Ebay Senior Manager Applied Research 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

44179697

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 customers will interact with shipping AI systems in the future and drive AI technology evolution and adoption
• 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 revenue, margin and customer delight by driving lower shipping costs, faster delivery speed and accurate product classifications for international shipments

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 applied science team, preferably in a ML/AI technology environment
• Experience with using cloud services, big data pipelines and databases
• Experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models
• 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