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Recommendation Systems Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 31+ recommendation systems jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Bumble, ServiceNow, and Grafana Labs.

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generous PTO 4
flexible hours 2
unlimited PTO 12
best places to work 10

Updated August 22, 2026

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Principal Engineer, Core - Pinner Journeys

NEW

Pinterest · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$243k – $450k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · USA

72 · GreatGenerous PTO$154k – $185k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Sweden

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization

22d

Spotify · Remote · USA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Surfaces Moments

29d

Spotify · Remote · USA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO$184k – $263k

Senior Manager, Technical Program Management (Search & AI Foundations)

1mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$232k – $282k

Manager, Engineering - Data Science

3mo

LTK · Remote · USA

63 · GoodSummer Fridays

Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering-Applied Research

17d

Pinterest · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$228k – $469k

Senior Applied Scientist - Knowledge Graphs & AI

1mo

Outreach · Remote · India

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, GAI Search Platform

NEW

ServiceNow · Onsite · Mountain View, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$161k – $274k

Head of Personalization for Content & Discovery

Canva · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

58 · GoodBest Place to Work$300k – $462k

Head of Personalisation for Content & Discovery

Canva · Hybrid · Sydney, Australia

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

AI Applied Scientist – Insights & Recommendations

3mo

Augury · Hybrid · Haifa or Tel Aviv

77 · GreatRotating 4 Day Week

Product Manager, Relevance and Personalization

3mo

Airbnb · Onsite · San Francisco, CA, USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours

Member of Technical Staff - Applied ML, RecSys

1mo

Liquid AI · Hybrid · Boston, MA, USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Modeling), Support

2mo

Block · Hybrid · Seattle, WA, USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$277k – $415k

Staff Software Engineer (Matching and Recommendations)

24d

Bumble · Hybrid · Austin, TX, USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$255k – $285k

Senior Software Engineer - Matching and Recommendations

1mo

Bumble · Hybrid · Austin, TX, USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$190k – $215k

Staff Research Scientist, AdTech Product Innovation

1mo

Cognitiv · Hybrid · Bellevue, WA or San Mateo, CA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Matching and Recommendations (UK Based)

1mo

Bumble · Hybrid · London, UK

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO

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Employers hiring for Recommendation Systems on this page include Bumble, ServiceNow, and Grafana Labs. 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 31 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.

Recommendation Systems Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 31+ recommendation systems jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Bumble, ServiceNow, and Grafana Labs.

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