Applied Scientist II - Recommendation Systems

Glance AI is an AI commerce platform shaping the next wave of e-commerce with inspiration-led shopping, less about searching for what you want and more about discovering who you could be. Operating in 140 countries, Glance AI transforms every screen into a stage for instant, personal, and joyful discovery, where inspiration becomes something you can explore, feel, and shop in the moment. Its proprietary models, seamlessly integrated with Google’s most advanced AI platforms, Gemini and Imagen on Vertex AI, deliver hyper-realistic, deeply personal shopping experiences across categories such as fashion, beauty, travel, accessories, home décor, pets, and more. Designed to seamlessly integrate into everyday consumer technology, Glance AI reimagines the future of e-commerce with inspiration-led discovery and shopping. With an open architecture built for effortless adoption across hardware and software ecosystems, Glance AI is creating a platform that can become a staple in everyday consumer technology. It partners with the world’s leading smartphone makers, connected TV manufacturers, telecom providers, and global brands — meeting people where they are: on mobile, smart TVs, and brand websites. Through Glance AI’s rich first-party data and unparalleled consumer access, it harnesses InMobi’s global scale, insights, and targeting capabilities to create high-impact, performance-driven shopping journeys for brands worldwide. Part of the InMobi Group, a global technology and advertising leader reaching over 2 billion devices and serving more than 30,000 enterprise brands worldwide, Glance AI is backed by Google, Jio Platforms, and Mithril Capital. What you will be doing We are looking for a Applied Scientist who can operate at the intersection of classical machine learning , large-scale recommendation systems. You will design, build, and deploy intelligent systems that power Glance’s personalized lock screen and live entertainment experiences. This role blends deep ML craftsmanship with forward-looking innovation in autonomous/agentic systems. Your responsibilities will include: Classical ML & Recommendation Systems Design and develop large-scale recommendation systems using advanced ML, statistical modelling, ranking algorithms, and deep learning. Build and operate machine learning models on diverse, high-volume data sources for personalization, prediction, and content understanding. Develop rapid experimentation workflows to validate hypotheses and measure real-world business impact. Own data preparation, model training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines in collaboration with engineering counterparts. Monitor ML model performance using statistical techniques; identify drifts, failure modes, and improvement opportunities. Cross-functional impact Collaborate with Designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to integrate ML and GenAI-driven features into Glance’s consumer experiences. Contribute to Glance’s ML/AI thought leadership—blogs, case studies, internal tech talks, and industry conferences. Thrive in a multi-functional, highly collaborative team environment with engineering, product, business, and creative teams. Plus: Interface with stakeholders across Product, Business, Data, and Infrastructure to align ML initiatives with strategic priorities. We are seeking candidates with deep expertise in ML, recommendation systems, and a strong appetite for building agentic AI systems. You should have experience with: Large-scale ML and recommendation systems (collaborative filtering, ranking models, content-based approaches, embeddings). Classical ML and deep learning techniques across NLP, sequence modelling, RL, clustering, and time series. Experience in deploying ML workflows/models in production system Big data processing (Spark, distributed data systems) and cloud computing. Designing end-to-end ML solutions—from prototype to production. Plus: Building or experimenting with LLMs, generative models, and agent…