Senior Data Scientist

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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.

Our Shipping team is at the heart of the e-commerce experience, influencing key buying/selling decisions by surfacing the best shipping options and ensuring a seamless post-purchase delivery journey for millions of buyers and sellers. Shipping is a critical component of trust and satisfaction on our platform. Our team develops and deploys sophisticated machine learning models to solve complex logistics challenges, such as predicting accurate delivery dates, optimizing shipping costs and options, and modeling complex carrier networks. We operate at a massive scale, leveraging advanced MLOps to deliver these critical services in a high-volume, low latency global e-commerce environment.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will take a hands-on role building our cutting-edge shipping intelligence platform. Using the latest ML, deep learning, and AI techniques, you will research and deploy sophisticated models to solve tangible problems like optimizing logistics. You will partner with product managers, engineers, and researchers to get these data-driven solutions into production at eBays global scale, directly enabling a delightful and efficient shipping experience for millions of users.

What We’re Looking For

• 6 Years experience in analytics, data science role
• Strong Data & Analytics Skills – Proficiency in SQL & Python for data wrangling, analytics, and automation
• Experience in building and operating Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Model solutions in large production scale environments
• Strong Communication – Ability to turn complex findings into actionable recommendations for Product, AI, and Engineering teams
• AI/LLM Experience – Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for AI-powered insights (Preferred)
• Model Evaluation Know-How – Ability to define metrics and evaluation frameworks for assessing ML-driven taxonomy and classification models
• Startup DNA – High agency, thrive in fast-paced, iterative environments with deep cross-functional collaboration
  
  
  

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