Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start (PhD)

What you'll do

• Design and build large-scale e-commerce recommendation and ranking algorithms.
• Develop AI-powered merchant-operation systems and agents to automate affiliate strategy and business workflows.
• Apply LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning; collaborate across teams to take AI solutions from research to production.

What they ask for

• Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related discipline.
• Thorough understanding of data structures and algorithms, with excellent problem-solving ability.
• Deep understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering.
• Must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year; resume should state availability and graduation date.

Nice to have

• Software engineering experience through internships, work, coding competitions, or publications; internship or research experience in e-commerce, recommendation, or search.
• Publications at conferences such as KDD, NeurIPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, or AAAI; curiosity toward new technologies and entrepreneurship.

Tools

LLMs, NLP

AI focus

Develop recommendation and ranking systems, merchant-operation AI systems and agents, multimodal machine-learning solutions, and ML agents that automate algorithm development workflows.