Research Scientist - NLP, ML, AI

Job Description

Do you want to have a huge impact on a large e-commerce website? Are you interested in solving cutting edge research problems while impacting all eBay e-commerce channels? Does working with Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, large-scale optimization, and machine learning excite you? If you answered yes, the Core AI team at eBay is the right place for you. We are looking for Research Scientists with a diverse set of backgrounds to join our office in the historic city of Aachen, Germany.

With hundreds of millions of buyers and sellers, 1B+ of live listings at any point of time, millions of daily transactions and billions of daily queries, eBay provides a fantastic playground for researchers to work with data and conduct experiments at scale. We actively pursue ideas that result in scalable algorithms and systems.

You will work in the area of Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), driving the future of NLP and related applications at eBay. You will approach some of the most interesting AI problems eBay is facing in this area. Join our tightly-knit team of standouts who enjoy working on large-scale challenging and exciting problems. We work in small, focused, collaborative project teams following an agile methodology. You will feel like you’re working in a start-up, while at the same time having the resources of a large company.

Areas of work include (but not limited to):

• Deep Learning
• Multi-modal Deep Learning
• Weakly Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning
• Transfer learning, and domain adaptation
• Representation learning
• Low-resource NLP
• Neural Machine Translation, Text Generation, and Natural Language Understanding
  

Responsibilities

• Actively leads on one or more technical areas of research and development of ML/NLP technologies
• Develop and improve NLP applications, and their prototypes beyond the state of the art
• Work with engineers and other multi-functional teams, including Research, Project Management, Quality Assurance, and Operations, etc.
• Highly visible across major Engineering organizations, and regularly visible through external forums such as conferences, workshops, or open source initiatives
• Leads collaboration with other research teams in eBay to create the best of breed experience
• Research and stay up-to-date with state of the art in Deep Learning and NLP. Publishing is strongly encouraged.
  

Requirements:

• Ph.D. program in Computer Science or related disciplines or a Master degree plus more than five years of research experience
• Well versed in machine learning with a focus on neural networks
• Several years of experience leading large scale research projects which will eventually yield working and scalable products
• Strong research track record, multiple publications in at least one top-tier machine learning or NLP conference such as NeurIPS or ACL. This is mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Can rapidly experiment and prototype in your favorable programming language and are capable of working on production systems and programming in either Python or C/C++
• Collaboration skills and ability to influence a multi-functional team to deliver results
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• It is a plus if you have hands on experience with NLP algorithms, and sequence to sequence models, e.g., neural machine translation.
• Experience in mentoring and guiding junior researchers and research engineers is preferred.
  

What do we offer?

• A comprehensive field of responsibility
• Dynamic team with exciting personalities, passion for e-commerce, professionalism and a good sense of humor
• International career opportunities throughout eBay Inc.
• An excellent working environment with lots of flexibility
  

eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

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eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected] . We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

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