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Machine Learning Engineer

Strategic Employment
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 5/28/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/11/2026

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

 

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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