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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Smartsheet

smartsheet.com
Smartsheet is a leading enterprise work management platform that enables organizations to plan, track, automate, and report on work at scale. Combining the familiarity of spreadsheets with powerful features like automated workflows, dynamic dashboards, and project tracking tools, it enhances team collaboration and operational efficiency.
smartsheet.com • HQ: Bellevue, United States • Software • Productivity Software • Project Management • Est. 2005
HQ: Bellevue, United States • Software • Productivity Software • Project Management • Est. 2005
Verified live · 2 hours ago 5 months ago

Senior Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible)

$154k – $279k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Principal
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Model Context Protocol
AWS Bedrock
LangChain
AWS Strands Agents
DevOps
AWS
Management
Smartsheet
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William Blair

williamblair.com
William Blair is the premier global partnership with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management. We provide advisory services, strategies, and solutions to meet our clients’ evolving needs.
williamblair.com • Atlanta • Chicago • Madrid • New York • Amsterdam • Professional Services • Asset Management • Financial Services
Atlanta • Chicago • Madrid • New York • Amsterdam • Professional Services • Asset Management • Financial Services
Open 144 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 5 months ago

Data & AI Engineer – Equities Technology

$124k – $241k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Chicago, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
SQL
C#
C#
ASP.NET Core
Databases
Databricks
Microsoft Fabric
AI/ML
Embeddings
LLM
RAG
Spark
AI Agents
OpenAI
DevOps
Azure
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
Rest API
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Future

future.ai
Open 145 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Applied AI Engineer

$215k – $250k per year • Equity • Remote (United States)
Python
Python
Pydantic
AI/ML
AI Agents
Function Calling
LangChain
Langfuse
LangGraph
LLM
Prompt Engineering
LLM Evaluation
Structured Outputs
AWS Bedrock
DevOps
Terraform
AWS
Datadog
OpenTelemetry
Amazon S3
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Eigencloud

eigencloud.xyz
EigenLayer is a restaking protocol founded in 2021 by Eigen Labs in Seattle. It lets Ethereum stakers reuse their staked collateral to secure additional services such as data availability layers, oracles and bridges. The model introduced a shared security marketplace and attracted one of the largest deposit bases in decentralised finance shortly after launch.
eigencloud.xyz • HQ: Seattle, United States
HQ: Seattle, United States
Open 152 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Senior Agentic AI Engineer

$187k – $253k per year • Senior • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Python
Rust
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Function Calling
AutoGen
CrewAI
Dagster
LangChain
DevOps
Vector
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Avride

avride.ai
Avride develops self-driving cars and sidewalk delivery robots, and was created in 2024 when Nebius spun out the former Yandex autonomous vehicle division. Its delivery robots operate on American university campuses and with food delivery platforms, while its robotaxi programme runs with Hyundai and Uber. Engineering is based in Austin, Texas.
avride.ai • HQ: Austin, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2024
HQ: Austin, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2024
Open 152 daysVerified live · 27 min ago 5 months ago

Software Engineer – ML Platform

$135k – $296k per year (Estimated)Austin • Remote (United States) • Relocation
C++
Go
Python
AI/ML
Ray
MLFlow
DevOps
Argo Workflows
Kubernetes
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Open 376 daysVerified live · 27 min ago 1 year ago

Machine Learning Engineer – Motion Planning & Prediction

$138k – $301k per year (Estimated)Austin • Remote (United States) • Relocation
C++
Python
Rust
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
JAX
NLP
PyTorch
TensorFlow
AI Agents
Robotics
Motion Planning
SLAM
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Open 376 daysVerified live · 27 min ago 1 year ago

Machine Learning Engineer

$122k – $246k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expAustin • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Middle
C++
Python
SQL
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Multimodal AI
Transformers
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Higharc

higharc.com
Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects and improves each step of design, construction and sales for home building. Higharc's software solution seamlessly creates and integrates everything needed to design a home, sell ...
higharc.com • HQ: Raleigh, United States • Higher Education • Design & Creative • Artificial Intelligence
HQ: Raleigh, United States • Higher Education • Design & Creative • Artificial Intelligence
Verified live · 2 days ago 6 months ago

Research Engineer

$141k – $252k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
pgvector
Pinecone
Weaviate
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Fine-tuning
Hallucination
LLM
LoRA
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
QLoRA
RAG
Reinforcement Learning
Transformers
PEFT
Hugging Face
Pre-training
SFT
Frontend
React.js
Three.JS
Design
AutoCAD
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Seeq

seeq.com
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Seeq is a software company that provides software with advance analytics capabilities to the industrial process manufacturing sector including pharmaceutical.
seeq.com • HQ: Seattle, United States • Peripherals • Artificial Intelligence • Data & Analytics
HQ: Seattle, United States • Peripherals • Artificial Intelligence • Data & Analytics
Open 157 daysVerified live · 9 hours ago 6 months ago

AI Customer Insights Engineer

$104k – $216k per year (Estimated) • Junior • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
Python
SQL
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Azure
Analytics
Power BI
Management
Slack
Marketing
Mixpanel
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Serve Robotics

serverobotics.com
Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car? Meet Serve, the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery.
serverobotics.com • HQ: Redwood City, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Delivery • Robotics
HQ: Redwood City, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Delivery • Robotics
Top 25% payVerified live · 9 min ago 6 months ago

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

$225k – $260k per year • Lead • 5+ years expColumbiaTorontoOttawaCalgaryMontreal • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Multimodal AI
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Joko

hellojoko.com
Joko is a consumer shopping application company headquartered in Paris, France, and founded in 2018. The company operates a mobile app and browser extension that gives shoppers automatic cashback, discount codes, and price tracking when they buy from partner retailers. It earns affiliate commission on the purchases it drives, has expanded from France into the United States, and is backed by European venture investors.
hellojoko.com • HQ: Paris, France • E-commerce Marketing • Sales & Marketing • Software • Personal Finance • Financial Services • Mobile App Development • Commerce • Coupons, Deals & Cashbacks • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018
HQ: Paris, France • E-commerce Marketing • Sales & Marketing • Software • Personal Finance • Financial Services • Mobile App Development • Commerce • Coupons, Deals & Cashbacks • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018
Verified live · 1 hour ago 6 months ago

AI Software Engineer (senior/staff level)

$88k – $202k per year • Staff+ • 5+ years expParisBarcelona • Remote (United States, France, Italy, Spain) • Full-Time • Staff • English: C1
Fine-tuning
LangChain
Langfuse
LangGraph
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Vector
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Splitero

splitero.com
Splitero provides an alternative to traditional loans: a home equity investment (HEI) that helps homeowners access their home equity with no monthly payments.
splitero.com • San Diego • Real Estate Investment • Financial Services • Lending • 51-200 employees
San Diego • Real Estate Investment • Financial Services • Lending • 51-200 employees
Open 161 dayVerified live · 2 days ago 6 months ago

Applied AI Engineer

$135k – $175k per year • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Cofounder • Senior
Node JS
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
Cursor
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Anthropic
OpenAI
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Vercel
GitHub
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
Management
n8n
Zapier
Marketing
Salesforce
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Snorkel AI

snorkel.ai
Snorkel AI was founded in 2019 by Stanford researchers who developed programmatic labelling, where subject matter experts write rules that generate training data instead of annotating examples by hand. Its platform now covers data curation, model fine-tuning and expert evaluation for enterprise and frontier model builders. Banks, insurers and government agencies use it to specialise models on proprietary knowledge.
snorkel.ai • HQ: Redwood City, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Est. 2019
HQ: Redwood City, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Est. 2019
Open 167 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago

Staff Applied AI Engineer - Pre-Sales

$190k – $300k per year • Equity • Staff+ • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
Snorkel
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Scikit-learn
Spark
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Open 280 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago

Applied AI Engineer, Federal - Top Secret Clearance

$170k – $300k per year • Equity • Middle • 3+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Middle
Python
Python
FastAPI
Mypy
Databases
Chroma
FAISS
Weaviate
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LangChain
Snorkel
AI Agents
CrewAI
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
LLM
PyTorch
Ray
Scikit-learn
Spark
Transformers
Hugging Face
QA
Pytest
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Open 290 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago

Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise Solutions

$172k – $300k per year • Equity • Middle • 3+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Middle
Python
Python
FastAPI
Mypy
Databases
Chroma
FAISS
Weaviate
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LangChain
Snorkel
AI Agents
CrewAI
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
LLM
PyTorch
Ray
Scikit-learn
Spark
Transformers
Hugging Face
QA
Pytest
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Welo Global

weloglobal.com
Welo Global is a provider of multilingual content, data, and AI solutions headquartered in New York, New York, and founded in 1997. The company provides enterprise localization, AI training data, intellectual property translation, and life sciences regulatory content through brands such as Welocalize and Park IP. It operates a global network of over 1,500 employees and 250,000 linguists to support more than 2,000 clients across the technology, legal, and healthcare sectors.
weloglobal.com • HQ: New York, United States • Clinical Research • Health Care • Data Collection • Machine Learning • Professional Services • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • Translation Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1997
HQ: New York, United States • Clinical Research • Health Care • Data Collection • Machine Learning • Professional Services • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • Translation Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1997
Open 167 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 6 months ago

Project Lion - Prompt Engineer - United States (Remote, Part-Time)

$70k – $145k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Part-Time • Junior
SQL
AI/ML
Chain-of-Thought
Few-Shot Learning
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Structured Outputs
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Open 168 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 6 months ago

Project Lion - Lead Prompt Engineer - United States (Remote, Part-Time)

$102k – $185k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 7+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Part-Time • Staff
SQL
AI/ML
Chain-of-Thought
Few-Shot Learning
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Structured Outputs
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Open 168 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 6 months ago

Project Lion - Senior Prompt Engineer - United States (Remote, Part-Time)

$95k – $170k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Part-Time • Senior
SQL
AI/ML
Chain-of-Thought
Few-Shot Learning
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Structured Outputs
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Natera

natera.com
Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing and molecular diagnostics headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company specializes in personalized genetic solutions across three core medical fields: oncology, women's health, and organ health.
natera.com • Denver • Portland • Houston • Pleasanton • Austin • Diagnostics • Health Care • Molecular Diagnostics
Denver • Portland • Houston • Pleasanton • Austin • Diagnostics • Health Care • Molecular Diagnostics
Verified live · 2 hours ago 6 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Translational AI

$170k – $316k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States, Canada) • PhD • Internship • Staff
Fine-tuning
MLFlow
Multimodal AI
PEFT
PyTorch
Self-Supervised Learning
Transformers
Hugging Face
Post-training
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Gather AI

gather.ai
Gather AI is a warehouse inventory monitoring company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founded in 2019 as a spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University. The company flies autonomous drones through storage aisles to scan barcodes and pallet locations, then reconciles what it sees against the warehouse management system. It works with third party logistics providers, distributors, and manufacturers that would otherwise count inventory manually with lift trucks.
gather.ai • HQ: Pittsburgh, United States • Warehousing • Computer Vision • Logistics & Warehouse Robotics • Drones & UAVs • Robotics • Transportation & Logistics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019
HQ: Pittsburgh, United States • Warehousing • Computer Vision • Logistics & Warehouse Robotics • Drones & UAVs • Robotics • Transportation & Logistics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019
Open 181 dayVerified live · 1 day ago 6 months ago

Principal Machine Learning Scientist

Lead • 10+ years expPittsburgh • Remote (United States, Panama) • Master's Degree • Principal
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation
ONNX
OpenCV
PyTorch
Quantization
TensorFlow
TensorRT
Edge AI
OCR
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Drata

drata.com
Drata is a security and compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence of a company's security controls, while streamlining compliance workflows end-to-end to ensure audit readiness.
drata.com • HQ: San Diego, United States • Information Security • Cybersecurity • Security Compliance • 501-1000 employees
HQ: San Diego, United States • Information Security • Cybersecurity • Security Compliance • 501-1000 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 4 hours ago 6 months ago

Staff AI Engineer

$177k – $299k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
TypeScript
Databases
Chroma
FAISS
Pinecone
Snowflake
AI/ML
Embeddings
LLM
RAG
Reranking
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
AI Agents
Braintrust
DevOps
Vector
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Interwell Health

interwellhealth.com
Interwell Health is a value-based kidney care provider that partners with physicians to revolutionize healthcare. The company focuses on offering expertise, compassion, and innovative strategies to set high standards within the kidney care industry. Interwell Health aims to slow disease progression and reduce hospitalizations, resulting in improved health outcomes and lower care costs for patients and payers.
interwellhealth.com • Health Care
Health Care
Open 185 daysVerified live · 15 min ago 7 months ago

Machine Learning Engineer

$115k – $233k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Middle
Python
Scala
SQL
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Spark
Feature Store
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
SOC 2
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WorkOS

workos.com
WorkOS is an enterprise readiness API platform for software developers and B2B SaaS companies, headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2019 by CEO Michael Grinich, the company provides modular infrastructure that enables modern software applications to become "enterprise-ready" without building complex IT compliance layers from scratch. Its core product suite offers turnkey APIs for Enterprise Single Sign-On (SAML/OIDC), Directory Sync (SCIM), User Management (AuthKit), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and exportable Audit Logs.
workos.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Financial Services • Data & Analytics • Log Analytics • Audit • Identity Management • Est. 2019
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Financial Services • Data & Analytics • Log Analytics • Audit • Identity Management • Est. 2019
Open 185 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Applied AI Engineer

$175k – $275k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Cursor
Embeddings
LLM
Perplexity
OpenAI
AI Agents
RAG
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
GitHub
Web3
Abstract
Management
Slack
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Eight Sleep

eightsleep.com
Eight Sleep is a sleep technology company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2014. The company sells the Pod, a mattress cover and hardware system that heats and cools each side of a bed, tracks sleep and biometrics, and adjusts temperature automatically through the night. It sells directly to consumers in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, positioning its products around athletic recovery and sleep fitness.
eightsleep.com • HQ: New York, United States • Wellness Programs • Lifestyle • Health Care • Furniture • Consumer Goods • Wellness • Consumer Electronics • Smart Home Devices • Est. 2014
HQ: New York, United States • Wellness Programs • Lifestyle • Health Care • Furniture • Consumer Goods • Wellness • Consumer Electronics • Smart Home Devices • Est. 2014
Verified live · 1 hour ago 7 months ago

Senior ML Operations (MLOps) Engineer

$152k – $273k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Apache Kafka
DynamoDB
AI/ML
Flink
PyTorch
TensorFlow
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon ECS
Amazon Kinesis
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Cohere Health

coherehealth.com
Cohere Health is a Boston company founded in 2019 that automates prior authorisation and utilisation management for health insurers. Its models read clinical documentation, apply payer policy and approve routine requests instantly while routing genuinely complex cases to reviewers. The platform is used by national and regional plans to cut turnaround times that have long frustrated physicians and patients.
coherehealth.com • HQ: Boston, United States • Clinical Research • Health Care • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2019
HQ: Boston, United States • Clinical Research • Health Care • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2019
Open 209 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 7 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

$225k – $240k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Staff
Python
AI/ML
NLP
PyTorch
Edge AI
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
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Stackblitz

stackblitz.com
StackBlitz is a revolutionary platform that enables teams to collaborate on web development without the need for local environment setups. It allows users to write, run, and debug frontend code directly in the browser through their innovative WebContainers technology, which operates development environments securely within the browser. This provides instant boot times and eliminates network latency issues inherent in traditional cloud-based IDEs.
stackblitz.com • San Francisco
San Francisco
Open 213 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 8 months ago

Staff Applied AI Engineer

$153k – $307k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Node JS
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
LangGraph
LLM
Prompt Engineering
LangChain
Anthropic
LLM Evaluation
OpenAI
Post-training
Function Calling
Fine-tuning
RLHF
DPO
SFT
DevOps
Vercel
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Open 433 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 1 year ago

Senior Applied AI Engineer

$108k – $239k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Node JS
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
LangGraph
LLM
Prompt Engineering
LangChain
Anthropic
LLM Evaluation
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
Function Calling
DevOps
Vercel
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in Chicago
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What salary do Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Chicago pay?
The average salary is around $204,944 per year based on the current listings.
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