There are some pretty interesting jobs in Chicago. The third largest tech company in Chicago is HERE maps. As someone who has worked there in the past, it has by far the most interesting work in the city. Want to work on massive machine learning systems to process petabytes of data? Want to work on realtime systems for autonomous and connected cars? Like processing 3d LiDAR data? Like graph algorithms?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;company.here.com&#x2F;here&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;company.here.com&#x2F;here&#x2F;</a><p>It isn&#x27;t a startup though. For startups people can check out <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.1871.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.1871.com&#x2F;</a>