Updated August 1, 2026

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Recommendation Systems Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ recommendation systems jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 3 new this week. Hiring companies include Grafana Labs, Pinterest, and Spotify.

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New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization

Spotify

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

10d

Grafana Labs

RemoteUSA

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO$154k – $185k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

10d

Grafana Labs

RemoteUK

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO£92k – £110k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

10d

Grafana Labs

RemoteSweden

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Surfaces Moments

Spotify

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$184k – $263k

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust

3mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$244k – $305k

Machine Learning Engineer

3mo

Twilio

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$156k – $229k

Staff Product Manager, AI Safety

3mo

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$165k – $339k

Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering, Core Engineering

3mo

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$189k – $390k

Staff Applied Scientist - Knowledge Graphs & AI

25d

Outreach

RemoteIndia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search

24d

Monzo

RemoteUK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave£115k – £150k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

10d

Grafana Labs

RemoteSpain

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO€83k – €100k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

10d

Grafana Labs

RemoteIreland

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO€104k – €125k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

10d

Grafana Labs

RemoteGermany

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO€97k – €116k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

10d

Grafana Labs

RemoteCanada

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO$164k – $197k

Principal Engineer, Shopping & Delivery Infra

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$285k – $450k

Senior AI Engineer - Recommendation and Personalisation

1mo

9fin

HybridLondon, UK

70 · Great5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Software Engineer, Intelligent Systems

11d

Bumble

HybridAustin, USA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k – $215k

Staff Research Scientist, AdTech Product Innovation

12d

Cognitiv

HybridSan Mateo, USA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Member of Technical Staff - Applied ML, RecSys

1mo

Liquid AI

HybridBoston, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Director of Engineering, Core & Ads Serving Platform

HybridSan Francisco or Palo Alto

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$285k – $450k

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Employers hiring for Recommendation Systems on this page include Grafana Labs, Pinterest, and Spotify. Recommendation Systems roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Recommendation Systems is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Recommendation Systems roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Recommendation Systems across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Recommendation Systems hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Recommendation Systems roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Recommendation Systems candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Recommendation Systems on current listings.