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Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Indianapolis, IN

Machine learning engineers take models from notebook to production — building training pipelines, serving infrastructure, and monitoring so ML systems keep working after launch.

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$40–$103/hr
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Facilities Engineer

Bila Solar, Inc. · Indianapolis, IN

FACILITIES ENGINEER POSITION SUMMARY The Facilities Engineer provides engineering and... ...applicable safety, electrical, environmental, machine- guarding, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), and... ...excellence and renewable energ…

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Systems Engineer

Robert Half · Indianapolis, IN

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to support and enhance core enterprise infrastructure in Indianapolis, Indiana. This Long-term Contract position is ideal for a detail-oriented candidate with strong experience with…

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Senior Data Scientist - Clinical Informaticist

Wolters Kluwer · Indianapolis, IN
$85.6k - $149.4k

Sentri7 Drug Diversion platform. Working closely with product, engineering, data science, and customer-facing teams, this role helps... ...professional experience in data science, predictive modeling, or machine learning…

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NVH Test Engineer*

3M · Indianapolis, IN
$98.96k - $120.96k

Job Description:NVH Test Engineer* Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the WorldChoosing where to start and grow your career has a... ...during their employment, and for a period after they leave 3M. Learn more abou…

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Electrical Engineer

V2X · Indianapolis, IN

with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.Vertex, located in Indianapolis, IN, is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer I to support development, integration, and sustainment of ground‑based electronic…

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Joining & Additive Materials Engineer

Rolls-Royce · Indianapolis, IN
$98.57k - $160.17k

to one of the world’s most recognized brands and a beacon for engineering excellence.Position SummaryAn exciting opening for a Joining &... ...technologies that move us forward. If you’re driven to grow, to learn, and to…

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Sr Principal Data, Analytics & AI Engineer

Eli Lilly and Company · Indianapolis, IN
$133.5k - $224.4k

experienced Senior Principal Data, Analytics & AI Engineer to join the Global DIA team within MQ... ...and agentic AI.Agentic AI and machine learningClosely collaborate with the business... ....Implement, test, and deplo…

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Electrical Engineer

HDR · Indianapolis, IN

DescriptionAt HDR, we specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. While we are most well-known for adding beauty and structure to communities through high-performance buildings and s…

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$122.76k - $220.97k

: ANA United StatesWork Type: HybridDate Posted: 2026-09-03Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.We are more than 34,000…

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Senior Structural Engineer

HDR · Indianapolis, IN

throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabli…

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Zotec Partners · Carmel, IN · Full-time

are a team of Innovators, Collaborators and Doers. We’re seeking a Senior ML Engineer to join us. As a Senior ML Engineer at Zotec, you will build and extend the machine learning and AI systems that give our teams direct…

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What machine learning engineers earn in Indianapolis

Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives

ExperienceHourlyAnnual, full-time
Entry level $40–$56 $84k–$116k
Mid level $56–$76 $116k–$158k
Senior $74–$103 $153k–$214k

Adjusted for the Indianapolis market from national ranges.

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What employers ask for

The skills these listings keep naming

Python and software engineeringPyTorch or TensorFlowML fundamentals and evaluationModel serving and APIsMLOps (tracking, registries, CI)Docker and KubernetesData pipelines and feature storesLLM fine-tuning and RAG (a plus)Monitoring and drift detection
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Interview questions worth rehearsing

With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for

Walk me through taking a model from prototype to production.

Cover data pipelines, training reproducibility, serving, and monitoring. Emphasize that the model is a small part of the system — that framing is the job.

How do you monitor a model in production?

Discuss input drift, prediction distributions, delayed labels, and business metrics — plus what triggers retraining. Mention that silent degradation is the default failure mode.

How would you reduce inference latency or cost for a large model?

Options include distillation, quantization, batching, caching, and smaller models. Frame it as measuring first, then choosing the cheapest acceptable quality tradeoff.

Tell me about a time a model failed in production. What happened?

A real story about skew, drift, or a data bug — with detection and prevention — is far more convincing than claiming smooth deployments.

How do you evaluate a model beyond accuracy?

Talk about the metric matching the business cost of errors, slicing by segment, and offline-online gaps. Naming a case where accuracy misled is a strong touch.

When would you fine-tune an LLM versus use retrieval or prompting?

Start cheap: prompting, then RAG for knowledge, fine-tuning for behavior and format. Cost and maintenance burden should drive the answer.

How do you make training reproducible?

Version code, data, and config; track experiments; pin environments. This is engineering discipline applied to ML, which is exactly the role.

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Resume tips that move the needle

For machine learning engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here

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Center bullets on production systems: models served, request volume, latency, and the business metric they moved.

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Show software engineering credentials explicitly — testing, CI, code review — since MLE hiring filters hardest on engineering rigor.

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Name the MLOps tooling you have run (MLflow, SageMaker, Kubeflow, vector databases) as these are common screens.

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Include LLM work with specifics — fine-tuning, RAG, evaluation — if you have it; vague 'GenAI experience' claims read poorly.

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Distinguish your role on shared projects: built the serving layer, owned the pipeline, or trained the model.

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Where this role goes

Typical progression

01 ML Engineer
02 Senior ML Engineer
03 Staff ML Engineer
04 ML Platform Lead
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