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Our customers are our compass authenticity thrives bold ideas are welcome and everyone can bring their unique selves to work every day. Were in this together sustaining the future of our customers our company and our planet.
Join a team of passionate thinkers innovators and dreamers and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
The Opportunity
eBay is seeking an accomplished and forward-thinking Senior Director AI Innovation to lead the design development and evolution of our multi-agent AI platform and ecosystem.
This leader will define and drive the strategy for how eBay builds scales and operationalizes autonomous agent systems that power a new generation of AI-driven commerce experiences - from shopping assistance to developer-facing agent platforms. Reporting to the Chief AI Officer this role will partner closely with product research infrastructure and developer experience teams to bring agentic AI capabilities from concept to production across eBays global technology organization.
The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in AI/ML infrastructure agentic systems reinforcement learning and LLM fine-tuning along with a proven track record of building scalable platforms fostering innovation and leading globally distributed engineering and applied science teams.
What Youll Do
Define and execute eBays Agentic AI strategy and roadmap.
Build and lead a world-class team of engineers and applied scientists developing scalable multi-agent and autonomous AI systems.
Partner across product infrastructure and research teams to translate innovation into production-grade AI capabilities.
Lead platform development for model training orchestration reasoning and reinforcement learning workflows.
Develop robust developer experiences - APIs SDKs and self-serve tools to enable agent creation and deployment.
Represent eBays AI strategy internally and externally fostering innovation and collaboration across global hubs.
What Youll Bring
Masters or PhD in Computer Science Machine Learning or related technical field.
Extensive experience in AI ML and distributed systems and in senior engineering leadership roles managing large-scale AI or infrastructure teams.
Proven expertise in multi-agent systems LLM-based orchestration and reinforcement learning and/or NLP Semantic graphs.
Deep understanding of AI/ML infrastructuretraining inference pipelines and orchestration frameworks.
Experience building developer platforms with self-serve APIs SDKs and robust documentation.
Strong background in cloud and hybrid infrastructure GPU/TPU scaling and performance optimization.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex AI concepts into practical high-impact solutions.
Proven leadership in hiring developing and scaling high-performing technical teams across global hubs.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with fine-tuning and deployment of large foundation models (LLMs multimodal models).
Track record of open-source contributions or publications in AI/ML or multi-agent systems.
Additional Details
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