Machine Learning Engineer - Depop
eBay · Toronto, Canada · 4d ago
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Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.
Founded in 2011, Depop’s diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it. From everyday essentials to vintage and designer finds, Depop brings together a wide range of affordable styles in one place. It’s a marketplace where anyone can clear out their wardrobe or build a business, explore their style, and take part in a more circular way to shop.
Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York.
The Depop team is building intelligent, scalable experiences powered by the latest Machine Learning, AI, NLP, LLM/GenAI, and RAG technologies. We work with large-scale marketplace data and modern ML infrastructure to develop and productionize solutions that improve how millions of buyers and sellers interact with the Depop marketplace.
This is an opportunity to:
Influence how AI and Machine Learning shape the future of Depop's global marketplace and customer experience.
Work with large and unique datasets, including structured and unstructured marketplace data representing millions of users and items.
Develop and deploy state-of-the-art AI and ML models into production with direct, measurable impact on buyers and sellers.
Build and scale large data pipelines and distributed systems that support production ML applications.
Partner across engineering, product, data, and applied science teams to take ML solutions from experimentation through production.
Contribute to modern ML infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and operational best practices at scale.
Qualifications
MS in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or BS with 7+ years of relevant experience in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, AI, or a related discipline.
Experience building large-scale distributed applications and proficiency in an object-oriented or modern programming language such as Java, Scala, or Python.
Experience working with NoSQL databases and key-value stores such as MongoDB or Redis.
Experience building and supporting scalable data and ML pipelines.
Strong problem-solving skills with a willingness to learn and adopt new technologies as needed.
Experience with cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies.
Experience with large-scale data processing technologies such as Spark or Hadoop is a plus.
Experience productionizing Machine Learning or AI models and building supporting infrastructure is a plus.
Experience with MLOps, model serving, monitoring, observability, and deployment automation is a plus.
Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), GenAI, RAG, and prompt engineering is a plus.
Additional Details
The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:
C$142,400 - C$190,100Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including RRSP eligibility, various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.
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