Applied Researcher

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and creativity, where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you’re interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive work environment, join eBay - a company you can be proud to be with. **Applied Researcher - NLP and ML** Do you want to have a huge impact on a large e-commerce website? Are you interested in solving groundbreaking 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 phenomenal playground for researchers to work with data and conduct experiments at scale. We actively pursue ideas that result in scalable algorithms and systems. **Areas of work include (but not limited to)**: - Natural Language Processing: Language Understanding, Language modeling, Machine Translation, and Text Generation - Deep Learning - Weakly Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Active Learning - Transfer learning and domain adaptation - Representation learning - Low-resource NLP **Responsibilities** - Provide technical leadership on one or more technical areas of research and development of ML/NLP technologies to prototype and product ionize promising methods - Work closely with the team director to define and propose R&D projects - 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 - Collaborate with other research & development teams in eBay to build the best of breed experience - Research and stay up-to-date with pioneering works in Deep Learning and NLP. Publishing is strongly encouraged. **Requirements**: - A Ph.D. or equivalent degree in Computer Science or related fields - Proficient in machine learning with a focus on neural networks - 3+ 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 outstanding machine learning or NLP conference such as ACL, NeurIPS, EMNLP, ICML, etc. is a bonus. - Hands-on experience with deep learning tools, e.g., PyTorch or TensorFlow - 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 - Hands on experience with NLP algorithms and sequence to sequence modeling is a plus **What do we offer**: - A comprehensive field of responsibility - An inclusive team with exciting personalities, passion for e-commerce, integrity and a good sense of humor - International career opportunities throughout eBay Inc. - An excellent working environment with lots of flexibility Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important. LI-AZ1 LI-Hybrid Jobs posted with location as "Remote - United States (Excludes CO, HI, NM, NYC)" excludes residents of Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico and New York City. This website uses cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to browse the site, you agree to our use of cookies. Visit our Privacy Center for more information.