argonne National Laboratory is a premier multidisciplinary science and engineering research center located in Lemont, Illinois (near Chicago). Originating in 1946 from the University of Chicago’s work on the Manhattan Project (Metallurgical Laboratory), Argonne operates under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC.
argonne.gov • HQ: Lemont, United States • Energy & Utilities • Nuclear Energy • Quantum Science & Computing • Science & Engineering • Est. 1946
HQ: Lemont, United States • Energy & Utilities • Nuclear Energy • Quantum Science & Computing • Science & Engineering • Est. 1946
$94k – $147k per year • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (Lemont, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
JAX
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Ray
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
HPC
Robotics
Digital Twin
Reinforcement Learning
ROS
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Open 195 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 7 months ago

AI Systems Administration Specialist

$86k – $135k per year • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (Lemont, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
C
C
MPI
AI/ML
Cerebras
Groq
InfiniBand
DevOps
Ansible
Configuration Management
Git
HPC
Kubernetes
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer Jobs
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