eBay is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to join our Core AI division and drive forward our most important and impactful AI initiatives. You will work across the full AI lifecycle, from experimentation to deploying production-grade AI systems, with a focus on Generative AI systems and intelligent agents.
What You'll Do
- 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 We're Looking For
- 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 AI applications 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.
Technical Stack
- Java/JVM
- AI/ML frameworks
- Data pipelines
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
- Containerized environments
- Cloud-native architectures
Team & Environment
Part of the Core AI division, working closely with Software Engineers, Researchers, and Data Engineers.
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.
