AI/ML Engineer

Post Date

Mar 11, 2026

Location

Buffalo Grove,
Illinois

ZIP/Postal Code

60089
US
May 11, 2026 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract-to-perm

Category

Programmer / Developer

Req #

CHI-57c10016-7802-4812-a804-11619a03049b

Pay Rate

$50 - $62 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Own end-to-end ML/AI projects: problem framing, data pipelines, modeling, offline/online evals, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build and productionize agentic workflows (tool-using/multi-step agents with retrieval, planning, and human-in-the-loop), including safety/guardrails and reliability.
• Train classical ML models (tree ensembles, linear models, anomaly detectors, time-series forecasting) and deep learning models when appropriate.
• Operationalize models with CI/CD, feature stores, reproducible training, and model registries
• Monitor and improve live systems: data & concept drift detection, performance regression, bias/fairness, cost/latency; drive remediation playbooks.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, data, and platform teams; write clear design docs
• Work as an Individual contributor with minimal directions
• Should be able to interact with stakeholders, understand the problem statement, and come up with solutions

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Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 6+ years hands-on ML engineering (with significant ML experience prior to 2023): you’ve shipped multiple ML systems to production. *Not looking for someone who started working on AI after pre-trained models/ChatGPT were released*
• Minimum 12+ years of total experience in Software Development, preferably with a Data Analyst/Data Scientist background
• Demonstrated production agent build (at least one end-to-end agentic framework delivered to users).
• Strong with classical ML: feature engineering, cross-validation, calibration, regularization, class imbalance, interpretability (SHAP/LIME), time-series (forecasting, seasonality, drift).
• Solid deep learning foundations (CNN/RNN/Transformers), and practical fine-tuning experience (e.g., LoRA/QLoRA, instruction tuning, RAG).
• Proven MLOps: model registry/experiment tracking (MLflow or equivalent), model serving (FastAPI/TF-Serving/TorchServe/TGI/vLLM), observability.
• Fluency in Python and the ML stack (NumPy/Pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, PyTorch/TensorFlow).
• Excellent communication; can drive projects independently as an Individual Contributor.

Must have
• Experience with agent frameworks (LangGraph/LangChain Agents, AutoGen, Google ADK) and tool use (function calling, tool routing, planners).
• Retrieval/RAG design: chunking strategies, embedding models, vector stores (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate), hybrid search, evals.
• Must have implemented projects involving some classical ML problems(classification, clustering, regression, anomaly detection, time series etc.,)
• Some working experience with Cloud services, CI/CD and Microservices

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience leading/mentoring junior data scientists or ML engineers is a plus
• Experience fine tuning SLMs is a huge plus

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.