Ebay Senior Manager Applied Research 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

406426651

This is an opportunity to:

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

• Drive personalization strategy for eBay recommendations and influence look and feel of the eBay homepage

• 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 eBay's 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 as well as advertising revenue via organic and sponsored recommendations

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Computer Science or related area with 8 years of relevant work experience (or BS/BA with 10 years) in Engineering / Machine Learning / AI

• Experience leading a nimble engineering/research team, preferably in a ML/AI technology environment

• 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.) and high volume traffic webapp development in an industrial setting

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

Links to some of our previous work:

• (GenAI Agentic Platform)