eBay · 1 week ago
Senior AI Engineer – Core AI
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$210K/yr - $281K/yr
8+ years expeBay is a global ecommerce leader, seeking a dedicated Senior AI Engineer to join their Core AI division. The role involves working with a team to design and optimize AI systems that utilize multimodal data, driving impactful AI initiatives across the platform.
AuctionsE-CommerceInternetMarketplaceRetail
Responsibilities
Design, build, and optimize systems that use multimodal data and Generative AI architectures in scalable, reliable, and cost-effective ways
Lead development of AI led user experiences, including those using videos, live-streams, images, audio and textual data
Help advance eBay’s internal platform for GenAI applications, contributing reusable components, and APIs
Monitor and optimize AI systems in production for performance, quality, and responsible AI use
Stay current with the latest advances in AI/ML and apply a critical lens when integrating new models or tools into the product stack
Drive iteration on design, implementation, and evaluation processes based on experimentation and team feedback
Qualification
Required
8+ years in software or machine learning engineering roles
4+ years of focused experience developing and deploying AI-centric systems that use visual or multimodal data
2+ years building generative-AI systems, including systems that incorporate VLMs, diffusion models, or other multimodal models
Proven success in taking AI-powered products from prototype to production, with an emphasis on maintainability, performance, and user impact
Strong programming skills in Java or similar JVM languages, with working proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorRT)
Hands-on experience with Docker & Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with Big Data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark)
Hands-on experience with UI/UX considerations in application development
Preferred
Working knowledge of Spring Framework
Familiarity with streaming data systems (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Beam, Storm)
Familiarity with vector stores (PgVector, FAISS, Pinecone)
Experience with C++ and CUDA for performance-critical components
Benefits
Target bonus
Restricted stock units
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
401(k) eligibility
Various paid time off benefits
PTO
Parental leave
Company
eBay
eBay is a global online marketplace enabling users to buy, sell, and auction new or used items across various categories.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.16BKey Investors
Benchmark
2022-11-07Post Ipo Debt· $1.15B
1998-09-24IPO
1998-01-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Jamie Iannone
CEO
Alex Kazim
VP, GM eBay Services
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