This role pays more than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$167,375–$225,800
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$254k
versus about
$197k
for comparable roles.
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About eBay
eBay is a global e-commerce company that operates an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers for a wide range of new and used goods.
eBay currently has
28 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$188,800–$227,500
across 27 roles with salary data.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
As a Senior Member of Technical Staff on the Applied Research team, you will function as an individual contributor focused on updating the search stack to develop conversational search and natural language query features. You will build, prototype, and productionize solutions for query understanding, retrieval, ranking, and response generation while developing methods for intent understanding, query rewriting, semantic retrieval, result grounding, and multi-turn refinement. The role requires expertise in machine learning, NLP, information retrieval, and large language model applications to improve how users convey shopping intent through natural language. You will utilize skills in coding, system development, and evaluation frameworks to translate research into scalable systems. This position addresses the technical challenge of interpreting complex user signals to provide relevant results within a modern search experience for an ecommerce platform.
Machine Learning
NLP
LLM
Information Retrieval
Conversational Search
Recommendation Systems
ML Platform Engineering
Model Serving
Embedding Infrastructure
Machine Learning
Python
Go
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Information Retrieval
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Prompt Engineering
Data Science
A/B Testing
Statistical Hypothesis Testing
Data Pipelines
Distributed Inference
Model Quantization
Search Ranking