Improve eBay sellers’ advertising campaign performance through research and development in Generative Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning applications
Develop and train large-scale Deep Learning models on distributed backends, and deploy neural architectures such as transformers efficiently on eBay inference stack
Work with ML researchers, software engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to produce end-to-end production-ready solutions
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other team members, and help grow the Applied Research team in the eBay Amsterdam office
Requirements & Skills:
Proven track record in applied ML research
Masters (PhD a plus) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics or related field. 7+ years of industry and tech lead experience
Strong technical knowledge and experience in Deep Learning, especially in Generative AI (GAN, GPT etc.)
Extensive experience with two or more of the following: Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models (LLMs), image and text understanding, recommendation systems, ads targeting and ranking systems or similar
Familiarity with Multi-modal ML, Graph ML and/or Reinforcement Learning is desirable
Publishing technical articles and speaking in Engineering / ML conferences is a plus
