10 ml engineer jobs at 3 companies in Normal, IL

PromotedHiringCafe
ML Engineer - Inference & Model Deployment
Cupertino, CA, US
$250k-$310k/yr On-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Turn powerful AI and ML models into fast, reliable production systems. Own inference latency, throughput, model-serving architecture, multi-GPU systems, and production deployment for millions of users.
Python, PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT, LLMs
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Founding Machine Learning / AI Search Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$310k/yr On-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Build the ML and AI search behind HiringCafe — ranking, recommenders, retrieval, and LLM agents that surface jobs people would never find on their own.
Python, PyTorch, Elasticsearch, LLMs
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Mossville, Illinois, United States
$113k-$183k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Caterpillar
CaterpillarNYSE: CAT: Manufactures construction equipment, mining machinery, and industrial engines.
3+ YOEBachelor's in CS/Engineering/Mathematics, 3+ years ML pipeline development experience preferred, experience with data schema design, ETL, RDBMS/NoSQL, AWS, Linux; strong communication and troubleshooting skills.
AWS, Linux, ETL, RDBMS, No SQL
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Operations Automation Engineer
Decatur, Illinois, United States
$89k-$134k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Caterpillar
CaterpillarNYSE: CAT: Manufactures construction equipment, mining machinery, and industrial engines.
Designing, programming, and maintaining PLCs, industrial robots, AI/ML and 3D vision systems; troubleshooting hardware/software; leading manufacturing automation projects; bachelor's degree in a technical field preferred.
PLCs, Industrial robots, AI, Machine Learning, 3D vision systems, AGVs, AMRs, cobots
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Lead Software Engineer
Chicago or Peoria or Irving
$128k-$209k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Caterpillar
CaterpillarNYSE: CAT: Manufactures construction equipment, mining machinery, and industrial engines.
7+ YOE3+ Mgmt7+ years search engineering experience, 3+ years technical leadership, expertise with search platforms, Java/Python/Scala, cloud and distributed systems, ML for relevance, strong communication.
OpenSearch, Elastic Search, SOLR, Lucene, Coveo, LucidWorks Fusion, Java, Python, Scala, Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, GitHub, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
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Senior Software Engineer
Chicago or Peoria or Irving
$113k-$183k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Caterpillar
CaterpillarNYSE: CAT: Manufactures construction equipment, mining machinery, and industrial engines.
5+ YOE5+ years search engineering experience, 2+ years technical leadership, proficiency in Java/Python/Scala, experience with modern search technologies, cloud platforms, APIs, ML for search, and analytics-driven optimization.
OpenSearch, Elastic Search, SOLR, Lucene, Coveo, LucidWorks Fusion, Java, Python, Scala, GitHub, Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
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Autonomy Engineering Development Specialist
Mossville, Illinois, United States
$128k-$209k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Caterpillar
CaterpillarNYSE: CAT: Manufactures construction equipment, mining machinery, and industrial engines.
Degree in engineering/CS/robotics required. Extensive experience in mobile robotics/autonomy, C++ and Python, ROS, computer vision, ML/DL (Tensorflow/PyTorch), cloud (AWS), DevOps tools, and autonomy system integration and testing.
C++, Python, Azure DevOps, Jira, CMake, Git, SonarQube, Docker, GoogleTest, Artifactory, AWS EC2, S3, Batch, ROS, Caterpillar’s Autonomous Infrastructure Software (AIS), OpenCV, Tensorflow, PyTorch, NVDIA
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REMOTE - AI Engineering Manager (Databricks)
Bloomington or Dunwoody or Richardson or Phoenix or Tempe
$151k-$247k/yr HybridFull Time
State Farm
State Farm: Provider of auto, home, life, and health insurance.
2+ YOE2+ Mgmt2+ years managing engineering teams; 1+ year operating production ML/AI systems; 2+ years production Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, PySpark); Anthropic Claude production experience; production-grade Python, SQL, CI/CD, API design; strong communication.
Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, PySpark, Anthropic Claude API, Python, SQL, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS RDS, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Git, CI/CD, CLI tools, VS Code extensions, Streamlit, Gradio, FastAPI, HTMX
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Sr Digital Tech Support Engr
Chicago or Peoria or Irving
$113k-$183k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Caterpillar
CaterpillarNYSE: CAT: Manufactures construction equipment, mining machinery, and industrial engines.
5+ YOE5+ years search engineering, 2+ years technical leadership preferred, BS/MS in CS or related preferred; experience with modern search technologies, cloud platforms, low-latency APIs, Java/Python/Scala, and ML for search.
OpenSearch, Elastic Search, SOLR, Lucene, Coveo, LucidWorks Fusion, Java, Python, Scala, GitHub, Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
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Lead Data Scientist - Gen AI
Bloomington or Dunwoody or Richardson or Tempe
$97k-$142k/yr HybridFull Time
State Farm
State Farm: Provider of auto, home, life, and health insurance.
3+ YOEMaster's or PhD in analytics/engineering with 3+ years predictive modeling; Python, PyTorch; GenAI; end-to-end ML production; IDEs and cloud ML tools; strong communication.
Python, PyTorch, GenAI, AWS SageMaker, IntelliJ, VS Code, Linux
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Lead Data Scientist – Gen AI for Condition Monitoring Analytics
Chicago or Peoria
$128k-$209k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Caterpillar
CaterpillarNYSE: CAT: Manufactures construction equipment, mining machinery, and industrial engines.
8+ YOEExpertise in generative AI/LLMs (RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering), anomaly detection and time-series models, Python (NumPy, SciPy, pandas), GPU/NVIDIA tooling, telematics (J1939), cloud platforms, and extensive applied ML experience (typically 8+ years).
XGBoost, autoencoders, GANs, Python, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, NVIDIA, NVIDIA Jetson, GPU, J1939, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, GitHub, Raspberry Pi
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UIUC Research Park Intern - Machine Learning Compiler
Champaign, Illinois, United States
$25-$40/hr OnsitePart Time
Rivian
RivianNASDAQ: RIVN: Designs and manufactures electric vehicles and charging networks.
Must be a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student pursuing BS/MS/PhD in engineering-related field; strong C++ and Python; knowledge of ML compilation, deep learning, computer vision or NLP; strong math and software fundamentals; available 20 hrs/wk (Fall/Spring) and 40 hrs/wk (Summer).
C++, Python