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Wildcard (YC W25) is hiring an applied ML engineer

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Why This Matters

Wildcard's hiring of a founding applied ML engineer highlights the growing importance of AI-driven commerce solutions in the retail industry. This role is crucial for developing reliable AI systems that help brands adapt to the shift towards AI-powered shopping agents, ultimately shaping the future of ecommerce visibility and automation.

Key Takeaways

Founding Applied ML Engineer

About Wildcard

Wildcard is the agentic commerce optimization platform for ecommerce and retail brands.

We help brands understand, improve, and monetize how their products show up across AI shopping agents. We’re building the mission control for agentic commerce: visibility (AEO & GEO), recommendations, execution, attribution, and automation in one platform.

As shopping shifts from traditional search to AI agents, brands need to know where they appear, why competitors are winning, what to change, and whether those changes drive real business outcomes.

We’re growing 50% month over month.

Who you’ll work with

You’ll work directly with me, Kaushik Mahorker, founder of Wildcard.

Previously at Scale AI, I built the ecommerce enrichment engine behind the company’s largest pilot across 400K SKUs, 2.8M attributes, and hundreds of taxonomies, helping secure $15M+ in contracts with major retailers and marketplaces.

That experience made something clear: shopping discovery is being rebuilt for an AI-first world, and most brands are not prepared for the shift.

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