Flywheel’s suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the world’s leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales, share, and profit. With teams across the Americas, Europe and APAC, we offer a career with real impact, endless growth opportunities and the support you need to be the best you can be. 

The Opportunity  

Perpetua is the retail media platform within the Flywheel Commerce Network, built for the challenger brand; the operator who cannot out spend the category leader and has to out execute instead. Advertisers set goals based on strategy and Perpetua’s always on optimization executes the tactics.  

As a Data Scientist (ML  Engineer), on the Perpetua team, you will design, experiment with, and ship the machine learning systems that decide how thousands of brands spend their advertising budgets across retail media. This is the engine that takes autonomous action on the customer’s behalf. It is not a model that produces recommendations for someone else to act on, but the system that sets bids and allocates spend in production, in real time, against each advertiser’s goals. Your work runs live across thousands of customers worldwide.  

Our team primarily works with Python and the Google Cloud Platform suite of products like Cloud Run and Vertex AI to productize cutting-edge data features. We are currently working on developing a scalable advertising bidding platform that enables advertisers to implement custom and versatile bidding strategies including but not restricted to maximizing advertising sales, dominating top-of-search placements, optimizing for total sales, incremental sales, new-to-brand purchases, organic rank, etc. Increasingly, this work sits alongside a newer layer of generative and agentic AI; LLM-based reasoning that plans, explains, and reacts to natural language goals. Knowing where classical optimization is the right tool and where the generative layer adds leverage is part of the craft on this team.