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Senior Manager, MLE - Gen AI

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eBayAmsterdamOn-siteFull-time25 Sept 2026

eBay is seeking a Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering - Generative AI to lead a team of applied researchers and ML engineers in Amsterdam. The role involves setting technical direction, hands-on work across LLMs, multimodal models, and agents, and delivering scalable Generative AI products from research to production. Requires 8-10 years of ML/GenAI experience and strong leadership skills.

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of applied researchers and machine learning engineers delivering end-to-end Generative AI capabilities and products, from research and experimentation through production deployment and continuous improvement.
  • Set the technical direction for the team and remain hands-on in solving challenging problems across LLMs, multimodal models, agents, retrieval and context, model adaptation, and learning from feedback.
  • Turn promising research and prototypes into scalable production systems, making pragmatic decisions across model quality, architecture, latency, cost, reliability, and maintainability.

What you need

Must-have

Large Language ModelsMultimodal modelsNLPAgentsPost-trainingReinforcement LearningLearning from feedbackModel training

Soft skills

LeadershipMentoringCollaborationCommunicationScientific rigorEngineering excellenceExperimentationEnd-to-end ownership
Generative AIMachine LearningEngineering ManagementeCommerceTechnologySenior ManagerAmsterdamFull-timeOn-site