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# AI/ML Engineer

- **Company:** LaStellar Group
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $130,000 - $160,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Redis, Tensorflow, Software Engineering, Feature Engineering, Pytorch, Spring-boot, Model Validation, Event Driven Architecture, Scikit Learn, Xgboost, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Unsupervised Learning, Web Api, Microservices
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/80bd136c-d3f5-405a-b8f7-28d51f4423f4/aiml-engineer

## About the Role

* 2+ years professional software engineering with strong Java and Spring Boot
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 * Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka), PostgreSQL, Redshift or equivalent data warehousing, Redis
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 * Solid grasp of distributed systems, REST API design, microservices
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 * 2+ years hands-on AI/ML development in Python - real model-building experience, not just API calls to a hosted model
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 * Working knowledge of ML fundamentals: supervised/unsupervised learning, model evaluation, feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning
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 * Experience with scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or XGBoost

## Description

This is a Java backend engineer who also owns the ML side - you're not handing models off to someone else to productionize, you're building the services, the pipelines, and the models yourself. You'll take AI solutions from concept through production in a real financial environment where reliability and explainability aren't optional. NYC-based (Manhattan), 4 days in-office, Friday remote.