40 staff ai engineer jobs at 23 companies in Chicago, IL
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Staff AI Platform Engineer
San Francisco or Los Angeles or Denver or Austin or Chicago or New York or Seattle or Toronto or Santa Barbara or San Diego
$180k-$273k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOERequires 7+ years in AI/ML platform engineering, strong Python and/or TypeScript, distributed systems, APIs, evaluation, observability, and AI infrastructure experience; bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, LiveKit, REST, gRPC, MCP, A2A
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Staff AI Security Engineer
Bellevue or Chicago or New York City or San Francisco or Washington
$161k-$248k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years in security engineering or backend development, expertise in AI threat landscape, strong coding in Python or Go, cloud (AWS/GCP) experience, and leadership/mentorship ability.
Python, Go, LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, AWS, GCP, OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF
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Senior Staff AI Data Engineer - Hybrid
Hartford or Charlotte or Columbus or Chicago
$135k-$203k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's in CS/AI or related, 8+ years data engineering experience, expertise in SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT, Python, cloud ecosystems (AWS/GCP/Azure/Snowflake), GenAI/RAG, vector/graph DBs, and ability to design scalable, governed AI data platforms.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Snowpipe, Snowflake, Python, SQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaled Agile
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Principal AI Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$97k-$189k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's in Computer Science/Engineering required; 10+ years software engineering experience with 3+ years at principal/staff/architect level; expertise in AI-native engineering, LLM integration, agentic systems, CI/CD, cloud-native production delivery; insurance domain preferred.
LLM, CI/CD
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Staff Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$105k-$195k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS/Engineering, 10+ years software engineering (5+ in cloud), leadership/mentoring experience, strong Java/Spring Boot and Python skills, Databricks/Spark, SQL, cloud, IaC, Docker/Kubernetes, and hands-on AI-assisted development (RAG, Agentic AI).
Java, Spring Boot, Python, Scala, Apache Spark, Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Workflows, Live Tables, SQL, REST APIs, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), Agentic AI, Angular, Unix/Linux
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Staff Data Engineer
Westmont or Chicago
$160k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years software/data engineering; end-to-end data/AI system design; AI agents; MCP; LangChain/LangGraph; Python; cloud platforms; data pipelines; SQL/NoSQL; strong communication.
LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, MCP, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, SQL, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, dbt, Airflow
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Staff Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$100k-$140k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEExtensive DevOps experience with CI/CD, cloud platforms, Linux, scripting, and AI/ML infrastructure management.
Linux, Bash, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Git, Jenkins, AWS, SageMaker, Bedrock, GCP, OpenStack, Nginx, ELK, Terraform
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Staff Sales Engineer, AI Data Solutions
United States or San Francisco or New York City or Chicago
$143k-$222k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years in sales/solutions engineering for life sciences, deep healthcare data and AI fluency, hands-on AI tooling experience, SQL and Python, demo and solution-design expertise.
Claude Code, Cursor, LangFlow, SQL, Python, AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Tableau, Looker
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AI / Simulation Staff Engineer (Explosion and Fire)
Northbrook, Illinois, United States
$115k-$155k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOEBS in ME/ChE/combustion/CFD required (MS/PhD preferred); 8–14 years experience depending on degree; advanced CFD, combustion, heat transfer modeling; strong communication and technical writing.
Ansys, OpenFoam, ConvergeCFD, Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), Flame Acceleration Simulator (FLACS)
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Staff Software Engineer - Investor/Owner
Santa Barbara or San Diego or Dallas or Atlanta or Chicago or San Francisco or Denver or Washington DC
$167k-$209k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years of experience building scalable web apps; proven leadership; architectural design; AI tooling experience preferred.
Ruby on Rails, Golang, React, AWS
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Staff Engineer - Customer Onboarding
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$235k-$317k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Systems architect with compliance focus, full-stack Java experience, and applied AI expertise in LLM-powered onboarding.
Java, LLMs, RAG architectures
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Full Stack Staff Software Engineer — AI-Augmented Development
Charlotte or Hartford or Columbus or Chicago
$116k-$174k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years software engineering and 5+ years full-stack tech lead experience; bachelor's or equivalent; expertise across modern frontend, backend, cloud, DevOps, data, APIs, AI tools, testing, and architecture.
React, Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Express, Python, FastAPI, Django, .NET, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, gRPC, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Opus, OpenAI, Anthropic, GCP Vertex Service, AWS Bedrock, Vertex Studio, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, LangChain, AutoGen, SQL, NoSQL, RAG, LLM, CI/CD, Microsoft?
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Staff Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$105k-$195k/yr OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years software engineering experience with Java/Spring Boot and Databricks/Spark; hands-on AI-assisted development (Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro), RAG and Agentic AI experience; cloud, IaC, Docker/Kubernetes, mentoring and operational ownership.
Java, Spring Boot, Python, Scala, Apache Spark, Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Workflows, Live Tables, SQL, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, Unix, Linux, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
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Staff Full Stack Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$152k-$203k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering; expert React front-end; strong backend in Java/Kotlin/Node.js/Python/Go; cloud-native on AWS/GCP; relational and NoSQL databases; staff-level leadership; AI-native mindset.
React, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, Go, AWS, GCP, Relational DB, NoSQL
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Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Chicago
$245k-$270k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years DevOps/SRE; 5+ years coding; Kubernetes and GCP expertise; build resilient infra; GitOps with Terraform/Pulumi, CircleCI, ArgoCD; AI tooling experience; strong communication; cross-functional collaboration.
Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Pulumi, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Claude Code, Cursor, Zed
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Staff Solutions Engineer
Austin or San Francisco or Chicago or New York City or Arlington
$149k-$207k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years in solutions engineering or pre-sales for enterprise SaaS, strong CIO/CISO relationships, integration and security architecture knowledge, ability to build ROI narratives, and proficiency with AI tools.
Claude, Figma Make, Python
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Staff Software Engineer
Chicago or Dallas
$190k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
12+ YOE12+ years software engineering experience, expert JavaScript/TypeScript and backend languages, cloud and distributed systems experience, hands-on agentic AI/LLM experience, strong database and CI/CD knowledge.
React, Next.js, C#, Node.js, Java, REST, GraphQL, Azure, AWS, GCP, LangChain, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, MCP, Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, NoSQL, CI/CD
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Staff Software Engineer - GenAI
Oak Brook or California
$134k-$228k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS/EE required,10+ years software engineering experience with 2+ years working with LLMs/agentic AI; experience with Python, LLM tools, distributed systems, and leading cross-functional AI productization.
LangChain, LangGraph, CAMEL, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone, Python, Node.js, REST, gRPC, GCP, AWS, Azure
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Chief of Staff, AI Engineering - REMOTE
Chicago or Morrisville or United States
$180k-$210k/yr RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years leading large-scale software engineering programs or technical program management; bachelor’s in CS/Engineering; experience supporting senior engineering executives; strong communication and analytical skills.
GitHub, GitHub Actions, Linear, Monday, Azure, Jira
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Sr/Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Consumer Apps
Chicago or New York City
HybridFull Time
6+ YOEExperience building cloud-native infrastructure, strong automation and observability skills, fluency directing AI coding agents, Terraform/Helm/Kubernetes knowledge, and database/streaming experience.
Claude Code, Cursor, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, Istio, GCP, Google BigQuery, Spanner, CloudSQL, Prometheus, Grafana, GitLab, Docker, Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, AWS SNS, Google Pub/Sub, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Run, Datadog, AWS
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