Data Scientist, Next Gen Recommendation Systems

com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products - Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral) - unify every type of partner into one integrated platform.

com helps brands show up where it matters most. com to power more than 350,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results. com : We're seeking a Data Scientist to help build the next generation of recommendation systems powering our partnership automation platform.

Our ecosystem connects a rich set of entities—advertisers, media publishers, creators, products, and consumers—and the relationships between them are where the real value lives. Your work will help surface the right partnerships, the right products, and the right content across this network at scale. You'll contribute to evolving our recommender stack toward a graph-based architecture leveraging semantic embeddings of entities and their relationships , applying cutting-edge techniques in representation learning, graph ML, and retrieval.

The system needs to serve recommendations both in batch and real time, respond to dynamic user inputs , drive measurable value for end users across the platform, and remain reliable as the ecosystem grows. This role is hands-on and end-to-end. You'll own modeling and experimentation work for a defined area of the recommendation stack—from problem framing through productionization—in close partnership with Engineering, Product, MLOps, and Business Stakeholders.

You're expected to bring (or actively develop) ML engineering chops so you can take a solution from prototype to production, and to be a relentless user of AI coding agents to multiply your output and accelerate iteration.

What You'Ll Do

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Responsibilities

Multi-entity recommendations across the partnership graph Design, build, and evaluate recommendation models that operate across heterogeneous entities—advertisers, publishers, creators, products, and consumers—and the relationships between them. Frame problems in terms of the partnership graph and apply techniques appropriate to each surface, including candidate generation, ranking, reranking, and personalization. Graph-based modeling semantic embeddings Contribute to evolving our architecture toward graph-based approaches: learn semantic embeddings of entities and relationships, apply graph neural networks or attention aware graph transformer models where they add value, and build representations that generalize across surfaces and use cases.

Stay current with cutting-edge techniques in graph ML, representation learning, and modern recommender architectures, and bring relevant ideas into the platform. Batch and real-time serving Build models and pipelines that serve recommendations in both batch and real-time contexts. Partner with Engineering on retrieval infrastructure, vector search, feature stores, and low-latency serving patterns.

Make pragmatic tradeoffs between model sophistication, latency, cost, and freshness based on the surface and use case. End-to-end ML delivery ML engineering Own the full lifecycle of your work: data and feature design, model development, evaluation, launch, monitoring, and iteration. Build production-grade pipelines, write code that other engineers can extend, and partner with MLOps on reproducibility, observability, and reliability.