Senior Applied Researcher

5 Hours ago • 10 Years + • Research Development

Job Summary

Job Description

eBay is seeking a Senior Applied Researcher to join its Recommendations team. This role focuses on developing and deploying cutting-edge recommender systems using ML, NLP, LLM/GenAI/RAG, and AI technologies. The researcher will lead advancements in personalization, working with large-scale data sets of unstructured multimodal data to improve how buyers discover eBay's vast inventory. Responsibilities include defining research directions, developing and deploying AI models, driving revenue through recommendations, and publishing research in top-tier conferences. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science or a related field with 10+ years of experience in Machine Learning/AI/NLP/LLM, experience with recommender systems, and strong applied research track record.
Must have:
  • PhD in Computer Science or related area
  • 10+ years of relevant work experience in ML/AI/NLP/LLM
  • Experience building personalized recommender systems
  • Strong applied research track record
  • Hands-on engineering skills for ML model deployment
  • Experience articulating research strategy
Good to have:
  • Experience with video understanding or video technology

Job Details

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re 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. We're 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.

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 eBay e-commerce marketplace website and native app platforms. Recommendations are a core part of how our buyers navigate eBay’s vast and varied inventory. Our team develops innovative 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 sophisticated MLOps in a high volume traffic industrial setting.

We are building cutting edge recommender systems powered by the latest ML, NLP, LLM/GenAI/RAG and AI technologies! We are looking for a top-tier applied researcher who can lead and drive forward our research in personalization, with the business goal of enabling personalized discovery of eBay unique inventory through dynamic feeds, both for eBay enthusiasts as well as first time visitors.

The scope of research includes but is not limited to sophisticated ML models for personalized recall and ranking that uses very large-scale attention models, graph neural networks, few-shot learning, and other techniques to better model factors relevant to people’s interests, cohort memberships, and trends. Also in scope are deep user understanding, advanced user embeddings, interpretable user models, and interest graphs - both global and personal. Furthermore, we are looking to expand into video recommendations as well as live commerce, so this is an exciting new area for us to explore.

What you will accomplish:

  • Define research directions that will Influence how people discover eBay's inventory relevant to their interests and passions

  • 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 innovative AI models to production which have direct measurable impact on eBay buyers, working with a global team of applied researchers and ML engineers

  • Drive marketplace GMB as well as advertising revenue via organic and sponsored recommendations

  • Publish research work in Tier 1 conferences as well as write IP and tech blogs

What you will bring:

  • PhD in Computer Science or related area with 10+ years of relevant work experience in Machine Learning / AI / NLP / LLM

  • Experience with building personalized recommender systems or other forms of personalization technology

  • Strong track record of applied research supported by publications, blog articles or other demonstrations of knowledge of the field

  • Experience with video understanding or video technology is a plus

  • Hands on engineering skills to build and deploy ML models in production on prem or using cloud services

  • Experience acting as research lead, articulating research strategy

Links to some of our previous work:

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