Chicago · AI & Machine Learning

AI & Machine Learning Jobs in Chicago — November 2026

195roles
6new this week
70companies
updated Nov 1, 2026
Featuring roles at
Target logo
JPMorgan Chase logo
Capital One logo
West Monroe logo
Northern Trust logo
CNA Insurance logo

There are 195 live AI & machine learning jobs in Chicago on Aplyr right now, 6 of them posted in the last 7 days. The most active employers are Target, JPMorgan Chase and Capital One. Across 94 recent postings that list pay, the typical advertised salary is about $177k a year. 7% are fully remote.

Chicago is a trading, insurance, logistics and consulting town with a steady B2B software scene, and it tends to pay well relative to its cost of living. AI hiring splits into research, applied ML and ML platform work; applied and platform roles are the most open to engineers without a PhD, provided you can show models running in production.

Typical salary
$177k
$143k–$215k middle 50% · 94 postings
Remote
7%
13% hybrid
At H-1B sponsors
75%
company sponsorship record
Posted last 30 days
37
of 195 live
47 of 195 jobs loaded · 29 companies

Top companies hiring

About this list

What’s included. This page shows roles classified as AI & Machine Learning, located in the Chicago area (Chicago), newest first. Postings come directly from employers’ own career sites, not from other job boards.

How it stays fresh. Aplyr re-checks sources throughout the day and drops a posting as soon as the employer closes it. The page itself is rebuilt daily and the “updated” time at the top refreshes live. Snapshot as of Nov 1, 2026.

Quality filters. The table only shows postings from the last 90 days, newest first, and rows with neither a salary nor a location are moved to the bottom. 3 postings in the latest batch were hidden because the title didn’t match this list’s role family.

Frequently asked questions

195 live postings as of Nov 1, 2026, including 6 posted in the last week, across 70 companies. 37 were posted in the last 30 days. Postings drop off as soon as the employer closes them.

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