Machine Learning Engineer Salary in Chicago

Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Chicago hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $204,944/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Rime Labs

rime.ai
AI voice models built for real-time conversations. 600+ voices, 50+ languages, sub-100ms latency. Trusted by global enterprise.
rime.ai • San Francisco • New York • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI
San Francisco • New York • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI
$152k – $272k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Text-to-Speech
Knowledge Distillation
Quantization
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Toloka AI

toloka.ai
Toloka is a data company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam that supplies human-generated training, fine-tuning and evaluation data for artificial intelligence systems. It began as a large-scale crowdsourcing platform and has repositioned around expert work, combining domain specialists, machine learning tooling and quality control pipelines to produce reasoning traces, preference rankings and agentic task data. Operating within the Nebius group and backed by Bezos Expeditions since 2025, the company serves frontier model laboratories and enterprises building their own systems.
toloka.ai • HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Machine Learning • Data & Analytics • Data Collection • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2014
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Machine Learning • Data & Analytics • Data Collection • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2014
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Freelance Forward Deployed AI Engineer

$136k – $298k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Serbia) • Master's Degree • Freelance
Python
AI/ML
LLM
LoRA
NumPy
Pandas
PEFT
RAG
RLHF
Synthetic Data
Transformers
Anthropic
DPO
PPO
SFT
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
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Freelance Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Remote (EU, United States, United Kingdom, Serbia) • Master's Degree • Freelance
Python
AI/ML
LLM
LoRA
NumPy
Pandas
PEFT
RAG
RLHF
Synthetic Data
Transformers
Anthropic
DPO
PPO
SFT
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
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Poolside

poolside.ai
Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence.
poolside.ai • London • Hardware • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence
London • Hardware • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence
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Member of Engineering (Inference Infrastructure)

Remote (EMEA, United States) • Full-Time
Go
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Open 104 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 4 months ago

Member of Engineering (Pre-training / Data Research)

Remote (EMEA, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Synthetic Data
Tokenization
Post-training
Pre-training
AI Agents
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UiPath

uipath.com
UiPath is a global enterprise software company that leads the market in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI-driven automation tools. Its platform enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage software robots that automate repetitive digital tasks and complex business processes across legacy and modern applications. Headquartered in New York City, the company helps enterprises drive operational efficiency, improve accuracy, and accelerate digital transformation worldwide.
uipath.com • HQ: New York, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Software • Business Process Automation (BPA) • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2005
HQ: New York, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Software • Business Process Automation (BPA) • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2005
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Principal AI Architect – Healthcare

$163k – $295k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Architect
AI Agents
Management
UiPath
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Principal AI Architect - Lifescience

$163k – $295k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Architect
AI Agents
Management
UiPath
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Udacity

udacity.com
Udacity is an online education company headquartered in Emeryville, California, and founded in 2011 by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky after a free Stanford artificial intelligence course. The company sells Nanodegree programs in areas such as programming, data science, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and autonomous systems, built together with industry partners. It shifted toward enterprise and government reskilling contracts and was acquired by Accenture in 2024.
udacity.com • HQ: Emeryville, United States • Corporate Training • Vocational Education • Education • EdTech Platforms • E-learning • Est. 2011
HQ: Emeryville, United States • Corporate Training • Vocational Education • Education • EdTech Platforms • E-learning • Est. 2011
$105k – $233k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (MENA, APAC, Europe, United States, Canada) • Visa sponsorship • Contractor • Senior
Bash
Python
SQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Anthropic
Context Engineering
Human-in-the-Loop
OpenAI Agents SDK
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Rest API
GitHub
Management
Slack
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Sedgwick

sedgwick.com
Sedgwick is a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions. Every day, in every time zone, the most well-known and respected organizations place their trust in us to help their employees regain hea...
sedgwick.com • Madrid • Orlando • Albany • Miami • Cincinnati • Insurance • 5000+ employees
Madrid • Orlando • Albany • Miami • Cincinnati • Insurance • 5000+ employees
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ML Architect

$175k – $220k per year • Staff+ • 10+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Architect
Python
SQL
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Senior and Applied/Agentic AI Engineer

$138k – $248k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 10+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Hallucination
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LLM Guardrails
Structured Outputs
AI Agents
DevOps
Vector
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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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$157k – $285k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years expColumbus • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Staff
C++
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
ONNX
Self-Supervised Learning
TensorRT
Edge AI
Robotics
Model Predictive Control
Sim-to-Real
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RxSense

rxsense.com
RxSense was founded in 2015 with a mission to develop technology solutions that improve healthcare transparency and access to more affordable medications. The result was RxAgile, a cutting-edge cloud-based enterprise platform for pharmacy benefit ...
rxsense.com • Boston • Dublin • Software • Pharmaceuticals • Health Care
Boston • Dublin • Software • Pharmaceuticals • Health Care
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Principal AI Ops Engineer

$190k – $225k per year • Lead • 2+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Contractor • Principal
Python
TypeScript
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
Claude
LangGraph
LLM
SGLang
vLLM
LangChain
Anthropic
OpenAI
OpenAI Agents SDK
TGI
DevOps
AIOps
AWS
CI/CD
FinOps
Kubernetes
IAM
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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
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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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Staff AI Engineer

$250k – $265k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
RAG
DevOps
CI/CD
Robotics
Digital Twin
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Open 283 daysVerified live · 1 min 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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Customer.io

customer.io
Customer.io, legally Peaberry Software, Inc., is a customer engagement software company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and founded in 2012. The company provides a platform that enables businesses to automate personalized messaging across email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app channels based on real-time customer behavior and data. Serving over 9,000 brands globally, the organization operates as a remote-first company with a focus on data-driven marketing automation and artificial intelligence integration for B2B and B2C enterprises.
customer.io • HQ: Portland, United States • Software • Customer Analytics • Data & Analytics • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Email Marketing • Marketing Automation • Est. 2012
HQ: Portland, United States • Software • Customer Analytics • Data & Analytics • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Email Marketing • Marketing Automation • Est. 2012
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GTM AI Engineer

Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (AMER) • Middle
AI Agents
Claude
FastAI
Function Calling
LLM
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
GitHub
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Stability AI

stability.ai
Stability AI is a British generative artificial intelligence company best known for releasing Stable Diffusion, the open-weight text-to-image model that popularised self-hosted image generation. The company develops foundation models across images, video, audio, language and three-dimensional content, and distributes them through open releases, a commercial API and enterprise licensing for studios and platform partners. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in London, it refocused on media and entertainment customers after a 2024 recapitalisation that installed a new leadership team and brought in investors including Sean Parker and Greg Brockman.
stability.ai • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Generative Video • Generative Image • Artificial Intelligence • Content Creation • LLM & Generative AI • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Generative Video • Generative Image • Artificial Intelligence • Content Creation • LLM & Generative AI • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019
Remote (United States, United Kingdom) • PhD
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Diffusion Models
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
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Allocate

allocate.com
Allocate is a financial technology company that operates an intelligent operating system designed to bridge the gap between private market asset managers and the wealth advisory sector.
allocate.com • Palo Alto • New York • Chicago • FinTech • Financial Services • Asset Management
Palo Alto • New York • Chicago • FinTech • Financial Services • Asset Management
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Machine Learning Engineer

$165k – $185k per year • Senior • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Fine-tuning
LLM
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex
Computer Vision
Multimodal AI
NLP
DevOps
Git
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Deepgram

deepgram.com
Deepgram is an AI speech platform that provides real-time and asynchronous automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) APIs. Built on custom deep learning models, its technology delivers fast, accurate, and cost-effective voice transcription, language understanding, and audio synthesis for developers and enterprise businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company enables organizations to integrate advanced voice capabilities and intelligence directly into their applications and conversational AI workflows.
deepgram.com • San Francisco • London • Washington • New York • Sydney • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2015
San Francisco • London • Washington • New York • Sydney • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2015
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Applied ML Engineer

$150k – $220k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
Quantization
Deepgram
LLM Evaluation
Text-to-Speech
Vapi
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
CI/CD
Cloudflare
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Embedded AI Engineer, On-Device Models

$219k – $274k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
C++
Rust
AI/ML
Knowledge Distillation
ONNX
Quantization
TensorRT
TFLite
TensorFlow
Deepgram
Edge AI
Text-to-Speech
Vapi
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
RTOS
IoT
FreeRTOS
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Platform Engineer - AI/ML Infrastructure (Kubernetes & Terraform)

$150k – $220k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Python
AI/ML
Deepgram
Edge AI
Text-to-Speech
Vapi
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
ArgoCD
AWS
CI/CD
Cilium
Cloudflare
FinOps
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Service Mesh
SLURM
Terraform
Amazon S3
GitLab
HPC
Cybersecurity
Calico
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Jump Trading

jumptrading.com
Jump Trading is a proprietary trading firm focused on quantitative and high-speed strategies. It invests heavily in networking, hardware acceleration and research computing. The firm also runs ventures in cryptocurrency infrastructure and machine learning research.
jumptrading.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Est. 1999
HQ: Chicago, United States • Est. 1999
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Campus AI Research Engineer – Research Automation (Intern)

$300k per year • Intern • In office (Chicago, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Internship • Intern
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
JAX
PyTorch
TensorFlow
ROCm
DevOps
HPC
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Campus AI Research Engineer – Deep Learning (Full-Time)

$300k per year • In office (Chicago, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
JAX
PyTorch
TensorFlow
ROCm
DevOps
HPC
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Campus AI Research Engineer (Full-Time)

$300k per year • In office (Chicago, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • English
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
JAX
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Triton
ROCm
DevOps
HPC
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Greystar

greystar.com
At Greystar, we offer apartments in desirable locations near shopping, dining, and workplaces. Browse through our wide selection of apartments for rent and find your dream home today.
greystar.com • Charleston • Los Angeles • Spokane • Tigard • Chandler • Property Management • Real Estate • Residential Real Estate
Charleston • Los Angeles • Spokane • Tigard • Chandler • Property Management • Real Estate • Residential Real Estate
$133k – $239k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
ChatGPT
Claude
Copilot
Anthropic
OpenAI
DevOps
Azure
Management
Power Apps
Power Automate
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Curai

curaihealth.com
Our Mission: Providing everyone access to the world's best healthcare We see access to healthcare as fundamental to all human beings. Accomplishing this goal requires building a system that is scalable and capable of addressing the challenges to ...
curaihealth.com • Cleveland • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • Digital Health
Cleveland • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • Digital Health
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Senior Applied AI Engineer

$144k – $257k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
RAG
NLP
AI Agents
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Near

near.ai
AI agents for the work your team has been afraid to automate. Private by default, verifiable by design.
near.ai • San Francisco • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • AI Infrastructure
San Francisco • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • AI Infrastructure
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LLM Inference Engineer

$138k – $301k per year (Estimated)San Francisco • Remote (United States)
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
LLM
PyTorch
SGLang
TensorRT
Triton
vLLM
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Multiplica

multiplica.com
Multiplica is a global digital consulting agency that specializes in customer experience (CX), digital product design, and conversion rate optimization (CRO). Founded in Spain, the company helps brands increase online performance through data analytics, user research, marketing automation, and tailored e-commerce strategies. With offices across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, it partners with major enterprises to design, optimize, and scale end-to-end digital experiences.
multiplica.com • HQ: Barcelona, Spain • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Advertising
HQ: Barcelona, Spain • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Advertising
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AI Engineer (Freelance)

Mexico City • Remote (United States, Mexico) • Bachelor's Degree • Freelance • Spanish: C1
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
ChatGPT
Claude
Dify
LangGraph
RAG
LangChain
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
GitLab
Management
n8n
Zapier
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Stripe

stripe.com
Stripe is an American-Irish multinational financial infrastructure and SaaS company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, and Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison, the firm provides developer-centric payment processing software and APIs for internet businesses.
stripe.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Commerce • Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain & Crypto • Financial Services • FinTech • Payments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Commerce • Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain & Crypto • Financial Services • FinTech • Payments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010
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AI Engineer

$144k – $271k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (Chicago, United States) • Middle
Node JS
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Chips/EDA
PoC Library
Marketing
Salesforce
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Parallel Partners

parallelpartners.com
Parallel Partners is a technology recruitment firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The agency places engineers, infrastructure specialists, and technology leaders into permanent roles at United States employers, with a growing concentration in artificial intelligence and mobile development positions. It works on both onsite searches in the Carolinas and fully remote placements across the country.
parallelpartners.com • HQ: Charlotte, United States • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • IT Consulting • Information Technology • Human Resources • Professional Services
HQ: Charlotte, United States • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • IT Consulting • Information Technology • Human Resources • Professional Services
Verified live · 11 hours ago 2 months ago

Applied AI Engineer, Work From Home

$140k – $200k per year • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
Python
SQL
JavaScript
Databases
Pinecone
Weaviate
AI/ML
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Anthropic
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
DevOps
Rest API
Analytics
A/B Testing
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AI Backend Engineer, Work From Home

$140k – $200k per year • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
Python
SQL
JavaScript
AI/ML
Embeddings
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in Chicago
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What salary do Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Chicago pay?
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