Junior AI Engineer: Mentored ML, Cloud & Growth

Egreenservices; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 68,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanley Black & Decker in Chicago, IL is hiring a junior AI Engineer. You will mentor junior engineers, help ship AI solutions, and optimize cloud costs while shaping deployment strategies. The role emphasizes hands-on ML engineering, modern PM tooling, and strong collaboration with the technology team.

You will work closely with stakeholders to deliver time-series analyses and scalable AI workflows, with a focus on practical learning and rapid iteration in a contract-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of AI/ML engineering experience.
• Customer-centric bias toward action.
• Proven ability to ship projects, not just ideas.
• Hands-on with modern project management workflows and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
• Trim cloud bill by right-sizing the RAG infrastructure in Chicago, IL
• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with SageMaker and Reinforcement Learning
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence

Skills

Code review

ML engineering

Project management

Mentoring

Tools

SageMaker

Containerization

RL frameworks

Job description

Stanley Black & Decker in Chicago, IL is hiring a junior AI Engineer. You will mentor junior engineers, help ship AI solutions, and optimize cloud costs while shaping deployment strategies. The role emphasizes hands-on ML engineering, modern PM tooling, and strong collaboration with the technology team.

You will work closely with stakeholders to deliver time-series analyses and scalable AI workflows, with a focus on practical learning and rapid iteration in a contract-friendly environment.