Principal Engineer

BrassringJobId: 41822BR - ArbitaJobId: ARBEBAY7196-775861

Job Location

US - California - San Jose

Job Description

Join the industry leader in Internet Marketing/Advertising! Help us innovate in building analytics driven platforms.  eBay is looking for a highly motivated and talented Data Mining and Machine Learning Engineer to join eBay's Advertising & Traffic Solutions team.
 
Primary Responsibilities:
·       This is a hands-on key enabling position with end-to-end responsibility for scalable data mining solutions to power analytics driven optimization applications.
·       You will be part of a newly created Machine Learning solutions team focused on Internet marketing – SEO, Paid Search/SEM, Affiliates, and Advertising at eBay.
·       Expertise and hands on experience in using machine learning /data mining techniques – decision trees, SVMs, neural networks, ensemble methods etc. – on large data sets
·       Work with a cross functional team (engineering, analytics, business) and provide data mining thought leadership to the team.
·       Design advanced data mining solutions for mining Petabytes of data!
·       Design and develop creative visualization and analytics tools for speeding data driven machine learning applications development.
·       Partner closely with the Engineering team to develop the data transformations needed for producing machine learning data sets.
·       Learn / understand the business problems and enable targeted solutions design using bottom up data driven design approach.
.     Design tools & processes to help the analysts, engineers to be more productive

Job Qualifications

·       Solid understanding of data mining, machine learning, analytics and visualization tools and libraries. Candidates with experience using those techniques on large datasets are preferred.
·       Hands-on programming experience with languages such as C/C++, Java or Python, working with large databases / files and in memory data structures.
·       Experienced software / research / data engineer with expert level database, distributed systems (SQL, data modeling, Hadoop, MapReduce) and programming skills.
·       Large dataset experience preferably working with complex enterprise / web logs datasets – preferred.
·       Need to be a team player with good cross functional / collaboration skills
·       Excellent problem solving skills; be able to shape the product/system requirements.
·       Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications in a business environment is desired
.     Practical knowledge of Internet Marketing and Advertising optimization systems is a big plus

Job Salary

Salary commensurate with experience