Generative AI Applied Researcher

Vacaturebank; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay is seeking an Applied Researcher, Generative AI in Amsterdam to advance foundation models and generative capabilities at scale. You will partner with researchers, ML engineers, and product teams to translate novel ideas into production-ready solutions.

You will design rigorous experiments, work with large-scale text and image data, and contribute to the scientific community with publications and open-source efforts. This role is on-site in Amsterdam.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, ML, AI, computational linguistics, or related field, or equivalent research experience.
• Hands-on research in LLMs, multimodal models, NLP, agents, post-training, RL, retrieval, or feedback learning.
• Strong ability to design, run, and interpret experiments and translate results into practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and evaluate new approaches for Generative AI and foundation models relevant to eBay's customers and marketplace.
• Design and run rigorous experiments across LLMs, multimodal models, agents, retrieval, and post-training.
• Develop models and prototypes and collaborate with ML engineers to translate research into scalable capabilities.
• Build and improve methods for model training, evaluation, and continuous improvement using feedback from humans, users, and production systems.
• Work with large-scale text, image, behavioral, and marketplace data and measure impact via offline and online evaluation.
• Collaborate across research, engineering, product, and platform teams and share knowledge through publications, patents, open-source work.

Skills

PhD in CS/ML

Generative AI research

Python & PyTorch

Experimental design

Collaboration

Education

PhD in CS/ML or related field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Job description

eBay is seeking an Applied Researcher, Generative AI in Amsterdam to advance foundation models and generative capabilities at scale. You will partner with researchers, ML engineers, and product teams to translate novel ideas into production-ready solutions.

You will design rigorous experiments, work with large-scale text and image data, and contribute to the scientific community with publications and open-source efforts. This role is on-site in Amsterdam.