Kumo · 2 weeks ago
AI/ML Engineer - Relational Foundation Models & Predictive Intelligence (Chicago)
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry LevelKumo is building the next generation of AI for structured data and is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to support enterprise customers in adopting their platform. The role involves designing and building prototypes and models, guiding customers through technical challenges, and collaborating with engineering and research teams to enhance platform capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataBusiness IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaS
Responsibilities
Support and eventually own technical success for enterprise customers adopting the Kumo platform
Design and build prototypes, workflows, and models across use cases such as: Recommendations & personalization, Forecasting & demand planning, Fraud detection & risk modeling, Supply chain & logistics optimization, Banking & financial analytics, CRM/growth marketing & user modeling
Work hands-on with large-scale relational datasets, customer pipelines, and production ML systems
Guide customers through modeling choices, data structures, evals, trust, interpretability, and rollout plans
Translate ambiguous customer needs into concrete ML solutions and RFM workflows
Collaborate closely with Kumo engineering and research teams to improve platform capabilities
Act as a technical leader and trusted advisor, understanding that deploying ML is as much a people and business challenge as it is a technical one
Deliver demos, workshops, best practices, and partner with executives, PMs, analysts, and data scientists
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's in a STEM field (CS, EE, Math, Physics, Stats, etc.)
Strong fundamentals in data science, statistics, or machine learning coursework
Real-world experience via internships, research, industry work, or substantial project work
Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and initiative, personal ML/AI projects, open source, research, hackathons, or other hands-on experience
Strong communication skills; comfortable working with people and navigating technical + non-technical audiences
Genuine enthusiasm for ML/AI, modern modeling approaches, and applying them to real business problems
Motivated, self-driven, excited to learn fast, and comfortable in a high-velocity startup environment
Preferred
Deeper expertise in one or more of: ML infrastructure / data engineering
Full-stack development for ML apps
LLM orchestration, agent systems, or model tuning
Large-scale distributed systems
Forecasting, recsys, fraud, or other applied ML domains
Familiarity with GNNs, temporal models, or structured reasoning
Enterprise integrations, data platforms, or productionizing ML
Company
Kumo
Kumo is an AI model company that provides a platform for anyone to train and run state-of-the-art AI models on their relational data.
Founded in 2021
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$36.5MKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2022-09-27Series B· $18M
2022-04-07Series A· $18.5M
Leadership Team
Dong Wang
Founding Engineer, Engineering Leader - Product Engineering
Recent News
2025-12-02
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