Staff Machine Learning Engineer, MTS 2 (Toronto)

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

About the Team

The Product Knowledge team is at the epicenter of eBay’s tech‑driven, customer‑centric overhaul. The team builds and leverages product knowledge to enable a deep understanding of user intent and preferences, delivering personalized experiences across the buying and selling journey.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across software and machine learning initiatives, influencing design, architecture, and long‑term technical strategy.
• Define and drive short‑ and long‑term technical direction, aligning engineering solutions with product and organizational goals.
• Design, implement, and optimize machine learning systems for search products, including model tuning, service performance, and data pipeline efficiency.
• Lead complex, multi‑quarter technical projects, using business and system metrics to inform decisions and clearly communicate trade‑offs and outcomes to s...