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Research Scientist – E-commerce Recommendation(LLM Applications) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Experience
Completing or recently completed a PhD; no number of years specified.
Education
PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

About the job

Develop algorithms and systems using LLMs and generative models for e-commerce matching, summarization, and recommendation, contributing research and balancing scientific rigor with real-world constraints.

What you'll do

  • Design LLM- and generative-model-based systems for content-to-commerce matching and product summarization.
  • Explore architectures and strategies for generative recommendation systems.
  • Contribute through internal papers, patents, or external publications, while balancing scientific rigor with real-world constraints.

What they ask for

  • Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Strong foundation in machine learning and knowledge of cutting-edge AI technologies.
  • Familiarity with big data frameworks such as Hadoop, MapReduce, and Spark.
  • Experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch for model training and deployment, and understanding of mixed precision and distributed training.

Nice to have

  • Publications in accredited academic conferences or competition experience.
  • Knowledge of model compression and inference acceleration, or expertise in computer vision/multimodality or NLP.

Tools

Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, TensorFlow, PyTorch, SGLang, TensorRT

AI focus

Build a foundational multimodal e-commerce model and agent framework, applying LLMs and generative recommendation to product matching, summarization, demand forecasting, traffic allocation, and personalized recommendations.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)