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.
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.
81 AI roles tagged recommender_systems.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | Sr. Data Scientist | Retail | 8 | Search & ranking · RAG · Agent orchestration · Tool use · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Walmart | Senior Director, Data Science & Ontology | Retail | 8 | Semantic search · RAG · Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Target | Sr Applied Data Scientist - Search and Browse (Applied ML, NLP, LLMs) | Retail | 8 | Search & ranking · Vector DB · RAG · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Target | Principal Applied Data Scientist - Search and Browse (NLP, Vector Search, LLMs) | Retail | 8 | LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Agent orchestration · Search & ranking · Model serving |
| Walmart | Senior Data Scientist | Retail | 8 | Agent orchestration |
| Walmart | Principal, Data Scientist - Personalization | Retail | 8 | Search & ranking · Model serving |
| Target | Sr Director Data Sciences | Retail | 8 | Agent orchestration · Search & ranking · RAG · LLM observability · Evals · Model serving |
| Walmart | (USA) Senior Manager, Data Science (AI Technical Lead) – Next-Gen Customer Engagement & Returns | Retail | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Evals |
| Walmart | Senior, Data Scientist | Retail | 8 | Model serving |
| Walmart | Director, Data Science | Retail | 8 | Search & ranking · Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving |
| Walmart | PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST | Retail | 8 | Frontier research |
| Walmart | Staff, Software Engineer | Retail | 8 | Search & ranking · Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra · Multimodal |
| Walmart | Distinguished, Data Scientist | Retail | 8 | Search & ranking · Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Target | Sr Applied Data Scientist - Personalization (applied ML, PyTorch, RecSys) | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking |
| Target | AI/ML Engineer - RecSys (ML Ops) | Retail | 7 | Model serving |
| Target | Lead Applied Data Scientist - Digital Item RecSys (applied ML, deep learning) | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking |
| Target | Sr AI Engineer-Item Science | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Target | Sr Machine Learning Engineer - Marketing and Corporate Systems (ML Ops) | Retail | 7 | Model serving · Inference infra |
| Walmart | Staff, Data Scientist | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking · Forecasting · Agent orchestration |
| Walmart | Staff, Product Manager, Customer Growth | Retail | 7 | |
| Walmart | Principal, Product Manager, Customer Growth | Retail | 7 | |
| Walmart | Senior, Data Scientist | Retail | 7 | Model serving |
| Walmart | STAFF, DATA SCIENTIST | Retail | 7 | Frontier research |
| Walmart | (USA) Principal, Software Engineer | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking · RL robotics |
| Walmart | Group Director, Product Management - Last Mile Optimization & AI | Retail | 7 | Agent orchestration · Search & ranking |
| Walmart | Principal, Software Engineer - Backend | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking |
| Walmart | SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking |
| Walmart | Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking |
| Walmart | (IND) PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST | Retail | 7 | Search & ranking · Agent orchestration |
| Walmart | (USA) Staff, Data Scientist | Retail | 7 | Agent orchestration |