Senior ML Engineer, SEO Science

Location: Bengaluru, India

Category: Engineering

About the Role

Join eBay's SEO Science team as a Senior ML Engineer in Bengaluru, where you'll drive machine learning innovations to optimize search engine visibility for hundreds of millions of products across 190 global markets. This role focuses on building scalable ML models and data pipelines for critical SEO features like image quality scoring, automatic taxonomy improvement, entity resolution, and conflict resolution, powering landing pages that attract buyers from Google, Bing, and beyond. You'll tackle unique challenges at eBay's massive e-commerce scale, transforming buyer intent data into delightful shopping experiences while automating operational processes in the SEO Landing Page Platform and Linking Services.

Key Responsibilities

• Build Machine Learning models and data pipelines to deliver insightful yet practical solutions for eBay's SEO and landing pages
• Optimize big data pipelines for handling hundreds of millions of global product listings
• Develop production-grade ML solutions for image quality scoring, automatic taxonomy improvement, and entity resolution
• Seek high quality, reliable, and scalable solutions that deliver real value to eBay buyers and sellers
• Collaborate with Management, Product Management, and Applied Researchers to shape the SEO Science department’s vision and roadmap
• Mentor junior peers, review their work, and provide frequent feedback and advice
• Promote engineering excellence and standards within the eBay SEO team
• Help interview and hire exceptional teammates to scale the team
• Design ML projects that integrate to power new e-commerce experiences for search engine traffic
• Automate operational tasks for category and model landing pages in eBay's marketplace

Required Qualifications

• B.Sc / B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, SW engineering or equivalent field
• 7+ years of industrial experience in Applied Machine Learning and Data Engineering
• Experience in Production-grade coding in Python
• Industrial experience in productizing ML-Based solutions including online inference
• Experience in Big Data processing frameworks, e.g. Hadoop, Spark / PySpark, SQL including performance tuning
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills
• Thought leadership and mentoring skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Open source tool building/commits to popular threads
• Experience in Language models and KG building
• Background in SEO optimization for large-scale e-commerce platforms
• Experience with image quality scoring and entity resolution in marketplaces
• Knowledge of hierarchical taxonomy systems for product categorization

Required Skills

• Machine Learning model building and deployment
• Python production-grade coding
• Big Data processing with Spark/PySpark, Hadoop, SQL
• Performance tuning of data pipelines
• Online ML inference for real-time e-commerce applications
• Entity resolution for hierarchical product entities
• Image quality scoring algorithms
• Automatic taxonomy classification
• SEO optimization for search engines like Google, Bing
• Data pipeline automation and scaling
• Collaboration with product and research teams
• Mentoring and thought leadership
• Excellent communication skills
• Complex software system design
• Handling massive-scale e-commerce datasets

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary with stock grants and yearly bonus
• Healthy work culture promoting business impact and personal well-being
• Force for good initiatives caring for employees, customers, and the planet
• Inclusive workplace valuing authenticity, bold ideas, and unique selves
• Opportunities to create economic opportunity through global e-commerce innovation
• Part of a passionate team shaping the future of online commerce
• Equal opportunity employment with accommodations available
• Access to eBay's commitment to digital accessibility and sustainability

eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.