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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Chicago, IL💼 Full-time💰 $179,400–$179,400🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and deliver machine learning models and components to solve real-world business problems at scale, focusing on architectural design, model optimization, and production deployment.

Role type

Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Production)

Builds

Production ML models, optimized data pipelines, and cloud-based ML architectures

Domain

Financial Services / Machine Learning Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed computing, Python/Scala/Java programming, ML system scaling and optimization, CI/CD, cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP), data pipeline construction, Responsible AI practices

Preferred skills

People leadership, ML conference/paper contributions, interactive AI tooling, complex data pipeline design, industry-recognized ML frameworks

Technologies

Python, Scala, Java, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, TensorFlow, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Responsibilities

Design and implement ML architectural solutions, develop and validate ML models, automate testing and deployment, monitor and retrain production models, construct optimized data pipelines, ensure code governance and risk management

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with team leadership

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