Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java Programming, Large Language Models - LLMs, Machine learning techniques, MongoDB, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Scala Programming

Job Description

About the team and the role:

Our 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 eBay’s vast and varied inventory. Our team develops state-of-the-art recommendations systems, including deep learning based retrieval systems for personalized recommendations, machine learned ranking models, GenAI/LLM powered recommendations, as well as advanced MLOps in a high volume traffic industrial e-commerce setting.

We are building cutting edge recommender systems powered by the latest ML, NLP, LLM/GenAI/RAG and AI technologies. Additionally, we are building production integrations with Google GCP Vertex AI platforms to supercharge our item recommendation algorithms. Come join our innovative engineering and applied research team!

What you will accomplish:

• Influence how people will interact with eBay’s recommender systems in the future, and how recommender systems technology will evolve
• Work with unique and large data sets of unstructured multimodal data representing eBay's vast and varied inventory, including billions of items and millions of users
• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art AI models to production which have direct measurable impact on eBay buyers
• Deploy big data technology and large scale data pipelines
• Drive marketplace GMB as well as advertising revenue via organic and sponsored recommendations

What you will bring:

• MS in Computer Science or related area with 6 years of relevant work experience (or BS/BA with 8 years) in Engineering / Machine Learning / AI
• Experience building large scale distributed applications and expertise in any OO language (Scala, Java, etc.)
• Experience building with no sql databases and key value stores (MongoDB, Redis, etc)
• Generalist with a can do attitude and willingness to learn/pick up new skill sets as needed
• Experience with using cloud services is a plus (GCP is a double plus)
• Experience with big data pipelines (Hadoop, Spark), AI applied research, industrial recommendation systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering is a plus

Links to some of our previous work:

• Google Cloud Blog 2024
• eBay Tech Blog 2023
• RecSys 2022 Workshop paper
• eBay Tech Blog 2022
• RecSys 2021 paper

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