Senior AI Engineer

About The Role And The Team

Core AI at eBay powers intelligent experiences across our global marketplace, operating at massive scale and processing billions of requests daily. We leverage modern distributed systems, GPU-accelerated infrastructure, and advanced AI/ML technologies to enable scalable, resilient, and high-impact solutions.

We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to drive innovation and operational excellence within our Core AI division. This is a hands-on leadership role — you will not only define strategy but also actively contribute to architecture, system design, and operational decision-making.

You will guide the full lifecycle of AI systems, from model development and deployment to monitoring and optimization, ensuring seamless production integration and long-term reliability. You will work cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and platform teams to help scale technology innovation. This work supports one of the most established and highly trafficked ecommerce platforms globally.

What You Will Accomplish

Define and implement the strategic roadmap for AI Engineering, aligning technical direction with broader AI and business objectives.

Architect, design, and optimize scalable AI systems that operate reliably in high-throughput, production environments.

Lead end-to-end operationalization of AI/ML models, ensuring robust lifecycle management including deployment, monitoring, and iteration.

Drive automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code best practices to improve system scalability, resilience, and performance.

Establish operational excellence frameworks, including monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and performance optimization.

Build and mentor a high-performing, multidisciplinary team while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and shared ownership.

What You Will Bring

Proven experience leading and contributing hands-on to AI/ML engineering and operations in large-scale production environments.

Deep understanding of AI model lifecycle management, distributed systems, and integration of applications powered by artificial intelligence into customer-facing platforms.

Strong software engineering background with experience in Java or JVM-based environments, along with modern AI/ML frameworks and data pipelines.

Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), containerized environments, and cloud-native architectures.

Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting systems, and operational automation, including building self-healing and highly available systems.

Demonstrated leadership capability in guiding multidisciplinary teams and collaborating effectively across engineering, research, and product organizations.

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