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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Completing or recently completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related discipline.
About the job
Build and deploy machine-learning systems for e-commerce recommendations, search, merchant operations, and affiliate strategy automation.
What you'll do
- Design recommendation and ranking algorithms for large-scale, real-time product recommendations.
- Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and agents to automate affiliate strategy and algorithm-development workflows.
- Apply LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning to identify business opportunities and bring AI solutions from research into production.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related discipline.
- Thorough understanding of data structures and algorithms, with strong problem-solving ability.
- Deep understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering.
Nice to have
- Software engineering experience through internships, work, coding competitions, or publications; especially e-commerce, recommendation, or search experience.
- Publications at conferences such as KDD, NeurIPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, or AAAI.
Tools
LLMs, NLP, multimodal machine learning
AI focus
Develop recommendation and ranking systems, AI-powered merchant-operation tools and agents, multimodal and language-model solutions, and agents that automate algorithm development and deployment workflows.
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