Top Machine Learning Jobs in Peoria, IL

Own and advance Wonderlic’s AI-powered Jobs Engine, using production machine learning and NLP to analyze labor-market data and infer job characteristics at scale. Partner with product, engineering, and I-O psychology teams to integrate responsible AI into assessment and workforce solutions. Apply fairness, explainability, legal defensibility, and rigorous evaluation practices to employment-related AI systems, including generative AI outputs and assessment interpretation.

Leads regional growth across Eastern USA and Canadian retail, wholesale, and distribution markets. Responsibilities include setting sales strategy, managing and coaching enterprise sellers, building C-level relationships, guiding value-based selling, developing ROI cases, improving pipeline forecasting, leveraging AI-enabled sales tools, maintaining Salesforce data, and collaborating with presales, alliances, marketing, customer success, and sales operations.

Leads client-facing management consulting and transformation programs spanning revenue operations, marketing, sales, customer growth, data, analytics, and AI. Advises senior executives, develops operating models and transformation roadmaps, leads solutioning and proposals, oversees delivery governance, and translates business needs into implementable data and technology solutions. Builds thought leadership, reusable consulting assets, and high-performing teams while supporting strategic growth and client relationships.

Leads and develops a fraud analyst team responsible for investigating emerging threats, responding to incidents, and improving fraud-risk strategies. Owns investigative standards, playbooks, workflows, and tools while serving as an escalation resource for complex cases. Partners with Data Science, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and business leaders to convert fraud insights into scalable signals, model improvements, and better customer outcomes. Supports customer conversations as a fraud subject-matter expert and coaches analysts on communicating risk decisions.

Oversee global analytics and algorithm design initiatives for a nonprofit: identify high-impact projects, coordinate with student directors, collect feedback, design and run training for developers and technical advisors, and form partnerships to support implementation. Volunteer commitment ~5-6 hours/week.

Leads global Integrated Facilities Management service transitions from incumbent suppliers to Cushman & Wakefield. Responsibilities include developing transition strategies, managing executive stakeholders, identifying and mitigating risks, designing workflows and service matrices, coordinating recruiting, Finance and Procurement workstreams, preparing go-live tools, training incoming staff, and driving process improvements. The role also uses AI-driven analytics and machine learning insights for risk detection, forecasting, scenario planning, and workflow optimization.

Conduct research in fraud, voice, video, authentication, and deepfake detection. Design, implement, and evaluate deep learning models, analyze complex datasets, investigate detection gaps, and translate research prototypes into production-ready cloud or edge systems. Collaborate with research and engineering teams, contribute to code reviews, and publish patents or peer-reviewed papers.

Leads enterprise AI solution strategy, architecture, pre-sales, and implementation delivery for customers across the Americas. Defines AI use cases, validates feasibility, designs scalable architectures, guides Professional Services teams, and resolves complex technical challenges. Develops AI service offerings, methodologies, reusable assets, and enablement programs while mentoring architects, consultants, and project leaders. Requires deep experience with enterprise transformations, LLMs, multi-agent systems, generative AI, data architecture, cloud platforms, and production AI deployments.

Design, scale, and optimize ClickUp's search infrastructure using OpenSearch/Elasticsearch. Improve relevance, speed, and real-time indexing, build vector search capabilities, create evaluation frameworks, and collaborate with AI/backend/product teams to integrate and troubleshoot search at scale.

Prototype and develop generative AI applications for business software, including automated model evaluation, synthetic video, and consistent image and brand asset generation. Own projects from experimentation through product delivery, combining system architecture, quantitative reasoning, product judgment, and creative LLM application development.

Lead analytics for client engagements across data onboarding, study planning, predictive modeling, production deployment, and ongoing optimization. Develop models for audience targeting, segmentation, propensity scoring, and campaign optimization, primarily for commercial pharmaceutical applications. Partner with business, analytics, and IT stakeholders, lead technical workshops, present findings to senior audiences, and manage client relationships. Build machine learning pipelines using Python, SQL, and cloud technologies, while contributing client insights to internal product development.

Develop and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, visualizations, semantic models, and analytics solutions. Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, optimize queries and data models, ensure reporting accuracy and performance, and support data governance. Serve as the primary liaison for business users, provide training and troubleshooting, manage tickets, and collaborate with Data and QA teams. The role also advances AI and machine learning capabilities, mentors colleagues, and contributes to automation, documentation, and code reviews.

Owns strategy for a defined market segment, shaping go-to-market plans, coordinating cross-functional teams, driving product adoption and revenue, and building executive customer relationships. The role uses customer and industry insights to guide product priorities, sales and services strategies, retention, and market positioning for AI-driven clinical trial software.

Design, deploy, and scale production AI applications, agentic workflows, LLM integrations, and intelligent automation across enterprise business functions. Build cloud-native services, retrieval and vector database solutions, evaluation and monitoring frameworks, AI guardrails, and reusable engineering components. Integrate AI with enterprise systems, optimize model performance and infrastructure, and support secure, governed, reliable production systems while collaborating with technical and business stakeholders.

Conduct applied AI and machine learning research focused on multimodal data, foundation models, agents, evaluation, and data enrichment. Monitor research trends, prototype emerging techniques, design experiments, validate opportunities, and translate findings into briefs and recommendations. Partner with product and engineering teams to guide data strategy, training corpus generation, and longer-term opportunity prioritization.

Leads technical sales engagements for identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. Responsibilities include discovery, solution design, technical workshops, proof-of-concept development, product demonstrations, and advising enterprise clients. Partners with Sales, Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Customer Success; translates technical capabilities into business value; provides domain expertise in fraud, risk, compliance, and regulated industries; contributes to thought leadership; and mentors junior consultants.

Leads the AI Engineering team across applied AI features and foundational ML infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Senior and Staff engineers, hiring and coaching, deploying LLM-powered capabilities, building MLOps and AI observability platforms, balancing product delivery with platform investment, and ensuring privacy, compliance, evaluation rigor, and clinical safety in production systems.

Set the technical vision for data science, lead complex statistical and machine learning model development from concept through production, and architect scalable modeling platforms and pipelines. Develop credit risk, pricing, and loss forecasting models; establish model governance standards; partner with senior leaders; mentor data scientists; and communicate technical strategy to executives. The role emphasizes production deployment, monitoring, cloud architecture, and high-impact decision-making across the business.

Own the clinical infrastructure and program portfolio powering Arine’s medication management platform. Evolve the clinical recommendation engine, expand data inputs, standardize program configuration, and create repeatable frameworks for launching and scaling clinical programs. Partner with clinical, engineering, data science, implementation, and customer success teams to translate needs into requirements, improve onboarding, maintain regulatory alignment, and prioritize work using clinical safety, user value, and business impact.

You will execute and improve insurance workflows, analyze operational efficiency, collaborate with product teams, and support onboarding and documentation efforts.

Design and develop scalable backend systems using Kotlin, Micronaut, and Spring. Build RESTful APIs, optimize PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch databases, implement RabbitMQ-based asynchronous processing, integrate AI tools, and create automated tests. Deploy and monitor services on GCP using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Collaborate cross-functionally, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot performance issues, and deliver reliable backend products.

Leads engineering for one or more product-domain teams, partnering with Engineering Managers, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Insurance stakeholders. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy and roadmaps, coaching engineers, driving cross-team initiatives, contributing code, leading incident response and resiliency improvements, and establishing engineering standards. Requires strong Ruby on Rails expertise, Rust familiarity, software leadership experience, and excellent communication skills.

Lead client engagements involving AI and machine learning solutions. Translate customer outcomes into technical direction, define requirements and success measures, review architectures and data pipelines, coordinate engineering delivery, and manage project planning, budgets, forecasts, and workstreams. The role requires technical fluency across APIs, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and ML deployment, plus experience delivering custom software and data solutions for complex, multi-stakeholder customers.

Supports the development, testing, and evaluation of AI/ML models for educational products. Responsibilities include data collection and cleaning, feature engineering, model validation, analyzing outputs, identifying optimization opportunities, documenting findings, preparing technical reports, and collaborating with Data Science, Engineering, and Product teams. The intern also explores applications in personalized learning, content recommendations, adaptive learning, NLP, generative AI, and responsible AI.

Leads complex, cross-functional Payment Integrity programs from strategy through execution. Develops plans, roadmaps, milestones, reporting, and executive communications; manages risks, dependencies, stakeholders, and decision points. Coordinates data, analytics, technology, vendor, and emerging AI initiatives using Agile planning practices. Drives accountability, continuous improvement, and successful delivery across teams without direct authority.