Senior Applied Researcher

At eBay were more than a global ecommerce leader were changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. Were committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

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.

Looking for a company that inspires passion courage and creativity where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce Want to shape how millions of people buy sell connect and share around the world If youre interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive work environment join eBay a company you can be proud to be with.

Our Search & Recommendations team works on delivering recommendations at scale and in near real time to our buyers on our website and native app platforms. Recommendations are a core part of how our buyers navigate eBays vast and varied inventory. Our team develops state-of-the-art recommendations systems including agentic workflows deep learning based retrieval systems for personalized recommendations machine learned ranking models as well as advanced MLOps in a high volume traffic industrial e-commerce setting.

What you will accomplish:

• Develop agentic workflows evaluations and models for variety of surfaces at eBay

• Work with a team of applied researchers and engineers with deep expertise in natural language processing large language models / AI / agentic workflows recommender systems and ML production engineering

• Influence how people will interact with recommender systems in the future and how recommender systems technology will evolve

• Work with unique and large data sets of unstructured multimodal data representing eBays vast and varied inventory and millions of users

• Develop and deploy state of the art AI models

• Deploy big data technology and large scale data pipelines

• Drive marketplace GMB through iterative A/B testing

What you will bring:

• MS/PhD in Computer Science or related area with 6 years of relevant work experience (or BS/BA with 8 years) in Engineering / Machine Learning / AI

• Extensive development experience preferably in a ML/AI technology environment (Python PyTorch etc.)

• Experience with using cloud services big data pipelines and databases

• Experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and industrial recommender systems

• Experience in production engineering practices and software development in an OO language (Scala Java etc.)

• Previous publications experience with academic papers patents/IP or technical blogs is a plus.

Additional Details

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