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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.

What Will You Do
We are looking for an Applied Researcher to work on large‑scale image and text based problems that power customer‑facing experiences.
You will work across the full lifecycle of a project—from problem formulation and modeling to bringing solutions into production. You’ll have meaningful ownership of your work end to end within the team, taking ideas from exploration to deployment and iteration.
Your work will include:

Exploring and prototyping new modeling approaches, including adapting ideas from recent research papers to real‑world problems
Developing ML models for image, text, and multimodal use cases
Working with large‑scale datasets and building practical ML pipelines.
Deploying models into production and measuring their impact

We value people who enjoy combining research thinking with hands‑on execution, and who like seeing their ideas shipped, measured, and improved in production.
If you love a good challenge, and are good at handling complexity - we’d love to hear from you!
eBay is an amazing company to work for. Being on the team, you can expect to benefit from:

A competitive salary - including stock grants and a yearly bonus
A healthy work culture that promotes business impact and at the same time highly values your personal well-being
Being part of a force for good in this world - eBay truly cares about its employees, its customers, and the world’s population, and takes every opportunity to make this clearly apparent

Job Responsibilities

Review relevant academic and industry research, prototype promising ideas, and validate them through experiments and production metrics
Design and deliver applied ML solutions involving image and/or text data
Productionize and operate ML models as part of customer‑facing systems, with support available when needed
Analyze data, define success metrics, and iterate based on results
Work closely with your manager and peers within the team to scope problems and prioritize impact
Participate in technical discussions, reviews, and knowledge sharing within the organization

Minimum Qualifications

Strong interest in applied machine learning and real‑world ML systems
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
6+ years of experience working on applied research, ML models or data‑driven systems
Solid foundations in machine learning, statistics, and software engineering
Strong programming experience in Python
Good communication and collaboration skills

Additional Details

eBay 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 have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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