Personalized ranking systems that predict which items a user will engage with — historically classical ML, increasingly LLM-augmented with semantic reranking and conversational interfaces.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: application.
As of today, 844 active AI roles across 98 companies in our index reference Recommender systems. Hiring concentrates at the application (49%) and agents (35%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, Consumer, Enterprise.
Personalized ranking systems that predict which items a user will engage with — historically classical ML, increasingly LLM-augmented with semantic reranking and conversational interfaces. Primary AI lifecycle stage: application.
844 active AI roles across 98 companies in our index reference Recommender systems as of today.
The companies with the most active Recommender systems listings are: Amazon (221 roles), Google (52 roles), Walmart (49 roles), Apple (33 roles), JPMorgan Chase (28 roles).
Recommender systems primarily belongs to the application stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Recommender systems roles concentrate at: application (49%), agents (35%).
The sectors with the most active Recommender systems hiring are: Big Tech, Consumer, Enterprise.
48 AI roles tagged recommender_systems.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PayPal | Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Agent research |
| Block | Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Modeling), Support | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Robinhood | Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 8 | Search & ranking |
| PayPal | Director, Director, ML Engineering & Agentic Systems | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Search & ranking |
| PayPal | Principal Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 8 | Search & ranking · Model serving · Inference infra |
| PayPal | Principal Engineer, Agentic AI | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration |
| Gusto | Head of AI-Native Talent Systems | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Search & ranking · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research |
| Stripe | PhD Machine Learning Engineer, Intern | Fintech | 8 | LLM observability · Model serving |
| Block | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Personalization | Fintech | 8 | Search & ranking · Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Visa | Senior Data Scientist | Fintech | 7 | |
| Visa | Data Scientist - Managed Services | Fintech | 7 | Model serving |
| Chime | Senior AI/ML Engineer | Fintech | 7 | Model serving · Inference infra |
| Block | Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligent Data, Signals & Systems | Fintech | 7 | Search & ranking · Model serving · Inference infra · RAG · Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Visa | Data Scientist, FeatureSpace | Fintech | 7 | Model serving |
| PayPal | Lead Product Manager – Risk Decisioning Platform | Fintech | 7 | Inference infra · Model serving |
| Visa | Digital Senior Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Search & ranking · Multimodal · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training |
| PayPal | Sr Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 7 | Search & ranking · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Plaid | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Embedded Insights | Fintech | 7 | Model serving |
| Visa | Data Scientist - Sr. Consultant Level | Fintech | 7 | LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Agent orchestration |
| SoFi | Principal Product Manager, Marketing Technology | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration |
| Visa | Sr. Data Scientist | Fintech | 7 | Model serving |
| SoFi | Staff Marketing Data Scientist, Machine Learning | Fintech | 7 | |
| Robinhood | Senior Data Scientist, ML (Brokerage) | Fintech | 7 | Search & ranking |
| Stripe | Engineering Manager, Payment Intelligence | Fintech | 7 | |
| Robinhood | Senior Data Scientist, ML (Incentives) | Fintech | 7 | |
| Mastercard | Director of Data Science (AdTech) | Fintech | 7 | Search & ranking · Model serving · Inference infra |
| SoFi | Senior Manager Marketing Data Scientist, AI Enablement | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Visa | Sr. Data Scientist | Fintech | 7 | |
| Upstart | Senior Software Engineer, Personalization & ML | Fintech | 7 | Model serving |
| Brex | Staff Product Manager, Growth | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Search & ranking · Evals |