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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation Mall) - 2027 Start
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- For graduates completing or recently completing a Bachelor’s degree; no years of experience specified.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline.
About the job
Research and develop AI-powered e-commerce recommendation systems, including generative, LLM-based, and agentic approaches, to improve personalization, long-term value, and user experience.
What you'll do
- Research generative recommendation methods and improve model training and inference efficiency on GPUs.
- Apply LLMs and reinforcement learning to recommendation challenges such as cold start, long-tail item distribution, and user intent understanding.
- Develop agentic recommendation approaches and algorithms for optimizing long-term value and user experience.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline.
- Solid foundation in machine learning and deep learning, with research or project experience in at least one of: large language models, reinforcement learning, generative models, recommender systems, or information retrieval.
- Proficient in Python and at least one mainstream deep learning framework, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
- Strong problem-solving skills and interest in complex, open-ended research problems.
Nice to have
- Experience in recommendation systems, generative recommendation, large recommendation models, or retrieval and ranking systems.
- Experience with LLMs or multimodal foundation models, long-term value modeling, causal inference, long-sequence behavior modeling, or large-scale distributed training and inference optimization; relevant publications or competition achievements are also valued.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, GPUs, LLMs, RL
AI focus
Research and develop generative, LLM-based, and agentic recommendation systems, including personalization, model efficiency, long-term value, and user experience optimization.
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